Being that is my first post, I guess I will start and say thank you to all the people on here and the information I have found on sites through this forum.
*Trying to condense a long story into a short one*
My situation is a little different than the normal, however I started off the same as most on here. At about 3 or 4 I started dressing in my moms clothes and talking to her about things that a normal guy usually doesn't have to deal with.. Growing up I always felt a little different but really never understood why, there were days that I would wake up and feel like I was in the wrong body and just hoped when I woke up the next day I would be a girl.
When I was about 13 years old to add to the confusion I was already going through, I started to develope breasts and noticed most of my fat distribution was shifting to that as my girlfriends. Middle school to high school was def. hard for me from the constant ups and downs of my emotions from day to day.
fast forwarding to this year I finally told myself this year was going to be the year I finally start to feel better emotionally and figure out why I felt so much better when I was cross dressing some weeks, or why I felt ok being a guy at other times.
I went back to the doctor my parents had me see growing up and went back over some of my blood work from earlier in life to today. Well it turned out my estrogen was very high all my life. My estrogen count was apx 150-160 over the years. I asked him what normal for a girl was he said apx 150. He then explained to me that my body just converts a high amount of testasterone into estrogen and its been causing the emotional roller coaster I have had my whole life and how I might have taken things in different on the high of each hormone. That def. helped myself understand why some weeks I felt ok in my body and sometimes I was so confused and just wished things could be different.
So a couple questions I have now are for some people that might have stopped taking estrogen.
- I have been on some medication to stop the conversion for awhile and since about the day after I started I have had a constant migraine. Anyone who stopped using estrogen also get that? (I have an apt. in 2 weeks for a follow up, but i'm just curious)
- Do you think that hormones can really change the way you feel and view yourself? (I'm just praying this is my fix I suppose, if technology or society was more accepting I would def choose to be a girl, but I'm just hoping this can atleast make me feel comfortable in my skin)
