My girlfriend says she's been feeling weirdly PMSy since dating me. We don't live together, but we tend to find nice little blocks of time where we get to stay together for a couple of days. Since women living together will have synced cycles (an ex of mine lived with her sister - her sister offered to pay for her to go on birth control because it was screwing with her cycle), she was kind of wondering if it might have an effect since I'm on high doses.
My doctor officially says no, but... transition is a complex thing. I am not ruling out that it is not a factor, but I was wondering if any other women who transitioned with a female partner had experienced anything similar.
Quote from: Autumn on August 10, 2010, 11:40:47 PM
My girlfriend says she's been feeling weirdly PMSy since dating me. We don't live together, but we tend to find nice little blocks of time where we get to stay together for a couple of days. Since women living together will have synced cycles (an ex of mine lived with her sister - her sister offered to pay for her to go on birth control because it was screwing with her cycle), she was kind of wondering if it might have an effect since I'm on high doses.
My doctor officially says no, but... transition is a complex thing. I am not ruling out that it is not a factor, but I was wondering if any other women who transitioned with a female partner had experienced anything similar.
well for a start you may be swapping body fluids contaminated with E but there is also the FACT that we all give off pheromones and your mate will be being influenced by them without being aware. Pheromones may be the reason that women in shared accommodation do synchronise theire periods.
Which is why I am asking what symptoms, if any, partners of people with similar situations experienced. My estrogen levels (and my progesterone, during that time of cycle) are much higher than a regular woman's, and I somehow doubt that there have been any scientific studies based on the pheromone production of transitioning MTF TS cycling progesterone.
That my doctor simply dismissed the idea entirely has me rolling my eyes at an old man (who gives me the keys to the transition kingdom, happily), and asking for real life experiences.