how i take pills sublingually

hate and love these little guys

So yeah, this is an ethnography. It's not medical advice. It's just a recording of something that is happening, not an endorsement of that thing. I'm not making you be a tranny or take a tranny pills a certain way or anything. I'm telling you what people are doing and why they do it.

(this song isn't related but I like it a lot)

If you have to take those turquoise pills to feel like a human being (in which case, i'm sorry lol), a lot of people say you need to take them sublingually. It's one of those things that's just taken as common knowledge among experienced turquoise pill takers, even among people who couldn't explain the science to you. I've done it myself for years, whether doctors tell me to or not. I think most of the pill girls do, from what I have seen. It's just one of those things.

I don't know for-sure if it's, like, a proven thing, though. Most of my doctors haven't really given a shit about my HRT, but the ones that did were either pro-sublingual or sublingual-neutral. I've also seen charts saying you get better absorption, but I'm not going to get into that. The folk wisdom says to do it, but I didn't personally notice that much difference between oral, sublingual, and buccal. My levels were pretty similar each way, although I do feel less anxious taking my meds sublingually. Maybe I just want to be like the other girls? I'm pretty sure a lot of us just see the information once or hear it from a friend, and then start doing it. It sounds kind of crazy when I tell people that, but I think the really crazy thing is that the women basing their HRT routines on folk wisdom somehow know better than their doctors 99% of the time.

You go to the doctor and get the runaround and a 2mg fuck-off prescription, and then you go home and ask some random bitches on the internet if your doctor is full of shit, and then some random girl with an insane username gives you a straight answer. She might even leave a pubmed link to "Pharmacokinetics of Putting the Pill Under Your Tongue", but you probably can't access the full text. Shit's weird, but then "faguette69420" on the forum turns out to be a better source than the guy you just paid an 80 USD copay to talk to for five minutes, so you stop caring and start putting the pill under your tongue. Now that I've been doing this for years, I think the actual weird part is explaining the process to other people, because they make it weird lmao. Like, yes? Of course I trust this woman online? She posts 24/7 about antiwork and PC98 Touhou, but I saw her selfie and her HRT is definitely working, so...

"Woah, should I be doing this?"

Study it and make your own educated decision. If your doctor is a human, then ask them about it. Don't listen to random people online about your healthcare if you don't have to.

"Are you giving me medical advice?"

I am not. I have never given anyone medical advice. You'd be a moron to take medical advice from me. I am telling you what I do for purely anthropological reasons. I don't know whose fault it is if you try this stuff, but it's not mine. It's always fun hearing about it, though. Was it Virginia Woolf? Did Marceline the Vampire Queen do it? Did you watch Ghost in the Shell? Do you still have a Lain avatar even though you're actually 30 and somehow still just like Tomoko?

anyways,