This isn't a question about trans-related medical stuff, but it is about my reproductive system. If any of you have experience or knowledge, either personal or from/about someone else, please help me with this. My doctors are all confused as well.
So, I am a female-to-male transsexual who is pre-op, pre-hormones, pre-everything. For what it's worth, I do not currently take any medications and haven't for a while. I don't smoke cigarettes or do any sort of drugs (including marijuana). The only times I drink alcohol are with parental supervision and I only ever have about a quarter of a serving, while eating a large meal. Now that that's out of the way, time for the situation.
I hit puberty at about age 11 and it progressed perfectly normally. My menstrual cycle became regular just as it should and everything was exact, average, and "by the book" both in terms of overall timing (stages of puberty) and the timing when referring to my period. But then, about two years into puberty, everything started slowing down and (to some extent) reversing. My cycle got more and more irregular, and I got periods further and further apart until they just stopped. Meanwhile, my secondary sex characteristics stopped changing into feminine ones and started becoming masculine, but not all the way like a transman on testosterone, the masculinization continued just until I reached a fairly ambiguous state, then it stopped too.. For example, my fat distribution is not like that of a female, but also not like that of a male. Instead, it's somewhere in the middle, kind of a hybrid mix between the two.
It's almost like I started to go through puberty again, but as a male, but without any hormone treatment.
On the one hand, I am somewhat happy because I don't have to deal with periods, and the secondary characteristics issue helps me to pass because I come off as so androgynous (but apparently leaning towards masculine)that people will accept any gender someone tells them as the correct one. But on the other hand, I know that this could mean a pretty serious medical condition of some sort, and that something is definitely wrong.
I haven't had a period for a little over two years now. I haven't had any strong pain. Every now and then, I'll get a dull ache in my back down near the "floating" ribs, but that's it and it doesn't happen that often. My mother took my to a gyn who prescribed me some sort of female hormone type thing in order to jumpstart my mentruation, but it didn't work. Then the gyn put me on a birth control pill for the same idea. It didn't work either. Both "treatments" just gave me absolutely terrible side effects, one of which was extreme pain in that general area.
To make things even more bizarre, when I got my hormone levels tested, it was discovered that my DHEA level was ridiculously high, my estrogen and progesterone were a bit low, and my androgen levels were quite high.
I've heard that stress can make you miss your periods, but I'm always stressed and the time when I had the most stress was during the time just before and during my time of normal puberty. Since then, I'm been much calmer and more relaxed.
Any ideas of what it could be, or what I should ask the doctor to check for?
EDIT: I was talking about this with a transwoman earlier today and she suggested that it may be some sort of intersexed type condition, or something similar to that. Would that actually fit, though?
