TLDR: I am on gel and had a longer than usual time between applications yesterday. I am wondering if it might have caused a mental breakdown.

Hello y'all, I have been on E gel for 2 weeks now spread twice a day, one in the morning and one before bed.

Yesterday I woke up early so I applied it around 8:30 and went to an event in the evening. It lasted a while and I ended up grabbing food and talking with a friend after so I only got home at around 3:00 so I went about 20hrs between my 2 doses.

During the evening I started being emotionally unstable. I was having a great time but the tiniest of details would make me breakdown :/

My question is whether you think this could have been from taking too long between applications?

okay first off i want to say thanks for the support on my last post, since then ive managed to get hrt and have been on it for about 2 months now. its been going great but the last few days ive been getting extremely anxious. my breast buds are seemingly forming and they’re very sore and since that started happening ive been getting more and more scared of what will happen in the future. i have no idea what my parents will think so i dont know how to come out, and im scared that if i need to i wont be able to hide it from them. im also really scared im having doubts if i should be doing this. ive been thinking about it for ages but im suddenly having thoughts im some sort of fraud or i dont really want this while also feeling like i do. im also really scared for what my future will look like even if i know im a girl actually becoming one is a little scary. is this normal? any advice is greatly appreciated

ps i didn’t re-read this so it may be terribly written and i apologize if thats the case

I posted a "vent" post in another forum recently, but it's starting to become an issue. I may need actual advice.

I am 45. Been on HRT just over a year now. (That egg had a dummy thicc shell, y'all.) Happy with my progress so far. I'm in my second week of prog now (100 mg oral daily). Hoping for some of the boob rounding-out effects some people report. As can happen for those of us starting HRT late in life, my boobs do face outward a bit. Glad to have them at all! But having them fill out in the middle a little would be welcome. But hey, we get what we get!

And sure enough, since starting prog, I've felt the tenderness and aching that tends to happen when I'm in a growth phase. Maybe that's the prog, maybe I was just due for growth. They've been awfully sensitive, though.

The thing is, I don't know if it's the prog or some recent life stress or what, but I have been bursting into tears or occasionally just having mini freakouts over things that should be minor annoyances. And the brain fog is getting pretty bad. I've always had to fight my ADHD - finding workarounds, figuring out tricks to improve my focus when I needed to, etc. But lately it's just been like trying to run in beach sand, you know? A lot more effort to keep up the same pace.

It's not out of control or anything. It hasn't gotten in the way of work or caused any problems at home. But dang, it's making getting through the day a bit harder. I just feel like I'm having a lot more trouble regulating my emotions and concentrating.

And that's something that going on E actually helped for me. I mean, I have been more able to cry in general on E, but overall, I have felt more in control of myself than before I started. Maybe that was the T to E switch or maybe it was just the relief of finally doing something I knew I needed to do. But either way, this has been rough.

Do I just need to wait this out and give myself time to adjust to a new hormone. Am I just going through another weird puberty thing or something?

Oh, and speaking of puberty... That other prog side effect is apparently a thing for me, at least. Without letting this get into NSFW territory, yes, I'm also getting weirdly horny now. If I'm honest, that part isn't the worst thing. Maybe a little distracting, but...

Well, that's the thing! I'm basically sad or horny or overwhelmed or foggy-brained or some combination of the four pretty much all the time and being trans is hard sometimes!

OK. Real talk: Is this the prog? I really, really want to give prog a fair shake. I've been looking forward to trying it for a while. Glad my insurance is playing ball. My doc and I were both comfortable giving it a try at the one year mark. I'll definitely message my doc if things actually become a serious problem.

And if anyone has any advice or experience on adjusting to progesterone, please lay it on me!

ok, i guess im writing this to ask a question that realistically i know the answer to.

long story short, ive been transitioning for a little over a year using estradiol valerate injections and progesterone.

last night was injection day and i drew up the last bit of medicine of one of my vials into my syringe. i noticed it was low, and without thinking i opened a new vial and stuck the *same syringe* in to draw up the rest of my meds. i pulled slightly extra and then squee the excess into the vial.

as soon as i did it i realized i fucked up. transferring meds from one vial to the other is like a biiiggggg no no and i am scared i just wasted a fresh new vial. i feel so stupid and anxious now that i’m down one vial in a conservative state. i need to check when i can refill my prescription.

should i just throw the vial away and cut my losses? that’s what im leaning towards.

So, I was doing my estrogen injection. I am still fairly new, this was supposed to be my 9th injection. Anyway. When I was filling up my dose, I always go a little extra to try to account for air bubbles. I didn’t see any, so I pushed the syringe up, and lined up my dose. Then I injected it. It occurred to me after, is it possible the tip of the needle was above the liquid in the vial, and that’s why I didn’t see air bubbles? If I injected straight air and zero liquid, what should I do? How can I tell? Ugh, so upset I wasn’t thinking on the fly, I literally just thought my technique was getting better. 🥺😅

Been noticing the lymph nodes in my neck have been tender to the touch, despite not being sick. Wondering if it's a common side effect of fluid retention (like breast tenderness) or not.

Anyone else experience this? I inject 0.1mL of EEn (40mg bottle concentration) weekly.

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Hi, i received my blood test results after approximately one month of HRT via gel applied scrotally, 4mg per day (2mg every 12 or so hours). This was taken on 9th october right after my first morning dose of the day, and i started hrt on 12th of september. Should I increase my dosage? Because these levels don't look good.

Value Unit Min Max

E 241 pmol/L 43.3 146

T 7.5 nmol/L 5.72 26.1

Hello! I've been nearly 3 years in E, first 2 and a half were inyections and now I switched to pills.

I'm currently on 2mg e pills twice a day and 50mg espiro twice a day (4mg e and 100mg espiro in total)

So, my main question here is, what time should I take my bloodwork? When I was doing inyections it was right before my next dose, is it the same when taking pills? Thanks! Have a good day

What will be affected, what physical things will change? Will height be affected?
Will it affect your mental state? Will it make you experience things differently? Will it make some body parts feel different? How may it change your face/body shape? Are there any ways to roughly estimate what about your face may change?