trans | Question about banking and HRT... (Reply)

hi everyone

I've got a kind of technical, not terribly fun question about HRT, fertility, and all that awesomeness

I'm currently on spiro, and have been for about 3-4 months... and I'm really seriously considering going ahead and adding estrogen to the mix

I know that I'll likely be pretty much infertile pretty soon, but I feel like I might want to have my (biologically) own kids someday... so I'm looking into storing my sperm in a cryo bank..

It's my understanding that you have to be off of any kind of anti-androgens/hormones/etc for a certain period of time before one's sperm can be used for storage, and I was wondering just how long it is.

I mean, if it's like 6 months, I honestly don't know if I can put this off that long, but 1 or 2 months, maybe... I just need a lot more info before I can make this kind of decision

So, if anyone has any good links, or their own first-hand experience with
this kind of thing, and wants to share, pleeeease let me know, and I
would be forever in your debt >_<

thanks =)

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