Stopping or stalling development in the second or third tanner stage isn’t uncommon. There’s woefully little study of how different medication combinations affect our bodies, but Powers suggests progesterone (p2) when attempting to continue breast development if you’ve stalled. But you’re doing that.
It may make sense to ramp up estrogen to a method with more bioavailability. I don’t know what the bioavailability of patches is, but I know that sublingual is more effective than oral, and that intramuscular estradiol valerate has the highest bioavailability. I jumped straight to injections, but I’d probably ramp up from a lower dose and availability if i were starting again, to mimic typical puberty.
We have informed consent in Massachusetts, so we have a lot of options if you find a cooperative doctor.
I also use bicalutamide to reduce testosterone rather than more common AAs, because it isn’t a diuretic.
Obviously you’d have to talk to your doctor, but that’s some of what I gathered in the course of my own transition.
I literally don’t set up my voicemail, and I typically don’t listen to recorded audio that gets messaged to me. Texting is functional and doesn’t leave me some anxiety-provoking message that I have to sit through and digest without saying anything. If a conversation needs to happen in voice, text to say that and see if it’s a good time.
Wild that people just ring a personal phone number unprompted in 2024 without that being an established routine.
That said, I also remember when it wasn’t at all weird to show up to someone’s house and knock on their door. Things have really changed.