The first week on hormones

Hello all

I trust all is well?

Tonight marks the completion of my first week on hormones. It's been a strange first week in many ways.

Estradot

To my surprise the hormones aren't pills or injections, but rather patches, similar to a nicotine patch in many ways, and the main problem has been getting the little fuckers to stay on. The Estradot is roughly the same sort of size as two SIM cards for mobiles side by side and they are kept on for three days at a time, although to date only one has managed to last the three days.

They have to be applied to the lower abdomen and so when you bend down or anything, you're automatically worrying that they're going to come off. To be fair they do stick on reasonably well until water touches them, then problems start.

The first one lasted two days before half of it peeled off and had to be changed for another one. For the second I got medical tape and fixed it in place. Although it did the job and it lasted for the full three days, by the end I had a major rash going on, but any attempt to remove the tape would have remove the patch. The third came off after just a few hours after I woke up, and it wouldn't reapply, and so far the fourth has stayed on for the two days it's been on so far, mainly thanks to being covered in tape again....not the same tape though and this one isn't giving me a rash, which is always good.

Anyway, applying the first one was kind of strange because my abdomen became very cold all of a sudden and within minutes I was experiencing a headache. I was told to expect headaches and similar issues whilst on the hormones, but within minutes was a bit of a surprise. That headache lasted for two days and I know it was a cause of the hormones as I never usually get headaches, especially headaches that lasted for two days. Fortunately I had a week off from both jobs anyway, so it wasn't too bad.

Some other effects have already started to get affected by the hormones, but again they were expected and one is a significant lowering of my sex drive. I was never really that interested in sex anyway, and my sex drive was low to begin with, but obviously I would have thoughts occasionally and that's just human nature......since I have started on the hormones those thoughts have pretty much gone. In one week I haven't had some of the thoughts I had had before hand, which is strange in a way, but again is a sign that the hormones are starting to take effect, so it's not a bad thing.

It's going to be a long road and I am told that I shouldn't expect anything for at least three months in terms of a change of body. The first changes will be facial as some fat forms an extra layer under my skin and makes the face a bit rounder. Around the same time I will start to feel the early signs of breasts and various other aspects of changing from male to female.

I think when it's all over in a few years then I am going to look into finding something that I am passionate about. I have never quite figured out what I want out of life....other than the generalised topic of this thread, but other than that I have never found that thing that will make me wake up with a passion every day, so as soon as I am female, that's what I'm going to do.