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  • theresa (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Congrats on taking the first step! That’s the hardest one. I struggled with similar doubts for the first 2-3 months of HRT as well, but ever since, there’s nothing I’m more certain about in my entire life.

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      Thanks ! That’s reassuring. I thought that after feelings the hormonal effects I would be more set in my decision

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      That’s interesting, the first 3 months was about the time it seemed to take for my body to start operating as estrogen-dominant, I saw the biggest changes in my anxiety around that point. (My depression was lifted earlier than that, but seemed to come back whenever other physiological signs of testosterone seemed to come back, it took a while for me to figure out how to suppress T sufficiently, and tbh I never fully figured it out, I didn’t have peace until my orchi).