I'd appreciate it if responses are focussed on my dilemma instead of debating my planned HRT regime - we can always start another thread about that
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I'm booked in with GenderCare in April. It's private and not free as per the NHS. Here you pay £220 to see the psych and if he's happy then you pay another £220 to see the endo. After that it's 6/12 monthly checkups with the endo (at £220 a go). Now, originally the main selling point of going through these guys was the HRT - as I assumed private HRT to be prohibitively expensive -and also being overseen by specialists who know what they're doing. However, private HRT isn't expensve at all and I'll be able to access HRT that UK docs can't prescribe (even though they wish they could) so as I'm likely to ignore what they give (AA and oral estradil) and go my own way with injectable estradil and progesterone, is there any benefit to paying these guys a minimum £440 in consulatation fees? After all, if the psych wants three evaluations then that's £880 just to get started! Wouldn't it make more sense to save the bulk of that money and just pay for an endo to run my bloods eveyr 6 months?
The only benefit I can see of going thorugh with paying these guys is a) there's a legal/official record that I'm transitioning and b) shared care with my GP so that if anything goes wrong (or I get rushed to hospital) my medical file will detail HRT and all that.
Thanks in advance.