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  • 2003, that can't be right can it? Anyway, I have been on the herbal remedy approach for 9 months. Fenugreek, Fennel and Saw Palmetto capsules from Holland and Barratt, I take them every day in addition to massaging in fennel oil into my breasts just before i go to bed. I have gone from complete flat chested to now having small breast buds that are noticable when I lean forward. They are definitely more fleshier and now I am able to make myself a decent cleavage. I will continue and hope to see even bigger results in the months to come.
      June 26, 2012 11:21 PM BST
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  • Hanna, most people here would disagree with the use of "Herbals" for a number of reasons.
    1) The amount you would have to take to see ANY results is staggering - probably a placebo effect at best.
    2) The cost to take large amounts of Herbals is can be $100's per month
    3) They can also do harm in such large amounts
    4) They don't really work.

    Sorry hun
    <p>Doanna Highland</p>
      June 27, 2012 4:13 AM BST
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    Hi Hanna. I'm afraid I have to echo what Doanna said. These products from Holland and Barratt are aimed at post-menopausal women who have produced oestrogen all their life but now had it suddenly taken away. Maybe these products might relieve associated symptoms such as hot flushes etc, but they are not intended for, and will not give you proper feminisation.
    I tried various herbal products for 2 years, waste of money, waste of time; all you will achieve is the feeling that your chest is a little "fleshier". If you continue it will cost you hundreds, even thousands of pounds, and frankly you might as well throw that money down the drain.
    Furthermore, high doses of plant oestrogens will interfere with the action of any human oestrogen you may take in the future, so the sooner you stop them the better if you are serious about feminising your body. You state you are TS in your profile, you look great, do you want to do this properly or not?
    You can buy Estrofem, which is 17-Beta (human) estradiol from Inhouse Pharmacy for 24 pence per 2mg tablet. Several other suitable products are available. I bet you are spending more than 24p a day in Holland & Barratt. But the main point is, real oestrogen will have a real feminising effect, plant oestrogen such as you are taking will not.
    Save yourself a small fortune and treat your body with respect. Natal women produce human oestrogen, not plant oestrogen; it is NO substitute.
    xx
      June 27, 2012 11:58 AM BST
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  • I tried taking hormones, but they didn't seem to do much good, and they often caused me to burb what felt like dust.

     

    If you are really comitted to having real breasts, you should absolutely go with the process.  I switched from herbal to actual about 2 years ago and the results have been quite satisfactory.   Because of my age and previous medical history (heart attack and stroke), we agreed to take it slow and steady at first.  2mg estrodial and 100 mg spiro.

     

    When my heart doctor saw me, I listed the new meds and he was delighted.  He said "we usually don't give that to men because they hate the side effects, but now that I know you are on it I can take you off your other meds, and this is safer!  Stopped my losartan and bystolic, and haven't had problems at all.

     

    After about 6 months, we upped the doses and things are going wonderfully.

    i am actually healthier and happier than I have ever been.

     

     

      June 3, 2014 1:53 AM BST
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  • Don't waste time and money on so-called "Herbal Estrogen".  I tried it for almost a year and about all I got was a bigger belly and man-boobs.  When I finally bit the bullet and went to a proper gender dysphoria specialist, with a therapist's letter, we talked for about 15 minutes and he did a basic exam.  He pointed out that I already had feminine traits - that would not have been from the herbals (bone structure, mannerisms, posture, speaking,...).  Yeah, I knew that - used to get beat up for it as a kid.

     

    Even though I got the hormones, they still wanted me to do a check with their therapist, and that interview ended with him giving me a high five, and writing the letters for gender marker change on social security, and driver's license.  I did have to get another letter for the Passport.

     

    Of course, by then, I had been living 128 hrs/week as Debbie and was working as "Rexxie".

    18 monts later I'm a 38-D (easiest to buy) or 40-C (hard to find but fits a little better).

      December 3, 2014 3:16 AM GMT
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