Also got my bloods tested:

Estrogen: 415 pmol/L Testosterone: 0.5 nmol/L

Pre HRT I was at: Estrogen: 117 pmol/L Testosterone: 20 nmol/L

That is all :3

  • DaPorkchop_ [they/she/it]@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    6 days ago

    WTF? both of those numbers are pretty solidly within expected cis male ranges, you aren’t on HRT at all!!!

    EDIT: for reference, my blood work lab reports an expected range of 41.4-159 pmol/L for estrogen and 8.6-29.0 nmol/L for testosterone when i select “male” on the signup form. transfemscience shows similar numbers. your endocrinologist is royally fucking you over and essentially has given you nothing at all, you should switch doctors immediately or start DIY if HRT is important to you

    • psycholocomotor_no2@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      6 days ago

      Fairly certain my doctor is just like actually transphobic or has some bizarre idea that trans people are their sex assigned at birth, but just want to be a more masc/fem version of it, because that’s what the conversations I can remember gave off. I think he’s used to like high estrogen for men implying like an endocrine disorder and thinks it’ll be bad for me if I went up too high too fast.

      I was lying when I said completely nothing, like my nipples are sore. Maybe I was getting tested as the pills I took in the morning weren’t fully in my system. Seems strange that apparently that’s within male ranges if I have some symptoms. I didn’t get my first bloodwork results, but they said it increased.

      Idk if there are other doctors or how to find them, was planning on just waiting it out for however long it takes, because I’m lucky to not have that much dysphoria and I’ve already gone through puberty so it can’t really get worse (at least I think). I missed one appointment and various unfortunate things happened so that I couldn’t get another, so it’s been nearly a year of this.

      Do I really have to fight with doctors?