X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?a=blobdiff_plain;f=content%2F2017%2Fhormones-reboot-spironotacular.md;h=0a8761b00bc8547bb5f0d9461c572214cebe6f94;hb=1e2d5ab78f9449d454a83498801953adcf050f5d;hp=462b8d2ca52ad240a7f44683928fbe8a8c39ab71;hpb=7ad7511d67f9c7342974c0bf8649d842d049b8cf;p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git diff --git a/content/2017/hormones-reboot-spironotacular.md b/content/2017/hormones-reboot-spironotacular.md index 462b8d2..0a8761b 100644 --- a/content/2017/hormones-reboot-spironotacular.md +++ b/content/2017/hormones-reboot-spironotacular.md @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Tags: HRT diary, not-a-transition ![coffee and spiro]({filename}/images/coffee_and_spiro.jpg) -So, I took off my estradiol patch during [my recent nervous breakdown](/2017/Mar/fresh-princess/). I still [don't think](/2017/Jan/hormones-day-33/) it had much, if any, real effect. (In particular, the stress and sleep-deprevation by themselves seem quite sufficient to explain the breakdown without attributing any of it to a nonstandard hormone balance, especially given how similar it felt to my 2013 nervous breakdown.) +So, I took off my estradiol patch during [my recent nervous breakdown](/2017/Mar/fresh-princess/). I still [don't think](/2017/Jan/hormones-day-33/) it had much, if any, real effect. (In particular, the stress and sleep-deprivation by themselves seem quite sufficient to explain the breakdown without attributing any of it to a nonstandard hormone balance, especially given how similar it felt to my 2013 nervous breakdown.) Again, everyone had _told_ me that just-estrogen without an anti-androgen doesn't do anything, but that didn't seem absolutely locked down from me from what I had read ("Anti-Androgens May Not Be Necessary", according to [a lit review](https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/2016/10/06/cross-sex-hormone-therapy-female-hormones/) that I may or may not have had a causal role in commissioning), and remember: from my perspective, if [everyone is lying](/2017/Jan/im-sick-of-being-lied-to/) about the etiology, maybe they got the dosages wrong, too! So I don't regret being conservative for the initial experiment. (The _starter_ in "starter dose" is code-switching for _placebo_!)