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Started by sally1990, October 02, 2012, 05:56:59 AM

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pretty

Quote from: Ave on October 11, 2012, 12:19:54 PM
Luckily I'm reasonably tall (5'7.5), so I'm spared the shame of shopping for kids pants :D! I fit more appropriately into kids tops since I have a small frame, but XS in stores or XS in uniqlo or other asian clothing stores works great for me.

Jealous! They don't have a Uniqlo near me...

Oh god come to think of it I just moved to the coast ;D maybe will go up to NY sometime.

I'm only 5'5 but want to wear size 9 when I know I am really a 9.5 :embarrassed: lol I think having clown feet (for my height) is worse than shopping in the children's depts.
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Ave

Quote from: pretty on October 11, 2012, 12:25:24 PM
Jealous! They don't have a Uniqlo near me...

Oh god come to think of it I just moved to the coast ;D maybe will go up to NY sometime.

I'm only 5'5 but want to wear size 9 when I know I am really a 9.5 :embarrassed: lol I think having clown feet (for my height) is worse than shopping in the children's depts.

I think as long you stay under 10 it won't look terribly unusual for your height.
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pretty

Quote from: Ave on October 11, 2012, 12:49:47 PM
I think as long you stay under 10 it won't look terribly unusual for your height.

I guess not... lol so long as they don't get any bigger  ::)

Sometimes it's easy to feel bad even when you are not that big, I guess you just shouldn't go comparing... even I can make myself feel like an ogre sometimes  :P
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Ave

Quote from: pretty on October 11, 2012, 01:15:31 PM
I guess not... lol so long as they don't get any bigger  ::)

Sometimes it's easy to feel bad even when you are not that big, I guess you just shouldn't go comparing... even I can make myself feel like an ogre sometimes  :P

you look like a regular thirteen year old girl, you should NOT worry lmao.
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pretty

Quote from: Ave on October 11, 2012, 02:29:16 PM
you look like a regular thirteen year old girl, you should NOT worry lmao.

Lol I wish! Actually it is fun to pretend when ya didn't get to enjoy it the first time around. I can pull off 16 at least  :P so now I know kinda what FTMs feel like when people think they're underage.
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Dahlia

Wouldn't it be interesting reading about FTM who's feet and hands growing miraculously several sizes while being on testo?

Haven't heard about this one yet ;-)
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A

I haven't really heard of shrinking hands... Well, them looking smaller because of muscle reduction, yes, but that's pretty much all.

Though foot growth, that would actually be more plausible than foot shrinkage. Bones shrinking is a pretty surprising, seemingly impossible phenomenon, but growth isn't. As a simple example, men's facial bones masculinise - which is growth - considerably due to testosterone during adult age.

And even some amount of "hand growth" would be absolutely possible - and even expected - from testosterone. I won't put this as rock-hard proof, but no matter the amount of physical work they do, the muscular character, the width, of men's hands that I've seen, have always been roughly proportional to their age.

Really, FTMs are a bad example to compare here. The changes we're discussing for MTFs are much less likely, much harder to explain, than what could happen in FTMs, who get much more significant effects all over from their HRT, in average.
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driven

Quote from: Dahlia on October 12, 2012, 09:21:27 AM
Wouldn't it be interesting reading about FTM who's feet and hands growing miraculously several sizes while being on testo?

Haven't heard about this one yet ;-)

Here's one. I've gone from a mens' size 5 shoe to a mens' 7.5 in 10 months on T. My gloves are starting to get tight, so I'm pretty sure my hands have gotten bigger too. Obviously, there's no way bones can grow like that, especially at age 37. My feet have gotten thicker and more muscular, but they've also flattened and spread out as I've gained weight. I had to ditch the arch support insoles I used to wear because they started to feel like a big rock in the middle of my shoe.

I would assume that everything would go back to my pre-HRT size if I had to stop T for some reason. I don't see why it wouldn't work the same for an MTF going on anti-androgens.

As a side note, I'm fascinated by how heated this subject always gets. It's like "I didn't personally get that change on HRT, so it's not possible for anyone else's body to change in that way and don't you dare claim it is." Everyone's body is different and it's going to react to hormones differently.

I started off small and scrawny, so T is making me heavier and thicker. Other FTMs started off overweight and have lost weight on T. Seems kinda ridiculous for me to claim that "T makes you eat too much. There's no possible way you could lose weight on it" just because my experience was different.
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Ave

Quote from: driven on October 12, 2012, 05:38:48 PM
Here's one. I've gone from a mens' size 5 shoe to a mens' 7.5 in 10 months on T. My gloves are starting to get tight, so I'm pretty sure my hands have gotten bigger too. Obviously, there's no way bones can grow like that, especially at age 37. My feet have gotten thicker and more muscular, but they've also flattened and spread out as I've gained weight. I had to ditch the arch support insoles I used to wear because they started to feel like a big rock in the middle of my shoe.

I would assume that everything would go back to my pre-HRT size if I had to stop T for some reason. I don't see why it wouldn't work the same for an MTF going on anti-androgens.

As a side note, I'm fascinated by how heated this subject always gets. It's like "I didn't personally get that change on HRT, so it's not possible for anyone else's body to change in that way and don't you dare claim it is." Everyone's body is different and it's going to react to hormones differently.

I started off small and scrawny, so T is making me heavier and thicker. Other FTMs started off overweight and have lost weight on T. Seems kinda ridiculous for me to claim that "T makes you eat too much. There's no possible way you could lose weight on it" just because my experience was different.


that point just doesn't make sense...if someone said HRT made them sprout wings, are we supposed to believe them too?
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twit

Well, now that you mention it, I have noticed a few feathers here and there...
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Alainaluvsu

Quote from: Ave on October 13, 2012, 08:19:55 AM

that point just doesn't make sense...if someone said HRT made them sprout wings, are we supposed to believe them too?

But why would anybody lie about that? Many, many people report height loss and shoe size loss. I didn't expect to either, but I did.
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Andarta

I noticed mine are smaller too & it's definitely not my imagination.


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Dahlia

Quote from: driven on October 12, 2012, 05:38:48 PM


I would assume that everything would go back to my pre-HRT size if I had to stop T for some reason.

Really.................?!?!?

*gasp*
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Jayne

Quote from: driven on October 12, 2012, 05:38:48 PM
Here's one. I've gone from a mens' size 5 shoe to a mens' 7.5 in 10 months on T.
My feet have gotten thicker and more muscular, but they've also flattened and spread out as I've gained weight.


If driven has increased shoe size due to increased muscle on T then surely if someone starts E who has muscular feet then muscle reduction can possibly explain foot size reducing.

Not everyone has lots of muscle & this may account for some people experiencing this whilst others get little or no reduction.

It seemsd the old axiom of "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence" gets conveniently ignored whenever this topic arises
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Ave

Quote from: Jayne on October 13, 2012, 12:15:12 PM
If driven has increased shoe size due to increased muscle on T then surely if someone starts E who has muscular feet then muscle reduction can possibly explain foot size reducing.

Not everyone has lots of muscle & this may account for some people experiencing this whilst others get little or no reduction.

It seemsd the old axiom of "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence" gets conveniently ignored whenever this topic arises

going up more than a shoe size would have to be some damn dramatic muscle growth. And also, pregnant women go up a shoe size a lot since their feet tend to swell, but let's not forget that they are going through dramatic weight shfits/changes in their body.

So if you're shrinking multiple sizes, then you must be going through even more dramatic muscle/weight shifts than a pregnant woman (not likely).
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Nicolette

Quote from: Jayne on October 13, 2012, 12:15:12 PM
If driven has increased shoe size due to increased muscle on T then surely if someone starts E who has muscular feet then muscle reduction can possibly explain foot size reducing.

Not everyone has lots of muscle & this may account for some people experiencing this whilst others get little or no reduction.

That's what I theorised. I started HRT scrawny with little muscle.

Quote from: Tesla on October 03, 2012, 06:11:01 AM
If I look at it as testosterone causing the fleshy part of the feet to swell and expand, then the absence of this hormone causing a reversal of this makes more sense. Therefore, F2M may have a reverse experience.

The expansion could probably be mostly in width.
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driven

Quote from: Alainaluvsu on October 13, 2012, 08:36:03 AM
But why would anybody lie about that? Many, many people report height loss and shoe size loss. I didn't expect to either, but I did.

This is what I don't understand about the reaction to this subject. So we're all just lying to anonymous people on the internet about our hands/feet changing size? Of all the things to lie about, my foot size wouldn't be it.

I wish I was lying because it's getting kind of expensive buying new clothes and growing out of them 6 months later. Just dropped another $80 at Kohl's yesterday because the weather changed and I discovered that I have absolutely zero long pants that I can even pull up all the way, let alone button. But maybe that's impossible too and it's just all in my head.  :P
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Jayne

I get quite perplexed how some people refuse to accept accounts of shrinking feet, just because someone hasn't seen something with their own eyes it doesn't mean it doesn't happen/exist.

If the naysayers are correct that not having seen something personaly means it doesn't exist then I deny the existence of Australia, i've never been there & don't know anyone who has.
Any footage of Australia is obviously a mix of clever filming & special effects.
Whilst i'm at it i've also never been into space to witness this claim that the earth is round & not flat, once again I say it must be special effects
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Ave

Quote from: Jayne on October 14, 2012, 01:00:21 PM
I get quite perplexed how some people refuse to accept accounts of shrinking feet, just because someone hasn't seen something with their own eyes it doesn't mean it doesn't happen/exist.

If the naysayers are correct that not having seen something personaly means it doesn't exist then I deny the existence of Australia, i've never been there & don't know anyone who has.
Any footage of Australia is obviously a mix of clever filming & special effects.
Whilst i'm at it i've also never been into space to witness this claim that the earth is round & not flat, once again I say it must be special effects

lol ok whatever. The little difference is, that if someone brings me studies on shrinking I could accept it, for now it's just wishful thinking :3
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Jayne

"absence of evidence is not evidence of absence"
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