![]() ![]() “I’m not aware of people needing to be hospitalized because of the side effects, you know, routinely,” Chambers told WHYY News. But all of them tend to go away after a couple of days, and they’re nothing to be concerned about. ![]() Side effects from the second shot tend to be worse than the first. The CDC’s guidance on common vaccine side effects lists many of the same ones Chambers mentioned: fever, chills, headaches, nausea, and muscle pain or exhaustion. Others could be more systemic, such as low-grade fever, achiness, or fatigue that ranges from mild to severe. He said many of his patients “have no side effects at all.”įor those that do experience side effects, the majority are mild and localized, like soreness or swelling in the arm where the shot was given. Christopher Chambers works in family medicine at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and is the clinical director of Jefferson’s vaccine center. So I switched, and I am much happier with the results.WHYY thanks our sponsors - become a WHYY sponsorĭr. That's how I found out about the small study suggesting subcutaneous injections could keep testosterone in your system longer than intramuscular injections. There I found several subreddits, like r/FTM and r/genderqueer, where people shared similar concerns and got their questions answered by a community of trans people who had taken testosterone. My friends who had started HRT before me recommended going on Reddit to find specific answers about where I should inject my T for the most effective results. Puffy-faced and feeling lost, I turned to the internet for understanding. Online forums like Reddit and word of mouth offered information my doctor didn't have ![]() When I went back to the doctor and asked how long it would take for my jawline to reemerge, he told me there wasn't enough research out there for him to give me a timeline. In the first month of taking HRT, the skin around my jaw thickened. I ended up opting for intramuscular injections and was dissatisfied with how long it took to see physical changes. While small studies have suggested that subcutaneous injections (injection into the fat) could help retain testosterone in the body for longer between shots, my doctor told me there wasn't enough conclusive data to confirm this. One of the first questions I asked my doctor was which kind of injection I should opt for to get the most dramatic effects, which for me included a deeper voice, more muscle definition, and fat redistribution. But treatment protocols have been slow to shift.īecause of a lack of research on the effects of different HRT options, even trans-competent medical providers are left with few concrete studies to cite when patients ask questions, and physicians receive few hours of LGBTQ+-specific training. Hormone replacement therapy as a form of treatment for the gender dysphoria that trans people experience has been around since the 1920s. Doctors like mine don't have enough research on HRT's effects to give concrete answers The only place I've been able to turn to for concrete answers on how to achieve the results I wanted - like a deeper voice and larger muscles - was online platforms like Reddit. When I asked him what changes I could expect for my body, he told me he didn't know, even after I pressed for more information. ![]() When I told my endocrinologist in New York City that I wanted to stay on a microdose long-term, he said he could write me the prescription but had to be transparent about the lack of research available on it. I microdose HRT, meaning I take a smaller amount of testosterone for more gradual changes over a longer period of time. ![]()
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