Things seem to change as I continue to read. I have read about amputees having phantom limbs, but never considered estrogen working on the brain to give phantom female organs. I assume that KS was Klinefelter syndrome, as it was mentioned KS sometimes causes phantom female organs. The forum also mentioned the other way, testosterone giving phantom male organs.
To my brain, it doesn't matter if the female organs are real or phantom. The pain is still real, the cramps causing me to run to the restroom. I have never been on hormone therapy, nor did I know how the body would react to estrogen therapy. To me it was normal that once a month I would put band aids over sensitive nipples, knowing that it was not normal for a normal male.
Watching a video about how the estrogen changes things, it was mentioned that this person could now smell the other person's menstrual blood. It now makes me wonder if that might have been what I smelled seated next to a woman as we stuffed envelopes for mailing. Or the person next to me asking if I had a box (Vagina). I would not have had the odor of a male. I had never really considered that the use of men's deodorant would cover up my feminine odor, or that I had a feminine odor. My mother on the other hand, had very sensitive smelling. The perfume smell from my magazines was so bad that it irritated her nose. I now think it was just to get me to stop reading those magazines, when there was no perfume smell.
Michelle
