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Community Conversation => Transsexual talk => Male to female transsexual talk (MTF) => Topic started by: Lara on November 08, 2016, 01:00:11 AM

Title: I feel like something isn't quite right with my body.
Post by: Lara on November 08, 2016, 01:00:11 AM
I have been on hormones since Aug 2014 & I am gonna complete 27 months on hormones. Off late I have been feeling very tired/lethargic. Sleepy in the morning. But the most abrurd thing happened when my head started spinning all of a sudden and it went on for a whole minute. Even when I closed my eyes it wouldn't stop. I tried lying down and it didn't work. It happened day before yesterday and it happened again yesterday. I called up my doctor and he's asked me to get a few tests done but I will only know by tom :/
Title: Re: I feel like something isn't quite right with my body.
Post by: Rachel_Christina on November 08, 2016, 05:35:33 AM
Sounds like maybe ther is no T atall in your body, which is never good!
Title: Re: I feel like something isn't quite right with my body.
Post by: jfong on November 08, 2016, 08:06:53 AM
Are u on spiro? I get easily light headed when I was on spiro.

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Title: Re: I feel like something isn't quite right with my body.
Post by: KayXo on November 08, 2016, 09:57:37 AM
Sounds like side-effects from Spiro. It's important to drink lots of water and eat as much SALT as you crave! Avoid anything that has extra potassium.
Title: Re: I feel like something isn't quite right with my body.
Post by: Veronica J on November 09, 2016, 12:25:53 AM
does meniere's disease run in your family?


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Title: Re: I feel like something isn't quite right with my body.
Post by: Lara on November 09, 2016, 05:52:13 AM
Quote from: jfong on November 08, 2016, 08:06:53 AM
Are u on spiro? I get easily light headed when I was on spiro.

No i am on flutamide.
Title: Re: I feel like something isn't quite right with my body.
Post by: Lara on November 09, 2016, 05:54:02 AM
Quote from: VeronicaMJ on November 09, 2016, 12:25:53 AM
does meniere's disease run in your family?



Nope !
Title: Re: I feel like something isn't quite right with my body.
Post by: KayXo on November 09, 2016, 08:17:02 AM
Flutamide is associated with liver toxicity. I'm assuming your doctor checks liver enzymes regularly. Bicalutamide, relative to flutamide, appears to be safer.

Arch Ital Urol Androl. 1999 Dec;71(5):293-302.

"As regard as pure antiandrogens clinically important adverse events including gastrointestinal events, particularly diarrhea and occasional disturbances of liver function related to flutamide treatment and antabuse effect, problems with light-dark adaptation and rare interstitial pneumonitis related to nilutamide indicates the bicalutamide, due to its better tolerability profile, together with its once-daily oral administration regimen, could be considered the antiandrogen of first choice"


Fertil Steril. 2012 Oct;98(4):1047-52.

"Hepatotoxicity is a rare but possible event using low- and ultralow-dose regimens of flutamide."


Urology. 1996 Jan;47(1A Suppl):70-9; discussion 80-4.

"Bicalutamide is a new antiandrogen that offers the convenience of once-daily administration, (...) and an excellent safety profile. Because it is effective and offers better tolerability than flutamide, bicalutamide represents a valid first choice for antiandrogen therapy"