Time for me to go from NYU
Hello, among some good things going on currently in my life , I have a interesting update
I went to the ER at Greenwich for fatigue , and they were kind enough to take my T levels as well as giving me an IV.
The result came back today and it made me rethink my entire past two years of HRT
After my top surgery in December 2023 , I was in no state to go to Housingworks Brooklyn and lucky for a “caretaker” I had, them flushing my surgery nerve medication and HRT was done within the week
For critical context, my HRT dosage since 2022 was 200mg/ml at 1ml per two weeks through IM syringe
About three months later, in March 2024 I was in a deathly state from being off T for three months to the point of going to NYU to Mitchell b glodowski who was phenomenal and later switched me to XYOSTED due to syringes not being covered by my insurance
… that also did not last as she left the practice last July amidst all the stuff going on ,
Then I went to Dr Daniel Castillo. I am keeping this short because I’m still in a crisis but as long as insurance had it he kept me on the same XYOSTED pen at 50mg a week , even though I asked if I can be considered for a increase , but I was met with the same suggestion of meeting him at the next appointment a few months later and bringing up the topic
This went on, and kept going on until this year ; I switched my insurance and then asked him to send me a prescription for my cypionate as XYOSTED wasn’t covered
.25ml of 200mg/ml , once per week , that’s what he gave me
As months went on and I looked worse in the next follow-ups , he didn’t care and kept bringing up my levels being normal
Normal being … apparently the 600s , when I came during a trough and tested for 300s he made me come back the same week and do a retest so that my levels would show 600s again and dosage wouldn’t be adjusted
I distinctly remember being in the 800s-1300s before top surgery…… maybe the cost of being trans at nyu is to not be “trans” at all .. I pass now and I just look like a conventionally average south asian man complaining
Thanks for coming to the ted talk, will be patiently scribbling my Emmy speech now