• TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
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    13 days ago

    softer and less oily skin, decreased perspiration, different smell, stunted facial hair growth and halting to pattern baldness, fat redistribution to hips and thighs, boobs, decreased muscle mass, sexual sensitivity changes, a year or two to your lifespan on average(things like liver health are improved). There’s probably other stuff I’m forgetting, but those are some of the major changes from estrogen. You could always do TRT as an AMAB, but the downsides probably wouldn’t be worth it for most men.

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      but besides less oily skin, decreased perspiration, different smell, stunted facial hair growth and halting pattern baldness, fat redistribution to hip and thighs, boobs, decreased muscle mass, sexual sensitivity changes, a year or two of lifespan… what have the Romans done for us?

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      The effects you mention do indeed all occur and have been excellent for me thus far, although they sadly don’t fix the uterine dysphoria.

      However, I thought that depending on the method of HRT, it may very slightly decrease liver health (not that significant compared to the enormous increase in mental health though!) ? For example, oral pills do have that effect, while sublingual, and needle, and gel have less of that downside.

      It’s not like comparing gold to dirt, but gold to silver - at the end of day, monitoring it every once a while with a trusted doctor, should do fine with any of them, really.

      And, the lifespan thingy…? Could you elaborate on that? I thought most of the difference in lifespan depended on having a double of the X chromosome (ie XX has fewer risks of malignant mutations expressing compared to XY), but when I think of eg. Klinefelter and the like, that doesn’t seem to hold – they don’t get a longer life expectancy or anything.

      Correct me if I’m wrong, though.

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        Estrogen literally makes various systems in the body function better. Liver is one I looked into for personal reasons, and I learned that cis women have improved liver health compared cis men until menopause. On top of that, several animals have similar effects as a result of estrogen therapy. Hormones are basically a messenger telling the body what to prioritize, and estrogen overall favors maintaining health more than testosterone.

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      If it wasn’t for the decreased muscle mass, I’d be so in. That’s the only thing that’s been holding me back (and insecurities about how my body would look tbh) because I like lifting heavy (and trauma from my teenage years is also really cool 👍)

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        At least for me, the decreased muscle mass in 1.25 years hasn’t really made a functional difference as far as I can tell. But like, I’m not interested in lifting weights in the gym - I just want to be able to move the things I’ve been able to move. Also, as with all things HRT, YMMV. Some people notice muscle mass drops quite quickly.

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          Lifting weights is exactly what I like doing, unfortunately. My bench press progress is kinda stagnating at the moment and it’s the most frustrating thing.

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            It’s not like it becomes impossible to maintain or gain muscle on estrogen, you just need to put in more effort compared to people with higher testosterone levels.

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            I know plenty of built girls who started HRT and haven’t really seen any decline in over a year. It’s harder to build, but doesn’t go away overnight by any means.