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hey folks,

so i have been having some issues with my hormone levels and had a question.

i've been on testosterone for about 2 years. about 6 months ago, my fiance suggested that i see what happened if i doubled my dose (i was taking 1/2 cc every week, and i doubled it to a full cc every week) since i had seen almost no results from hormones in a year and a half. sure enough, within like two weeks of upping my doseage major changes were happening for me. i only stayed on that dose for 3 or 4 months.

i thin ended up having to change doctors and was off of hormones for almost 2 months starting mid february while trying to get in with a new doctor. When i got them again, i went on the original dose, 1/2 cc, and we started trying to troubleshoot the situation. we tested my testosterone and estrogen levels and it turned out both were high. my testosterone was very high, my estrogen was just a little high (this is of course going off of a normal male range).

my doctor wanted to talk about bringing my testosterone down, but i told him that i was unhappy as it was with the results i was seeing from testosterone and i would also like to address the estrogen thing and the fact that testosterone was not doing what it should be doing. he said he would help me address the estrogen thing but that the testosterone needed to come down too or else i would get polycystic fibrosis or whatever is is that people get. so the conversation moved onto other non-related medical stuff. then he came back with a prescription for progesterone.

i asked him why he was prescribing me progesterone if that was a female hormone that trans women take to see late stage breast development. he said it would bring the estrogen down. i told him i felt weird about it but at that point the appointment had run over and he really wouldn't continue the conversation

that was almost a week ago and i have not filled the prescription. i feel weird about taking progesterone and have never heard of trans men taking this before. if i'm going to take it, i pretty much just need to start taking it, but if not i need to figure out another treatment so i can get my hormone levels normalized and figure out why i am seeing no results from testosterone except when i'm on crazy way-too-high doses

so does anyone have any suggestions? has anyone ever been prescribed progesterone?

x-posted to my _ftm_ and ftm