Seizure risk on monotherapy
Hey everyone. So I (21, MtF, pre-HRT) have been struggling with a pretty bad wave of dysphoria recently. I recently turned 21 and it hit me like a truck that I feel like life is slipping through my fingers. I'm in the US (Florida) and HRT is out of my grasp for a long while yet because I'm on medicaid and you can't access HRT on medicaid in this state.
Important to note that I'm on medicaid partly due to tonic clonic epilepsy (I think that's the term) and on 500mg of Keppra for it.
For the longest time, I wrote off D!y (writing it like that because I've heard Reddit cracks down on it) HRT because of this fact. Because Estrogen is a proconvulsant and I was worried about seizures. But the dysphoria is killing me a million times more painfully. As far as I know, D!Y only does injections (lmk if I'm wrong pls), and injections are the route I'd prefer to go regardless because of the potential for good results.
In that same vein, I don't want to start on Prog until 6 months to a year after starting E because I've heard that also yields good results. But prog is the natural anticonvulsant to counteract E.
My worry is that I'll have seizures from taking E. But I also can't live like this any longer. And since I'm in a conservative small town with no neurologist that accepts my insurance, I can't really consult a medical professional on this. So I wanted to ask if anyone here has similar experiences? Are there any girls here who are epileptic and found a workaround? Or are there safer ways?