3 weeks... No changes.

[Jesslee]

Seems your situation is much more dire then mine. 
To answer your question, no my blood tests all came back normal. My endo briefly thought it might be some sort of genetic disease but it didn't take long for that to get ruled out since I have none of the markers for it.

PAIS seems like a possible cause of your bone issues. 10% bone loss per year is crazy through. My next scan is in a few weeks. I hope it comes back with good news.

Your doctors can't explain why its happening, but can they at least help you regain some of your lost bone mass?

HitOrMiss thanks for replying, I hope your next scan comes back with some improvement, just stay on top of it and make sure your Endo does also.

Yeah 10% per year is unbelievable considering most menopausal women are only losing approx= 2% to 3%  per year.

My Endo said that she has not seen anyone my age with this amount of bone loss, and neither has her colleagues (they are all interested/confused with my case, and these are all teaching Doctors associated with the medical school).

They have only been able to give me HRT (same reasons that you stated) and I was prescribed a daily injection of FORTEO to stop the bone loss.


I am sorry to hijack your thread, but I often hear of young people with GID who suffer from Osteoporosis long before they ever begin to transition. This always interests me and I wonder if there is some type of genetic problem that makes TS people more likely to develop Osteoporosis.
This is why I always ask questions when someone mentions that they have been diagnosed with it, I want to hope that some smart doctor has figured it out.

[HitOrMiss.]

I am sorry to hijack your thread, but I often hear of young people with GID who suffer from Osteoporosis long before they ever begin to transition. This always interests me and I wonder if there is some type of genetic problem that makes TS people more likely to develop Osteoporosis.

As I was getting ready for bed last night, it hit me that the reason this happens probably has more to do with pre-HRT people getting bone scans done while everyone else doesn't get them at all unless they're over 50 (or something) or have had several fractures. Any random person who goes through their childhood+young adulthood without breaking anything or only breaking 1 bone for a good reason (like falling down the stairs or something) won't get tested at all. However, we get tested regardless of previous history. So, it might be that the pattern you see is merely due to the lack of non-TG people who get scans done before their golden years.

And don't worry about hijacking the thread 

By the way, it seems I lost hope in my HRT regime just a couple days early. I can confirm now that my chest is getting quite squishy and my nipples are sore and constantly erect. Seems like its working after all. 
Did one of you cast a spell? 3 days ago I had nothing, but since I posted this thread the changes have been rapid. Seems like past 3.5 weeks of E finally got put to work all of a sudden. Who is the HRT fairy among us? 

[VeryGnawty]

Who is the HRT fairy among us? 

That sounds like an interesting position.  But I'm not sure if I'm qualified to be an HRT fairy.

[pebbles]

Hit and miss did you develop as a man? As in did you have a male puberty? Or did you remain extremely willowy and with a high voice?

Part of me is wondering if you have Estrogen insensitivity syndrome which would suck if you do.

the only reason T helps with bone density is because it's aromatized into E and interacts with the bones.
E of course works directly with the bones.

:/ if your estrogen receptors don't work then that would explain why you have osteoporosis and  haven't experienced anything at all with E exposure thus far.

Another effect of E insensitivity would be extreme height as the growth plates can't fuse without E.
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The other possibility of course is that your Testicles are in horribly unhealthy state for some reason or another and are close to failure. No T means no Aromatized E means bone thinning. Whitch is why I ask if you ever really turned into a guy.


:::Edit::: Nevermind if your chest is growing it's certainly not E insensitivity.

[HitOrMiss.]

Thanks for your concern, but it doesn't sound like I fit your description. I'm 5'3" and have always had a really low voice. Everyone commented to me that my voice was so low even before puberty. Then again, its not like it got any lower during puberty...
As for your second comment, before I started HRT I banked some sperm. As a prerequisite to banking though, I did have it tested. Results were normal & fertile... so presumably that means everything fine with the factory... Also, in some of the many blood tests I've gotten my T levels were measured. I can't say what the results were (I don't know exactly) other then that they were normal.

I'm not sure if my absorption rate was tested by my doctors or not. I figure they would have tested that since it's kind of an obvious thing to check after checking the levels themselves. Maybe I'll pop the question to my Endo when I see him in 3 weeks.