Partner's doc wants her doing EC shots every TWO weeks to start - this feels wrong?
My partner is doing estradiol injection monotherapy, took her first shot yesterday (wooooo!!!)
We're concerned with the proposed dosing pattern, however.
"Inject 0.25 ML (1.25 MG) Subcutaneously every two weeks. May increase gradually to 0.5 ML (2.5 MG) over first 3 months."
I'm a trans guy and have been doing shots for almost a decade. In that time, I've heard that the every-two-weeks schedule is like 20 years out of date and it needs to be every week. A cursory search of the metabolism of E. Cypionate seems to support this idea. We're very concerned about negative or nonexistent effects from starting too slow and essentially not having hormones half the time, since EC has an elimination time of a week.
We share a doctor, who happens to be the main gender clinic in our area, so they're supposed to be really knowledgeable about these things, so I'm honestly really surprised to see this on the scrip. They've been truly amazing with everything else so it's shocking to see such an older idea.
Is this really a normal starting dose pattern?
Additionally, we're wondering what the increase pattern should look like. We're currently thinking (.25, .3, .35, .4, .45, .5, .5, .5) for the 8 shots in those 3 months.
We will be discussing all of this with our doctor next Wednesday as well, so it's not that we're looking for medical advice - I just wanted to put the question to the hive mind so to speak, as we've been following this sub for a long time and actually used it to kind of form the rough draft of what her transition is going to look like.
Thanks for any info yall can help us with!!