SleepyCatten<p>~7.5 mg (0.15 mL; 50 mg/mL concentration) estradiol enanthate injected intramuscularly into the vastus lateralis in our right thigh using our Union Medico auto-injector 💉🩹</p><p>Left it a little bit late (~3 hours after our calendar reminder), but it was completely by the books and entirely painless. Not almost painless: entirely. Literally no pain, not even on pulling out the needle slowly afterwards.</p><p>In case you're wondering why we continue with a weekly DIY injection after having put ourselves through <strong>YEARS</strong> of humiliating gatekeeping through the NHS, there are a number of reasons:</p><ul><li>The NHS doesn't offer injections or implants: only patches, gel, or pills.</li><li>Patches are uncomfortable and, even with a covering film, tend to come off whenever we get sweaty.</li><li>A weekly injection gives us a higher, stable (o)estradiol level than patches, improving our mood and negating the need for any anti-androgen or blocker (GnRH agonist or antagonist).</li></ul><p>Every time we inject, it's honestly kind of like a massive middle finger to the fuckwits within the NHS who want to gatekeep and control our gender-affirming hormone therapy 🖕</p><p>This is one element of our healthcare that they cannot control ✊ :TransHeart: </p><p><a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/TransDIY" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TransDIY</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/OpenHRT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenHRT</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/DIYHRT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DIYHRT</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/HRT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HRT</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/TransFemHRT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TransFemHRT</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/transition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transition</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/trans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trans</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/transgender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transgender</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/NonBinary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NonBinary</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/TransFem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TransFem</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/enby" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>enby</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/femby" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>femby</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/injection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>injection</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/injections" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>injections</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/TransHealthcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TransHealthcare</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/queer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>queer</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/LGBT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LGBT</span></a>+ <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/LGBTQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQ</span></a>+ <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/LGBTQIA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQIA</span></a>+ <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/LGBTQIA2S" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQIA2S</span></a>+ <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/AutoInjector" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AutoInjector</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/UnionMedico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnionMedico</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/FuckTheNHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FuckTheNHS</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/FuckGatekeepers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FuckGatekeepers</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/TransLiberation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TransLiberation</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/DesegregateTransHealthcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DesegregateTransHealthcare</span></a></p>