Notices by CJ Bellwether (siege@octodon.social), page 2

I need to get back on the rung of a desktop computer after 15 years, should I be getting a 40 gen geforce now while I can because it's gonna be forever to get a 50 gen and they will be scalped to hell while there won't be any new 40 gens left or should I wait?

@amberage yeah big time. They're 'just trying to help'.

@amberage the British version of WPATH they created a few years back when WPATH started suggesting trans people were telling the truth

I had the best endo in UK trans health prior but they were continually in danger from BAGIS so had to try and not cast a long shadow in their actions. The politics of trans healthcare as a corporate industry is a huge impact on our care.

I've said before but being seen by an endo who doesn't work in trans health is radically better. They aren't under pressure, they aren't suspicious, they just treat you as a patient. Makes me realize how revolutionary it would be if this was normal.

@bri_seven yeah no this was all just my hormone provider and GP restricting my access and me refusing to comply

@sophia81 and no, no reason for going that high, your limit is your estrogen receptors so theres a max amount that actually can affect you - the rest is a waste.

I was doing injectibles because of my hormone care being restricted.

@bri_seven oh no i mean not divulging to my endo that i had been doing injectibles

@sophia81 sounds like you had trouble with patches then? normally 2x100 is enough to reach 700-800 pmol

@bri_seven not sure what you mean by jobs?

@sophia81 in fact i tested twice, once i came back at 2800 another over 3000

@sophia81 yeah im sure, 3000 pmol/L was how i tested, i was likely getting ~700 pmol/L from patches so the rest had to come from the injectibles.

@old_angry_queer couldnt begin to explain it, not my forte

@bri_seven thank you <3

anyway this is just to say, if you are trying to mask that you've been doing injectibles from a medical profesh, dont assume your levels will return to normal given a week or two.

not a single injection, but a long regimen of injections building up a large reservoir.

Enough that 2300 pmol/L (thats 628 pg/mL) was still filtering out of the store into my bloodstream (and then ~700 from patches).

something no one ever really informed me about injectibles is that it can take a looong ass time for it to fully leave your system.

i was injecting into my ass a standard weekly dose for subq, and still 2 months later i was blood testing and coming back with 3000 pmol/L

@dee im always just happy to hear it was in any way helpful to people.

i dont think Melville ever considered that in the future someone would just absent mindedly click on a line of text titled "cw: all of moby dick" causing them to have all 215k words of his book flash before their eyes as they quietly mutter a curse at themselves.

the man spent a lot of time info dumping about his fascination with whale spermaceti and for what?

@masukomi @sillyCoelophysis

poll of transfem people taking Progesterone regarding sex drive:

https://octodon.social/@siege/110441708843689395

testosterone is not the only hormone that influences sex drive - estrogen certainly does, theres no reason to assume progesterone doesnt except ongoing association that women dont naturally have sex drives / sex is a masculine urge.

How quickly youll feel any effect definitely depends on how you're taking it. Orally you'll notice some effects within half an hour since its metabolites act as a sedative. However that will be nullified if you're taking a blocker like finasteride (that will prevent the prog from breaking down to allo).