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.
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
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triptorelin
omg, that is beautiful
in the US the equivalent drug is Lupron:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leuprorelin
basically these drugs act by telling your brain to shut down production of sex hormones - like you said, they don’t have side effects and they’re pretty much perfect drugs to function as anti-androgens (at least in terms of stopping production of testosterone by the gonads) … to my mind, it’s an absolute crime that the US doesn’t prescribe drugs like this to treat trans patients (they do for trans minors, but not adults), and it has everything to do with the costs of Lupron, which insurance companies don’t want to cover.
Thank you so much for sharing the drug name. I’ll look into the slow release formula to educate myself more!