HRT & not thinking about sex, is this norml

[Katelyn B]

So, I've been taking Estradot for about a month now, which of course makes me feel happy and wonderful though am realistic enough to realize 99% of any "changes" I'm seeing are psychosomatic (aside from loosing the ability it seems to regulate my body temperature, before HRT I never ever felt my temperature fluctuate like it does now, it's not extreme, but I get so hot and cold all the time)

Anyway, one of the side effects everyone talks about is a reduced sex drive, and this is where things seem odd, mainly because I don't have anyone else's perspective (cis or trans) on what constitutes arousal. I always assumed that it wouldn't be an issue for me (in that I wouldn't happen to me, not that if it did I would be bothered) because my sex drive has always been in my head first, then any physical reaction to that. Being single, this would manifest in my thinking "I'm bored, an orgasm would be fun", and then make myself aroused as opposed to my brain responding to my body. I kanda assumed the latter was "more" normal, at least from talking to some of my friends it seemed to be.

That's a long winded way of saying that I didn't think my sex drive would go away because my brain generated it, not my body, and my assumption was that any affect would have been on my body,

Well, this is not true, because I realised earlier that it's been about a week since I even thought about "it" let along took any "action" to bring about any release. It must be said this is extremely unusual to the point of being unheard of. It' strange to me I guess because it was just such a part of the ritual of everyday life before, where as now it just hasn't even occurred to me to do it. Actually, it's more strange that I hadn't noticed that I wasn't thinking about it or doing it until now.

I'm not saying it's a bad thing, I feel wonderful, was just wondering if this was "normal"

[Bree-asaurus]

Sounds normal to me. It's normal for me to go a week without thinking about it. And sometimes I go a few weeks without doing anything even if the idea pops in my head.

My boyfriend does turn me on more often than that, though... but we don't usually do anything about it.

[cyndigurl45]

Our little girl is becoming a woman how sweet LOL JKding although I had a definate birth defect (PM me if you must know) I thought of sex all the time took steps to have sex and releases daily. With the begining of HRT that drive is gone and I found myself being satisfied in different areas. HRT is chemical castration and essentially a step towards physical castration either SRS or in my case a Bi-Orchi, there is something called the eunuch calm and when your testosterone drops off that's what happens. I would add that although I am castrated when I do orgasim it is much more intense now far superior to my old male organisms.

[Katelyn B]

Thanks :), Glad I'm not that weird.

It's just a rather odd thing to suddenly realise, that you'd changed and not actually realised it, and to realise just how much your subconscious brain guides your conscious actions. I was talking to my friend about this tonight, she told me that I was just a normal woman now :) This may also explain why I've become distractingly sensitive in that area of late (to the point of laying in bed and getting interesting sensations just from the duvet), though with those most pleasurable feelings not tied to getting off sexually, I'm guessing that's going to be from lack of its normal "use" (TMI sorry)

[StephanieC]

Well, I try not to think about what constitutes "normal" anymore. But I can tell you my experience. I really don't think about that stuff these days and even if I wanted to experiment, it's totally different. However, I do consider all this good.

btw, I also found skin texture and body temperature were one of the first changes. (It's amazing to me how fast that happened.) Some changes are subtle, some less so.