Often times people start their HRT pretty early in their life which makes their biological and hormonal growth different from people who start it in their late 30s or 40s. But is it possible to do so at that age, can you start late?
Late-start
Dr Pramila Kalra ensures that this is a possibility, “Yes you can start, I have a lot of patients who come to me at that age.”
Are there any problems?
Starting late could come with their own problems right? Well, Dr Kalra believes it too, even though she says that you can start HRT at any age, there are still precautions that need to be taken. “Once you are older we have to check if everything is fine, and if we are satisfied that you don’t have any other problem then only we start.”
Process
There are a few tests that one has to do to check if you are ready for HRT. Like always the doctors want to ensure that you are completely healthy.
- Dr, Kalra says, “So we might do a cardiac evaluation for you, a basic one not a very stringent one.”
- “We will also do glucose”
- “And cholesterol testing”
- She also adds that “We might do a few more sets of tests to see if there is anything that can cause more harm to your body and then you can start.”
In case you already have some disease like diabetes or something, we might wait for the disease to be controlled with medications. So first we will control it with medications, so first we add the tablets and then the gender-affirming therapy and then we can give it. But we have to definitely see that you don’t get any harm out of it so we do a basic evaluation. - https://youtu.be/WBV6XT9n9kc