I got 2 random myths about testostorone I want to hear your opinion about.
--
first one is, do your vegina get more tight after transition due to homones?

second myth is, do you lose some abilaty to express yourself emotionally or imaginary?
like for exemple: I feel its abit harder to get the inspiration when I writte, but maybe it could also be because I am older now?
someone said they had heard something about T kills some braincells who are dealing with emotions, and all that.

Hey,

So even though I am not on T yet I have done my fair share of research and talking to my doctor.

Myth 1. Because of the T the vaginal walls become thinner and dryer. The vagina will also experience Atrophy (is the partial or complete wasting away of a part of the body) which may translate to the vagina feeling "smaller" or "tighter". This is why many Docs advise you use extra amounts of lube if you are planing to have penetrative sex while on T.

Myth2. My doctor informed me that most patients on T will feel more aggression and be agitated easier then usually. But they also informed me that some FTMs on T have not been able to easily or readily access various emotions and find it harder to connect emotionally to things ( music, movies, ectt) Where the Ftm in question used to be able to freely express their emotions now finds it difficult to express those very same emotions out wordily. I have heard no such talk of T killing brain cells.

I have heard about the vagina getting drier, and more sensitive, yeah, but not tighter.

I do believe the second to be a myth. I don't cry as easily now, but I still have the same emotions. They just don't come out as tears anymore.

1. It doesn't actually get tighter. It gets drier. Use lots of lube. Lube is good.
2. Well, in my case my feelings seem more like they are mine, versus some alien invader's transplanted overdose thing. So if that's less range of feeling, I'm very happy about it.

--Jay

I can comment on myth 2 -

One thing my husband and I have talked about recently is my distance from him. Before accepting being trans, I was extremely emotional and very needy. If he wasn't giving me what I needed exactly how I needed it, I was a wreck and made both of us miserable.
Now that I've been on cream for about a month I'm not dealing with any emotion spikes (I was dealing with some pretty extreme anger on injections). I feel more normalized and stable. He's noticing that I'm pushing him away, emotionally. It's not a bad thing, but I haven't been needy, clingy, and generally pathetic. He's enjoying the break, and I'm enjoying the freedom. My emotional stability is no longer tied to someone who's human (and therefore unreliable).

If that's a bad thing, then I guess I'm screwed.

I wouldn't know about the first one because I avoid that area like the plague.

But the second one is not true in my case. I really do not feel any different emotionally since starting T. Some guys say how they can't cry anymore, but I still can. Do know that before T I already rarely cried, so that just didn't change after starting. I have always been quite emotionally stable and rational too (never had issues with pms or other hormone nasties that can give rise to moodiness) so again, no changes there.

The aggression on T thing is a myth according to my doc. The exception being if you abuse steroids like some weightlifters do.

Quote from: randomroads on August 16, 2013, 02:54:54 AM
I can comment on myth 2 -

One thing my husband and I have talked about recently is my distance from him. Before accepting being trans, I was extremely emotional and very needy. If he wasn't giving me what I needed exactly how I needed it, I was a wreck and made both of us miserable.
Now that I've been on cream for about a month I'm not dealing with any emotion spikes (I was dealing with some pretty extreme anger on injections). I feel more normalized and stable.

i'm all opposite, i'm not very emotional and the guys who tend to be into me tend to be emotion bombs, maybe I got more T than they do?