Limestone is a common type of sedimentary rock which I find uncommonly interesting! It's mostly calcium carbonate, which is also what eggshells π₯, seashells π, and pearls π¦ͺ are made out of.
In places where it rains a lot, limestone erodes easily, which results in simply gorgeous landscapes such as:
HαΊ‘ Long Bay in Vietnam
Tsingy de Bemaraha National Park in Madagascar
The Li River in China
Additionally, the world's longest (Mammoth) and deepest (~~Veryovkina~~ Krubera is once again the world's deepest cave, thank you to SockOlm for pointing that out) cave systems are both found in limestone formations
Mammoth Cave in the United States
Veryovkina Cave in Georgia/Abkhazia/Russia (disputed territory)
image sources
Thumbnail https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ElTorcal0408.jpg#mw-jump-to-license
HαΊ‘ Long Bay https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Halong_Bay_in_Vietnam.jpg#mw-jump-to-license
Tsingy de Bemaraha National Park https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tsingy_de_Bemaraha.jpg#mw-jump-to-license
Li River https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Li-Flussfahrt-160-Huegel-2012-gje.jpg#mw-jump-to-license
Mammoth Cave https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mammoth_Cave_Rotunda_(USGS_Lwt02830).jpg#mw-jump-to-license
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Veryovkina Cave https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Veryovkina_cave._Babatunda_pit.jpg#mw-jump-to-license
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SPIRO DOES NOT LOWER SERUM LEVELS OF ANDROGENS. IT IS A RECEPTOR SITE BLOCKER!!!! It actually drives me INSANE that fucking DOCTORS do not know this..... Your low serum levels of testosterone are due to gonadal suppression from exogenous sex hormones (in your case, estrogen). It being that low is completely normal and healthy in case you are curious. Idk what your goals are tho so
My goals are to get my estradiol to a pretty stable 200ish and have enough T that I don't feel like a shambling corpse most of the time. I guess I'm going for high T femme (but still lower than normal male levels; maybe like 50-100ish). Any recommendations for how to achieve that without supplemental T or is the estrogen just going to keep my levels down unless I stop taking it?
Yeah there is no east way (yet) of controlling how your gonads respond to exogenous hormones, you can potentially eyeball the amount of gonadal suppression happening by simply lowering the dosage of e untill your t starts going up, but even then that's hard to keep stable long term. The short answer is, if you want normal levels of E and also higher than adrenal levels of T, you are going to need to get your T exogenously as well.
Also, I'm not your doctor or your mom so I'm not going to tell you what to do, but high levels of both androgens and estrogens probably isn't healthy long term :/
genitals/arousal
Normal female range for T is 8-42 according to Labcorp so I guess I could just shoot for 40ish. Since starting HRT the only things I've been annoyed with are fatigue and floppy erections that are hard to maintain. I started taking cialis recently for the erections but the fatigue is ever-present.Fatigue from low testosterone is a well studied thing, in cisgender women, and usually happens when T is even below adrenal levels. Now, your serum levels are not below adrenal levels, however, you are ALSO talking a receptor site blocker (Spiro) despite your T being well within cis female range. If I was you doctor (I'm not your doctor so this isn't medical advice, buuuuut, I do know what I'm talking about) I would get you off Spiro entirely, monitor your T levels afterwards, and if they remain at cis female levels, you should be golden and your low T related fatigue should be solved as well.
That's some great non-medical advice
but seriously, my doctor just lets me fuck around and test as much as I want. I'll get off spiro and test again in 4-6 weeks.