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<div class="panel-body" style="padding-left:0px;"><span class="toc"><ol style=""><li><a href="171848.html#Without-gatekeepers" rel="nofollow">Without gatekeepers</a></li><li><a href="171848.html#Be-your-own-endocrinologist" rel="nofollow">Be your own endocrinologist</a></li><li><a href="171848.html#Cook-your-injectable-estradiol-by-yourself" rel="nofollow">Cook your injectable estradiol by yourself</a><ol style=""><li><a href="171848.html#Buy-estradiol-enanthate-powder" rel="nofollow">Buy estradiol enanthate powder</a></li><li><a href="171848.html#Equipment" rel="nofollow">Equipment</a><ol style=""><li><a href="171848.html#Necessary" rel="nofollow">Necessary</a></li><li><a href="171848.html#Optional" rel="nofollow">Optional</a></li><li><a href="171848.html#Unnecessary" rel="nofollow">Unnecessary</a></li></ol></li><li><a href="171848.html#Other-raw-materials-and-expendables" rel="nofollow">Other raw materials and expendables</a><ol style=""><li><a href="171848.html#Vials2C-stoppers2C-caps" rel="nofollow">Vials, stoppers, caps</a></li><li><a href="171848.html#Oil" rel="nofollow">Oil</a></li><li><a href="171848.html#Preservative-28optional29" rel="nofollow">Preservative (optional)</a></li><li><a href="171848.html#Syringes-for-mixing" rel="nofollow">Syringes for mixing</a></li></ol></li><li><a href="171848.html#Mix" rel="nofollow">Mix</a></li><li><a href="171848.html#Sterilize" rel="nofollow">Sterilize</a></li><li><a href="171848.html#Begin-a-new-vial" rel="nofollow">Begin a new vial</a></li><li><a href="171848.html#Keep" rel="nofollow">Keep</a></li><li><a href="171848.html#Total-price" rel="nofollow">Total price</a></li><li><a href="171848.html#Legal" rel="nofollow">Legal</a></li></ol></li><li><a href="171848.html#Inject-yourself" rel="nofollow">Inject yourself</a><ol style=""><li><a href="171848.html#Syringes-for-injections" rel="nofollow">Syringes for injections</a></li><li><a href="171848.html#Needle-fright" rel="nofollow">Needle fright</a></li><li><a href="171848.html#Dosage" rel="nofollow">Dosage</a></li><li><a href="171848.html#How-to-inject" rel="nofollow">How to inject</a></li></ol></li><li><a href="171848.html#22Monitoring22-unnecessary" rel="nofollow">"Monitoring" unnecessary</a></li><li><a href="171848.html#Myths-and-what-not-to-do" rel="nofollow">Myths and what not to do</a></li></ol></span></div></div></div></div></div><p></p>
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<h1><a name="Without-gatekeepers"></a>Without gatekeepers</h1>
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<div class="panel-body" style="padding-left:0px;"><span class="toc"><ol style=""><li><a href="171848.html#Without-gatekeepers" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Without gatekeepers</a></li><li><a href="171848.html#Be-your-own-endocrinologist" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Be your own endocrinologist</a></li><li><a href="171848.html#Cook-your-injectable-estradiol-by-yourself" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Cook your injectable estradiol by yourself</a><ol style=""><li><a href="171848.html#Buy-estradiol-enanthate-powder" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Buy estradiol enanthate powder</a></li><li><a href="171848.html#Equipment" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Equipment</a><ol style=""><li><a href="171848.html#Necessary" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Necessary</a></li><li><a href="171848.html#Optional" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Optional</a></li><li><a href="171848.html#Unnecessary" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Unnecessary</a></li></ol></li><li><a href="171848.html#Other-raw-materials-and-expendables" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Other raw materials and expendables</a><ol style=""><li><a href="171848.html#Vials2C-stoppers2C-caps" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Vials, stoppers, caps</a></li><li><a href="171848.html#Oil" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Oil</a></li><li><a href="171848.html#Preservative-28optional29" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Preservative (optional)</a></li><li><a href="171848.html#Syringes-for-mixing" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Syringes for mixing</a></li></ol></li><li><a href="171848.html#Mix" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mix</a></li><li><a href="171848.html#Sterilize" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sterilize</a></li><li><a href="171848.html#Begin-a-new-vial" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Begin a new vial</a></li><li><a href="171848.html#Keep" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Keep</a></li><li><a href="171848.html#Total-price" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Total price</a></li><li><a href="171848.html#Legal" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Legal</a></li></ol></li><li><a href="171848.html#Inject-yourself" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Inject yourself</a><ol style=""><li><a href="171848.html#Syringes-for-injections" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Syringes for injections</a></li><li><a href="171848.html#Needle-fright" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Needle fright</a></li><li><a href="171848.html#Dosage" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dosage</a></li><li><a href="171848.html#How-to-inject" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">How to inject</a></li></ol></li><li><a href="171848.html#22Monitoring22-unnecessary" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"Monitoring" unnecessary</a></li><li><a href="171848.html#Myths-and-what-not-to-do" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Myths and what not to do</a></li></ol></span></div></div></div></div></div><p></p>
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<h1><a name="Without-gatekeepers" target="_blank"></a>Without gatekeepers</h1>
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<p>Endocrinologists usually require a letter/referral from gatekeepers: psychotherapists, psychologists, sexologists or psychiatrists. Not because endocrinologists care for you, but because they care for themselves: they fear that you regret and sue them for causing you bodily harm. There isn't a medical examination, blood or psychological test able to prove or disprove presence or absence of transsexualism in each separate person. Statistics is meaningless when the question is whether you'll regret social transition or not. So, gatekeepers make appearances of "examination" and stall you for long time while milking you (or insurance/taxpayers) for money.</p>
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<p>Medical professionals routinely make mistakes in both directions: approve crazy people and unnecessarily delay transsexuals who'll not regret.</p>
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<p>If you obtain or make hormones without prescription, you'll have nobody but yourself to blame if you regret social consequences of <strong>your</strong> decision to take hormones.</p>
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<h1><a name="Be-your-own-endocrinologist"></a>Be your own endocrinologist</h1>
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<h1><a name="Be-your-own-endocrinologist" target="_blank"></a>Be your own endocrinologist</h1>
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<p>Endocrinologists treat mostly diabetes and problems with thyroid. For that endos prescribe multiple blood tests and adjust meds dosages to drive blood glucose or T4 level into "normal range". Endos are used to such approach, it keeps them busy and paid. With the only goal to maximize quantity of doctor visits paid by patients or insurance, gangs of American endos write guidelines how to treat transsexuals: with same approach. All the numbers in such guidelines and all the bogeyman stories about side effects of estradiol are bullshit.</p>
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<p>"Normal range" is from measurements of 90% of healthy people: 5% of lowest and 5% of highest results are discounted. Normal range of estradiol for pregnancy is up to 40000 pg/ml = 147000 pmol/l.<br/>In a group of 86 pregnant women estradiol level was up to 75137 pg/ml = 275753 pmol/l: <a href="http://cebp.aacrjournals.org/content/12/5/452.figures-only" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">http://cebp.aacrjournals.org/content/12/5/452.figures-only</a> Pregnant women don't drop dead from such estradiol level, so you wouldn't even if your peak reaches 5000 pg/ml.</p>
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<p>It's even darker than that: the numbers in guidelines are chosen deliberately low to force transsexuals to pay for more doctor visits to beg for more estradiol.</p>
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<p>Why I chose this dosage to advise for monotherapy: with it I can be sure that it's enough for any MtF without blood tests. Different people on the same dosage get blood estradiol level differing in up to 10 times. Sensitivity of different people for the same level of the same hormone differs in times. Sensitivity is as important as levels. There isn't a test for sensitivity. In USA a blood test without prescription costs $76 (<a href="https://www.privatemdlabs.com/lab_tests.php?view=category_result&show=1032&category=6&ven=&search=#1032" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">1</a> <a href="https://www.labsmd.com/tests.php?view=search_results&show=2222&search=estradiol#2222" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">2</a> <a href="https://newcenturylabs.com/product/estradiol" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">3a</a>+<a href="https://newcenturylabs.com/product/testosterone-total-females" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">3b</a>) and is available not everywhere. In UK <a href="https://medichecks.com/products/testosterone-and-oestradiol-blood-test" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">£89</a>. In Australia <a href="https://imedical.com.au/order/blood-tests/hormone-testing-australia/testosterone-blood-test" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">$69</a>. In many countries only with prescription, and doctors refuse to prescribe tests for meds they didn't prescribe. My or DIY injectables without blood tests are cheaper than lower dosage with several blood tests. And no time wasted on determining barely enough dosage.</p>
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<p>I don't believe that beginning from lower estradiol dosage (possible safely only with addition of bicalutamide) gives better results. Doctors love to begin from low estrogen dosage with lots of blood tests because this keeps them busy and paid. So they claim that it's allegedly better. Doctors in other countries parrot that. There isn't any evidence. People repeat doctors' claims.</p>
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<p>In short: when it's about MtF HRT, doctors do <strong>not</strong> know better.</p>
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<h1><a name="Cook-your-injectable-estradiol-by-yourself"></a>Cook your injectable estradiol by yourself</h1>
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<h1><a name="Cook-your-injectable-estradiol-by-yourself" target="_blank"></a>Cook your injectable estradiol by yourself</h1>
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<p>If you are attentive and diligent then you can make injectable estradiol by yourself (for yourself only) as I described below. If you are afraid or unsure then you'll be able to buy ready-to-use vials <a href="http://lena.kiev.ua/EV/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">from me</a> after I return to Kiev - depends on the war. I have over 3300 satisfied customers. I lost count how many times I was called lifesaver, fairy godmother, angel, godsend, saint.</p>
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<h2><a name="Buy-estradiol-enanthate-powder"></a>Buy estradiol enanthate powder</h2>
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<h2><a name="Buy-estradiol-enanthate-powder" target="_blank"></a>Buy estradiol enanthate powder</h2>
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<p>Don't buy estradiol valerate because it's inferior: requires injections every 5 days and either lower concentration (more oil to inject) or addition of a solvent (benzyl benzoate) which costs money and sometimes causes allergy. Both estradiol valerate and estradiol enanthate are converted to the same estradiol in blood, <a href="https://doi.org/10.1097/00008571-200307000-00008" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">spleen</a> and lymph nodes (in leukocytes: by carboxylesterase 1 <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jcp.2010.084657" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">in</a> monocytes and macrophages and carboxylesterase 2 <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27149931/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">in</a> plasma cells). Estradiol enanthate is absorbed into blood slower, that gives more stable blood estradiol level and allows longer time between injections.</p>
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<p>Most of substances used by Western pharmaceutical manufacturers comes from chemical factories in China. There are vendors in China selling the same substances to anybody (private persons too), no questions asked. Testosterone is a controlled substance, estradiol isn't.</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.dragonordnance.com/goods?code=08101305637" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">This</a> cheaper (for EEn powder quantities 20 g or less) Chinese vendor is untested for estrogens, but has multiple testimonials for anabolics and testosterone on bodybuilder forums. Shipping $50. "Stealth shipping" means that there may be also something else in the parcel besides the hidden bag with EEn powder, don't throw out anything. Order 5, 10 or 20 g, and also 100 ml (minimal order) of <a href="https://www.dragonordnance.com/goods?code=11524742447" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">MCT oil</a> and 100 ml of <a href="https://www.dragonordnance.com/goods?code=11224739544" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">benzyl alcohol</a>. How to distinguish: the alcohol has an odor. If you haven't crypto then you can buy LTC directly to the vendor's wallet address using for example <a href="https://paybis.com/buy-litecoin/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Paybis</a>.</p>
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<p>Vendors offer several payment options, some vendors take payment via Alibaba (allows to pay with card and takes 3% fee). "Aoksbio" accepts Western Union, Bitcoin and SWIFT (wire/bank transfer), same total price for 10 and 20 g, so order 20 g. If you pay with bank transfer then "Aoksbio" may ask for your ID with the same name as in your bank account (if other payment options then ID is not required). If Western Union (WU) then you tell "Aoksbio" the 10-digit number WU gives you and sender name you gave to WU.</p>
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<p>If the vendor ignores your requirement and sends you micronized powder then it's suitable but more difficult to work with because clings to everything.</p>
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<p>Please <a href="https://groups.io/g/MTFHRT/join" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">join</a> this [MTFHRT] group (you must both "confirm" your email address with the link you'll be emailed and email an intro about yourself to moderators) and post prices and your experiences in detail, ask questions.</p>
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<p>The only necessary equipment is cheap ($7 - $15) pocket 0.001 g (1 mg) scales (or DIY balance scales you can make from a long narrow wooden plank, 2 small nails and 2 syringes, one of them with 0.5 ml water as a precise weight).</p>
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<p>If you buy ready-to-use scales then they must look exactly like this:<br/><img src="https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/groupsiowikiimages/4415/13908/354x254.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJECNKOVMCCU3ATNQ&Expires=1718152786&Signature=2yywC9ihNXUXGHj2hiQvSqNw25A%3D" align="right" class="myimg-responsive"/><a href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/363747240371" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">https://www.ebay.com/itm/363747240371</a><br/><a href="https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000586480263.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000586480263.html</a></p>
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<p>If you buy ready-to-use scales then they must look exactly like this:<br/><img src="https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/groupsiowikiimages/4415/13908/354x254.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJECNKOVMCCU3ATNQ&Expires=1718757607&Signature=tDOIO3SxND84w%2BygZ%2F6H9aZiJLE%3D" align="right" class="myimg-responsive"/><a href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/363747240371" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">https://www.ebay.com/itm/363747240371</a><br/><a href="https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000586480263.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000586480263.html</a></p>
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<p>Newer models are not suitable because they attempt to appear more precise and stable by ignoring small weight changes.</p>
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<p>Search for other sellers:<br/><a href="https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=scale+0.001&_sacat=0&LH_BIN=1&_sop=15&_blrs=recall_filtering&_ipg=120" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=scale+0.001&_sacat=0&LH_BIN=1&_sop=15&_blrs=recall_filtering&_ipg=120</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=scale+digital+diamond&_sacat=0&LH_BIN=1&_sop=15&_blrs=recall_filtering&_ipg=120" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=scale+digital+diamond&_sacat=0&LH_BIN=1&_sop=15&_blrs=recall_filtering&_ipg=120</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://www.aliexpress.com/wholesale?SearchText=scales+0.001g+diamond" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">https://www.aliexpress.com/wholesale?SearchText=scales+0.001g+diamond</a><br/>(check all pages).</p>
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<p>If the scales have slots for 4 batteries then insert only 2 at any one side.</p>
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<p>If you already have 0.01 g (not 0.1 g) scales then you may use them: precision 2% is enough as you make injectable for yourself only.</p>
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<p>The vials are designed to be sealed with rubber stoppers and aluminium caps using a tool (crimper, $36). But you can crimp a cap without a crimper: by hand using a piece of metal like a spoon handle.</p>
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<p>You can buy a 129°C autoclave for $170, but it's not really necessary as you make vials for yourself only. 121°C was necessary for obsolete reusable syringes with fresh blood of another patient because hepatitis B virus can survive 100°C for short time if in blood. You are not dealing with fresh blood, so 100°C (water boiling in a pot) is enough. I use an autoclave just for customers' peace of mind. At first I sold kits with EV powder, solvent, preservative and instructions how to mix and sterilize in a pot, multiple people including myself sterilized at 100°C, never a problem. If you live at significant altitude (like in Denver "mile high city") then likely you already have a pressure cooker. I advise against dry heat sterilizers and ovens because of too uneven temperature, too much can burst a vial. Bead sterilizers not suitable.</p>
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<p>American "homebrewing" bodybuilders were afraid that their anabolics would be "inactivated" during heat sterilization, so they started the filtering fad: they assumed (wrong) that 0.2 μm filtering sterilizes. Filtering is <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2896367/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><strong>not</strong></a> a reliable sterilization. I can understand filtering for intravenous infusions liters per day (in ICU), but for our subcutaneous injections 1 ml/month filtering doesn't make sense. There were multiple complaints that some EV ampules made by pharmaceutical factories in India are fake. I think not deliberately fake but just incompetent technologists and managers: they mixed in a tank in an air-conditioned cold (to limit bacteria) room without solvent for not enough time, then undissolved powder got stuck in a filter. If you are paranoid and insist on following the filtering fad then wait several days until every last clump of powder finishes dissolving in a vial, then use a PVDF or PTFE 0.22 μm syringe filter (not hydrophilic, better 25 or 33 mm), a 10 ml Luer Lock syringe and optionally a homemade filtering rig, I made mine (for paranoid customers, I don't filter what I inject into myself) from 4 stacks of books, a piece of plywood/MDF with a hole for the syringe, a wide wooden plank/board, a 6 L (1.5 gallon) plastic bottle with water as a weight, the plank slightly tilted and leaning on a wall for stability. And anyway sterilize the sealed vial you filtered into at 100°C <strong>after</strong> filtering!</p>
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<p>Unnecessary: beaker, mixer/stirrer, room with controlled airflow, depyrogenation. My technology: terminal heat sterilization (after the vials are sealed); measure and mix in each vial separately, so no glassware to wash with water or collecting dust (skin flakes and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_dust_mite" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">mites</a>) if never washed. Water - bacteria - pyrogens. Don't try to improve this technology: it protects you from mistakes and unexpected problems.</p>
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<h2><a name="Other-raw-materials-and-expendables"></a>Other raw materials and expendables</h2>
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<h3><a name="Vials2C-stoppers2C-caps"></a>Vials, stoppers, caps</h3>
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<p><img src="https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/groupsiowikiimages/4415/13965/s-l300.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJECNKOVMCCU3ATNQ&Expires=1718152786&Signature=KoRTIR2x65PUadhcwnvCdcT0ngs%3D" align="right" class="myimg-responsive"/>Buy 10 clear glass vials 10 ml each with 20 mm grey (butyl rubber) stoppers and aluminium caps. Caps may be bare aluminium or painted, with plastic tops or all-metal. Screw-on and all-plastic caps are not suitable. Stoppers must have this shape:<br/><a href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/223836409810" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">https://www.ebay.com/itm/223836409810</a><br/><a href="https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32903943374.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32903943374.html</a><br/><a href="https://www.aliexpress.com/item/33024594919.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">https://www.aliexpress.com/item/33024594919.html</a><br/>Flat septa are not suitable instead of stoppers. Search:<br/><a href="https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=vial+10ml+stopper+cap&_sacat=0&LH_TitleDesc=0&LH_BIN=1&_sop=15" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=vial+10ml+stopper+cap&_sacat=0&LH_TitleDesc=0&LH_BIN=1&_sop=15</a></p>
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<h2><a name="Other-raw-materials-and-expendables" target="_blank"></a>Other raw materials and expendables</h2>
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<h3><a name="Vials2C-stoppers2C-caps" target="_blank"></a>Vials, stoppers, caps</h3>
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<p><img src="https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/groupsiowikiimages/4415/13965/s-l300.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJECNKOVMCCU3ATNQ&Expires=1718757607&Signature=eyga5V8uzdeo8jU2hCAfav7q6HI%3D" align="right" class="myimg-responsive"/>Buy 10 clear glass vials 10 ml each with 20 mm grey (butyl rubber) stoppers and aluminium caps. Caps may be bare aluminium or painted, with plastic tops or all-metal. Screw-on and all-plastic caps are not suitable. Stoppers must have this shape:<br/><a href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/223836409810" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">https://www.ebay.com/itm/223836409810</a><br/><a href="https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32903943374.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32903943374.html</a><br/><a href="https://www.aliexpress.com/item/33024594919.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">https://www.aliexpress.com/item/33024594919.html</a><br/>Flat septa are not suitable instead of stoppers. Search:<br/><a href="https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=vial+10ml+stopper+cap&_sacat=0&LH_TitleDesc=0&LH_BIN=1&_sop=15" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=vial+10ml+stopper+cap&_sacat=0&LH_TitleDesc=0&LH_BIN=1&_sop=15</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://www.aliexpress.com/wholesale?SearchText=vials+10ml+stoppers+caps" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">https://www.aliexpress.com/wholesale?SearchText=vials+10ml+stoppers+caps</a></p>
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<p>After you remove central part of the cap, most of the cap must remain and hold the rubber stopper at place. Caps must <strong>not</strong> have tear-off weak place on one side like this:</p>
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<p><img src="https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/groupsiowikiimages/4415/13909/cap-tear-off.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJECNKOVMCCU3ATNQ&Expires=1718152786&Signature=owmL2UazPYWXIos5x37xdbrIa1A%3D" class="myimg-responsive"/></p>
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||||
<p><img src="https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/groupsiowikiimages/4415/13909/cap-tear-off.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJECNKOVMCCU3ATNQ&Expires=1718757607&Signature=xNGlI%2Fx38tU6uXZ33bqrV6oyweI%3D" class="myimg-responsive"/></p>
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<p>In Europe you can buy <a href="https://lab-supply-shop.com/epages/171448.sf/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/171448/Products/%22VIC10%20000%22" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">vials</a>, <a href="https://lab-supply-shop.com/epages/171448.sf/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/171448/Products/%22STG%20000%22" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">stoppers</a>, <a href="https://lab-supply-shop.com/epages/171448.sf/de_DE/?ObjectPath=/Shops/171448/Products/%22BKMA%20000%22" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">caps</a>, <a href="https://lab-supply-shop.com/epages/171448.sf/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/171448/Products/%22BA%20000%22" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">benzyl alcohol</a> and <a href="https://lab-supply-shop.com/epages/171448.sf/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/171448/Products/%22MCT%201L%22" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">MCT oil</a> in one shop.</p>
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<h3><a name="Oil"></a>Oil</h3>
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<h3><a name="Oil" target="_blank"></a>Oil</h3>
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<p>MCT oil (liquid, not powder, not in capsules, without flavor added) - cheapest bottle you can find, in a local sports nutrition store or mail-order. It's the only ingredient with somewhat limited shelf life: roughly 5 years as rumored though bottles are usually marked with arbitrary shelf life 2 years. You'll use up 10 ml per year. In USA you can mail-order a 2 oz (60 ml) sample bottle <a href="https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=mct+oil&_sacat=0&LH_BIN=1&_sop=15&_fcid=1&_blrs=recall_filtering&_ipg=240" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">on eBay</a> for $6 including shipping. Check prices also on Amazon. In local stores smallest bottle can be 400 ml, roughly $13. MCT oil is marketed as a food supplement to be taken 15 ml/day, taken orally is rapidly absorbed. You'll inject 500 times less, so any purity is okay (it's really all the same purity despite some dishonest sellers' claims).</p>
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<h3><a name="Preservative-28optional29"></a>Preservative (optional)</h3>
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<h3><a name="Preservative-28optional29" target="_blank"></a>Preservative (optional)</h3>
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<p>If you can, add a preservative (antibacterial): benzyl alcohol. You'll use up 7 ml for 30 years. Usually cheaper <a href="https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=%22benzyl+alcohol%22&_sacat=0&LH_TitleDesc=0&_blrs=recall_filtering&LH_BIN=1&_sop=15&_fcid=1&_oac=1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">on eBay</a>. Look also for companies selling ingredients for perfumes, cosmetics, soap crafting, for example in Europe <a href="https://www.mysticmomentsuk.com/products/benzyl-alcohol" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">here</a> (they also sell MCT oil under <a href="https://www.mysticmomentsuk.com/products/caprylic-capric-triglyceride-liquid" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">another name</a>), or <a href="https://www.thesoapkitchen.co.uk/benzyl-alcohol#/33962-custom_size-100g" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">here</a> (and <a href="https://www.thesoapkitchen.co.uk/caprylic-capric-triglyceride-cctkc#/33963-custom_size-100ml" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">oil</a>). In Australia <a href="https://www.ebay.com.au/sch/i.html?_nkw=%22benzyl+alcohol%22&_sacat=0&LH_BIN=1&_fcid=15&_sop=15&_blrs=recall_filtering" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">here</a>. If you don't add the preservative then make sure that each time you draw from a sterilized vial, you take a new syringe. I inject myself with estradiol enanthate in MCT oil without preservative because of my allergy.</p>
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<h3><a name="Syringes-for-mixing"></a>Syringes for mixing</h3>
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<h3><a name="Syringes-for-mixing" target="_blank"></a>Syringes for mixing</h3>
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<p>Measure MCT oil with a 10 ml (or 5 ml) syringe. If you can find an all-plastic syringe without (usually black) rubber at the inner end of the plunger then one syringe will last you forever. Else likely you'll have to take a new disposable syringe every time you cook a few vials (up to 5 years apart) because the oil very slowly spoils that rubber. Vial stoppers are made from resistant rubber.</p>
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<p>If you add a preservative then use one of syringes you bought for injections (see below) to measure 0.2 ml.</p>
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<h2><a name="Mix"></a>Mix</h2>
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<h2><a name="Mix" target="_blank"></a>Mix</h2>
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<p>Make a small funnel from a piece of foil (the thicker foil the better; shinier side inside), hold it folded with a small piece of sticky tape. If you have only thin foil then perhaps strengthen it by wide sticky tape on another side (or try to strip the outer paint from a few different beer or soft drink aluminium cans with nail polish remover, then cut a clean can with scissors). May be use something conical to wrap the foil around before cutting off unneeded parts. The hole at the pointy end of the funnel must be slightly (not much) smaller than the opening in the vial. Use this funnel to weigh up estradiol enanthate powder and to pour the powder into a vial. The funnel I'm using at the center, unfolded piece of foil from my previous funnel at the left, a funnel in a vial at the right:</p>
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<p><img src="https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/groupsiowikiimages/4415/13910/cone.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJECNKOVMCCU3ATNQ&Expires=1718152786&Signature=8GntEomS23EbbAWj7r60hfdIbqA%3D" class="myimg-responsive"/></p>
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<p><img src="https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/groupsiowikiimages/4415/13910/cone.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJECNKOVMCCU3ATNQ&Expires=1718757607&Signature=EXn1H1HD%2Bt5yREro9wGB%2BD%2FyDrg%3D" class="myimg-responsive"/></p>
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<p>Two recipes I can recommend:</p>
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<p>1) 500 mg = 0.5 g of estradiol enanthate (density 1.1 g/cm<sup><small>3</small></sup>),<br/>benzyl alcohol (preservative - antibacterial) 0.2 ml,<br/>MCT oil 10-0.2-0.5/1.1= 9.35 ml.</p>
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<p>2) 0.5 g of estradiol enanthate,<br/>MCT oil 10-0.5/1.1= 9.55 ml.</p>
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<p>While clenching the vial with two fingers at bottom and cap, shake up the vial thoroughly during a full minute (it's a long time).</p>
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<p>Wait several days, shake up the first vial few times each day. The warmer in the room, the faster dissolving. If the powder dissolved completely to clear solution then you were sold the real thing and enough pure. For next vials don't wait.</p>
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<p>Another way to make sure that you got really estradiol enanthate is checking melting point of the powder: it may be slightly less or slightly more than 100°C. Measure/pour 500 mg more powder into another vial, don't pour liquids yet, close the vial, but bend the cap rim in only 3 places. Put the vial into a pot with tap water, boil the water (while watching the powder in it), turn the heat off, wait for the water to cool off, take the vial out of the water. If the powder partly solidified and doesn't all move completely freely in the vial then it's the real thing. Few oil-soluble substances have such relatively low melting point. But if melting point of the powder you got happens to be slightly more than 100°C then this test is inconclusive: you'd need a pressure cooker or an autoclave to heat the vial to slightly more than 100°C. After the test unbend the cap, open the vial, pour liquid[s], seal, and now you'll have to wait for much longer time (up to a month) until the solidified part of the powder dissolves.</p>
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<h2><a name="Sterilize"></a>Sterilize</h2>
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<h2><a name="Sterilize" target="_blank"></a>Sterilize</h2>
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<p>For sterilization put the sealed vial into a pot with tap water, <strong>after</strong> that boil the water, keep the water boiling for 30 min, turn off the heat, wait until the water cools off. The cap darkens - that doesn't matter. If you already have any pressure cooker then use it instead of a pot, else a pot is enough!</p>
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<p>During sterilization the powder finishes dissolving. Shake up the vial (ignore tiny bubbles).</p>
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||||
<p>Wash off limescale (calcium carbonate from heated tap water) from the vial with cloth wet with vinegar.</p>
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||||
<p>Let the vial to dry, handwrite "estradiol enanthate 50 mg/ml" in small letters on paper in 3 lines, cut that out (the smaller label the better) and glue it onto the vial with a piece of transparent sticky tape just slightly larger than the label.</p>
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<h2><a name="Begin-a-new-vial"></a>Begin a new vial</h2>
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||||
<h2><a name="Begin-a-new-vial" target="_blank"></a>Begin a new vial</h2>
|
||||
<p>If the aluminium cap is all-metal without plastic top then the cap has 2 or 3 incisions in a circle at the center of the top of the cap. Either tear off the center of a cap (hold to not pull entire cap off) or cut it out using small scissors with sharp tips to expose central part of the rubber stopper underneath. Don't pierce the rubber stopper.</p>
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||||
<p>If your caps are with plastic tops then stick a flat screwdriver or a knife under the top, the top should detach with the central part of the cap. If you accidentally pulled entire cap off and the rubber stopper came out of the vial then fix the cap back and repeat sterilization.</p>
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<p>The very center of the rubber stopper is marked with smaller circle - it's where needles should be inserted.</p>
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<h2><a name="Keep"></a>Keep</h2>
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||||
<h2><a name="Keep" target="_blank"></a>Keep</h2>
|
||||
<p>Keep the powder sealed airtight in a vial or in <a href="https://groups.io/g/MTFHRT/message/7354" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">bags</a> with as little air as possible. Keep the powder, mixed but yet unused vials, benzyl alcohol and oil wrapped in foil to protect from light. Keep the vial you are using in a box, drawer or cupboard. Not in a fridge. Keep at room temperature (whatever it is), in standing position. Before use, look at the bottom of a vial: if it became white instead of transparent then put the vial at a warm place, and EEn will dissolve back, the warmer the faster. Then shake up the vial (ignore tiny bubbles).</p>
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<h2><a name="Total-price"></a>Total price</h2>
|
||||
<h2><a name="Total-price" target="_blank"></a>Total price</h2>
|
||||
<p>Here I use prices (including shipping) I saw at the time of this writing for people living in USA:</p>
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||||
<p>20 g of estradiol enanthate powder $180 + Alibaba fee 3%<br/>Scales $14.26<br/>10 vials with stoppers and caps $4.45<br/>2 oz (60 ml) of MCT oil $5.99<br/>20 ml of benzyl alcohol (preservative) $6.75<br/><a href="https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005002753787929.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">5 syringes 10 ml</a> (for measuring MCT oil) $2.66<br/>100 <a href="https://www.amazon.com/EasyTouch-Insulin-Syringe-12-7mm-Polybag/dp/B07T8F2RKB/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">syringes</a> for injections $14.94</p>
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||||
<p>20 g of estradiol enanthate powder will be enough to cook 39 vials which will last you 39*10/0.223*7/365= 33 years.</p>
|
||||
<p>Initial expenses 180*1.03+14.26+4.45+5.99+6.75+2.66+14.94= $235</p>
|
||||
<p>Total expenses during 33 years (180*1.03+14.26+4*4.45+7*5.99+6.75+2.66+18*14.94)/(33.5*12)= $1.34 per month. A hundred times cheaper for safer and much more effective HRT than doctor-prescribed. And you don't depend on doctors' whims and meds shortages.</p>
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||||
<h2><a name="Legal"></a>Legal</h2>
|
||||
<h2><a name="Legal" target="_blank"></a>Legal</h2>
|
||||
<p>If you make injectable estradiol for yourself only, no problem. But if you sell or gift it to anybody else, you are in legal trouble. Somebody is going to snitch, guaranteed.</p>
|
||||
<h1><a name="Inject-yourself"></a>Inject yourself</h1>
|
||||
<h2><a name="Syringes-for-injections"></a>Syringes for injections</h2>
|
||||
<h1><a name="Inject-yourself" target="_blank"></a>Inject yourself</h1>
|
||||
<h2><a name="Syringes-for-injections" target="_blank"></a>Syringes for injections</h2>
|
||||
<p>Syringes for injections - insulin syringes with permanently attached (fixed, integrated, non-detachable) needles 1/2" (12-13 mm) long, a new syringe every week or 10 days.<br/>"Tuberculin" syringes with fixed needles 5/8" (16 mm) are available only in few mail-order stores in USA.</p>
|
||||
<p>Needle gauge/diameter doesn't matter, drawing MCT oil through 30G takes one minute. Both U-100 and U-40 insulin syringes are suitable. Insulin syringes marketed for animals (veterinarian) are perfectly okay too.</p>
|
||||
<p>If you discard an usual syringe with detachable needle after each injection then you lose 0.092 ml of the solution in the "dead space" in the socket between syringe and needle: <a href="http://lena.kiev.ua/deadspace.png" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">http://lena.kiev.ua/deadspace.png</a> , so a vial will last you 7 months instead of 10. Also, the socket can leak air which makes drawing seem impossible (tighten the socket with force and twist).</p>
|
||||
<p>In most countries <strong>insulin</strong> syringes are available in most local pharmacies without prescription. Some pharmacists or pharmacy chains are holier than Pope, don't believe if few pharmacists claim prescription-only, just go to another pharmacy.</p>
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<p>If you are deadly afraid of needles (hey, I have instinctive fear of heights, so I understand) then buy an insulin syringe, lie down on your bed on your side (if you faint, no problem) and stick yourself with the empty syringe into the butt. If you manage that (possibly after several attempts), next times will be much easier.</p>
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<p>As last resort, instead of estradiol enanthate you can buy micronized estradiol powder and take it <a href="https://groups.io/g/MTFHRT/topic/89863132#6268" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">orally</a> 10 mg twice a day. 20 g will last you 33 months instead of 33 years, $5/month.</p>
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<p>I recommend to inject 0.22 ml (22 units on U-100 insulin syringe scale or 8 units if U-40) weekly (on the same day of every week) or 0.31 ml every 10 days (on 1, 11, 21 of every month). The same dosage from the very beginning of MtF HRT and all the time later, post-op too, never stop. I chose this dosage to advise so that it's enough for complete suppression of testosterone production by testicles in any MtF. On the same dosage of the same hormone different people get trough blood estradiol level (just before next injection) differing in up to 10 times. Also, sensitivity of different people to the same level of the same hormone differs in times. Sensitivity is as important as levels. There isn't a test for sensitivity. So, why do doctors prescribe blood tests to MtF? Just to impress naive patients and to keep themselves busy and paid. For most MtF the dosage I advise is more than enough, but so what? It's laughably cheap. For a few this dosage is barely enough, so don't gamble and don't waste time. A few blood tests would be more expensive than all the hormone you'll ever take, so why bother? Doctors love to tell bogeyman stories about side effects - just to scare you into blood tests and - paying them for more doctor visits.</p>
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<p>If a doctor sees results of your blood tests, likely he'll claim "too much estradiol, dangerous". Then give him the <a href="https://www.thieme-connect.com/products/ejournals/abstract/10.1055/s-2007-1001723" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">link</a> to a scientific article describing how doctors injected women with 4 times higher estradiol dosage than I advise, those women got blood estradiol level roughly 3000 pg/ml = 11000 pmol/l in average. Full text of that article can be accessed via <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Sci-Hub</a>, or members of this [MTFHRT] group can read it <a href="https://groups.io/g/MTFHRT/files/estrogens/ulrich1994.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">here</a>. I quote that article:</p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: serif;">The treatment was well tolerated. No adverse </span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: serif;">effects were seen, the patients expressed a feeling of particular </span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: serif;">well being, 23% of them wanted to have the injections repeated and </span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: serif;">none of them wanted to stop treatment because of troubles or </span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: serif;">side effects.</span></p>
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<p>That's on 4 times higher estradiol dosage than I advise.</p>
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<p>I recommend to inject into the upper outer quarter of a buttock into fat (subcutaneous) while lying on a bed on your side. It's the safest and least painful place. I advise against injecting into thigh because that can cause too fast absorption and faster blood estradiol level drop.</p>
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<p>Take care to touch the needle to nothing except inner surface of needle cap, the skin at the place of injection and the rubber stopper of the vial.</p>
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<p>There is an old tradition to disinfect skin (and the rubber stopper of the vial) with alcohol before an injection. Pharmacies sell alcohol-soaked swabs/wipes for that. However, this ritual is optional. World Health Organization <a href="https://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/81/7/Hutin0703.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">says</a>:</p>
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<p>Also, you can read Introduction in a scientific <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7794031/#sec001title" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">article</a>.</p>
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<p>Anyway, even if you follow this ritual, don't wipe the needle because that would make it more dirty.</p>
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<p>How to inject:<br/>Lie down on a bed on your side. Injection will be into fat in the upper outer quarter of a buttock (exact place doesn't matter, fat layer in buttocks is thicker than needle length even in skinny people). Pull off the cap from the needle. Pull as much air into the syringe as you intend to inject. Pierce the center of the rubber stopper with the needle, inject the air into the vial. Turn so that the vial is at the top, syringe at the bottom. Pull the plunger to 0.1 ml more than you intend to inject (create vacuum in the syringe), hold and wait several minutes until the liquid very slowly seeps down and top surface of the liquid rises up to 0.08 ml mark on the scale. Push most of air bubbles and excess liquid back into the vial. Small air bubbles may remain, don't worry, injecting air bubbles is completely harmless. Pull the needle out, stick it into your butt (at about 90° angle) all the way in, inject (can take some time - speed doesn't matter). Pull out the needle, immediately press at the place of injection with a finger or a cotton wool pad/disc. While continuing to press, make a few circular motions (shift the skin, don't drag the finger across skin). Continue to press for 1 min. Cap the needle.</p>
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<h1><a name="22Monitoring22-unnecessary"></a>"Monitoring" unnecessary</h1>
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<h1><a name="22Monitoring22-unnecessary" target="_blank"></a>"Monitoring" unnecessary</h1>
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<p>If you begin your HRT from injectable estradiol as I describe here then likely in a few weeks you'll experience pain in breast buds (in many cases only at one side at first) like many cis-girls experience at puberty. The pain is not a sign of a problem and will last not forever.</p>
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<p>Dosage I advise stops testosterone production by testicles as completely as surgical removal of testicles, but that will not rid you of the grey shade from shaven mustache and beard - a dead giveaway: you'll not pass until you <strong>complete</strong> needle electrolysis. Despite false advertising, laser and other hair removal methods using intense light in most cases remove facial hair temporarily, no matter how many sessions. Ignore this wisdom at your peril.</p>
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<p>Any estradiol (E2) level between 300 and 5000 pg/ml (1100 - 18000 pmol/l) is okay for both pre-ops and post-ops. Estrone (E1) level doesn't matter. All doctors' assertions "too much" are bullshit meant to control us and extort money under guise of "care". The only reasonable cause to do a blood test for estradiol (once, at least a month after first injection, only on a day of next injection before it) is your peace of mind that you got indeed estradiol enanthate. But above I described two other ways to check that, and likely you'll experience pain in breast buds. I tested a new batch of estradiol enanthate powder on myself, my blood estradiol level was 1272 pg/ml = 4670 pmol/l 5 days after an injection. I had SRS in 1999, I needn't to suppress testosterone. Nevertheless, I don't intend to decrease my dosage. It slows down aging, on it I look and feel better.</p>
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<h1><a name="Myths-and-what-not-to-do"></a>Myths and what not to do</h1>
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<p>Above I explained about some myths and fallacies. Some more:</p>
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<p>Myth: <span style="background-color: #ff99cc;">discard a vial 30 days after you began it</span>. Bureaucrats get their salaries for inventing new rules, no matter how unreasonable. This rule was invented for hospitals with multiple patients (some with infectious diseases), not for your home.</p>
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<p>Fallacy: <span style="background-color: #ff99cc;">use separate needles for drawing and injection</span>. It's easy to bend needle tip on hard glass ampule bottom while drawing from an all-glass single-dose ampule, it's where the myth of "needle blunting" originates. Insulin syringes with non-detachable needles are designed for insulin vials also with rubber stoppers.</p>
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