I'm just over 90 days into feminising hormone therapy! I'm wondering how great the chance of a cycle is, is all. I kind of want to experience a period, but it seems I'm in a minority here.

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[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 days ago

Well, in terms of relative commonness, it's on the rarish side as a percentage. Under 10% of hrt recipients reported something akin to a period.

Since there's people that home brew their regimen and therefore don't necessarily get tracked, the number can't be really precise.

Thing is, it tends to show up more similar to premenstrual issues than those that arise during menstruation. But exclusively so, but that's where the symptoms tend to point. The difference between those two phases aren't exactly massive though.

It's fairly difficult to find good studies that aren't paywalled and/or can be snagged in other ways, and those that I've seen didn't really do a good job of things imo.

That being said, breast tenderness and intestinal/digestive issues seem to be the most common body perceived issues, as in things you feel physically. Mood instability is the biggest mental presentation. However, three are trans women that report an increase in dysphoria during their cycle, so be aware of it as a possibility.

There are people that report symptom that shouldn't be present as they're directly related to the presence of a uterus, predominantly cramping that isn't intestinal in the subjective perception or effects. There's no full consensus if there's an anatomical reason for it, or if it's psychogenic, but it does happen.

Having just freshly scanned for any updated info, I'd say that it's within the realm of possibility for you to have effects occur, particularly within the first year or so. There's enough data out there that it can't be dismissed as some infinitesimal occurrence, but it also isn't anywhere close to a majority having perceptible effects.