Transgender healthcare in Germany
Transgender healthcare question
r/Germantrans exists. The description says in German "Subreddit for all trans people in German speaking lands." It's not a sub for Germany per se but for German language trans folks and posts are mostly or entirely in the German language.
The person who posted the question is moving to Germany from the US. When I was a military wife and moved to Germany from the US, shortly after arriving I had the worst flu I've ever had and comments from other people in the military community suggested "That's normal. We all go through that when we arrive."
I've heard the expression "Revenge of Montezuma" to describe getting food poisoning or having horrific diarrhea while traveling. My understanding is that anytime anyone travels over five hundred miles, they are exposing themselves to new germs and are at high risk of having that bite them in the butt.
My assumption is that going to Germany from the US is bad because population density there is much more dense than here, so disease runs through a lot of people and mutates, becoming more virulent. I imagine this is likely a factor in the history of European diseases ravaging Native American populations upon contact and, in my opinion, probably still.
One comment suggests you should expect to DIY it in Germany. This same comment suggests r/germantrans which is a German language sub, not a Germany sub, so I'm not exactly impressed.
I searched for "Omnadren available OTC in Germany" and got:
In Germany, over-the-counter (OTC) or non-prescription drugs are heavily regulated, with only pharmacies authorized to distribute them. Medicines that you may be able to buy over the counter in your own country, such as antibiotics, must be prescribed by a doctor in Germany.
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I lived in Germany for nearly four years in my twenties. I was a military wife and never had reason to interact with the German healthcare system.
My mother was originally a German national and she once told me an anecdote of having some vaginal yeast infection or something and the pharmacist in Germany told her to come in once a day for medication the pharmacist was authorized to issue without a prescription but only one dose at a time.
My understanding is actual pharmacists are to some degree trained healthcare professionals, sort of like I have a Certificate and training in medical terminology etc. because I processed medical insurance. No, I'm not a physician or nurse or person who is supposed to treat patients. Yes, I have formal education in medical terminology and aspects of the American healthcare system and read medical records as part of my job for five years.
Footnote
I will add that anecdote from my late mother is from decades ago and things sometimes change. And sometimes don't.
In South America, an anthropologist puzzled by an odd shaped tool on a thousand year old corpse was casually informed by locals "It's a spacer for making fishing nets. We all have one."
Point being: Ask questions and don't make assumptions when going to a new place where you don't know the culture and typical practices. Your American coded mental models contain a lot of baked in assumptions that you are blind to and take for granted and may be not only wholly irrelevant but ACTIVELY counterproductive.