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Imago or GenderGP?
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this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2026
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I'm with imago. I could answer any questions you have about it. Feel free to DM or just write questions here. I can't speak to GGP except that I know a lot of folks on imago went there after leaving GGP unsatisfied.
Imago have amazing staff, their community is really nice. I got a welcome call with a really nice person and then a doctor call for 45 mins with a really nice doctor who walked me through my options and we came up with a preferred intake method together. I have to provide my own blood tests at 0, 3, 6 and 12 months, and then I think it's annual after that so that's a cost you need to factor in. The doctor will monitor my blood results and adjust my treatment if I want it adjusted or my levels are not where I want them to be. I can also email support to get in touch with my doctor at any time. Overall I'm really happy I went with them but that's not to say there aren't some issues with the service sometimes.
I'm 38 and the doc put me on E gel and cypro. The dose was sensible and I hit cis woman levels for E and T at 6 weeks which I'm really happy with. The plan I discussed with my doctor was to see if my levels are stable after 6 months and then stop the cypro, up the E dose and maybe add in progesterone.
I receive from them an e-prescription for 3 months worth of meds and in the same email I get a link to an online pharmacy that dispensed the meds to me. You could also take this prescription to a high street pharmacy but be warned, some UK pharmacies have explicitly transphobic policies in place and will refuse to fill your script. It might involve asking a few places in person to find out of they would take the prescription. That's if you really don't want to use the online service for whatever reason (e.g. If you have no safe address to have the meds posted to).
[Edit: Re imago being a us company: we were all very upset when this happened. It was registered in Malta up until a few months ago when they reincorporated in delaware (for tax reasons it seems). This makes them technically a us company but they operate in the EEA therefore they are subject to GDPR and because it's medical data that's extra protected under GDPR. I would understand why you'd be sketched out by that that, from my position it hasn't really altered my care in any way]
Do you know what those people have been unsatisfied with regarding ggp?
Cypro apparently means the same substance as androcur?
GGP was apparently using AI to analyse their blood tests and I think they said they couldn't talk to humans at all. From what I hear GGP is basically an expensive AI driven prescription farm with no humans to talk to (this is second hand info though so I'm no authority).
Cyro = androcur yes
This seems to make it clear that GGP is not an option, then.
I don't like the risk of my healthcare data leaking to a trans-hostile country such as USA, but since I wouldn't dare to travel there anyway, it is extremely unlikely to really affect me in any way. Imago seems like the way to go, then.
I might be able to get you an invite to an unofficial imago discord server so you can get a vibe check on the community. Let me know if that is something you'd like, otherwise good luck and see you in there eventually I hope.