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I'm wondering what to expect, if anything, that will or might be different from my use of progesterone pills and estradiol patches, as well as spironolactone pills.
Does anyone have anything they can tell me?
Oh, and Ugh is right. There are few things worse than heading into a holiday while suffering from the flu. YUCK!!!!!
Love and hugs,
Catherine Linda Michel
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Did I ever tell you about the Burdillo?
You can probably buy them at any farm supply store. Just take it home and soak your gonies in a bucket of ice, a bunch of screw drivers, a couple of little squeezes and problem solved. Yeppers ... NO PROB. I didn't get to do it, they wanted to limit my activity for even asking. What were they thinking?
Gwen
I have not used the
I have not used the injectibles myself, but several of my 3-d friends have. They all learned that it is best to space your shots weekly rather than monthly, in order to prevent the mood swings and ups and down. For three of them, they were emotionally fragile the last three or four days before an injection, breaking into tears over anything and often for no reason at all, and one was miserable toward her spouse for those days. Once they broke the shots into weekly injections, it worked better. Another alternative is to get a 'script for estrogen cream and when you start feeling fragile toward the end of the period, use the cream to smooth out the emotions. Worked well for the last one.
Since everyone is different, it may help to work with your Endo to adjust your dosages to reflect your own body's requirements.
When one was post-op, she switched to the pills, then to the patch. She has no allergy to the adhesive on the patch.
CaroL
CaroL
Congrats Cathy.
Thats great. I'm very happy for you. I'm sorry you've been sick. While I've been away I was sick too. It started out like a light cold and after 2 weeks it went to full blown broncitas. I hope you get feeling better soon.
Jessica Marie
Shots ??
This is really dependent on what the injections contain.
I had injections that stoped the " producing the blueprint for producing testosteron" to use a figurative expression. It stoped the production by blocking the production of signals to the testes to produce testosterone(there are other medicines that stop the production oft testosterone and those that stop the action of T once it has been releast into the blood , such as the tablets you have used).
My injection are called gRNA inhibitors. One of the brandnames in US is TRELSTAR and the common scientific name of the substance is: triptorelin.
That medcine was given once a month and after about 2 weeks I got really bitchy (wich I had warned my fellow collegues on my job) a week later I was almost chemically castrated.
To this treatnment was added
estradiol patches (many brandnames in US) at the level og 25 microgrammes/24 hours. That was later rised to 50 mcgrammes/24 hour.
The treatment did released the male cycle, c.f.female cyclic periods, which was 28-35 days long. Those periods of feeling down continued up to the operation and a couple of months after the operation while the body got settled after the discontinuation of all hormones peri-operation. Of course there was no longer any need to manage the testosteron production so since the operation (2003) there has only been estradiol patches and dosaged to keep the estrgen concentration between 180 to 250.
I hope this will answer your questions
If you need more info, please drop me an e-mail
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Your Ginnie
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