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submitted 2 weeks ago by fadingembers to c/mtf

I had never tried taking it orally, but had to switch due to life circumstances and I swear it's made a big difference

Has anyone had the opposite experience?

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[-] dandelion 3 points 2 weeks ago

I was also curious about this, what differences were noticed? Based on interactions with trans girls IRL, I just assume most people are taking prog for breast growth, so when people talk about it working or not, I assume they mean it made their breasts larger or not. Of course it is pseudo-diagnostic reasoning, because breasts will continue to grow from estrogen alone and lots of trans women report major growth at 2 - 3 year mark and later on just estrogen, so it's unclear what breast growth would have happened without the addition of prog.

Lots of trans women don't think to include route of administration or dose when talking about HRT either, so that makes it even harder to tell from anecdotes that prog helped with breast growth what might be effective.

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