so, a few years ago i decided that transition wasn't for me (ha! how wrong i was!) and went through and made a lot of the entries 'friends only.' since i'm not a paid LJ user (and don't really have any intentions of being one anytime soon), I can't unlock them all en mass - and doing so one by one is tedious (and i don't really have the time). i am ( Read more... )

So I decided to make one!

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I guess it was pretty stupid of me to be so concerned about passing that I waited years to get on with it and start HRT. This is me this past weekend at my school's prom equivalent.


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message from my doctor yesterday ( Read more... )

so i guess one thing i'm having trouble with now is that i think i am starting to see myself differently, which is good, but then i get mixed feedback from the people i know. i've lost about ~18.5 lbs since the beginning of 2011 (so from 175 to 156/7). i think maybe part of it is that i don't just see my reflection, i also feel what my perceived ( Read more... )

Now 4 months (and 2 days) into HRT, so I figure time for some more updates ( Read more... )

So a little more than a month ago I came out to basically everyone in my class at school (around 125 or so out of 180). Here's my letter ( Read more... )

it's now around 7.5 weeks into hormones. my doses were upped roughly 4 weeks in to what seems to be a pretty standard dose of 200 mg spiro (that i was on from the start), 2 mg estradiol, and 5 mg medroxyprogesterone. i've been continually told that i should keep track of all the changes, and i guess since its probably that i'll forget some of them ( Read more... )

One of my new year's resolutions was to lose weight - and since the beginning of the year I've dropped around 15 lbs! Booyeah! I think that a portion of that is due to the hormones - either directly or because I'm feeling good that my life is finally headed in the direction I want it to go. Either way, exercising is a lot easier now (ie - running) ( Read more... )