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FortuneCookie posted...

I hear squats can help with that.

Happy anniversary and happy pride month.

Did you have to do estrogen injections? Are they painful?

Yeah, I need to start doing squats and crunches regularly. I still have belly fat and I fucking hate it.

As for estradiol delivery, I switched to injecting a few months ago. Its by far the most efficient method of delivering estrogen, as youre just putting it directly into your system, and not letting the liver get its hands on any of it. And you get a lot more than you can from patches.

You inject once a week. I do it myself. Alternating thighs, middle quarter, 90 degree angle. If you do it right, you only really feel the needle break the skin: that part of your thigh doesnt have major blood vessels or nerves, so you dont feel much and barely bleed, as long as you do it right. If youre too low or too high or your angle is too off, it will hurt and youll draw more blood, but even then its not terrible.

Its important to be mindful of the hormone itself: its a viscous oil-like liquid (because hormones are lipid-based) and sometimes you get bubbles. Bigger bubbles hurt like hell if you inject them(not to mention you get less estradiol that way) so you have to play with the plunger a bit and make sure to get rid of the bubbles before injecting.