Stupid babies need the most attention!

Is there an sts instance here? One of the few things I still check reddit for.

Thank you for the thought-out response.

It doesn't sound like site soreness, and if you're using insulin needles, those are too small to get into the muscle anyway.

Your dose might be a little high, but I doubt it's so high that it's putting you at a risk for blood clots.

It honestly sounds like it could just be soreness from exercising more if you started doing that around the same time as injections, and your body isn't used to it. It could also be an electrolyte imbalance, as some others mentioned, but if you're young and relatively healthy that's fairly unlikely.

I usually start with the most likely scenario and move from there. It's pretty unlikely to be a DVT, injection site soreness, or electrolyte imbalance, so it's likely just soreness. If you aren't already, try adding some light stretching before or after you exercise. Applying heat should help, too, if it's just muscle soreness. I would bring all this up with your doctor so they are able to rule out the more serious stuff, but I would not be overly concerned about it.

On a somewhat related note, when looking up medical information I would stick with Mayo Clinic or Cleveland Clinic for general medical stuff. For trans specific info, Fenway Health is the gold standard (imo), someone linked to them in a different response. You can also check WPATH standards of care 8, but that's meant as more of a reference for medical professionals and it might be a bit dense.

Please let us know how it goes, and keep asking questions! It's best to get from medical professionals, but sadly folks like us don't always have that luxury.

The Amazon series is fan fiction. This is part of the background story Tolkien wrote.

I'm not really interested in either, as they are both soulless capitalist cash grabs, but I think this has the possibility of being a decent (although completely unnecessary) film .

The job was to help develop the program and department, at least that's how they sold it to me. I was specifically told management is receptive to input from my position, and it was well within my purview to consider these issues. And, given that I don't think ever worked a full 40 hour week, I wouldn't say I did anything "double time".

I did give them a reasons to get rid of me, in that I showed there wasn't actually enough clinical level work for a nurse at this position, at least with how they structured it

I have professional help

Depending on where you are, you might not need a diagnosis. In the states, any physician that works in gender care can diagnose you as long as they follow the Endocrine Society/WPATH guidelines. Planned Parenthood is a great resource to get started (if you're US, apologies for my assumption. I'm an American on the internet, everyone else must be too, lol)

Support is important. Being trans means being a minority, and that means being exposed to minority stress. There's a significant segment of the population that hates us (not because they really do, but because they've been conditioned to).

Being trans, especially during the transition period, is fucking hard,and it's about 10x worse when Fox News is shoveling hate as fast and far as they can.

I've had a lot of really negative experiences since transitioning, especially in the workplace. But I've also found some of the most meaningful relationships and a career that feels like I've found my purpose.

There's lots of good and lots of bad, and that's why support systems are . If you're in an area that is hostile with no support, you might want to look at non-social forms of affirmation. If you're in a supportive or even neutral community with some kind of pereonal support system, then you have a real chance of living your best life.

If you're somewhere in between, I suggest weighing the risks and benefits and going from there.

I literally posted a link to an article from Stanford that shows what I'm talking about.

Descovy, a newer form of PrEP, only had male assigned at birth participants in the study (and the number of non-cis males was very, very low if I'm remembering correctly).

The original formulation has been approved for everyone for a while, but since the new formulation was only tested with a certain population, that's all it's approved for.

For the first time, I am content. It's honestly a wild feeling - less then a decade ago I was about a half step from homeless and an opioid user. Now I've successfully transitioned, gotten my dream job, and have a super cute fat kitty. And I just got a message from what seems like a genuinely decent guy who I'm meeting for coffee.

It's fucking wild. Every day I just appreciate all the small things so much. It's really made me refocus my goal to try to help people as much as I can now.

Rootin for yall. I hope everyone gets to feel this way.

Is there a joke? Or is the artist's intention not to be funny?