What is going on?

[MarcoMacabre]

So this is my first month on Testosterone and I have no idea what is going with my freaking body. And this is not in a positive light at all.

One, I got my period. I never get it and when I do it never lasts long. Perhaps on average. But no. This month I got it and it's going OVER A WEEK. I have never had this happen and I don't understand.

Also, this is the month where I can not pass. No one has called me a he or 'sir' at all this month which is still very weird because typically I can pass at least to a few people. But no. Not this month. And also it's getting worse as to where I was going to punch this old man for saying to me that I could put something in my "purse"
And then one of the girls I know, WHO I BELIEVE ALREADY KNOWS ABOUT ME, asks me about nail polish.

I just don't understand that is going on. I mean, I didn't expect much to change about me but it feels like instead of moving forward I'm moving backwards?












Edited for profanity.

[randomroads]

In the first month of T it's perfectly normal for your body to freak out and go through dramatic changes, chemically. Your menstruation is a chemically induced event and it's okay for it to be weird. However, a week is a really long time and I'd be on the phone with my doctor after the fourth day!
Also, hormonal changes can cause bloating and the face to look puffy. A puffy, round face looks fem. I'd be on the phone with my doc about this, too.


It's completely possible that your dose is too high. You can ask your doc if you can either lower the dose or space it out more and see if that helps. If it does then there's your answer.

[democration]

However, a week is a really long time and I'd be on the phone with my doctor after the fourth day!

I've always heard that anywhere from three to ten days was perfectly normal.

[AdamMLP]

Could your dose be too high? Maybe you have too much T and it is aromatizing to estrogen... you should have your levels checked.

I'm not saying that it's not possible at all, just that it takes a lot for testosterone to convert to estrogen.  I can't remember which video it was in but Fionn (xyrmrn) on youtube spoke about it in one of his videos because his dosage was too high.

[tvc15]

Of course, your body is acting abnormally, but to me this sounds normal considering your body chemistry is changing so rapidly. It's a weird bumpy ride when you first start HRT for some people, I know for me it was. It levels out after a while, sure tell your doctor about it just to be safe but I'd ride it out for another month and then see if things are still going wild.

[MarcoMacabre]

Thanks you guys. I will ask my doctor next time that I see him =3=
(My endo is four hours away)

[Kreuzfidel]

While I know that it's upsetting and triggering your dysphoria, I don't think that you should be getting so worked up over this.  For your period, the same exact thing happened to me and I am on a lower dose than most other guys.  You have to consider that your body has just been pumped full of exogenous hormones - it will take a little while to settle down and for things to even out.

My period would go for a week then stop - then three days later it would start again.  This went on for four months after I started T. 

Immediately jumping to the conclusion that your dosage is too high and it must be converting to estrogen is a little paranoid, IMHO.  Especially after only one month.  Give yourself time to adjust - screwing around with your dosage this early on is probably not a great idea.  But do speak with your doctor - I personally wouldn't, but if you're worried, go for it.

[Jack_M]

And then one of the girls I know, WHO I BELIEVE ALREADY KNOWS ABOUT ME, asks me about nail polish.

Just a quick note on this aspect, girls do that crap all the time.  Just ask any guy in a relationship with a girl and you'll hear of how they talk to them about girly stuff all the time.  I wouldn't take it as not passing but more as a girl just wanting to essentially talk.  I know a girly girl who knows about me and she still talks to me about dresses she wants to buy and shows me pictures of girly stuff she's made and then all this cat stuff.  And guess what?  I'm a dog person!  Lol.  Just learn to tune out while nodding your head, saying "yeah"..."Definitely"...."I know!"  and it'll all be fine .

[Liminal Stranger]

Just a quick note on this aspect, girls do that crap all the time.  Just ask any guy in a relationship with a girl and you'll hear of how they talk to them about girly stuff all the time.  I wouldn't take it as not passing but more as a girl just wanting to essentially talk.  I know a girly girl who knows about me and she still talks to me about dresses she wants to buy and shows me pictures of girly stuff she's made and then all this cat stuff.  And guess what?  I'm a dog person!  Lol.  Just learn to tune out while nodding your head, saying "yeah"..."Definitely"...."I know!"  and it'll all be fine .

I have to say, I really hate this. How the heck am I supposed to understand a girl if she's babbling on about some sort of relationship drama at around a mile a minute? Even when they slow down, it's like alienspeak and I struggle to see things from their point of view. Sometimes I wish the stereotypes weren't true and that girls and boys thought alike, it would make my life a whole lot easier instead of being subjected to "AND THEN HE DID THIS! THE NERVE OF HIM!!! CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?!"
...Uhh, yeah. I can. The biggest lack of understanding that I've experienced so far is girls wanting to constantly be with their boyfriend versus him needing space and maybe a bit of time to hang out with the friends he has outside of the relationship. Yeah, they don't disappear because you're going out with a girl. Crazy, right? Not to say that I haven't seen guys be overattached, but most of the time it's the girl doing it in a hetero relationship. And then girls come and cry to me when a guy gets annoyed and says he needs space, they get horribly sad and then enraged without taking a minute to understand what could have brought this about. Which leaves me in the awkward position of smiling and nodding while feeling really bad for the guy but trying to keep my mouth shut to avoid the "YOU'RE JUST LIKE ALL OF THE REST OF THEM" rant.

Yeah, that's the point. I'm not some gender-hybrid, not bilingual at all. I'm a guy. I think in a stereotypically male way about a lot of things. Which also means I don't want to talk with you for five hours about your problems. Unless you need some kind of specific advice, please spare my ears.

Really I'd like to say there's no difference between genders. I recognize that it's a spectrum, but the majority of people are decidedly male and female and there's a startling lack of communication between the two- talking or not, one tends not to understand the other's point of view. Oh look, a rhyme. [/rant]

Wow, sorry for the thread-jack.

[Mr.X]

Just like to point out that this does change a little when you get older. I do agree that people who complain about relationships are hard to understand (especially for me who never had one, so its really alien territory for me).

But at your age people are still discovering who they are themselves ontop of trying to understand their second halves, and this leads to many conflicts. When you grow older people tend to be a bit more understanding and calm about things. Not saying that the stereotypes disappear. By all means, I am not. But they do get a little nuanced.

I also think Jack is right. Girls tend to do this with friends. Just asking opinions. I also doubt she did that because she considers you one of the girls. It sounds more like a 'Hey, you're here. What do you happen to think of this and this?' kind of situation.