03-12-2011, 09:07 AM
Thanks so much Isabelle & Bryony,
As usual, answers breed more questions. First let me ease any concerns either of you may have as to my final destination. I have absolutely NO TS inclinations. Besides being extremely follicularly-challenged pate-wise, there is the matter of my wife. Although some time back she out of the blue asked if I planned on any (slight) surgery, and said it was OK with her, I have nixed that idea. Don't need the complications that would bring, and am quite satisfied with playing the dressing charade for her and myself. Will put more on a separate thread later about our relationship, as you may find it rather interesting and unusual. Somewhere on the TG spectrum would be my position.
Now, I feel like I will reduce the Cypro to 1/4 tab (approx 12.5 mg) in the evening, and lower Premarin to 1 .625mg twice per day, and reduce PM to 1000mg twicw per day. Another option would be to lose the Cypro, and go to 1 or 2 450mg SP per day. Does any of that approach a logical choice? If it works, then when the Premarin runs out, I'll go solely with SP. I'll plan on another round of tests in 3 months and see if the T has risen. I also feel 20 is too low, and really don't feel alarmed about a few chin hairs. A really close shave in the shower lasts a good enough while for my purposes.
Maybe "dressing charade" was a poor choice of terms. It's much more than that. A true expression of part of who I feel I am, but held to a reasonable level, as I know my limits, and accept the confines I have been dealt. Many years and too much water under the bridge to go beyond the few modifications in progress. Cannot begin to imagine going thru the atom-splitting that SRS would involve.
I'm not a "fantasist", and if it ever appears so, just slap me upside the head. 25 years ago, I may have leaned to more extreme changes, but being a single parent with custody, and doing so for the last 12 years of my Army career, dictated otherwise. Weep not, I have a wonderful wife, and life is pretty good!!
Without digging in past material, exactly what does progesterone dominance amount to?
And per your mention of a typical solution, what herb would be a 5a reductase inhibitor that contains no phyto-progestins? I'm assumimg this would be to replace the SP?
What kind of disaster would result if I was to allow the doc to try to raise my T? I kind of imagine that could be mass confusion to some degree as I wouldn't want it up to more than 200, maybe 300, but would be adjusting all my "secret formulas", unknown to her. Then she adjusts. Then I re-adjust. Etc. Sounds like a plot for a good comedy of errors!
A non-med question, or comment. (And not attempting to "stir a pot".) The note on Dutch post-op mortality rates causes me to wonder. Is it a result of going too far, or, having completed the journey they really needed to, that they were confined in a narrow sub-culture because of what they became. Thus leading some to suicide, drugs, and Aids, all of which could go hand-in-hand. It's kind of sad, in a way, when you you think that having reached their goal, the life they receive can be damn near as frustrating and limiting as the one they left behind. Just wondering.
Butea Superba, hmmm? Have to check that out. Seems I've seen that mentioned somewhere.
Lastly, if I thought the "girls" would stay, I'd drop to near nothing of everything. But, having stopped 3 years ago for a time, and being close to a 38B then, It all went away, and I do mean ALL. Zip. Zilch. Nada.
Yeah, it's a catch 22. Lower the dosages and raise the T, and probably wave bye bye to them. Or?? We're going to find a way, though, 'cause now they're kind of an "investment", and I'm too attached to them to give them up!! And, they're too much fun!!
Thanks again Sweets! And forgive my rambling, I get that way sometimes. PJ
As usual, answers breed more questions. First let me ease any concerns either of you may have as to my final destination. I have absolutely NO TS inclinations. Besides being extremely follicularly-challenged pate-wise, there is the matter of my wife. Although some time back she out of the blue asked if I planned on any (slight) surgery, and said it was OK with her, I have nixed that idea. Don't need the complications that would bring, and am quite satisfied with playing the dressing charade for her and myself. Will put more on a separate thread later about our relationship, as you may find it rather interesting and unusual. Somewhere on the TG spectrum would be my position.
Now, I feel like I will reduce the Cypro to 1/4 tab (approx 12.5 mg) in the evening, and lower Premarin to 1 .625mg twice per day, and reduce PM to 1000mg twicw per day. Another option would be to lose the Cypro, and go to 1 or 2 450mg SP per day. Does any of that approach a logical choice? If it works, then when the Premarin runs out, I'll go solely with SP. I'll plan on another round of tests in 3 months and see if the T has risen. I also feel 20 is too low, and really don't feel alarmed about a few chin hairs. A really close shave in the shower lasts a good enough while for my purposes.
Maybe "dressing charade" was a poor choice of terms. It's much more than that. A true expression of part of who I feel I am, but held to a reasonable level, as I know my limits, and accept the confines I have been dealt. Many years and too much water under the bridge to go beyond the few modifications in progress. Cannot begin to imagine going thru the atom-splitting that SRS would involve.
I'm not a "fantasist", and if it ever appears so, just slap me upside the head. 25 years ago, I may have leaned to more extreme changes, but being a single parent with custody, and doing so for the last 12 years of my Army career, dictated otherwise. Weep not, I have a wonderful wife, and life is pretty good!!
Without digging in past material, exactly what does progesterone dominance amount to?
And per your mention of a typical solution, what herb would be a 5a reductase inhibitor that contains no phyto-progestins? I'm assumimg this would be to replace the SP?
What kind of disaster would result if I was to allow the doc to try to raise my T? I kind of imagine that could be mass confusion to some degree as I wouldn't want it up to more than 200, maybe 300, but would be adjusting all my "secret formulas", unknown to her. Then she adjusts. Then I re-adjust. Etc. Sounds like a plot for a good comedy of errors!
A non-med question, or comment. (And not attempting to "stir a pot".) The note on Dutch post-op mortality rates causes me to wonder. Is it a result of going too far, or, having completed the journey they really needed to, that they were confined in a narrow sub-culture because of what they became. Thus leading some to suicide, drugs, and Aids, all of which could go hand-in-hand. It's kind of sad, in a way, when you you think that having reached their goal, the life they receive can be damn near as frustrating and limiting as the one they left behind. Just wondering.
Butea Superba, hmmm? Have to check that out. Seems I've seen that mentioned somewhere.
Lastly, if I thought the "girls" would stay, I'd drop to near nothing of everything. But, having stopped 3 years ago for a time, and being close to a 38B then, It all went away, and I do mean ALL. Zip. Zilch. Nada.
Yeah, it's a catch 22. Lower the dosages and raise the T, and probably wave bye bye to them. Or?? We're going to find a way, though, 'cause now they're kind of an "investment", and I'm too attached to them to give them up!! And, they're too much fun!!
Thanks again Sweets! And forgive my rambling, I get that way sometimes. PJ