A dream coming true

[ReneeT]

I am on cloud nine! I got my "letter" from my therapist on Friday, and she has made the referral to the endocrinologist. If all goes well i should start HRT in the next month! Wow.....!!!

[Veronica_Jean]

Congratulations!!

Its a good feeling getting started on HRT.

Veronica

[sandra-leigh]

I am on cloud nine! I got my "letter" from my therapist on Friday, and she has made the referral to the endocrinologist. If all goes well i should start HRT in the next month! Wow.....!!!

It might not be literally next month, but it shouldn't take long.

I had a screening in October, and the baseline blood work yesterday; this particular place wants to see in January to confirm that I really want to go ahead, and to start plotting out a specific treatment plan; another appointment in February to re-confirm that I really want to go ahead. I'm not entirely clear at the moment whether they would issue a script in Feb or if they would put that off until a March appointment. I guess I was hoping to "start the year" with it, but now that it's in definite process, I can afford patience. When I put in for my appointment in August, I didn't expect to get my first appointment until at least January.

In the USA, matters might well go faster, especially with the "letter" in hand. Where I am, no letter turns out to be needed, but the multi-appointment set-up is the SoC that they have adopted internally (there are no officially SoC where I live.) Also, the place I am going only has 40% full-time-equivalent doctor and a bit of a line-up, so the delays are also just waiting for an appointment to be available.

[Kathryn Martin]

I am on cloud nine! I got my "letter" from my therapist on Friday, and she has made the referral to the endocrinologist. If all goes well i should start HRT in the next month! Wow.....!!!

Renee it is so good to hear that you have finally taken that hurdle. It is one of the significant milestones. All the best

I got my prescriptions from my GP who informed himself very well to be prepared and works in consultation with an endocrinologist who is a gender specialist. In my case letter dated October 27th, 2010 and prescriptions November 2nd, 2010. I made the appointments a months ahead of time with a view to getting it done.

[StaceyJane]

I'm so happy for you!

[Michelle I]

Congratulations, I got my letter about 45 days ago, made the visit to the Endo Doc. I am now the proud owner of the patch and pills, felt like a kid on Christamas morning when I open the box with the patches in it. Glad you wer able to reach this goal.

[Teri Jean]

Renee I wish you the best and the journey is about to get much better.

[Faith_G]

Enjoy the happy pills! :)

[MJ]

Congratulations sis

[katrinakat]

I wish I had the courage to chose a path. Unfortunately, true to my LIBRA sign, I lack the ability to chose between the most trivial of things. Congrats, your strength gives strength to us all.
xoxo KatT

[Aprilrain]

I'm jealous! Soon enough though.

[Melody Moore]

Sounds to me like you are on your way, just be patient & hang in there because you know that from here that things will
only start to get better. So goodluck & keep us informed because we love to hear about how you are going in your journey.

Hugs, Melody :hugs:

[Jay Cee]

Congrats, Renee!

[Starling]

Bon voyage, Renee!

:) Lallie

[ReneeT]

Thanks, everyone! I really do feel a sense of peace having reached this point.

Faith - "Happy pills", eh?

[Faith_G]

Well, maybe it's not just the pills. Finally living the life I want to live might have a little something to do with it... ;)

[Kaitlyn Michele]

YeS!!! Happy pills!! hehe....they made me happy..

I'm very happy for you...you are strong and courageous and you have every right to live your own life...best wished
-kaitlyn

[Sara Jessica]

Wow Renee, all I can say is congrats (& I'm jealous ;) ). I had always assumed you were a middle-pather but of course I have seen some changes in your posts of late which makes this revelation a bit less of a surprise. I wish you the best on your wonderful journey.

[SuzanneBender]

Renee, I am so happy you dear. I wish I were there to give you a big hug. I know what this means to you.


felt like a kid on Christmas morning when I open the box with the patches in it. Glad you wer able to reach this goal. Michelle did Santa leave your patches in your stocking? Is that how this works or did you find a discount pharmaceutical outlet at the North Pole? I am so happy for both of you. I can't wait to see both of you again. This is really exciting.


I had always assumed you were a middle-pather Sara you always come up with the greatest terms. I guess we should go shoe shopping together at the earliest possible opportunity to assuage our jealousy of our friends and provide ourselves with another fantastic "moment of being". :heehee:

[Traci Elizabeth]

Well it could be worse by having to wear patches on your ass (two in my case)! :mooning::mooning:

But congrats!

[tanyalynn51]

Ill generally agree with the happy- pills assessment, although I dont know if I'd call them that when I go on crying jags once in a while.... Seriously congrats. They have changed my life already, and Im glad for you.

[ReneeT]

Wow Renee, all I can say is congrats (& I'm jealous ;) ). I had always assumed you were a middle-pather but of course I have seen some changes in your posts of late which makes this revelation a bit less of a surprise. I wish you the best on your wonderful journey.

I thought i was a middle pather too, but i have learned sooooo much about myself in the last year that i am finally at peace with this. I know it will be a road littered with trials and heartbreak, but its the road i need to be on


Suzanne, its good to hear from you. I hope you are staying safe "over there"

[Starling]

Renee, aside from the folks who say they enjoy pretending to be a woman but are happy to live mostly in a masculine gender role--that is, self-described "hobbyists"--I think most of us would really like to transition, and that the so-called walls separating CD and TS are really just practical hurdles to be surmounted.

And that's why it's so overwhelmingly happy-making when someone like you decides to make the jump, despite all the potential shin injuries. We're out here pulling for you, dolly, because you're obviously a raging female.

:) Lallie

PS: I'm talking only about MTFs here, because I haven't seen any evidence, at least here, of recreational CDs on the FTM side.

[ReneeT]

Thanks, Lallie. I am now atrue believer in the addagethat all that separates a cd-er from a ts is3 yrs!

[Starling]

So true, Renee, for better or worse. But you're escaping from the gender prison, rather than spending your life wishing you could.

:) Lallie