DIYHRT

Open source gender

Being trans is all about being your own doctor/technician. This page will host my notes and methods on DIY HRT. I’ve been fully on DIY for about 3 years at this point, and I’ve collected lots of great resources I wanna share.

My areas of research are:

  • DIY gel compounding (t gel and e gel)
  • Alternative level measurement techniques
  • Small scale manufacturing of E vials

Basics

  • Check out DIY.HRT wiki for basic info on sourcing, dosage, and testing. Do not use their HRT prep guide!! See this critique of their methodology from hrt.mom
  • Check out HRT.MOM for info on homebrewing vials. This is by far the best guide on aseptic technique and proper sterilization methods!!
  • DragonOrdinance is my preferred site for sourcing raws. Check out the source list on DIY.HRT wiki for more options shipping to just about every country on earth.
  • Check out this simulation of level given dosage, injection frequency, and

DIY level monitoring

I have found two promising alternatives to traditional blood tests thus far:

  • 1) Urinalysis based fertility monitors. I use a smart device called Inito. There is a camera system that attaches to the back of my phone and test strips that cost a few bucks each. This measures secondary metabolites in urine, and is thus note especially accurate. It’s made to be tracking periods, which leads to some annoyances in with the UX. But I have found this reliable gives me a good insight into the state of my levels.
  • 2) Saliva based fertility analyzers, namely Ovul. These are electronic tongue based fertility anlyzers. I have one on the way, and haven’t learned much from what’s online, but as an enose/etongue research enthusiast I’m pretty exicted about this one. Plus, not needing test strips is killer. Once this gets in, I’ll test both systems against bloodwork.

Gel compounding

Tgel and Egel are very easy to DIY from raws!!

I will post more info on this Soon.

In the meantime, check out this patent containing an ingredient list and methods of Tgel

Vials

Equipment:

  • Dry sterilizer (I use an Omniclave, an oven will do)
  • Still air box
  • Vials + vial crimp
  • .22uM PTFE filters
  • Benzyl Alcohol
  • Benzyl Benzoate
  • Raws
  • MCT or Castor oil
  • Scale (>.001g resolution)

We sterilize our raws by baking the powder, and we sterilize our liquids with our sub micron filter. You need perform a bubble point test on the filters!!

If you are compounding at any reasonable scale, you should really test your aseptic technique. The standard method is to run a test batch and periodically touch each finger to an agar plate as you work to identify if and when contamination is introduced.

For small batches, this is much less sensitive, but as a rule the longer your vials are stored and the larger quantity you brew in, the more perfect your aseptic technique must be.https://www.when2meet.com/?33032434-dbXhP