Persephone
08-24-2013, 08:20 PM
What medications/inventions have made major improvements to your CD/TG life?
I lead a very rich, full CD/TG life, totally "out and about" and lovin' it.
In addition to my wonderful, accepting spouse, family, and friends, three items have made it possible for me to be comfortable and confident when "out and about."
1) Laser hair removal - the beard buster, no "five o'clock" shadow, I can go 24-hours looking smooth skinned.
2) Finasteride - Started taking it about a decade or more ago for prostate control. Finasteride fights male pattern baldness and is probably responsible for hair still being on my head. Perhaps in conjunction with aging, it also appeared to kill off the hair on my legs (I shave about once every couple of months to get rid of a few hairs behind knee and on upper thigh).
3) Spironolactone - Started taking low-dose Spiro about three years ago. Although my T-levels still appear normal or above normal for my age, it had some immediate and long-lasting effects - I spent a few months having tender "budding" breasts and although I did not get much breast development it did seem to increase my breast size a bit and to make my nipples more pronounced.
It also seems to have killed virtually all of the hair on my chest and back and made the hair on my arms grow slower and finer. I shave a few stray hairs, about as rare as trees on the Alaskan tundra (There is one tree in Kotzebue National Forest. It was planted by the service men who worked at the radar station there in Kotzebue during the cold war. The tree is surrounded by a white picket fence).
Shave arms about once every two weeks, chest about once a month. Natuarlly, on all of the above your individual results could vary and I am not providing medical information.
But something is bothering me and it may be linked to the finasteride/spironolactone combination.
Five years ago I lost about 45 pounds, getting down to a size 6-8. But I started to gain some of it back. I'd lost the original pounds pretty easily, but after I started Spiro it seems to have become much harder to shed the extra weight. Spiro? Advancing age?
I know that people say it is much more difficult to lose weight once you start HRT, but I haven't started HRT (yet?). Is it possible/likely that my Finasteride/Spiro cocktail is contributing to my weight loss difficulty? Is that pill (Spiro) really making me look fat? Has anyone else experienced this?
Hugs,
Persephone.
I lead a very rich, full CD/TG life, totally "out and about" and lovin' it.
In addition to my wonderful, accepting spouse, family, and friends, three items have made it possible for me to be comfortable and confident when "out and about."
1) Laser hair removal - the beard buster, no "five o'clock" shadow, I can go 24-hours looking smooth skinned.
2) Finasteride - Started taking it about a decade or more ago for prostate control. Finasteride fights male pattern baldness and is probably responsible for hair still being on my head. Perhaps in conjunction with aging, it also appeared to kill off the hair on my legs (I shave about once every couple of months to get rid of a few hairs behind knee and on upper thigh).
3) Spironolactone - Started taking low-dose Spiro about three years ago. Although my T-levels still appear normal or above normal for my age, it had some immediate and long-lasting effects - I spent a few months having tender "budding" breasts and although I did not get much breast development it did seem to increase my breast size a bit and to make my nipples more pronounced.
It also seems to have killed virtually all of the hair on my chest and back and made the hair on my arms grow slower and finer. I shave a few stray hairs, about as rare as trees on the Alaskan tundra (There is one tree in Kotzebue National Forest. It was planted by the service men who worked at the radar station there in Kotzebue during the cold war. The tree is surrounded by a white picket fence).
Shave arms about once every two weeks, chest about once a month. Natuarlly, on all of the above your individual results could vary and I am not providing medical information.
But something is bothering me and it may be linked to the finasteride/spironolactone combination.
Five years ago I lost about 45 pounds, getting down to a size 6-8. But I started to gain some of it back. I'd lost the original pounds pretty easily, but after I started Spiro it seems to have become much harder to shed the extra weight. Spiro? Advancing age?
I know that people say it is much more difficult to lose weight once you start HRT, but I haven't started HRT (yet?). Is it possible/likely that my Finasteride/Spiro cocktail is contributing to my weight loss difficulty? Is that pill (Spiro) really making me look fat? Has anyone else experienced this?
Hugs,
Persephone.