Androcur 10mg (which contains cyproteronacetate) is being discontinued by Bayer because it isn’t economical for them to produce anymore. I hate it. It’s the anti androgen that’s pretty much the standard for feminizing hormone therapy here in Germany and I believe even in Europe.

Edit: here is the email in German that they sent me after I asked them through their contact form:

  • schlecknits@feddit.orgEnglish
    14·
    4 months ago

    10mg were unfortunatly never avaiable in Austria - shame that now production ends Germany as well.

    We have 50mg tablets, which isn’t a dose recommended for transfemmes so every 4 doses you have to split them one of them using a tablet slicer. It’s tedious, but it works.

  • faercol
    8·
    4 months ago

    Isn’t it not really advised because of side effects?

    In France for example it’s really not standard at all, and decapeptyl or bica are used more often.

    • Flori
      5·
      4 months ago

      Nah all my friends r on androcur and it seems to be good

    • Tywèle [she|her]@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
      3·
      4 months ago

      I’m not doing DIY and I have to get my prescription from my endo. She suggested to switch to spiro. I suggested to her to prescribe 50 mg to quarter them but I don’t have an answer yet.

          • dandelionEnglish
            1·
            12 days ago

            Would bicalutamide be an option? It’s a very effective anti-androgen with minimal risk and potentially no side effects.

            (Unrelated, but bica ultimately didn’t work for me, I suspect because it didn’t act as much on the Central Nervous System, so my biochemical dysphoria wasn’t helped by it and that was the main reason I wanted an anti-androgen. I switched to monotherapy and that has been better.)