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Heyy guys,
There a few hints telling me i might have hormone imbalance im still pre hrt. What would that mean having hormone imbalance then going on hrt any one else ith this issue?

Before starting HRT they will get some baseline numbers. You could tell your doctors of your concerns now and maybe they run numbers sooner. Hugs
Mariah

It depends on what sort of hormone imbalance. :) If it's low testosterone, that's probably a *good* thing (I turned out to have T that was about one-half the amount considered the bare minimum for cis men, so quite low, and it just meant that suppressing T was easier for me than for many trans women). If it's a thyroid problem or something, it might affect how your HRT is metabolized...

I beleive my brain is produce more estrogen then it should. So im just wondering if on hrt i would get better results than most people. But im not a dr i dont know.
I have to get checked up.

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Estrogen isn't produced in the brain... but I know what you mean. In that case, it also depends; it might mean your body is more responsive to estrogen than most, but it also might mean that you're partway through a "female puberty" already and you will see fewer changes compared to your starting point than someone who started from zero. Really, it's a crapshoot for all of us, though.

That would be unlikelly i was born cis male. But what i ment by the brain is. Could it be posdible for my brain to activate an abnormall count of estrogen to be produded in my body.

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It does happen that the endocrine system malfunctions and orders up too much of a particular hormone, yes. But the thing is, if your body is in fact producing too much estrogen, then your hormone balance is by definition not typical of a cis male. Which is basically what you're saying by calling it a "hormone imbalance." (And neither was mine, as I was producing so little testosterone that I was closer to the cis female range than the cis male.) If that's true - and obviously you can't know until you get it tested - then your body is to some degree mimicking the results of taking estrogen, which in turn may mean that you got a head start on the effects of female puberty. I certainly did, in that I had some breast tissue growth long before I went on HRT.

That 'was' my problem. My testosterone was closer to the cis female range than the average cis male. Id strongly recommend you see a doc since low t could be lots of things. I had to rule out diabetes and other things


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Quote from: Velocity on November 15, 2015, 05:34:20 PM
That would be unlikelly i was born cis male. But what i ment by the brain is. Could it be posdible for my brain to activate an abnormall count of estrogen to be produded in my body.

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Many trans people have hormonal imbalances...
its like they were made for this...
more of the hormones of the gender they identify with...


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Quote from: Laura_7 on November 16, 2015, 06:21:36 AM
Many trans people have hormonal imbalances...
its like they were made for this...
more of the hormones of the gender they identify with...


hugs

I think the problem is that we are basing the measurement on a binary system. I'm pretty sure hormones and the endocrine system is much more complicated than that. Like there's a host of different genetic chromosomal make ups that are different from the simplistic XX and XY model, it seems to me that all the "disorders" that we've labeled for differing hormone balances are simply different. The fact we don't fall into a narrow margin of Hetero-Cis-normative scientific thinking doesn't really seem all that different because of the rampant biases medical science and mental health has been built upon.


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- Katie
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Quote from: Obfuskatie on November 16, 2015, 07:32:37 AM
I think the problem is that we are basing the measurement on a binary system. I'm pretty sure hormones and the endocrine system is much more complicated than that. Like there's a host of different genetic chromosomal make ups that are different from the simplistic XX and XY model, it seems to me that all the "disorders" that we've labeled for differing hormone balances are simply different. The fact we don't fall into a narrow margin of Hetero-Cis-normative scientific thinking doesn't really seem all that different because of the rampant biases medical science and mental health has been built upon.


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- Katie
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Nature is analogue not digital...

Yep, just meant that some people seem to be made for this...
maybe more traits of the gender they identify with than the average...


hugs

Abnormal hormones could be a sign that you have an intersex condition of some kind (such as an XXY karyotype). Another alternative is that your mother might have been given hormones while pregnant with you. There's a lot of us in the over 40s age group whose mothers were given an artificial estrogen called DES. Aside from making you trans, one very common side effect of that drug for natal male babies seems to be that you end up with hormones that are kind of intermediate between a man's and a woman's (testosterone lower than normal for males, and SHBG and estradiol higher than normal).

Whatever caused it, it should make it a lot easier for you to transition, and you might not even need to take antiandrogens.