I have learned the wonders of smell! I've been on hormones for 16 days and today was the first day I've experienced something where I feel like I can say "It has to be the estrogen." I've always had a pathetic sense of smell, so bad that I would literally have to hold even very pungent things in front of my face to actually smell them. Lately today, and some of yesterday though, I've been finding the joys of food cooking across the hallway, fish in a restaurant, the stinky garbage that needed to be changed as I walked in the house, my dad's stinky pain patches that reek of menthol, even the smell of soap! I can't really find words to explain how delighted this has made me after a lifetime of not having it, doubled with the fact that it's showing me that all of my doubts that the estradiol and spironolactone not doing anything are just silly worries and changes are happening, albeit slowly.
