Today is day 14. I have been on one pump of Androgel for two weeks now.
I can't say that I've noticed very many conclusive changes but the last few weeks along with having to put my gel on every day I've been consistently doing other things like taking my vitamins and using my ACV wash. Which could account for the more steady energy level and my acne not being too bad.
I do think that my acne has picked up a bit but I've been using ACV (apple cider vinegar) as well as recently beginning to use Penaten as a night spot cream on the spots on my face and chest as was recommended on a couple forums I read about it on.
My mood seems a lot more stable as well. I haven't been as quick to break down in tears when I've been upset and I haven't been AS upset as I normally would be in certain situations either. It has given me the opportunity to keep my mind calm and rationally figure things out which has helped me a lot in the past week and I've really needed it. I did have a couple days where I felt like I was more emotional than most of the time the last two weeks but it wasn't nearly as bad as I feel it would have been without the T.
I have also noticed an increase in my appetite and I've been able to eat more than 'normal'. I find that I get hungry more often and not just getting the munchies like I used to. I actually haven't felt the urge in between times of 'real' hunger to just snack but my stomach starts hurting kind of hungry about twice as much now than it did before.
The only real conclusive change I've noticed in the last two weeks has been growth 'downstairs'. It's not something that I've paid a lot of attention to even though I knew that it wouldn't take much to start seeing progress on that front. It does show that the T-gel is actually doing something in my body though.
I held onto a glimmer of hope that even though I'm on such a low dosage that it would keep the 'red devil' in check but today those hopes were dashed. I'm going to wait and see how this pans out and then I'll email the doctor and see about upping my dosage to two pumps a day like we said we would after 3 weeks. The primary goal of hormone treatment in my mind is to get my cycle to stop, other changes I am willing to wait for and allow to come in their own time but that is my primary goal. I know it can take several months to find a dosage that works at preventing it.
I knew that at such a low dosage it wouldn't be a very exciting time right out of the gate so I imagine that updates will be every couple of weeks rather than weekly. It's been a busy time lately and now that spring is rolling around it will really only get busier in terms of work.
I also called CAMH on Wednesday and was informed that clients that got referred in July 2011 will be booked for appointments in July 2012 and will be getting their letters in May so I will probably be getting a letter in June(ish) for an appointment in August(ish) which at least will put me over a year of GRE (Gender Role Experience, which is what they are calling it now) when I go into see them which I will be able to prove by my gender marker on my license and the letters from my store manager that I got.
That's all for today!![]()
I can't say that I've noticed very many conclusive changes but the last few weeks along with having to put my gel on every day I've been consistently doing other things like taking my vitamins and using my ACV wash. Which could account for the more steady energy level and my acne not being too bad.
I do think that my acne has picked up a bit but I've been using ACV (apple cider vinegar) as well as recently beginning to use Penaten as a night spot cream on the spots on my face and chest as was recommended on a couple forums I read about it on.
My mood seems a lot more stable as well. I haven't been as quick to break down in tears when I've been upset and I haven't been AS upset as I normally would be in certain situations either. It has given me the opportunity to keep my mind calm and rationally figure things out which has helped me a lot in the past week and I've really needed it. I did have a couple days where I felt like I was more emotional than most of the time the last two weeks but it wasn't nearly as bad as I feel it would have been without the T.
I have also noticed an increase in my appetite and I've been able to eat more than 'normal'. I find that I get hungry more often and not just getting the munchies like I used to. I actually haven't felt the urge in between times of 'real' hunger to just snack but my stomach starts hurting kind of hungry about twice as much now than it did before.
The only real conclusive change I've noticed in the last two weeks has been growth 'downstairs'. It's not something that I've paid a lot of attention to even though I knew that it wouldn't take much to start seeing progress on that front. It does show that the T-gel is actually doing something in my body though.
I held onto a glimmer of hope that even though I'm on such a low dosage that it would keep the 'red devil' in check but today those hopes were dashed. I'm going to wait and see how this pans out and then I'll email the doctor and see about upping my dosage to two pumps a day like we said we would after 3 weeks. The primary goal of hormone treatment in my mind is to get my cycle to stop, other changes I am willing to wait for and allow to come in their own time but that is my primary goal. I know it can take several months to find a dosage that works at preventing it.
I knew that at such a low dosage it wouldn't be a very exciting time right out of the gate so I imagine that updates will be every couple of weeks rather than weekly. It's been a busy time lately and now that spring is rolling around it will really only get busier in terms of work.
I also called CAMH on Wednesday and was informed that clients that got referred in July 2011 will be booked for appointments in July 2012 and will be getting their letters in May so I will probably be getting a letter in June(ish) for an appointment in August(ish) which at least will put me over a year of GRE (Gender Role Experience, which is what they are calling it now) when I go into see them which I will be able to prove by my gender marker on my license and the letters from my store manager that I got.
That's all for today!
