Unexpected E pro: Crying now actually releases my overwhelm and sadness. No more does it make me feel worse. It's truly releasing.
Unexpected E con: I have to cry a lot. And I mean a lot.
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Unexpected E pro: Crying now actually releases my overwhelm and sadness. No more does it make me feel worse. It's truly releasing.
Unexpected E con: I have to cry a lot. And I mean a lot.
Seriously, I cry on like a daily basis now. It's almost annoying, lmao.
Pro: faster metabolism, I can eat more
Con: faster metabolism, I have to eat more
Faster metabolism also means you age faster as well.
That's unfortunate. Still beats living in constant agony. Everything's got their pros and cons
Pro: you very well could turn out looking like (eithwr one, smooth or bearded) Kratos. Older and Bald does not mean unattractive by any means! Bald does mean more sunscreen tho. I've seen some dudes with horrifying sunburns.
NGL I have not been looking forward to the prospect of balding. It's not balding itself that I don't like, it's just that all of my male cousins have lost most of their hair by 24. Like, maybe when I'm in my 40s or 50s and I start balding that'd be fine, but in my 20s??? My luscious locks??? I wanted to experiment more with my hair too...it is what it is.
Most men in my family were bald in their early twenties, yet here I am in my late twenties with hair halfway down my back 🤪 genetics are weird. Got a whole family line that has hair just turns silvery white fairly young, another side with curly red hair who are also somehow able to tan (that did NOT pass on to my mom or me, we burn bad), plenty of dudes who look a lot like me (bulky/broad, and hairy enough to make a yeti look twice). I'm mostly the latter with some hints of red in the brown.
Specifically for progesterone:
Con: near constant ravenous hunger Pro: greater difference in fat distribution, especially top growth
I didn't know progesterone did that
Unexpected pros of E:
Unexpected cons of E:
even though I can't sleep as much on E, I feel more rested with less sleep. Pre-HRT I could probably sleep 11 - 12 hours every night, 10 - 11 hours and I wouldn't necessarily feel fully rested even though I clearly should be. Now I can sleep 8 hours and I feel fully rested / normal.
Not gonna lie, girl, this specific one sounds more like you just got out of depression.
Happy for you though ^^
@Daxter101 @dandelion my sleep schedule shortened too always been an early riser. But since starting hrt. I sleep 5.5-6 hours. And feel absolutely amazing and just love greeting the day
yes, HRT pretty much instantly cured my depression, the only experiences like it before were from taking drugs (usually stimulants)
I do think the changes to my sleep could be related to the depression lifting (that seems somewhat obvious), but I also think it's more than that because even without the return of motivation and anhedonia typical of my depression symptoms, the nature of my sleep seems to fluctuate with my hormone levels (just before injection my sleep tends to be deeper and longer; when my estrogen seems to be peaking I don't seem to be capable of sleeping in).
Note, I only take estrogen, no progesterone yet (I'm just over 3 months into starting HRT, I'm on monotherapy currently).
Unexpected e pro: way more confident
Unexpected e con: I lost 1 cm of height! I can no longer stare you down from 200 cm and 199 is just not the same :(
Cats are weird about beards haha, my parents cat used to let me hug her, put my chin on her head, and just move my jaw around (practically scrubbing her head with the beard), she loved it for some reason haha
Just wait until you get on the beard cycle: shaving sucks, so stop -> grow beard -> beard gets in mouth/everywhere -> beard sucks, so shave.
Or genetics determine "your beard will be this long. Any more and the individual hairs will fall out." That could just be me combing it out a bit too hard though, that and hard water is brutal on all my hair...
Shaving can be tedious and getting hair in my mouth is the worst. I have a pretty good medium going now, keeping my "mouth perimeter" hairs shorter with a trimmer and wet shaving my neck with a DE and shave brush. Less annoying and kinda fun.
e pro: no longer angy all the time
e con: ~mood swings~
Dude my cat does this too. I found that an old-fashioned boar bristle brush gets the cat hair off quickly. And it feels nice.