The doctors usually have high reservations on prescribing testosterone to transmen. Female hormones do not cause as much irreversible changes as testosterone does.
I had a really hard time getting a prescription for testosterone because of this. Because I was not approved by the Norwegian gender clinic, I would not get testosterone from them either. I was ready to start hormone treatment when I went to the clinic the first time, fall 2006, but knew it would not happen.
Før var det slik at jeg måtte ha noe søtt til frokost. Stort sett sjokoladepålegg. Hvis det ikke fantes (som i Sverige), gikk jeg heller uten frokost. Jeg klarte ikke å få ned noe anna.
Nylig innså jeg at det har forandra seg. Nå må jeg absolutt ha noe som inneholder kjøtt og fett. Skinke med majones for eksempel. Til nød noen croissanter.
Det kan ikke være noe anna enn et resultat av testosteronet. Riktignok hadde jeg håpa at jeg skulle slutte å like sjokolade, noe som ikke har skjedd, men at det skulle forandre frokostvanene mine såpass drastisk hadde jeg ikke regna med.
Time for the monthly update. I think this might be the last one, though. The changes just continues in the same path as the two previous months: Hair keeps growing on my stommack. Other things grow well too. My eyebrows are growing together.
I increased my dosage a month ago to full dose, 50 mg testogel each day. I don’t think the changes have speeded up bacause of it. It might even be a too high dosage for me.
New this month is that my facial hair is changing; getting stronger and darker, but just on the upper lip, on the sides. Shows that the testosterone is working and gives hope for the future, although I think it will take many years for me to grow a beard.
Also new, but not welcome, is the bleeding. With no expectation of a hysterectomi in near future, I almost hope that I’ve got something really bad that require removal of all internal female organs. I’m going to see a gynecologist probably next week. It is most likely that testosterone fucks up my hormone-contraception. The only reason to keep it in there is to avoid bleeding, so if that is not happening, then it probably would be best to remove it. Not looking forward to it!
I’ve asked my doctor to prescribe Nebido injections when my current prescription of testogel expires in ca. two months. I’m also trying to find out how I can get my mastectomy and hysterctomy.
Wish me good luck!
I noticed some changes today. I think it is happening really fast. I experienced increased acne few days after I started. My voice is pretty low to begin with, but today I noticed that I was unable to reach the higher tunes without a great deal of stress on my voice. I experienced a lowering of the voice during the first half of 2006. I did’t get my hormone levels checked, as I thought it was just a ever lasting cold. But now I wonder if that may have been some sort of high testo or just a mental effect of coming to terms with my gender identity. It might even be that when I allowed myself to be the man that I am for the first time, it sparked some weired changes in my hormone levels. I guess I’ll never find out for sure.
I also thought I noticed some increase in the hair growth on my stomack, where I apply the testogel, but that seems to be just imagination. Otherwise I would end up in fur before the end of summer. But the skin in my face is really changing, and not only because of acne. All my pores seems bigger.
Today I also got my first experience of what a male sex-drive might be like. Very strange. I’ve concidered myself as male in that respect for a long time, but today was different. I felt my whatever-you’d-like-to-call-it getting hard and everything happened faster than I’m used to. It has also grown a little bit, I think, but I’m not sure.
We are four transmen at WordPress starting T roughly at the same time:
Jacky started T may 26. Today he writes of his changes, including the sex-drive.
Ryan started T may 29.
Gender Outlaw started T april 2.
And me, june 5.
It’s kind of a similar feeling as I got the first time I met someone born the same day as me. Way cool!
We have different doses and brands. I believe I’m the only one on gel?
I’m 30 y.o., Gender Outlaw is 34, Jacky is 35 and Ryan is 22.
Ryan lives in Australia, I live in Norway, Jacky in Canada and so does Gender Outlaw.
I got my prescription in the mail today. I went right to a pharmacy and picked up my box filled with small packages of testogel. I’m the happiest man in the world!
Pictures can be seen at my norwegian blog.
Tarald Stein 