Hey!
I posted at the beginning of this month a little life update and one of the things I included was about me finally starting the process of getting on testosterone and starting to medically transition.
Well as of July 22, 2020 I am officially 2 days on testosterone!
I went to my appointment on July 20th, I met with the first nurse and she went over the effects of testosterone again with me and my mom and allowed us to ask any questions we had. I had to also get bloodwork done at this appointment but I chose to do my shot over with since I was really excited for it. The nurse guided me through it and told me what to do, eventually my syringe was filled with testosterone and prepped with a proper injecting needle and I gave myself my first shot. I was nervous and my hands were slightly shaking but the shot did not hurt. It was kind of a foreign feeling to have the needle poke through my skin completely but besides that the shot went smoothly and I had no issues. The nurse said I did a really good job and was a badass for going through the shot process so smoothly.
Next was my blood work, I was nervous for this since I wasn't doing it myself and have never gotten my blood work done. The second nurse came in, told me what the blood was gonna show for results then proceeded to try and take my blood. My veins are extremely tiny and do not show up easily throughout my skin, this runs through my whole family and has always made things difficult. She was able to find a vein in my left arm and get a tiny bit of blood out but then it stopped. I drank some water incase it was dehydration and while we were waiting for the water to process through, my finger was pricked to test for iron. I honestly think my finger getting pricked was the most painful thing to deal with, everything else didn't really bother me. After letting the water process the second nurse tried my right arm, was able to find a vein but could not get any blood out. She then went to get a third nurse who could not find a vein at all so after they realized they were not gonna be able to draw blood they had a paper printed out for me to bring to a hospital to check in with a specialist and get the blood work done then. My familys car is in the shop right now and I don't really want to take a cab up to the hospital so I'll be getting my blood work done sometime later this week.
My appointment took about 45 minutes, all the staff was incredibly friendly and very helpful through everything. I think going through planned parenthood for this process was a great decision.
My shots are 100ml of testosterone intermuscular every Monday.
I have to give myself another shot in 5 days and if I feel comfortable enough I am going to try and film it.
That is all for today, thank you for reading!
Cyus













