Know I've been gone for some time now. I had "issues" and while I'm working on getting help. I do have a few questions. Now I was on herbal hormones for a time and while they did give me results, my wife finally confronted me about it. She said that if I'm to get on hormones, she wants me to do it the legit way with a doctor supervising and such. Well I've been doing quite a bit of research as I absolutely want to know what I'm doing when this goes down! But I still have a few unanswered questions.
Now I heard that injections would be safer than pills because it's easier on the liver. Is that true? I heard that you can do it yourself with monitoring and that really wouldn't bother me as I'm not scared of needles.
I also heard that you have to continuously ramp up your doses to potentially dangerous levels. Is there any way that I could um, not do that?
And I have a bad habit since my mother passed away. I'm a smoker! Now, I've mostly switched to electronic cigarettes as I know that's a bit better for me since I'm just getting nicotine, which is what I'm addicted to and nothing else. But still, is there any risks I should be aware of? I suppose I could just switch to Red Man? It would disgust my wife, but I'd get my fix!
Finally, while I believe that I have located a couple of gender clinics in my area, is that truly necessary or is it possible to just go to my regular family doctor for these sorts of things? I also understand that an endocrinologist may be necessary at some point or another and there are at least two that I know of in this town. Please clarify the doctors and their uses for me?
Thank you in advance and I'll check back later!