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The questions that come up again and again about hormones, the numbers on a lab sheet that nobody explained, and what I have noticed from years of coordinating care for people who have been on hormones a long time.
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Guides
Terms explained
How to read your hormone blood results
The units and conversions, the targets guidelines cite, what the lab's flags mean on HRT, and why the time of your last dose changes the number.
Questions answered
Which changes from hormones are permanent?
What stays if you stop estrogen or testosterone, what fades, and the few that vary from person to person.
Supporting someone who is starting hormones
For partners, parents and friends: what the first year on hormones is like, what helps, and what to leave to them and their prescriber.
Not sure where to begin?
The Start Here guide covers what hormones change, how people get a prescription, what the blood tests are for and what it costs.
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