Just wanted to say hi and introduce myself a little. I had started getting more active under a difference account but decided to start a new one as my old username could potentially be traced back to some defunct pre–transition social media.
You can call me Cily (pronounced like “silly”). I am in my mid thirties and started coming out a little over a year ago. I’ve been on HRT since December and am excited to be more active on Lemmy and get to know y’all more. I’ve been so impressed and happy to see a lot of folks sharing photos. I doubt I’ll get to the point where I feel safe enough to post my own photos but I still hope that I can share some of my experiences and feel like a part of the community.
Feel free to ask me questions or introduce yourselves! Thank you for having me :)
-Cily
Hey Girlll!
Thank you, its a nickname my wife gave me based on my IRL name :)
I saw a few of your posts on starting hrt not too long ago. Congrats! Can I ask how its going? Around 3ish months is whe n the lights really started coming on for me.
Glad to be here :)
Cute!
After 2 weeks I knew I that this was what i needed, and that I’d couldn’t survive going back to the way things were. I could cry, i could actually feel things. I’m now at 6 weeks. Physical changes starting to happen. I’m looking forward to the 3-6 month stint, since a lot of people are telling me that’s where the body changes start to really take hold.
If the only thing i got from HRT was the emotional changes, I’d still never stop taking it.
[EDIT: probably worth saying, im on cypro so that explains why so much changed emotionally in the first couple of weeks already. T got nuked from orbit]
That’s soo good to hear! I didn’t really have that realization until probably about 2-3 months. It took a while to get my hormones to the target levels since I started on tablets. My liver converts the estradiol almost entirely to estrone so my E1 levels were astronomical. My doctor moved me to patches and that point is when I was like “oh hell yeah, this is what life is supposed to feel like”. Having that feeling combined with finally seeing my testosterone levels within the cis range made me absolutely bawl because it was proof that I wasn’t, like, deluding myself or something. That this is actually what is right for me. That plus the fact that my tits started growing about 2-3 weeks in. I am on Spiro so it took a while for my T levels to bottom out.
Same, girl. I am finally able to feel moved by a piece of art, or inspired and hopeful by someone else’s triumphs, or saddened by tragedy. For all the good and bad, its nice to be able to fully feel. I wouldn’t want to trade it for anything.
This is so lovely to read, thanks for sharing Cily. I think i got lucky starting on gel and cypro, instant effects 💖