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Another piece of advise(
btw. Your situation sucks).
If you can't track bloods, you can still track some symptoms and effects yourself.
With estrogen the easy ones would of course be the desired effects, but also very importantly negative ones, those could indicate problems with the dosage. For example lack of energy or severe moodswing.
Lack of energy is simple, you likely don't have enough sex hormones in your body. Most likely not enough E. But I know women who also lack energy due to low T, you need both, even as a trans woman.
Severe Moodswings are also often caused by E, but this time too much, or you have too step of a curve in your bloods.(This one is more common with esters other than EUn or EE.)
These two are just the first two I remember.
When I started Diy I kept a diary for the first few weeks, trying to track daily mood an energy and stuff. That on paper is probably the simplest way to do this.
thanks for the advice (and
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I've actually been keeping a transitioning journal since a bit before HRT, but after I started it became more about physical observations (the most noticeable ones that have persisted from the beginning to now are chest soreness and no more spontaneous erections) than emotions or energy levels. I don't know if I could say there's much of a difference in those, aside from a vague sense of constant dread going away. Do you think that's enough to know if the HRT is doing its thing?
To me that sounds fine. Those are the early effects estrogen should have. When I was severly underdosed by my endo I would spend most of my day sleeping, and getting hot flashes every now and then.