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[–] 28 points 5 months ago

what spiro had done to you he's just a little purple dragon

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    Are they literally difficult to swallow? I'm on cipro so I only need a quarter pill every 2 days.

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  • [–] [S] 24 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    It's not that they're literally difficult to swallow, but that they are terrible anti androgens with even worse side effects. If you live in the US don't want to do monotherapy, spiro is often the only anti androgen you can get prescribed. Always being dehydrated is the tough pill to swallow.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago

    Ur so valid for this

    This post was made by Ratchet & Clank gang

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Isn't spiro not great at all as an anti-androgens?
    I've heard there are better ones with lesser side effect.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    just crush it up and snort it like a responsible citizen

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Oh wow, I suppose I should do some additional research! I've been taking it for ~2 years and haven't had issues beyond what I expect from suppressed testosterone. Maybe swapping to a different one would nudge my libido back from the depths 🤔

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    It's more likely to lower your libido tbh. The true effectiveness of spiro is hard to measure, but other AAs that directly lower t levels might lower your effective testosterone even more. Prog is generally the way to go for libido issues

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    My T levels are suuuper low, so I do feel like it is effective on that front. Unfortunately, prog never affected my libido, but everything else has been sooo amazing that it's just something I've learned to cope with. I'm sure I'll eventually explore options with my doctor at some point, so it's always nice hearing other people's thoughts and experiences with things!

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    Idk I just inject myself with estrogen x)

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    im taken pills to my cats, spoon, then water to spoon, and smash pill in water then swallow

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    spiro doesn't taste good, so that'd be genuinely worse

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhh, sad, is monotherapy possible? or bicalutamide?

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (2 children)

    If you don't mind needles, monotherapy is cheap and easy

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Even if you do mind needles, but are able to suffer through them, its cheap and lets you stockpile meds in case there's ever an interruption to HRT supplies. Also, at around the 1.5 year mark, I realized I wasn't nearly as anxious about the needles as I originally was (partly because I switched to smaller needles, so by comparison they don't seem as bad to what I was already accustomed to enduring.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago
    [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I'm doing bicalutamide for my antiboyotic right now, my only two complaints are that I have to piss all the time (but I'm not dehydrated as long as I drink a decent amount) and my libido is shot, but im gonna talk to my endo about trying progesterone next time I see him, which should hypothetically fix the second one, plus bigger tiddies?

    I'm a little over 2 months in to my HRT and I've experienced zero dick shrinkage or emotional hypersensitivity so far, so those are both pluses for me.

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