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:

  • Ekybio@lemmy.world
    17·
    1 year ago

    Do you have a source for that? Because that would really be quite bad…

  • schlecknits@feddit.orgEnglish
    13·
    1 year 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@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    8·
    1 year 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.

      • 0laura@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        6·
        1 year ago

        it can cause brain tumors and has some other issues too. others are preferable

  • 0laura@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    diy injections or bica, or cypro 50mg divided into 4 taken daily or every other day.

    • Tywèle [she|her]@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
      3·
      1 year 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.

      • 0laura@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        I personally really don’t like Spiro due to its side effects and lack of good T blocking

          • dandelion (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            1·
            1 year 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.)