A very curious question. What about menoapause?

[asiangurliee]

Do transsexuals have them? Should we reduce our estrogen intake after a certain age? What is the deal there?  I have *no* clue.

[tinkerbell]

I would imagine that all women have it regardless of our transsexual history.  Fortunately, there are new treatments now, so yeah....

tink

[Keira]

I don't why we should, menopause is forced upon women by their reproductive system giving up the ghost. Humans only lately started to live old enough for many women to actually live so much of their life after menopause. Who's to say, if people live longer, menopause will not eventually happen later to match this enhanced lifespan.

After much contractictory evidence, it seems that estrogen replacement therapy administered as soon as menopause starts and before damage to blood vessels start, is beneficial.

The main cancer problem is on the breast, caused in great part by E and P cycling for decades.

If I start E at 39, why should I diminish it to a trickle at 45? I'm not doing it! Maybe at 65, after 25 good years I'll have my menopause.

[Mattie]

Life is so cruel.  As if starting out with the wrong parts wasn't bad enough, there is still menopause on the horizon.  You'd think having no functioning reproductive system would make one immune to such things as a consolation prize.

[taru]

I don't think there is menopause for us.

Menopause is caused by ovulation stopping [simplified very much] and thus the levels of estro and progesterone drops, which causes the typical symptoms. Thus a TS invidual won't have menopause unless we go out of our way to simulate it. Rising SHBG levels might make adjusting dosages necessary at some point - but probably nothing radical.

[asiangurliee]

My question was about the supposed need to stimulate an artifical menopause by reducing estrogen intake.

[Keira]

There is no supposed need Asiangurliee.
Its a pill, stop or diminish if you wish.
Like I said, there's no real risk of continuing taking E, especially
if you start high dosing E significantly later than 10 to 13 (normal age puberty starts)
and don't cycle it.
Low E's bad for many body system so why stop it if you don't have too.

[asiangurliee]

Thank you for answering my question, Keira! It was not a big deal, just my curiosity.