See title. I’m on HRT for over 11 months now, thoroughly enjoying it. I’ve a hunch the dose is a bit low, though. I get androgen blockers every 2-3 months, my last one was one month ago.
Normally my arm hairs aren’t very visible, so I didn’t have much dysphoria from that. However, recently my arm hair seems to be growing a lot and thicker, and I’m concerned. Is this normal?
My mum doesn’t really have a lot of arm hair, nor do other gals in my family.
I really don’t know much about spray as a route of administration, nor an anti-androgen administered only once every 2 - 3 months (!?), so your HRT regime is very easy to feel skeptical towards because it’s so unusual.
Blood levels would be really helpful for clarifying whether your T is sufficiently suppressed, E sufficiently high - but yeah, androgens can cause thicker darker hairs, and it’s possible that’s the cause.
As for the anti-androgen, there are some injections on a monthly basis, or even every three months. I had something like that
I don’t mean to say it’s not a possibility that this is a reasonable HRT regimen, just that I’m very much unfamiliar with it (sorta meaningless, just trying to declare my ignorance and the resulting bias or uncertainty).
Just for curiosity’s sake - do you know what anti-androgen was injected on a monthly or 3-monthly basis? I would really like to learn more! Was it an oil that was injected, or a pellet that was surgically implanted?
Some doctors in the US are willing to implant an estrogen pellet, and sometimes that can be done roughly on a 3-monthly schedule like that (I’ve heard once every 3 months, once every 6 months, once a year - so I suspect it depends on the pellet that is implanted?).
So in my case it’s called decapeptyl. It’s one of the most common anti-androgen prescribed in France because it has no common side effect (I mean… Apart from the ones we’re actually looking for that are due to a lower T level).
I know that it’s a low release formula, I don’t have more details, sorry
Once I’m home (in about 2.5 hours) I’m gonna look for the blood levels. I have the results there.