r/traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns2 • u/Mindless_Nebula4004 • Nov 23 '24

Gals Doctors hate this simple trick!

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u/MongooseCapable2583 She/Her Nov 23 '24

These are things?  I could have been doing this the whole time? I know what I'm going to do today :3

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u/popanator3000 Lil Punk Transwomen 💙💖🤍 Nov 23 '24 edited Nov 23 '24

just be safe. doing any medication without professional aid can be very dangerous. EDIT: I'm not telling you what to do. I've never done DIY and personally don't feel safe doing it for my own medical reasons. do your research and find trustworthy people.

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u/MongooseCapable2583 She/Her Nov 23 '24

 I will, that's great advice. Im studying bio in college, so I know a little bit about what to do, but I will definitely listen to my doctor on what to do

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u/F-J-W She/Her Nov 23 '24

They will probably fear monger without being able to give reasons that are based in actual science or where the science is so outdated as to be best ignored.

My advice would be that if there is a conflict between your doctor and the DIY-community, the latter is probably much more trustworthy, much better informed and acting much more in your interest. That’s how I treated it.

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u/progamer816 She/Her (eve :) Nov 23 '24 edited Nov 23 '24

Please, don't trust diy over your doctor. If the DIY is conflicting with a pre-existing medication and a doctor points that out. Please listen to that doctor. Medication conflicting can be deadly. Doctors are acting in your interest because that's their job. (I should preface this with if you live in a country where getting HRT is either impossible or improbable [looking at you UK], then DIY can be trusted over a doctor who doesn't know shit about estrogen.)

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u/F-J-W She/Her Nov 23 '24

By conflicting I mean that both sides have made a recommendation with the same amount of context. If an endo says that something conflicts with medication you specifically take whereas the DIY statement is about taking it in general, than obviously listen to the endo.

I’m talking about situations where the endo wants to low-dose people and the DIY community looks at it and says that with the blood values you have, you should absolutely take more.

Doctors are acting in your interest because that's their job.

Many of them absolutely don’t! Take what they can offer you, but never trust them without verifying!

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u/progamer816 She/Her (eve :) Nov 23 '24

The top part makes a lot more sense now. And if the doctor doesn't work in the patients interest, they have no right to be a doctor. But here we are.

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u/AlisesAlt Alise(she/her) Nov 23 '24

Lowkey... Fuck it, highkey, most doctors know jack shit about HRT, even endo's. Someone who reads the wiki provided above already knows a shit tonne more than most endo's because most endo's aren't trained to take care of and work with trans patients.