Aeoryi
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at a cost. I can't choose when I want to do things
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This is the kind of stuff I can do when I lock in. ADHD or something
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yeah focusing on bad things and using them to describe yourself doesn't actually help a situation improve
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it's the spiro
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feel like I told you this
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thirsty
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lorem ipsum
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uh, well. Okay sometimes trans women on hrt have experienced something akin to a menstrual cycle (like abdominal cramping, and all that kind of stuff) but it is definitely not guaranteed to occur and is kinda on the more rare side. basically the entire menstrual cycle hormone stuff is controlled by the ovaries, where one essentially makes a follicle that produces estrogen in the first half of the cycle and then after ovulation, the bursted follicle becomes the corpus leutum and produces progesterone, which sustains the corpus leutum long enough to allow fertilization to occur. But in an AMAB body you (likely) don't have the ovaries to mediate the menstrual cycle hormones. So you technically won't ever get a "proper" menstrual cycle, especially since you're not replicating the hormonal cycles of the menstrual cycle (you want a constant ish level of E, and progesterones are not always prescribed) If I HAD TO GUESS why some people on E-based HRT feel effects similar to a menstrual cycle maybe it's related to high(er) amounts of estrogen? ovulation is typically associated with rising levels of estrogen, so that's something. But honestly I have little clue as to why it occurs, only that it does occur sometimes
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To be more specific, I suppose, estrogen and testosterone both exemplify a negative feedback loop with gonadotropic releasing hormone (GNRH). GNRH creates two other hormones, Leutinizing hormone (LH) and follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) - FSH stimulates the testes to make testosterone, and LH does some. But when the body makes too much testosterone (or estrogens, but that's more complicated because the menstrual cycle hormones do not have a constant level they persist at) basically we see a decline in GNRH, which means the body doesn't produce more testosterone for a bit until the current level has diminished a bit. But since both high levels of T and E can cause an inhibitory effect on GNRH, you can, if you are getting estrogens from another outside source (like taking HRT!), cause the inhibitory effect on GNRH with just raw estrogen alone, this completely turning off the body's production of T. note that it typically requires a LOT higher levels to do E mono therapy, and typically people opt to use estrodiol valerate (injections) for delivering consistent, high amounts of E directly to the body.
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See my edit: I was referring to spirolactone for that Honestly have zero idea. I did research into feminizing HRT almost exclusively, so I didn't really encounter any information about masculinizing HRT at all Well uh The cycle and stuff is really really complicated but basically you have reproductive organs and they, they uh, they make testosterone. Lots of it. What makes estrogens in the male endocrine system, I have no idea. But there's definitely a LOT more testosterone than estrogen and I would suspect the effects of testosterone would just override that of estrogen. But that's a theory.
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Spirolactone: Basically it makes you pee more and acts as a "Testosterone blocker". You'd otherwise need really high levels of estrodiol to counter the effects of testosterone. Estrodiol: Bioequivalent form of estrogen found in the human body
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You never gonna know Whether it is worth it to follow the truth But why, why Was it a lie That no one could know my mind
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epic spiral
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check your profile. Top left coroner
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"Profile Picture" Like, the little icon that appears near your name when you post, yours is a light red letter 'D' at the moment helps with personality, even if it's a random image.
