Testosterone cycles!

[Sejd]

My sexologist just sprung this one on me today. She said: "your level of testosterone varies over the month and will influence the way you feel about dressing." Has anyone of you experienced that? I seem to go in circles about my need to dress as well. I have periods of strong erge to dress and periods of indifference. How does it work for you. Are you always in the mood for dressing or does it come and go???? This is an interesting concept I think and I would love to hear from you all.
thanks and huggs
Sejd

[Brianna Lovely]

That's what I call it, having my period.
For years I've known that once a month my emotions and body seem to get out of whack for a few days. I've called it my period and been told that I'm nuts. Well, in the last year or so, doctors have admitted that it appears that men do go through some sort of cycle every month.

Now you have me thinking. I'll have to watch and see if I can see any relationship between my period and my dressing.

[Phyliss]

This may sound like some sort of "new age" stuff but:

http://www.bio-chart.com/

I've noticed that there may be something to this.

I've always believed that everybody has some kinda of "cycle" be it physical or mental. All things in nature flow in a rhythm, seasons, tides, weather, etc.
Why should humans be any different? Beyond the obvious "female cycle", for species generation, you can notice that some days you feel "on top of the world" and other days you're not too sure if you're on foot or horseback.
Now, I don't regulate my life around biorhythms, ie on "low" days I stay home under the covers and hide from the world. But I do sorta note that some days I just can't put IT together, and on others, well,.....I can do no wrong.
Now, on those "good" days do I go shopping and WANT to dress? Hadn't really explored that aspect yet. I'm gonna have to keep an eye on that.

[Kate Simmons]

This has always been pretty obvious to me. Guess I'm in one now, since I'm going to be Richard for the next few weeks.:happy: Ericka/Rich

[Sandra]

I would say that your situation has nothing to do with the levels of testosterone but with CDing being a sexual thing for you, which many girls say this how they were when they first dressed and some progressed from there to the point where they dressing is not sexual. Hope this makes sense.

[KarenSusan]

When I was younger I used to have these periods of not dressing but as I get older I feel that I want to be dressed all the time.

[Stephenie S]

A naturally occuring monthly testosterone cycle?

This sounds a bit bogus to me. Or maybe just wishful thinking.

I could be wrong though. The world is full of stranger things.

Lovies,
Stephenie

[Karren H]

I only have one cycle.....full blast, want to dress.....fun fun fun......ok, I did have one down day in 2006!! hehehe

Love Karren

[tamigams]

My doctor has put me on hormone replacement. Once a week I get a 1ml
testosterone injection from my wife. The effect is profound. All the fat on my 50 year old body has been replaced with lean muscle. Even my eyesight has grown stronger. My memory has vastly improved and I have a renewed sense of optimisim. The process of aging will slowly decrease your testosterone levels starting when you are in your 30's. By the time you hit 50 you are left with just a fraction of what you need to be vital.
So, long story short. From the moment she gives me the injection I feel so good. My libido kicks in. And to answer you question, Yes, this also drives me full-on to dress. We love to both play in lingerie and after these shots we just gets so hot. The effect will last for days untill she sticks me again. So in conclusion I have to say that when I am feeling the testosterone most, is when I feel most compelled to Dress.

[Shannen]

I've noticed a definite cycle of the 'need' to be more feminine. One problem I've had is that it is usually the strongest during my wife's menstrual cycle. This is akward because my dressing usually leads to making love, and that's not necessarily the best time. Also the 'mood' is not always the most accepting... and I hate to set up a situation where I am able to gratify my needs (to dress) while hers are different. Many times what she needs is a man to hold her, not a pretty woman prancing around the house.

Anyway, does anyone else find a connection between theirs and their SO's cycles?

Shannen

[AmberTG]

I find that my desire to dress is cyclic, but also, my depression is cyclic, and the depression affects everything else, including the desire to CD. For me, it's more than just CDing, I have gender issues that I'm still trying to sort out, I seem to be stuck in the middle between the two worlds. Therapy helps, but I'm still sorting it all out at this time. I haven't seen any connection between my cycle and my wife's, but I do take advantage of that part of her cycle to dress more obviously, I tend to tone it down a bit more the rest of the month for her.
My testosterone level was well above average for a 50 year old man before I started taking an herbal supplement, but my sex drive was lousy anyway, probably tied to my depression issues. Now I have almost none.
Amber

[Roberta Lynn]

When I was younger I used to have these periods of not dressing but as I get older I feel that I want to be dressed all the time.
:yt:

My desire to CD has always been on the pendulum thing.
Although, like Karen Sue, the older I get the longer it takes to swing back and it doesn't swing back as far.
Maybe because the older we get the less testosterone we produce.

It does pose a riddle.
I know some women take small doses of testosterone to increase their sex drive. Like Tamigrams said it has the same effect on him.

If lower levels of testosterone increase the desire to dress and higher levels increase the sex drive
Why does the sex drive increase when dressed ? :confused:

[Sejd]

Hi Karen
exactly fwhat you are saying my therapist explained with the natural drop of testerone as we age. This is why she has seen older clients wanting to dress all the time where as younger ones are more iregular. This makes perfectly sense doesn't it?

[Sejd]

I see a pattern here, although there are some obvious contradictions of experience. I am going to mark my yearly calendar and see if it makes any sense at least for my own understanding of this fenomenon. I also want to do some more research on the connection between testosterone and our need for gender bending as cross dressers. Maybe the testosterone is not the only factor. However, the brain sends it's messages according to chemical process and the body act it out. From the answers you have given me and from my conversations with my therapist, I do see some truth to this theory about cross dressing being a cycle, although maybe not a monthly one like our GG's.
hugs :heehee:
Sejd

[Marissa Mae]

I am in total agreement with this logic of cycles and periods. Like Phyliss said, some days are down in the dumps, and other days it seems everything just goes right and you are in a great mood!

As for dressing, there will be weeks where I can think of nothing but putting on my clothes, and then other weeks it is the farthest thing from my mind and am totally male and would have it no other way. In between cycles the urge just sorta creeps or recedes really slowly, and I am hesitant to dress.

My views are changing after the internet and especially this forum. When I was younger I would only see or hear about older men dressed up. I think now this sort of ties into that, and also the fact that maybe they have less societal pressure to conform(? working theory, help me out here). But a reduction in a male-related hormone causing a need to dress or be feminine certainly makes total sense.


Yes, I believe it is true, because I like the rest of you, love dressing up. But, when I get an ecertion, and masterbate or have sex, afterwards, I take my femme clothes off, because the excitement is not there anymore.

Spot on! I am in the same boat here, but I am starting to find myself staying in my clothes afterwards more and more. Then, after a while, the urge comes back... rinse and repeat.

[Rachel Morley]

My desire to dress is always there, but I sometimes can't be bothered because of the ungodly amount of time it takes me to get into girl mode :sad:

[Karen Johnson]

I couldn't say how regualr my cycles are, but they are there. Sometimes I feel like estrogen is oozing from my pores.

[JeanneF]

My desire to dress is always there, but I sometimes can't be bothered because of the ungodly amount of time it takes me to get into girl mode :sad:

I'm the same way. Generally when I'm busy, I'll want to dress, but when it comes down to putting on the makeup and such, I just decide not to bother with it today. I've gone weeks without dressing because of my schedule, but the desire is always there.

[Nigella]

Once learned to ride a cycle, but much prefer to walk, save a sore ...:devil:

[Sejd]

It seems like most CD's experience a cycle of dressing as women, and I said most, not all. For some it is a constant. I guess it is also related to where on the scale we find ourselves in, let's say a scale from one to ten where five is the complete androgeneous state. On such scale I would find myself on a level three I think. As our testosterone vanes in high age, we are more likely to dress with greater ease all the time. Where as a younger man probally would have bigger change of intervals. Then there is the question of testosterone boosting our sex drive and with that, in our case also the need for being femme. There is some contradiction in this theory which could also be contributed to the fact that there are other circumstances at play in the question as to when we feel the urge to dress up. I would love to hear from more of you how you feel when you get the urge to dress up.
for me, today, all it took was when we were ready to leave the house and I spotted my GG's legs, in pantyhose and I snapped from days of not thinking as a CD to full interest. A split second of change? the power of visual immage?
Any thoughts about that girls?
hugs
Sejd

[shae]

This makes sense. The jockishness, and overall good health, keep me much like any other male - sex at any time is a Good Thing. I keep my levels up without supplements, but manage not have them too high - still have a head of hair! I do note that my moods shift, wherein crossdressing isn't faintly on the radar one week, and the next month I've dressed enfemme most of the time. Something to chart, definitely...

My sweetie is pretty much up for TLC at any time too, whether she's having her period, or had too much chocolate, or not enough (or lots) of wine...

[jacquie randall]

Hi Everyone,

I am jacquie`s rock and I have been asking her if you all go through a cycle as we do becuse i exsperiance her mood swings through the month just as she does mine and she always thought I was the bitch every month in this marriage, so you can emagine the great feelling I got from reading your emails on this subject. I love her and feel for her when she gets in her moods but she pisses me off at that time as I do her but look at it this way for better or for worse and I would not have it any otherway. I have shared her enfem for more than 30 years and yes It took a little getting use to but that is her and I love her for being true to herself with the help of you all, if other rocks took the time out of the worry of what people might think and their self pitty they would find that their enfem partner would be just as special, just as caring, just as exciting as when thay first fell in love with them and that their journey through life together would be a very unique one, so I wish you all every happiness and my you experience all the treasures in life you deserve.
http://www.crossdressers.com/forums/images/smilies/hugs.gif
:hugs: Jacquie Renee`s so (rock)

[jesse]

I to have found that certain times during a month i have an itch that i have to fufill and it's dressing! Not to fufill sexual anxieties,just to be fem. By the way my house ends up alot cleaner when i'm feeling like this so it works for me!:heehee:

[Marla S]

Hm, I like spaghetti. But not all the time. Sometimes more sometimes less. It goes in cycles somehow. Is this related to my testosterone level too ?

[Jammie Lyann]

as I said before I work at a refinery, Testostrone city, well in the department I work in we have a woman in her 50's thats going through the change of life or what ever you call it, anyhow about a year ago we were all standing around talking about various things an she brought up the topic of cycles an how us men have it lucky, well to my suprise 4 of the 6 guys stated that they also go through a cycle. I use to joke around an call it SRS (sperm retention syndrom) I knew that I had these cycles an have notice them even more now that Ive gotten wiser Not older girls. :heehee:
My wife has even notice it an knows almost to a T when I start, I get in bad moods an get bitchy or I clam up an wont say anything for days on end

[Roberta Lynn]

Hm, I like spaghetti. But not all the time. Sometimes more sometimes less. It goes in cycles somehow. Is this related to my testosterone level too ?

That really depends upon how much you get turned on by spaghetti. :lol: :lol:
:hugs:

[Melinda G]

I don't buy the monthly cycle stuff. But yes, it does come and go. However, it never goes away. So don't throw out your stuff.
As for the testerone shots, if you have a small undetected cancer, especially slow growing prostate cancer, the increased testerone can make it grow much faster than it would otherwise. For that reason, I'm happy with reduced testerone levels.

[justtwosexy]

I couldn't say how regualr my cycles are, but they are there. Sometimes I feel like estrogen is oozing from my pores.

LOL....maybe it is a hot flash....there is definete medical proof that men do go through a male version of menopause...I know that as a fact as do get them quite regularly myself. And no there is no tie for me to this phenonoma with crossdressing...

Michelle

[Marissa Mae]

I would love to hear from more of you how you feel when you get the urge to dress up.
for me, today, all it took was when we were ready to leave the house and I spotted my GG's legs, in pantyhose and I snapped from days of not thinking as a CD to full interest. A split second of change? the power of visual immage?
Any thoughts about that girls?
hugs
Sejd

What gets me is women in boots or high heels. Every time I see that I want to be in them. Its funny, but of all my clothing, about 85% of it is footwear or skirts/ jeans, and panties. The upper body really doesn't get me as hot and bothered :D

After I got to the poing of where i was just keeping my clothing on after release, I started to wonder if eventually this will take over completely, if I will just one day stay in the clothing and not want to go back :happy: hmm... a gradual change into a full timer!


Jacquie Randall: whats a "rock"? :o I have never heard that expression before:o

[jacquie randall]

HI ladies I am jacquie renee,s wife and the eplanation i thought would be self explanitary,regarding the word JACQUIE,S ROCK. JACQUIE HAS ALLWAYS REFERD TO ME AS HER ROCK MEANING I STAND BY AND WITH HER FOR EVER .
SOLID AS A ROCK ............CHEERS Jacquie ,s S/O:love:

[Tree GG]

Heck yeah he has cycles - I don't know if they're testosterone or just pressure build/release but he has had male PMS for many years. Sometimes his cycle was annual, sometimes quarterly, sometimes weekly. I haven't noticed any correlation though between CDing desire.

[janedresser]

Life forms are just one big chemical reaction. Of course the levels of various substances affect your processes, including mental function.

I'm 50+ and the difference in function, desires, etc. within a 5 or 10 year span are pretty pronounced. I suppose I should see a Dr. ;)

[vickie_tv1556]

The cycle thing does not apply to me. I've been dressing since well before my pre-teens and have never had the urge to stop or slow down. Honestly, when I am dressed, it seems to be the only time I feel normal.
Love to All,
Vickie

[Melinda G]

The only time I forget about it, is when I have a new girlfriend, and things are kind of new and exciting. But that doesn't usually last too long. It always comes back.