eg go to university in Vienna(or smaller city’s such as Graz), austria is not bad, i have relatives in austria(which doesnt care about me, so not), have isnt expensive programs as im know … and its possible on english

maybe somewhere other place, are you know where to get into university and it isnt expensive?

how easy to continue hrt in austria through their healthcare? if not, DIYing injections is still possible

i hate my fucking awful govrenment, im scared … what next?

  • Squished Fly (she/they)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Austrian here, coming here is a good idea :D

    If it’s about continuing from DIY then you’d need to get it prescribed, but getting to HRT through official means really isn’t too big of a deal, especially if you don’t have to jump through hoops like “too depressed, other undiagnosed and untreated mental health issues, former wrong diagnoses, …” that I had to go through.

    I was at Courage Vienna (courage-beratung.at) for psychological counseling and they helped so much with everything.

    For HRT you’ll need a few, what we call “stellungsnahmen”. Basically just from different people a paper saying " yes, you’re trans and yes, you should get HTR". You’ll need that from

    • a psychologist (with Transgender diagnosis)
    • a therapist (courage can do that)
    • a psychiatrist (usually with another diagnosis)

    With all of that, you can get an appointment at an endocrinologist and get HRT.

    Keep in mind tho, while there is free healthcare in Austria, there are also private doctors that you have to pay, but in return you get way shorter waiting times. You can also send the bill to your health insurance and get some of the cost back.

    If it’s about continuing from an existing prescription then it should be as easy as sending your papers to your health insurance, but i’m not too sure how exactly what they need and if you need to do more…

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      good i like austria

      scandinavian countries - hate this climate, i live in similar nordic climate so not

      eastern europe - … FUCK NO…

      nederlands - waitlist takes years

      switzerland - tooo expensive

      baltics - rusophobes, it hard to get here as russian

      spain, germany, austria - sounds good plus climate

      in austria is possible to get affordable university germany - gender identity bill spain - good trans right plus climate but i think too hot

      france, belgium - idk

      myself i feel more liking german speaking countries such as austria and germany

      im dm you)))))) i need austrian friends

      im ok with private healthcare and buying hormones for own money (im pay 20 eur for one bottle of oestrogel(gynokadin in germany)) until is not too expensive and if it covered is VERY GOOD

      is enough time to continue hrt if i take from russia hormones for 4 months(AAs(spiro, bica just if it will too long im taking monotherapy), estradiol pills and estradiol gels) ?

      i think it will be faster because i can get diagnosis of f64.0 in ICD-10 from my psych (i have f64.9 for now because im minor and by ICD10 F64.0 requires to be 18yo or more)

      plus im doing blood works etc

      i dont have mental issues now im happy… (but im taking sertraline)

      also i can get prescription for oetrogel from russian endo (i can go it through mom, or through friendly endo if they still exists(they can sends prescribtions via postal))

      thanks you)))))) im now know that austria is def good choice

      thinks i should go to vienna rather smaller cities like graz due to doctors/clinics availbility

      • Squished Fly (she/they)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        7 days ago

        Sure you can dm me, I just have a terrible track record of not staying in contact with any of my friends qwq (also I’ll probably be moving to Germany soon)

        Buying hormones is cheap, 7,55€ per bottle/package/whatever you have. Technically, if you have medication prescribed then you get them for free, just with a general fee. There are also systems tho that you can use to get around paying that too. The expensive thing is really getting a quick doctors appointment. If you go to a private doctor for everything then you can expect a 100-250€ bill ;-;

        If you have a stockpile of HRT that lasts you for 4 months then you are probably good, considering that, if you’re fast, going from having no diagnosis to having estrogen in half a year. If not then you can always just DIY until you’ve got the prescription. Also, I think as long as you have some sort of F64 then you should be fine regardless.

        For where you should move to, I would recommend a smaller city around Vienna that is easily accessible with public transport. If you wanna learn German too then going to the Graz area is a bad idea because of the accent there qwq