Transfem

Lemmy represents what the internet as a whole was like in the 90s. A wonderful place where people can have actual discussions on diverse topics without self censoring, algorithm games, and karma farming. Its only like that because genpop hasn't come to shit all over it yet.

Idk... I feel like the only reason lemmy is so nice and community feeling right now is because it's so niche. If all the reddit assholes come here it's gonna all go to shit

I wish I could get valerate for only $50. The US healthcare system if so expensive. It's about $100 for a 5ml vial plus about $1 per injection for a syringe and drawing and injection needles at the local pharmacies. With my super expensive insurance plan I pay $30 per vial, but have to use the unreliable mail order pharmacy. I used to use patches, but the insurance started requiring authorization to get dosages above what a cis-woman would need, and then recently repeatedly denied the authorizations with no explanation. So, I do injections until that goes away.

At least after giving my doctor the research my original prescriber gave me (she was amazing but switched specialties) she was open to more appropriate blood levels. I'm definitely lucky to live in a progressive city compared to most of the US where even the Catholic owned corporate provider groups that are all that's left in much of the US, due to their tax breaks and abusing doctors being unfair advantages, teach their providers about trans healthcare.

Oh hey, another Ontarian here!

I've been doing my part Fedi shilling a bit in the TransOntario discord, but it would be nice if those from the Reddit can also learn about here too. 🤔

I couldn't find any reddit frontend that worked :(

Best i can do is old reddit https://old.reddit.com/r/transontario/comments/1uzz3bp/just_found_out_my_doctors_been_under_dosing_my/

nyaowowooo, as my opinion the "underdosed" are measureable, despire estrogen insenstivity is rare, but we have different sensitivity anyway, the body when thinks hormones are enough will suppress HPG axis so hypothalamus like "ugh we havee enough hormones, gonna shut off GnRH production" and then pituary gland LH/FSH production as well, which will turn off gonads, BUT!! measuring gonad supression only by "high E2", "low T" is completly incorrect, i found funny how doctors often forget about measuring LH, and despire zero LH the testosterone can be still elevated, because some ppl have stuff like backdoor producion from adrenal glands, disease like adrenal hyperplasia just exist

SHBG also interesting stuff, but its can be completly depends on just hormone spikes, women with rare estrogen insentivity syndrome can have 3000pg of estradiol but still have 40nmol of SHBG