Quote from: Terrified on August 14, 2017, 12:01:40 PM
Hello.
I'm terrified.
I'm a male who might be intersex.
My symptoms/story:
Bilateral hernia surgery as infant
Monthly "cycles" (cramps, depressed, irritable, diarrhea, occasional blood when wiping)
Chronic fatigue
Excessive hairiness
Shorter than father
Pain/internal pressure when I press above hernia scars
Delayed puberty
Performance aneixty
Pleasurable where I press where a uterus would be.
Phantom boobs/vagina
Feeling like I've never fit in with males or female (always felt "not normal")
Do you think it is likely I am intersex?
Some symptoms I can identify, some definitely not. I am intersexed.
I have the cramping problem.. only now its not monthly. No blood noted in diarrhea, though I do have chronically low iron/hematrocrit levels. I don't feel pleasure pressing on the location of the uterus, mostly just pain relief.
"Phantom boobs" not even sure what that is. I have real boobs.. and a real vagina. My height was taller than anyone in my entire family.. ever lol. And I have no body hair except pubic which only started after HRT.
My diagnosis so far are listed in other places I talked about it, but if you're concerned I'd be talking with an endocrinologist and getting some scans (MRI/pelvic ultrasound) done. A basic karotype might or might not help. To really delve into the genes you'll need a geneticist.
I also had an inguinal hernia operation when I was 16, and feel pain in both locations with no hernia present that I know of in the right. I was looked at rather extensively (allegedly) on the pelvic cystoscopy, no gonads were located in those regions. The ultrasound saw ovaries & a uterus, but if it is there its undeveloped / immature.
I have other congenital issues going on... being intersexed really isn't a 'blessing' some trans might think it is. There are a huge plethora of intersexed diagnosis ranging from MRKH, Androgen insensitivity, Swyer syndrome, pseudohermaphroditism, Partial AIS, CAH, I'd even argue PCOS can be lumped in there. That's just a few and many many more are being discovered.