silly hrt question 

Question for other trans women: how do you take your estradiol, and if you have a reason other than "that's what my doctor gave me", why?

My GP has me on patches right now, but I don't really know why I would choose any mechanism over another.

silly hrt question 

@nika I use estrogen gel. My doctor prefers topical estrogen because there's a (small) extra risk to the liver from oral estrogen. It's probably not a big enough risk to have merited a switch, but he's cautious, and my insurance covers both.

He initially had me on the patch, but my skin had a bad reaction to it so we switched to the gel.

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