End of marriage, End of Career, I now feel transgender

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#21

Update:

4 years and 1 months after quitting 1mg/day finasteride for 9 months for male pattern baldness.
Quit finasteride July 2009.
August 2013, just had new blood tests, bio-available T was STILL below acceptable range for a male.
SHBG was also high above range. Estradiol came in at 35 with 39 being the max acceptable range for a male.
Total T was back up in the 500 range… despite the low free/bio-available T … but for me, as my T level has steadily and ever-so-slowly increased after the initial crash 4 years ago, it has not been a good feeling. Day by day the increasing T levels have felt like an increasing auto-immune disease giving me a constant feeling of angst and pains throughout my body and anxiety with occasional panic attacks still occurring despite anxiety meds, and me still feeling trapped in a depressed state despite triple dosages of antidepressants.

I am still battling depression. Have been in and out of it about 4 times the past 4 years - I mean months of severe depression, followed by attempts to pull myself out of it and move ahead and make some medical progress, followed by a relapse to depression as I realize time and time again that part of my anxiety is about something that still remains and hasn’t gone away. This includes painful fibrous scar tissue development on my genitals - which I am going to pursue having removed surgically - and having my testes drop down to what looks more like a 90 year old’s.

The recent blood tests for me were the final straw - given my continuing battle with depression, ADHD, anxiety, memory impairment, trouble concentrating - I decided to move ahead with my transgender hormonal therapy. I had delayed this for a year now to be absolutely cautious and give me time to understand what finasteride syndrome was or still is doing to me. Now I have been on 4mg/day Estradiol and 200mg/day Spironolactone for almost a week.

I notice some changes already - but am going to wait a bit longer before calling it on whether the TG hormonal therapy alleviates any of the anxiety/depression and other symptoms I have felt trapped in after finasteride ravaged my body.

I’m hanging in there and hoping my experience of beginning MTF transgender therapy after being diagnosed with Post Finasteride Syndrome by 4 separate doctors might help shed light on something that could help understand the condition better to help other men who are not transgender.

I’ll keep you posted!

  • Mandi McKee
#22

Does anyone knows somthing about this man? His blog dissapeared, I think he was very clever and had very good points.

#23

Would be very demonic if the thing that solves or even alleviates PFS symptoms is transgender hormone therapy. I have wondered why we don’t seem to have trans people on this forum. Maybe we should make a thread to call out these people if they exist and / or try to raise awareness with these communities.

We do seem to have similar symptoms to a very small minority of menopause women, who cure their symptoms with female HRT.

I would never take these drugs if it was the cure, but I bet some people would. Could you?

Maybe we can learn something or even if there are many trans PFS people, their voices would politically be much stronger than ours. Imagine if the Governments around the world found out that drugs they have been giving away under national health have caused disastrous symptoms. The fuel we would gain is the political agenda in many countries that are very supportive of change and acceptance of trans. The fire would be the symptoms.

If we go down this route, we should aim to be as PC as possible, because we don’t wish to harm our small community politically.

@Belikewater @Greek @Dubya_B

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#24

We need to be heard. Existing in this dark room is devastating. Having our lives decimated and seeing nothing happen is just so WRONG. PFS should be all over the news/the press I just can’t understand it. People love sensationalism a broadcasters dream.

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#25

We are against all interest, corrupted pharma, femenization of men, etc…

#26

I’d think the most important focus should be gathering support, not being a politically focused group and trying to find ways to alleviate or cure symptoms.

I’m against fin, trans drugs, ant depressants etc, however we are in this situation because we took one of these things. We already have sections of the forum for different languages and why should we not try to be more inclusive.

Just think which people would gather more support politically in a left focused country:

a) people who took hair loss drug for vanity and claims all these symptoms. There are strong debates on both sides by doctors as to if fin caused these, but there isn’t much debate in politics because there is no agenda for cosmetics

b) people who took / take gov funded trans drugs in large because of the political push for acceptance and have all these symptoms. There are strong debates from doctors and even stronger debates from politicians, as to dangerous unknown symptoms that could arise and the use of tax payers money. There is a massive political agenda for LGBTQ

I think within a these countries the left sided politicians would want to support the trans community and help with funding for studies. The conservative politicians who have been arguing about the potential damage would want to prove their position and act responsibly, by supporting with funding the trouble that has been caused in part by the Gov.

In any case if trans PFS people are grouping together, in a country with LGBTQ agenda this will prompt some political talk. Even the smallest development can snowball into global talk as long as it fits political agenda. We have seen this recently with black lives matter agenda

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