A few things.

[agent_dani]

Officially have a consultation with Dr. P, scheduled for April 6. This is the other doctor (an endo, too) in the region who will prescribe HRT. I'm hopeful to finally get better progress as mine with Dr. H has been painfully slow - it's been an uphill battle with her to just get to the point where I get results and I know that if I were to ask for an increase it would be 25mcg/d (VivelleDOT/Estradot) as that is the only amount she's been willing to increase it for me.

Figured out something about my boss; he operates entirely on the negotiation method. The lesson here is to seriously pad my estimates, e.g. if it will take a week, start by saying it will take three, because if I say one, he'll try counter with one or two days, and half a week is the best I'll get from him. I may also want to try giving hours estimates as he isn't so willing to do so with those.

We ordered a lawnmower. We did have one, but it's a ZTR that will be complete overkill at the house we're buying (it made sense for the 2 acres in PA.) We went with a cordless electric push mower this time, the Neuton CE5. We'll be selling the ZTR.

I've had a considerable amount of work frustration of late. It really is microaggression crap - mostly petty, minor stuff that would be easy to ignore if not for the sheer volume and persistence (and that passive-aggressive crap really gets under my skin.)

Comments

[agent_dani]

auntysarah put it a little differently, focusing on their willingness to prescribe HRT so long as it was non-feminizing doses.

True, the initial dose, 50mcg Estradiol transdermal and no AA, is one that was sufficient for one person I know, but she is very much the exception. For most that I know, having an anti-androgen and higher doses of E were necessary, and it clearly is for me (I had no results from HRT for the first year of treatment, which meant two years into transition, for that reason.)

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

I was lucky not to need AA's (took them for a short time and went totally manic- it turned out that I had suffered from PAIS in utero, so they were trying to fight something that wasn't there! Oestrogen (with a little help from progesterone) pretty much did it for me too :o)

[agent_dani]

Nice! AAs were very much necessary for me. The attempts at E-only just reduced T from "low but normal for male" to "bottom end of low but normal for male." Spiro has made all the difference in the world for me.

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

Finding that little fact out explained a great deal which had puzzled me! :o)