Trying hard to trust the process, and while I have seen other expected changes in skin, hair, and mood, I am getting anxious that nothing is happening under my shirt. I had some minor sensitivity within the first two weeks, but never anything painful.

This Friday will be 6 weeks on HRT. 2mg Est, 4mg Prog, 200mg Spiro daily.

Edit: thanks for talking me off the cliff everyone, I’m much less anxious now 😅

  • dandelionEnglish
    5·
    3 days ago

    I haven’t done them personally, but my endo offered. I am too much of a control freak about my levels to rely on a pellet, at least pre-op. I should re-consider them now that I’m post-orchi 🤔

    • WillStealYourUsernameEnglish
      4·
      3 days ago

      I know someone post op on pellets. She is very pleased to only have to think about hrt once every six months. I’m a bit jealous

      • AdaMAEnglish
        5·
        2 days ago

        I’m on implants too. Love them precisely for that reason. Not having to think about HRT is nice

          • AdaMAEnglish
            7·
            2 days ago

            Oh. Well, in that case, FYI, I get 100mg pellets and they last about 12 months

            • dandelionEnglish
              2·
              2 days ago

              what is recovery like after the implant?

              I ask because I have a relative who got pellet implants but it took a while for them to be able to sit right and engage in aerobic exercise (can’t remember if it was a week?), and they had to get the implant once every few months so it wasn’t reasonable for them.

              • AdaMAEnglish
                3·
                2 days ago

                Honestly, it depends on the doctor. My original doctor had been doing trans healthcare for decades, and she had it down to an art. She’d put them implant in my abdomen, I’d get a single stitch, and had to avoid strenuous activity for a couple of days, but it was otherwise it was minimal impact.

                I asked her to put one in my butt cheek once. She’d never done that before, and it showed. It was a more troubled implant, and took me longer to recover from, and made sitting uncomfortable for a few days.

                And my current GP who doesn’t have quite the same experience as the first, tends to leave a bruise when he does the implant, but it otherwise heals the same as always. A single stitch, and a couple of days without strenuous activity.

              • AdaMAEnglish
                3·
                2 days ago

                About $160 AUD for the pellet. Plus whatever a long appointment with the GP costs.