Second Week of my growing journey was a little less exciting. I had gotten my micro-pipette in on Day 8 and started split dosing (smaller dose in morning and evening) for this week. Things felt DRASTICALLY LESS intense than when I was doing one dose of 0.1mL a day (10mg active DHT) even though the split dose technically resulted in a higher active concentration (12mg active DHT).
I got my blood tests done on day 12 both at my trough, 12 hours after my last dose so lowest point, and at my peak, 3 hours after dosing. Both readings came back with 11ng/dL (within typical female ranges), showing that there isn’t really any bleed over from overdosing/over loading my androgen binding sites and am having VERY low systematic absorption.
This makes me feel much more confident to increase my dose to the 0.7ml twice a day without fear of systematic virilization. I hopefully go up to 0.8mL twice a day to reach my goal of 16mg of active DHT a day.
Interesting side note, the study I was looking at to estimate my systematic DHT exposure by dosage for my weight would have estimated my blood readings to be 170ng/dL. In that study they applied the DHT to the arm rather than genitals (it was for prostate cancer treatment in old men). So it at least lets me know for DHT, systematic uptake really is dependent on location of dosage as my actual blood readings were 15x lower than it should have been by those paper’s findings suggested it should be.
Anyways onto the journal*,* pics are here: Second Week Pics
This time its not as detailed as things were significantly less interesting this week. I’ve been less consistent with pictures due to there not being much difference as there was week one.
Day 8: Dose 0.06ml in the morning and 0.06mL at night (12mg active). No real sensations after morning application. Irritation/almost-itchy sensation is still passively affecting my clit and its rather annoying today. I think mu hood is finally starting to separate from the glands. Glands are still so small they are firmly under my hood and I can’t recract it just yet but I can now actually feel a “lump” where my clit is where before it was basically flat and difficult to find without looking. Horny thoughts still haven’t returned and no stray sparks
Day 9: Dose 0.06ml in the morning and 0.06mL at night (12mg active). No real sensations after morning application. Irritation/almost-itchy sensation is still passively affecting my clit. No horny thoughts and sensation seems to have dulled.
Day 10: Dose 0.06ml in the morning and 0.06mL at night (12mg active). No real sensations after morning application. Irritation/almost-itchy sensation is still passively affecting my clit and still no return of increased libido or horny thoughts.
Day 11: Dose 0.06ml in the morning and 0.06mL at night (12mg active). No real sensations after morning application. Irritation/almost-itchy sensation is still passively affecting my clit. Today it was a bit more uncomfortable to try to spread myself for a picture, it felt like tension oddly? Maybe something is just about to unstick?? Horny thoughts still haven’t returned and no stray sparks.
Day 12: Dose 0.06ml in the morning and 0.06mL at night (12mg active). No real sensations after morning application. Itching stopped! It looks like my hood is fully unstuck, tho I really can’t retract it far but that could just be because the head of my clit is still very small. Blood tests done today. Horny thoughts still haven’t returned and no stray sparks
Day 13: Dose 0.06ml in the morning and 0.06mL at night (12mg active). Hood seems even looser if possible, I can now actually put the cream under the hood for the first time ever. Horny thoughts still haven’t returned and no stray sparks.
Day 14: Dose 0.06ml in the morning and 0.06mL at night (12mg active). No real sensations after morning application. Horny thoughts still haven’t returned and no stray sparks. Nothing new to report. Received blood test results (11ng/dL), so will increase dosage of cream tomorrow to 0.07mL twice a day.