Does anybody have any tips for dealing with period dysphoria? Most of the other dysphoria I can deal with one way or another, but this is just insane. Everything about it makes me physically sick.
Just gonna go scrub my skin off with soap while I wait...urgh.
Well Id start by not having them...I hear if not T then birth control can stop that.
...back when I did get them I was considering getting those silicone cups instead of pads or tampons. It doesnt necessarily help you feel like you dont have what its coming out of, but I feel like cups would do a significantly better job in keeping blood from staining anything...pads made me really uncomfortable because of how gross they were and you had to throw them away to rid of them since they werent flushable, I often opted for folding up toilet paper instead so I can be rid of it more cleanly.Tampons, well...those had to be shoved in there. It sucks. I think those cup things are more malleable than tampons and on top of that it catches blood rather than absorbing it, so you cam dump and rinse...the rinsing is what I have to do with an STP anyways.
Porbably not the best advice but my solution to that horror was to get rid of it or keep it as clean as possible.
So pre T when I was having my period, I was able to stop thinking of it as an inherently female and view it more as just a bodily function that sucks but doesn't happen very often--like throwing up lol
But being able to bleed for a number of days and not die is pretty bad-ass (to me) and having it come out of my leg, my arm, or my junk, meh its all the same: I just used something to catch the blood just as I'd put a bandage on a wound. I mean of course it sucks but I was able to change my head about it a bit. Enough to make it less of a big (female) deal.
I don't have lower dysphoria and had not problem even handling it (I liked the cup: no individual packaging / no single use waste / not sticking bleached cotton into myself) so I'm speaking from that end of things.
Depo Provera shots are what my doctor recommends for guys who want to stop their periods. It's non hormonal, so it's not going to be a shot of estrogen like birth control pills would be.
As far as coping, just stay busy. There's not a lot of time to dwell on how bad it feels if you're constantly on the go.
Well T will stop it eventually... if not that keeping your body fat % low as possible and being active will lessen the severity of it or possibly even tell your body not to invest in it (although that tends to happen only with athletes and people with eating disorders).
I just refuse to have them and I'm currently on a regime of weight loss and temp norethisterone so I never get them.
Dealing with the dysphoria itself - just do something you find distracting enough to take your mind off it? That's all I got.
What helps me is thinking I'll get rid of this someday. How? T and the complete removal of my uterus and ovaries.
That's my choice, really.
I have an ovarian cyst and I got birth control pills to reduce it. I got the 3 months one, where you bleed every 3 months. It erases both physical and mental discomfort, however, you should always get blood tests and do this under the supervision of a doctor because it can cause serious blood issues. So, blood tests are absolutely important! I will stress this. Blood tests first.
Anyway, I'm going to get surgery to remove this cyst, so I won't have any obvious reason to continue birth control. Besides, that, knowing I'm ingesting the wrong hormones (even if it's just a small amount) makes me feel weird about myself. Everyone is different though, I guess some guys don't care at all, as long as it stops period. I'm undecided about this as I think having a period and ingesting female hormones both suck. I guess I'll deal with it the same way I've dealt with it so far....thinking one day I can get rid of this parasitic thing for good through T first and then surgery.