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  • dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 months ago

    Got my levels tested, estradiol was ~ 300 pg/mL at trough (exactly 4 days after injecting 5 mg EV subq), which I felt was unusually low.

    I think I’ve been experiencing increased dysphoria, so I increased my dose to 5.4 mg when I injected yesterday. Yesterday was pretty awful, but today I feel much better (I can feel the increased estrogen, and started to feel it last night). It definitely feels euphoric and like taking recreational drugs. 😄

    It’s weird, like my body adapted to the dose of estrogen I was taking and I built up a tolerance such that I needed to inject more for the same mental effects? I don’t think hormones work that way, but it feels like what’s happening.

    Could also be a temporary lull or inefficiency with depot effect or something else entirely. Hard to tell.