I have some wierd mutations.
In my family hammer toes are common, we're born with them. The last knuckle of the toe appears to be fused so they don't actually straighten at all, meaning curly toes lol. I have hairy curly toes and it's very funny.
I'm allergic to just about everything, so is my father. FUN.
I don't produce enough SHBG which means that while my testosterone levels are very low, it's almost all free T. Even so, that doesn't explain the virilisation which my specialist thinks is just a genetic quirk. I have severe hiristism apparently (particularly on the lower body.) which is far beyond what they'd expect with T levels, even free T levels as low as mine.
I also don't produce much progesterone AT ALL. That's estrogen dominance caused by PCOS which is they think a genetic abnormality that messes up your pituitary gland and makes it respond strangely to certain hormones like insulin. But i'm not a typical PCOS person, my hormone levels don't quite match the standard criteria (T is too low for example) but it's the closest approximation they have to what's wrong with me so that's what they roll with.
I have natural blonde streaks in my hair which is another interesting mutation and my hairdressers dont' believe me it's natural because apparently the streaks are VERY obvious and VERY uniform. Wiiiierd.
I have a remnant of the Wolfian duct system that never fully dissolved as well. Which is interesting. My sister has a septated uterus so our theory is that my mother simply doesn't produce adequate quantities of the hormones required to get normal development in utero.
I remember when i hit puberty, which was early (I was 10) it came in sort of a double whammy. I developed female traits like breasts and curves and periods but I also started to develop a lot of body hair including facial hair, had really bad problems with excessive sweating (my father suffers this as well) and down below swelled... oddly. Ahem. tmi maybe but man, that labia does NOT look normal.
My voice is also fairly deep for a woman, or at least extremely rangy. But that said my mother has a very deep voice too. We're both tenors when we sing which is awesome.
I'm remarkably short, but that seems to be my father's side of the family again. He's 5'8 I think but his father was only 5'6 and my male cousins are about that tall too. I'm 5'2", I stopped growing at 12 and that was that. My friends who knew me as a kid like to joke that I haven't actually aged since 12. Bah.
Premature tooth development is common in my family as well. I had 3 teeth at three months old, I got my wisdom teeth between 12 and 14. But because i'm approximately the size of a dang 12 year old my jaw isn't big enough for all the billions of teeth I have so they're really crooked and damaged. (seriously, my eldest son's friends are all taller than me! and they're 12!)
My own kids developed teeth crazy fast too. 2 or 3 months old they started getting teeth and then rapidly gained till they had a full mouth of them at 1.
as a result, yes, we all wean early.
My kids all weaned at 4 months old, as I believe did I. Naturally, baby led weaning.
We're precocious little things clearly lol.
I process drugs REALLY fast, as in, I take painkillers and within an hour they're out of my system.
If i'm given strong pain meds they kick in slow but they metabolise out far quicker than they should. Same happens with alchohol, I seem to have hyper efficient kidneys or something.
It's annoying though because you can only take most painkillers ever 3-4 hours and mine run out after an hour and then I have to wait, in pain. It's frustrating.
Like COME ON kidneys, come on!
Similarly, i'm hyper ultra sensitive to hormones. ALL hormones apparently.
I can't take estrogen, it'll literally kill me (it causes my blood pressure to spike even at microdoses), progesterone makes me pukey, Picotin nearly killed me by triggering contractions far far too severe for my body to cope with (I went into SHOCK and started throwing up and bleeding and shaking and yeah, it was terrible)
This is part of the reason I want to start T at a very low dose, because given my reactions to other hormones over hte years, i'm concerned it's not just feminine hormones my body freaks out over.
See my natural hormone levels are very very low, like ridiculously low.
Even my estrogen which is high for me and causing a lot of problems isn't actually abnormally high, it's well within female average, but it's too high for ME and that is making me very very very sick.
Quite often when they do a blood test most of my levels come back as less than 1 of whatever measurment they're using.
but they also fluctuate wildly with no rhyme or reason. It's like my body is frantically trying to find the correct balance and keeps trying different mixtures but none of them work.
My biochemistry is very very very broken. but also because I produce such low quantities of hormones normally, my body is also HYPER sensitive to even microdoses and that makes things... tricky.
Oh and my right and left hands are different sizes and shapes lol. It's so wierd.
I'm also ambidexterous like my uncle. Which is cool.
And i'm hyper mobile according to my osteopath. Predominantly in the legs and hips. It means I can twist my leg around and tuck it under my rib without any pain and it freaks people out. I can do freaky things with my legs hahah. This is a problem though because it means i've got a messed up hip. I have too much relaxin in my system or something, and getting pregnant causes MORE relaxin to pump into you so my hips uh.. well they separated. One side of my pelvis went one way, the other side went the other, my leg popped out the socket repeatedly and it's left a lot of damage specifically on one side that's worn the socket down and means my hip pops out periodically and all the muscles clamp down to keep it in place and then I can't walk. *sigh*
hypermobility isn't that fun. Sure it's a fun party trick but it increases a lot of problems in later life. It's quite likely i'll need a hip replacement in 20 years time.
Dang.
Wierdly though i'm only hypermobile in my lower body. I can't twist my arms in strange ways so easily.
Oh and I have Lodosis of the spine which is apparently congenital.
It looks really wierd. Doesn't hurt or anything, just looks wierd. But i've had it as long as I can remember. This very very curved spine that means my lower body swings back like a heavy bottomed S.
re: eyes. Wierdly when I had kids of course we assumed they'd end up with black eyes like me. Husband is blue eyed and there was a chance I carried a blue gene from either parent (as my dad has a blue eyed mother and my sister from my mother is blue eyed so she clearly carries a blue gene) but what we did NOT expect was that all three kids would end up hazel eyed!
What?
Only hazel eyed relative I know is my mother's father. Middle kid has almost exactly the same eye colour, this bluish greyish green. The other two have brown hazel, meaning they look khaki coloured most of the time. A greeny brown colour like agate.
And i'm like "but.. how!??"
because my eyes are literally BLACK, they're such a dark brown you can barely see my pupils. These I inherited from my father and grandfather. (and are unusual in someone of my ethnicity so mmm. Interesting)
husband's are pure blue (both his parents have blue eyes).
And yet the children are ALL hazel eyed and we haven't a clue how that even happens. I must carry a hazel gene but man, that's just weird.
Also one of them has dead straight hair, also wierd because I have curly hair and husband has wavy hair. Where the hell did straight hair come from!??
Genetics are so wierd.
I admit i'm suuuuper curious about my genome. I also really want to see an xray of my freaky toes to see quite HOW this deformity actually works because it's super bizarre.
I mean I barely even have a little toe nail due to this deformity. I should take a picture hahaha, feet shouldn't look like this.
