See title. I’m on HRT for over 11 months now, thoroughly enjoying it. I’ve a hunch the dose is a bit low, though. I get androgen blockers every 2-3 months, my last one was one month ago.
Normally my arm hairs aren’t very visible, so I didn’t have much dysphoria from that. However, recently my arm hair seems to be growing a lot and thicker, and I’m concerned. Is this normal?
My mum doesn’t really have a lot of arm hair, nor do other gals in my family.
I scheduled another blood test, this will be in early March actually. After next week I’ll see what the results are. If that yields good results, I can continue. If it’s getting nearer the 400 pmol/L, but not there, I’ll switch to four doses a day, split over two moments (morning and evening), until I can switch to gel.
This is because needles aren’t an option here (yet), unless if you go DIY. My skin is sensitive and so patches aren’t an option. Spray however dries quickly and my skin doesn’t react badly to it. So, gel it is, if spray isn’t effective enough.
is the spray essentially transdermal like gel?
What is the dose “per spray”, and how would it compare to gel?
My skin is also sensitive, I don’t think I could do patches (this is a big reason I do injections). I think I could do gel now that I’m post-op, but pre-op I really don’t think it would have worked well enough for me.
The spray is transdermal, yes.
It’s 1.53 mg/dose. It dries significantly faster (2 min, vs 10 min for gel).
it’s possible the spray would be just as effective as gel, then - not really sure, but they’re both transdermal. I don’t know what doses the gel come in, and I also just don’t know about how well the skin absorbs estradiol from spray vs gel - I would be really interested to learn more, though!