you have the right attitude keep your pluses in mind first.  You are the one who can best control your dysphoria.  My worst time is the two days I have cramps and start to leak blood every month.

I understand that one... But for me, it's more frantic than anything. Every other month I have a cyst rupture a week or so beforehand and wonder if this is the one that's going to make me pass out, and how long I can wait before I have to go to a hospital because of it. So far I've only passed out from a rupture once, but it scared the hell out of me. So the next week just ends up being me frantically figuring out new ways to hide the fact that I'm bleeding. The dysphoria comes either after it's over, or that week before... I call it the foreigner in my body, and I swear it's trying to kill me.

Yours are much worst than mine, I feel for you every month.  After the first day or so, I change my tampon in the morning and evening normally and can forget about it the rest of the time.  I use a men's restroom on campus and try to go when I need to change when there is hardly anyone around so  I can easily put in the old deep in the trash.  You will have to decide what will work best for you.

As it stands now. At the least an oophorectomy for me is likely going to be covered by insurance. It's just a matter of when I'll have the time for it, or if I'll end up not getting to choose the "when" and just have to take the inconvenient blow to my school schedule... They said it shouldn't get that much worse before I graduate. But it's not POCD, it's just...cysts. Large cysts. And none of the doctors I've seen can figure out why.

For me, glide tampons work best. I can still use my STP, and they're smooth enough that I can't feel them going in. I'm usually back home by the time I need to change, so I don't have to worry as much.

I'm significantly luckier than you, Im about 5'9 in shoes. But confidence, really.

Most of my male friensd are 6'0+ and often have "Wtf, i forgot you're short" moments

If you can do lifts.. I've heard they're uncomfy and look a little unnatural at times.

Im thinking dress to create illusion you're taller. Stripes, wearing clothes that are the right length or *VERY* slightly longer (If you have to roll your pants up, they're too long... which is how i wear my pants but yeah.)

Did I mention confidence?

I got the confidence bit. At least in public. But like I said, it usually just bothers me after the fact. :/

(too lazy to read all these comments)

Anyways I read once before that melatonin is what helps people grow (which you need to sleep, and you get more if the lights are completely off) if you do have a chance of growing anymore. My sister is just grew an inch, before she turned 24. She's not on T or anything, but I don't know, she just wouldn't stop growing and me the younger one (supposed to be 5'8") am stuck at 5'1".

The only thing I can think of are lifts and to be honest I feel kind of creepy when thinking about wearing them. Also I knew a cis gendered guy who was 5' but because he had a more masculine face, it's obvious that he's not female. His lack of hips, flat butt, and zero chest also help, lol.

I pass quite often (when my mum's not around saying she  ) but I pass as a young boy, nobody ever thinks I'm twenty!

Quote from: Ratchet on August 12, 2011, 01:50:36 PM
Best Remedy for Height consciousness? Get used to it. Learn to joke about it. Love yourself, even your height. Sure, it sucks to be short and pass for your age. As most people think you're younger (not less of a male) when you're a shorter guy. But I know PLENTY of guys that are my height or only a couple inches taller or shorter than me. I'm super skinny, and I wear fitted clothes so it makes me seem taller. But, I have no problem being my height. I'm short, but I'm awesome. So whatever. Have confidence, and a girl taller than you will never notice. She'll just see the confidence.

This. Im 19 (20 in October) and 5 foot. I pass 24/7 but it sucks bc nobody believes Im in college. Everybody pegs me as a high schooler, 15-17. But if I wasnt short, it wouldnt be me. On my college campus, there are A LOT of short bioguys. If you dont make it a big deal, then it isnt.

Quote from: TheAwesomePrussia on August 12, 2011, 03:46:51 PM
As it stands now. At the least an oophorectomy for me is likely going to be covered by insurance. It's just a matter of when I'll have the time for it, or if I'll end up not getting to choose the "when" and just have to take the inconvenient blow to my school schedule... They said it shouldn't get that much worse before I graduate. But it's not POCD, it's just...cysts. Large cysts. And none of the doctors I've seen can figure out why.

For me, glide tampons work best. I can still use my STP, and they're smooth enough that I can't feel them going in. I'm usually back home by the time I need to change, so I don't have to worry as much.

Cysts are normal, having them rupture and bleed weekly, not so much. What most physicians would do is prescribe you birth control (which I'm sure you don't want) to regulate your hormones and keep those cysts in check.

I'm also a reasonable adult-male height and I've never felt that height had much to do with passing, it was more how I carried or conducted myself.

Yea. I got that more while I was actually out today (for once).

As far as the cysts, my biggest issue is that they're bigger each time, and each time I seem to get more and more faint after a rupture. As I said, the last time I passed out, presumably from pain and blood loss. They not weekly, but rather, random. I have a rupture the week before almost every other red tide. But sometimes, around 2 or 3 times a year, I'll just have a rupture, nowhere close to my monthly.
The only thing I'd remotely consider, prior to T, is depo. I've been told it potentially stops periods all together. Again, it's something I'll just need to bring up when I can get an appointment (which won't be until I get back on campus, and back on Medicaid).
Until then, just hope that the next one won't send me to the hospital...
When I was last ex-rayed after my car wreck, they later sent me a notice that I had about 3 ovarian cysts, two of which were rather large. So I don't know what it is. I have a friend with POCD, but she says she only ever gets small cysts, just in large quantities.

Quote from: TheAwesomePrussia on August 12, 2011, 12:40:33 AM
I'm 20 years old and I'm 5'0".
5'2" with insoles. And 5'6-7" when I cosplay. I wear 6-7" stacks when I cosplay, and there I get away with it, could be 5'8-9" in said stacks, but haven't tried wearing them with my insoles.

But even at 5'2", I still feel that my height is currently the only (physical) thing that keeps me from passing 100%.
What can I do about it? Is there any slim chance that I've still got some potential growing? And what do other shorter guys do about it?

ARG had wrotte a long reply earlyer but now its all gone....
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anyway.
what to do..?

well stand up straight helps, most transguys have issues with there back or cheast so there often bening over sligly all the time, wich make us look smaller..
another thing is to have shoes with thick sole and so on.
if your having it like 10,cm people would notice.. but if your having booths who is 2-3 cm over the ground people wouldnt really mind.
beside this I dont think there much you can do about it. I also hate my hight, It makes the guys think im always the "little cute one" wich is somethimes annoying -__-
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btw, in cosplay it dosent matter that much if your small, since many of the original characters are "japanese" so many of them are.. (for european people) kinda small..

Most of them. Though I cosplay Hetalia and the characters I cosplay are European (and one American).

But again, in cosplay, people don't tend to really care about your shoes. Though, most of the time people think mine are really cool and ask where I got the skill to walk in them. xD