T blockers and mood changes..

[chloeD33]

This question goes to the girls!. So I have been on T blockers for 3 months. Body hair is still drudgery for the most part but my mood... Oh boy. I have the personality i only dreamed of as a confused and angry preteen/teen. Even when i was in the closet i wanted to be strong willed somehow.Whenever issues came before I would get angry but bottle it in, or spaz at wrong person or be sorry even if I was in the right. Now, I am much more assertive, instead of bottle I cry or tell said person my thoughts of the matter. Also, even when i walked out in daylight as a woman and knew it was for me, sometimes i felt nervous or even slightly doubtful. Now I feel right at home and could never Invision myself living as a male, let a lone a male fueled with testosterone. My life doesn't suck as much, or at all really anymore. I heard that E can change moods dramatically, but I never heard of anything on T blockers... Is this normal at all? I like this new me and would love to see the next upgrade!!

[Dena]

I have never been on T blockers but I had something like that happen after reassignment surgery. The rule is no hormones for a while before and after surgery. Well the T factory never shut down before surgery so I had hormones in my system before surgery - just the wrong kind. After surgery I needed an extended stay because I couldn't pee and the nurse came in to discuss financing the extra hospital time. I knew the money was in my savings account but in the days before ATM machines, I had to return home to move it to the checking account. I became pretty emotional that I couldn't solve the problem right away. When I explained the money problem to the nurse, she said that was fine and they could wait for me to return home and cut a check.

My hormone level was at a quarter the level when I discontinued hormones and I didn't get emotional then but I had a repeat of the hot flashes.

[chloeD33]

No t blockers?  And I see you had srs over a decade before ibwas even formed. Has it changed since in 1982?

[Dena]

I have been out of the TG areas starting around 1984 and I have been learning much about how treatment has changed in the years I have been away from it. The chemical treatment is far better as with me the male hormones were never fully shut down. My surgery is primitive by todays standards and a not so careful examination would out me. The head game is still pretty much the same but there are a few new terms that we didn't have. Thats why for the most part, I work in the head area with my advice because I know it well and their isn't much in the way of land mines I have to worry about. The first time I gave surgical information, I really stepped in it and it made me very careful about getting out of my area of knowledge. I didn't do any harm other than I looked pretty foolish.

Treatment for us in this country didn't start until the mid 1960's and even when I started to seek treatment in the early 1970's there wasn't much to be found. Around the time of my surgery, they figured there were around 60,000 of us in  the United States making me one of the very early people seeking treatment. Had I not had a few lucky breaks, I suspect I might not have turned out so well.

I am stunned by what the internet has done to aid treatment and I am happy that with a single search it is now possible to receive far better treatment than I ever dreamed was possible. When I transitioned you almost had to have superhuman drive to get proper treatment but now anybody who needs it can find it.

[jessica32]

Ty I don't have super human drive as a girl I get so wussy when I go out in public as a boy I am ok as a girl I am scared hoping to have mood changed like u

[Dena]

I think the mood changes will be pretty short term. After surgery I was off hormones for a while and I didn't have a repeat. When I stopped hormones 10 years go, I didn't have issues either. I think it just takes your mind a little time to adjust to the change in chemicals.

[chloeD33]

Interesting stuff. I'm just super interested in what I am seeing so far. I feel more complete one could say