I have recently learned that you can get hrt medicine off the counter in my country. I am an 18 year old and I am at the last year of high school. My plan since I learbed this was to wait till my finiahing exams are done (May) and start after that which puts half a year between that and till I can move out aboard for university. What worries me is having to hide the effects especially with the summer in between and swimming that comes with it. How much does it take for breast growth to become noticable and what would you do in my place?

  • RachelRodent@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
    5·
    2 months ago

    aight. I should probs start after the swimming season as tempting as starting as soon as I reasonably can sounds, because swimming with a shirt would be suapicious. One of my motivations to start early is that I don’t want T to ruin my body further. Is there something I can take that isn’t quite hrt but that will reduce the effect of Testerone till I can reasonably start hrt? does it even matter if I start a year later? What got me self concious was a friend that told me my voice had become deeper recently and my parents who said that I looked taller, I thought this shit wasn’t supposed to keep happening after puberty.

    • LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zoneMEnglish
      10·
      2 months ago

      Unfortunately, puberty, especially with regards to T, continues into your mid twenties. So you will still experience masculinization effects of T for some time. Your voice can get deeper, and you can grow more facial hair and so on. A year while still undergoing the effects of T would probably be really difficult. 😔

      As the other commenter said you could start anti adrogens in May and wait to start E until you’re away from home. Anti androgens just block T, but you can still experience some feminization taking just them.