u/EfficientAd2627

This year i am planning to help my fiancè with finally starting hrt with Imago. He's quite nervous of stuff going wrong and we're both neurodivergent and not very experienced with managing medical care ourselves, so I want to collect every bit of crucial info and tips that i can from folks with experience, especially those with masculinising GAHT.

1. How do you even phrase your first letter for GP? Is it recommended to avoid telling them that you need bloodwork for hrt, or stating the reason may be optional overall? Or is it safer to refer to the reason in a more "neutral"/anonymous way? Like saying that it's just for your "own health service plan."
2. Declaration is a thing when you get a package so it's important to know beforehand if prescriptions are shipped from EU based doctors directly, or somehow from US Imago. If the latter, then is the price for declaration cheap (since papers don't weight much yk), or some extra legal steps have to be made?

Are Imago even able to make their e-prescriptions work in estonia? I have some prescriptions that are on my ID card but their renewal and info are all linked and stored within digilugu, so i am confused as to how e-prescriptions from foreign countries would work.

(edit: i'm very sorry if asking extra questions 'bout specifics will sound annoying. i really do need to have everything in check.)

Long story short, 4 days ago i have came back home from a bug hunt with my friend. Even though i have checked myself before bed and found nothing, can't remember if i checked my arms that day. Either way, it's gonna be the last time when 'll overlook the need to change my shirt in which 'm gonna sleep and not have a shower after coming back from bug hunting 'cause lo and behold, i found a nymph embedded into me while i was asleep.

Memory gaps are an issue that i loathe since childhood, which means that 'm unable to recall correctly if i'm sure that i have checked my arms before bed and found nothing. He's been either 9 or 13 hours on me, which 'm not sure if enough to carry over lyme. Judging by what some people say, timespan ain't even matters if you're bitten by an infected prick, which is startling.

I live in Estonia and the risk of tick borne ilness depends on the country's regions, but the bummer is that me and my friend have traveled to 2 different places, where relying on the research info online, one of 'em is marked with a higher risk while the other is lower. So i have no idea for how long and from where specifically did that fucker managed to crawl under my clothes. Now 'm paranoid if repellant even actually does anyhting to ward 'em off or it's my fault that i may have sprayed myself not good enough back then (mostly on the legs.)

The night after successfully removing the tick myself for the first time i tried looking deeper into symptoms and consequences of lyme, which made me feel so sick i have almost blanked out. Last year when i found a tick on myself i felt so scared that i blanked out right when my mother was trying to remove the tick, so it's a normal occasion to faint to. There was a large hustle back then involving my mother crying about me having a chance of getting lyme, removing it in a poor and rushed matter while not letting me do it myself (18 y.o ass btw), all while drenching that thing in tree-oil and thinking that it will "dry it off" this way. Atrocious. And even though luckily that tick turned out to not carry any disease, constant month-long paranoia of contracting lyme since them had made me very paranoid around ticks and symptoms after getting bitten by one.

Now, every time i have any kind of "pinching" feeling, i focus on it so hard that i psychosomaticly start to overthink that the feeling is worse than it seems. Especially if i feel it on the same half of my body where i was bitten. Well, until i get distracted and only then any previous muscle related feelings vanish instantly.

I'm familiar with my anxiety disorder driven muscle "pinching", yet i'm not sure if i know how to differentiate it from a real lyme-induced symptom.

Do symptoms start of very subtle, or hard right off the bat? How does it's muscle pain feels? Does the pain "moves around", spreads across the body little by little, or every person has it different? What are the discriptions of the neck-related symptoms? Can lyme just stay dormant in you for a month or more before popping up with high stage symptoms suddenly, even though you could've felt nothing before?

After a full weak or two 'll be able to get signed up for a lyme test. I've been informed that it's treatable if noticed in early stages. I wonder if lime can really be hard to notice before it can reach higher stages and do significant damage.