You can cause yourself some serious health issues if you fuck your HRT dosage up, which is easy to do if you’re DIYing.
Not really with E! I don’t know enough about T to dispute this. With E there can be consequences if you do tens or hundreds of times the regular dosage for an extended amount of time. You can read about them by looking up the increased clotting risks of pregnant people (who have way higher E levels than any trans person would reasonably take accidentally for many months) :P
Not that having too high levels are recommended or will be comfortable. There are technically elevated risks if you take even double the dose for a long time, but not by a lot.
T will fuck up your liver and also convert back to E if there’s too much* floating around in your blood at once. E is much more chemically stable than T, so it doesn’t take a lot of variance outside the correct ranges* to throw your hormones into whack. The only way to know for sure when you’re starting is to get the bloodwork done regularly (like every 1-3 months at first), and after a year or two of stability it’s fine to switch to yearly testing.
But yeah, I’ve see dudes who accidentally did like 4x their dosage at once and as long as it’s not a long term thing you do every week for months to years there’s not a lot of danger.
* as determined by your personal chemistry, some people need a high dose and some need a low dose
Not really with E! I don’t know enough about T to dispute this. With E there can be consequences if you do tens or hundreds of times the regular dosage for an extended amount of time. You can read about them by looking up the increased clotting risks of pregnant people (who have way higher E levels than any trans person would reasonably take accidentally for many months) :P
Not that having too high levels are recommended or will be comfortable. There are technically elevated risks if you take even double the dose for a long time, but not by a lot.
T will fuck up your liver and also convert back to E if there’s too much* floating around in your blood at once. E is much more chemically stable than T, so it doesn’t take a lot of variance outside the correct ranges* to throw your hormones into whack. The only way to know for sure when you’re starting is to get the bloodwork done regularly (like every 1-3 months at first), and after a year or two of stability it’s fine to switch to yearly testing.
But yeah, I’ve see dudes who accidentally did like 4x their dosage at once and as long as it’s not a long term thing you do every week for months to years there’s not a lot of danger.
* as determined by your personal chemistry, some people need a high dose and some need a low dose