Can dysphoria make you physically sick?

[jaybutterfly]

Since my last venture to an assessment for gender services, I have been significantly more stressed and ill, and my dysphoria has shot up massively. I cant even tolerate things I used to be on top of. I must now be clean shaven at all times so as to have no stubble, my body hair must be hidden at all times. I can no longer sleep without doing so in women's clothing.

[ChrissyRyan]

I do not know if dysphoria can make you sick.  I do know that on some days it is high for me and it intereferes with me getting things done well on those days.

Chrissy

[GingerVicki]

dysphoria no, but the stress it causes can

[Alice (nym)]

as gingerVictorKay says, dysphoria can cause stress and stress can make you ill. Stress lowers your immune system. I ended up in hospital 2 years ago because of it... I couldn't keep consciousness for more than 2 minutes. Caused me to drop out of my PhD after passing my viva and working on corrections. Sometimes you've got to put health first.

Take care... I feel your pain.

love
Alice

[Allison S]

Right, the stress accompanied by dysphoria is very intense... I never showed my body hair. I still have similar habits of stress eating though.

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[Rachel]

Stress, lack of sleep, inflemation and the release of stress hormones including insulin can damage your health. Stress hormones are meant to be released in the flight or flight response or with body injury or exercise or a 170 degree sauna but all of these are meant to be short lived. Then the opposite occurs, the parasympathetic system kicks in and provides positive health effects.   

I had severe dysphoria all my life and it kept getting worse to the point I had to make a choice. During this living hell my dysphoria was ruining my health. I fully transitioned and I was divorced. All of which seamed like it was better to choose option B. I wanted to see how life would be as me. I did not want to die and I listened to my therapists.

I no longer have dysphoria and now realize divorce was much much better for us than staying together.

My stress level is very low and I no longer have dysphoria. I feel great health wise. I am still lonely and that too can contribute to stress. I joined a gym and take the classes. In the spinning class I see the same people Saturday, Monday and Wednesday. On Saturday one woman was talking before class and said she was recently divorced and everyone chimed in they were divorced. She said she was drinking 11 hours the day before. They all chimed in saying XYZ about recent divorce and how thing are. She said she started drinking every day and she knows it is bad and she needs to stop. I could go on and on. I think spinning and the fitness club is like group for cis.

Point being, you are not alone. You are going through a ruff time. Being with people like yourself and sharing how you feel can help. In time you will settle down. It took me 4 years to settle down. I like my life and am so glad I chose plan A.

Best and I hope this helps,
Rachel

[SailorMars1994]

Yes. I second much of what Rachel said. For me it was the stress and anxiety of living male that made that happen. I would get tummy pains and gag aswell as vomit at times. During particularly bad episodes (which haven't occurred in a while) I would notice my body temperature would plummet and I would feel super cold and clang. These days I have little dysphoira and with laser completion on the horizon and GRS in the cards I can already see a life free of dysphoira!

[CarlyMcx]

For the last ten years before I started transition I suffered chest pains, irregular heartbeats, massive panic attacks, high blood pressure, irritable bowel syndrome, arthritis, inflammatory issues, and immune system issues.

HRT fixed most of that, and getting fully out of the closet and being fully myself cured the rest.

[Kylo]

I think it can. The amount of stress it creates can, anyway. Fearing one might be pregnant certainly does anyway, for me.

[pamelatransuk]

Hello again Jaybutterfly

I agree with your practices. I must always sleep in a nightdress and must clear all body hair but must leave facial hair a short while if I am having Electrolysis.

Oh Yes GD can and does make us physically sick. I got to the point where I was reasonably satisfied with depression just being a sense of dullness and no interest in life; at times the GD was so bad that I experienced being hurt physically -a dry and hurt sensation in my throat and pains in my stomach and reduction in body temperature.

HRT improves the situation but does not remove the GD completely.

Hugs

Pamela

[IAmM]

Dysphoria causes stress and anxiety, that can make a person sick.
From 12 to 15 I would get such bad headaches and knotting between my shoulder blades that they set up a special room in school for me that was dark and quiet for the times it got really bad, not every day but close to it. I couldn't function at all. They tried different medications but nothing worked that didn't have side effects that my family found acceptable. My time in the hospital I think that they gave me something that made me like a zombie for a week or two but apparently I freaked and they took me off that. I don't remember that at all but it is in the records from there. From 15 to my mid 20s I self medicated with alcohol, it made the pain tolerable. Basic training and Desert Storm were so miserable that they put me on a light sedative that kept me always sleepy but reduced the pain enough that I could function. I quit drinking at 24 and the pain crushed me, lost my job, friends everything. Finally a VA doctor proscribed an industrial strength muscle relaxer that I could use when it got bad and that mild sedative that had helped before for the rest of the time. The next twenty years was just managing the pain, some times were worse than others usually when working in close proximity to women, I never could work at those places long. The pain has been completely gone for 4 years now.
Stress and anxiety can be physically debilitating so anything that causes it can make a person sick potentially.