HRT: Two years
Two years, huh. It has been one heck of a voyage to better life.
This won't be same kind of post about what has happened to my body, I will just go though what has happened during past one year, which isn't much. Check the one year post to see how hormones has affected me.
So, not much I say. At least externally. My skin is extremely soft nowadays and really sensitive to touch (and I love my skin because of those) and my boobs are still growing, currently 80E. Which is making me tiny bit concerned, though they are starting to take proper shape, so the upper part is filling up, though really slowly. My hair and nails are growing super fast, nails 4mm/month, hair 2cm/month. Next time when I will visit hairdresser, the rest of the hair will be cut away, which has grown before HRT ("the shitty hair"). And they will still be reaching to my shoulders. But, after that I can start to really grow them, I want them to reach middle of my back. Other thing which has changed is actually my face. I noticed it when I got my new ID and compared the pictures. My jawline has changed and my cheeckbones are more prominent now, making my face bit more square and really feminine. 💜
And on the subject of new ID, I finally fixed my gender to population system. It happened on last day of last year, so started this year as legally woman 💜. All kinds of funny things has happened thanks to that but tackling them one by one. Next match will be rest of the banks. I needed ID with updated information for that.
My mind has been on major shift during the whole year. Relationship with B helped me with depression so much. My way of thinking has gone towards women, even more, as well. To the point that I have hard time understanding men. Though, women makes a lot of sense to me nowadays. I also notice most if not all of the subtle hints women use in their communication, heck, I have started to use them by myself. I'm otherwise more sensitive (mentally and physically) as well, I notice more things around me, to the point that when I'm walking to work, I'm blocking my surroundings completely to not get distracted. Though, being more sensitive means also that I notice even if hormone patches aren't properly on my skin. And react in various ways, mostly with migraine.
It's really hard to describe what has happened inside my head. As the change has been rather slow after all, so it's hard to remember how my brains worked 2 years ago. One big thing is also my libido, read more about it from previous post, it's very TMI subject.
I really don't know what else to say about past year. It has been quite a ride.
On other subject, I visited phoniatry clinic on tuesday to see senior voice therapist, who leads the clinic. It seems that I have practiced my voice so well that it's only matter of automating the voice I thought would be good pitch by intuition. After doing all the recordings and initial analysis, she said that I don't need her. I can do rest by myself as automation happens over timeframe of several months.
I'll be calling to HUS about surgery date tomorrow. I hope I get some other answer than "we don't know yet", though the corona virus and migration to new patient management system causes a lot of hassle. I will write blog post about it if I get new information about the surgery date!
'Til next time~ 💜
This won't be same kind of post about what has happened to my body, I will just go though what has happened during past one year, which isn't much. Check the one year post to see how hormones has affected me.
So, not much I say. At least externally. My skin is extremely soft nowadays and really sensitive to touch (and I love my skin because of those) and my boobs are still growing, currently 80E. Which is making me tiny bit concerned, though they are starting to take proper shape, so the upper part is filling up, though really slowly. My hair and nails are growing super fast, nails 4mm/month, hair 2cm/month. Next time when I will visit hairdresser, the rest of the hair will be cut away, which has grown before HRT ("the shitty hair"). And they will still be reaching to my shoulders. But, after that I can start to really grow them, I want them to reach middle of my back. Other thing which has changed is actually my face. I noticed it when I got my new ID and compared the pictures. My jawline has changed and my cheeckbones are more prominent now, making my face bit more square and really feminine. 💜
And on the subject of new ID, I finally fixed my gender to population system. It happened on last day of last year, so started this year as legally woman 💜. All kinds of funny things has happened thanks to that but tackling them one by one. Next match will be rest of the banks. I needed ID with updated information for that.
My mind has been on major shift during the whole year. Relationship with B helped me with depression so much. My way of thinking has gone towards women, even more, as well. To the point that I have hard time understanding men. Though, women makes a lot of sense to me nowadays. I also notice most if not all of the subtle hints women use in their communication, heck, I have started to use them by myself. I'm otherwise more sensitive (mentally and physically) as well, I notice more things around me, to the point that when I'm walking to work, I'm blocking my surroundings completely to not get distracted. Though, being more sensitive means also that I notice even if hormone patches aren't properly on my skin. And react in various ways, mostly with migraine.
It's really hard to describe what has happened inside my head. As the change has been rather slow after all, so it's hard to remember how my brains worked 2 years ago. One big thing is also my libido, read more about it from previous post, it's very TMI subject.
I really don't know what else to say about past year. It has been quite a ride.
On other subject, I visited phoniatry clinic on tuesday to see senior voice therapist, who leads the clinic. It seems that I have practiced my voice so well that it's only matter of automating the voice I thought would be good pitch by intuition. After doing all the recordings and initial analysis, she said that I don't need her. I can do rest by myself as automation happens over timeframe of several months.
I'll be calling to HUS about surgery date tomorrow. I hope I get some other answer than "we don't know yet", though the corona virus and migration to new patient management system causes a lot of hassle. I will write blog post about it if I get new information about the surgery date!
'Til next time~ 💜