Quote from: Elizabeth1 on June 15, 2014, 05:34:13 PM
Megan and Paula , thank you very much. You made an old bird very happy. I'm fifty already and just waiting for my second appointment at gender clinic to affirm gender dysphoria. Pre hrt as a result! I was briefly prescribed spiro as an anti androgen but ceased it due to fears of bone density loss- suffer from osteo arthritis. Symptom of getting old I guess! Transitioning perhaps 30 years too late. Will of course wait and see. 
Evelyn- thank u . Still need the glasses as blind as a bat with eyes too sensitive for contacts. Maybe laser surgery is the answer bug I fear anything going near my eyes!
Me too with the glasses deal. I can see somewhat without them, blurry colored shapes, enough that I can walk around okay (I'm actually less clumsy) and cross-streets without issues, but reading at a distance or needing to see detail, forget it. And I tried contacts once long ago, eyes couldn't handle them. Two eye doctors at different times and places so long ago when I had first started wearing glasses told me that I had cataracts, the second one being some years after the first, she was really nice and knew I was transgender (I wasn't yet passing very well then, I wonder if I was even on hormones then, can't even recall when that was) asked me if my mom was sick really bad or took any drugs while pregnant for me. "Uh, I don't think so, why?" Well, because from what I can tell you were born with cataracts, she said. Yeah, I know, the first eye doctor when I got glasses told me that too. Wonder how she could know when it started though (are birth cataracts different from aging type)? She told me that I probably wouldn't be able to handle contact lens, but I tried them anyway, I lasted about a week with red, itchy, painful eyes, went back to using glasses. If I could completely do without I certainly would, I hate glasses. But, I can say that I don't think my eyes have gotten any worst. "I can see! Nope, I was wrong."