Start of HRT: Day 6

Better day than yesterday. Today was also first day of 100% contract in work after half a year (#14). I woke up bit late, no wonder, yesterday was bit of a stretch to me. In the morning I was not so sure about my feeling so I decided to stay home and do work remotely. I also visited grocery store and pharmacy, to get those lower dosage spironolactone and some other things I was lacking. And I laughed the instructions doctor wrote for the med: "1 tablet once a day. Carefully lift dose to 100mg once a day" ("1 tabletti kerran päivässä. Annosnosto varovasti asti 100mg kerran päivässä" in finnish). How do you define "carefully"? :D Well, I will try with this dosage for 2 weeks, then get it to 50 mg for another 2 weeks, 75mg after that for 2 weeks and if I'm still in good shape, to the 100mg. Depends how I react so we will see. Doctor said "week or two" in phone after all.

My muscles are aching a bit. I wonder what (or which) causes that. I'm also feeling little nauseated but nothing compared to saturday night or sunday morning. This is more like "I have no appetite", which is bearable. The medication is still ramping up, even to this low dosage. Good thing is that my heart rate has been in hand, it gets up very easily to around 100 bpm if I do something, but it doesn't feel bad. And resting heart rate is between 70 and 80. So higher than what I have normally but nothing unusual.

My migraine hasn't changed much, my vision is about the same what it was before, maybe little bit more clear. I'm hoping it will clear up during the ramp-up. Also I think estrogen has bigger influence to it than anti-androgen. And I will double the dosage of estrogen on thursday.

But now some sleep, so I can get myself to office tomorrow in proper time.

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