It happened to me. My skin was chronically dry and painful my whole adult life, but I’m magically normal on T. I also sweat more and have to wash my face multiple times a day.
It also really helped my emotional regulation not by changing my emotions, but moderating how intense they feel. It takes a lot more to make me cry now. Stopping the menstrual cycle was part of that as well, and I’ve not had a single yeast infection or hagfish attack on T.
I sometimes joke to myself that I’m just faking the whole trans thing to gain access to these treatments.
Tbh, extra dry skin is the one skin condition I would have expected it to improve. That’s really good to know about the emotions. I’m probably an egg who’s very afraid of turning into a rage machine, but I’d much prefer occasional controllable anger to every intense emotion causing tears (which it currently does for me, even positive ones if they’re strong enough).
It happened to me. My skin was chronically dry and painful my whole adult life, but I’m magically normal on T. I also sweat more and have to wash my face multiple times a day.
It also really helped my emotional regulation not by changing my emotions, but moderating how intense they feel. It takes a lot more to make me cry now. Stopping the menstrual cycle was part of that as well, and I’ve not had a single yeast infection or hagfish attack on T.
I sometimes joke to myself that I’m just faking the whole trans thing to gain access to these treatments.
Tbh, extra dry skin is the one skin condition I would have expected it to improve. That’s really good to know about the emotions. I’m probably an egg who’s very afraid of turning into a rage machine, but I’d much prefer occasional controllable anger to every intense emotion causing tears (which it currently does for me, even positive ones if they’re strong enough).