HRT - The Beginning
Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2004 1:59 am
I had my first doctor's appointment today. It was scheduled for 5:00 PM but I didn't see the doctor until 7 PM. I was warned he's the type of person who will spend as much time with his patient as necessary to get them to feel comfortable. So expect to wait, unless you're the first patient.
When he walked in I was wearing women's jeans, top and pantyhose but no makeup or wig. I had on a sweatshirt so I looked pretty much like a guy. I felt nervous because I thought all he did was TS work but I was the only one there. I regretted wearing women's clothes..............until we met.
He asked that I take off my sweatshirt so he could check my blood pressure. Under the sweatshirt I had on a purple 3/4 length sleeved top that was all girl. I just figured, "What the hell, he knows why I'm here!" So I took it off and began rolling up my sleeve so he could wrap the pressure band around my arm. He stopped me and gently pulled the sleeve up and worked out the wrinkles and put the band around my arm with the sleeve under it. It was as if he didn't want to stretch out the top. He was so caring.
He took my blood pressure then asked me some questions about when was the first time I dressed, the first time I wanted to transition, and my dressing as I grew up. Then he took another blood pressure reading. He then checked my breathing and looked down my throat. Then another blood pressure reading. Each time he wrote down the reading. I guessed he wanted to eliminate any blips in the system.
Then he asked several other questions about family health, how the kids are handling this and a lot of other personal questions. I sensed he really cared.
When it was over he told me, "We can do this fast track or slow track, what do you want?" I didn't answer him. I asked him other unimportant questions. It was a delay so as not to seem too anxious. (No I didn't plan to do this, I just felt self conscious acting excited). Then he asked again and again I say, "Fast track."
So he lays out the regimen and then looks at me in the eye and says, "I have been doing this for long enough that I know how a patient will turn out. There's a lot who will never be able to pass." I look at him, waiting for more. He looks at me and says, "You'll do well".
So I told him I could never transition if I looked like a guy and that Deb told me if I did HRT and FFS and.... then he stopped me.
"I doubt you will need much facial surgery. In fact you may not need any at all."
Now I have thought this was a necessity for passing but he's telling me I may not need it? God, I wish!
Okay, I got off the subject.
So here's what I'll be doing,
2 weeks on a low dose
2 weeks twice the first week's doseage
2 weeks three times the first week's doseage
2 weeks four times the first week's doseage
Then I see him again.
One thing I found interesting is the issue of liver damage from hormones. He said he has never had a single patient develop liver damage from HRT. And that's pretty impressive. But he believes that whole liver damage thing is a lot of bunk.
When he walked in I was wearing women's jeans, top and pantyhose but no makeup or wig. I had on a sweatshirt so I looked pretty much like a guy. I felt nervous because I thought all he did was TS work but I was the only one there. I regretted wearing women's clothes..............until we met.
He asked that I take off my sweatshirt so he could check my blood pressure. Under the sweatshirt I had on a purple 3/4 length sleeved top that was all girl. I just figured, "What the hell, he knows why I'm here!" So I took it off and began rolling up my sleeve so he could wrap the pressure band around my arm. He stopped me and gently pulled the sleeve up and worked out the wrinkles and put the band around my arm with the sleeve under it. It was as if he didn't want to stretch out the top. He was so caring.
He took my blood pressure then asked me some questions about when was the first time I dressed, the first time I wanted to transition, and my dressing as I grew up. Then he took another blood pressure reading. He then checked my breathing and looked down my throat. Then another blood pressure reading. Each time he wrote down the reading. I guessed he wanted to eliminate any blips in the system.
Then he asked several other questions about family health, how the kids are handling this and a lot of other personal questions. I sensed he really cared.
When it was over he told me, "We can do this fast track or slow track, what do you want?" I didn't answer him. I asked him other unimportant questions. It was a delay so as not to seem too anxious. (No I didn't plan to do this, I just felt self conscious acting excited). Then he asked again and again I say, "Fast track."
So he lays out the regimen and then looks at me in the eye and says, "I have been doing this for long enough that I know how a patient will turn out. There's a lot who will never be able to pass." I look at him, waiting for more. He looks at me and says, "You'll do well".
So I told him I could never transition if I looked like a guy and that Deb told me if I did HRT and FFS and.... then he stopped me.
"I doubt you will need much facial surgery. In fact you may not need any at all."
Now I have thought this was a necessity for passing but he's telling me I may not need it? God, I wish!
Okay, I got off the subject.
So here's what I'll be doing,
2 weeks on a low dose
2 weeks twice the first week's doseage
2 weeks three times the first week's doseage
2 weeks four times the first week's doseage
Then I see him again.
One thing I found interesting is the issue of liver damage from hormones. He said he has never had a single patient develop liver damage from HRT. And that's pretty impressive. But he believes that whole liver damage thing is a lot of bunk.
