(17-11-2011, 02:56 PM)Isabelle Wrote: Hi beverley and bryony,
Both hands were palm down. Palms up, it looks a little better, but not much 
So what _are_ your measurements?
(17-11-2011, 02:56 PM)Isabelle Wrote: Karen got anxiety after withdrawal, not after starting PM. So according to Anne Vitale, she's a transsexual?
Well... I think that's a bit simplistic. I've just gone back and had a look.
1) she came off her testosterone
2) Over 5 days, she took 5g of PM, and only on the 5th day were any effects felt (e.g feeling 'full').
I think it's at least conceivable that she was still producing deoxymiroestrol metabolites whilst asleep and during that time went over a "cascade" point.
I've already established (to my satisfaction) that it takes time for the PM to build up to the point where it affects me positively. If that is true, it is reasonable to assume a similar "tipping point" for a non-TS to experience anxiety symptoms. It depends on whether the levels continued to build up for 15 hours after the last dose, for how long, and at what point anxiety sets in. Not enough information to say.
The anxiety she experienced upon wakening, to me, add weight to the hypothesis that she is _not_ a transexual, particularly since the anxiety proceeded to tail off over the next day or two - it certainly does not disprove it.
The "withdrawal symptom" hypothesis, would, I suppose, go along with the idea that Oestrogen is a natural antidepressant. Which I can't rule out.
Still, regardless of Karen's experience, I know that my experience matches the "Vitale" hypothesis.
But, if you are sceptical, that's fine too. Scientists should be sceptical, that's why the politicisation and the closing down of debate regarding many state-sponsored orthodoxies, e.g. "Climate Change" are a really bad thing (but that's another story).
I guess if you don't buy into the "PM has a calming effect at a certain dosage for me" theory, there's not much point getting your measurements to correlate, is there?
Maybe I need to start a thread for non-sceptics
TTFN
B.x