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i am interested in people, but i don't date guys.
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nope, i got double incision. i could have gotten keyhole if i wanted to, but i was right on the border of what was an acceptable size, and since keyhole tends to turn out better the smaller your chest is, i figured the smarter choice was to go for DI. also, i felt like the DI results were more consistent and provided better results in terms of how i wanted my chest to look.
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dr. brownstein did my top surgery. i chose to get double incision even though i was borderline acceptable for peri. my hysto was done by a local gyno. i just asked my physician if he knew of anyone who was understanding and respectful and who would be willing to perform the procedure, and he referred me to her. much to my surprise, she was great and completely in tune with my needs and concerns, even though she doesn't typically work with transguys.
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thanks. i look for every excuse not to go into the city, but i usually end up there once or twice a week anyway.
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these are totally legitimate questions, but i'm in a picky mood, so to be clear: i never really came out as "trans" or identified as "trans." i told my parents and my psychologist that i was really a guy before i even knew what the term transgender meant. i was about 12-13 when i started talking openly about what i was feeling, but i had really known it since i was a young kid. it just didn't really become a big deal for me until i hit puberty, at which point my body started visibly becoming something it wasn't and people started expecting me to visibly be something i wasn't. that's why i started talking about it when i did. with the help of the internet and my psychologist (who was not AT ALL experienced in this realm, but knew enough to tell my parents to read up on gender identity disorder), i realized in 9th grade what "transgender" and "transsexual" were and realized these were the terms that would be applied to me, but i have never identified this way, except in the medical sense of the words.
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i am taking it for what people like to refer to as a "sex change," but i dislike this term. in my telling of the story - which is what should matter, since it's my story to tell - i am just a guy who had a birth defect which prevented him from producing enough testosterone of his own.
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i have been doing injections for the past 26 months. my scrip is good for either cypionate or enanthate, but the pharmacy here usually gives testosterone cypionate. my starting dose was 200 mg (1 cc with 200 mg/cc) every 2 weeks. i stayed on this dose for about 18 months, though i did go through a period where i was doing weekly injections of 100 mg instead of 200 mg every 2 weeks.
this past fall, my doctor changed my dose because my T levels were slightly elevated, which in turn drove my hemoglobin level up a little too high. it’s also pretty standard to lower your dosage of T after having a hysto, which i did in december. my dose was first cut back to 100 mg every 2 weeks (1 cc with 100 mg/cc) in september, and then down to 75 mg every 2 weeks (3/4 cc with 100 mg/cc) in january because my levels were still elevated. we are still trying to find the ideal post-hysto dosage for my body. in theory, i should need less T now, but oddly, my testosterone levels have dropped considerably since i got my hysto in december and 75 mg every 2 weeks is not enough to keep my T levels in the male range over the entire cycle. on this lower dose, i would start feeling awful both mentally and physically about 4 days before i was due for my next shot, so i am now back up to 100 mg every 2 weeks and seem to be doing much better at this dose. i’ll re-check again in a month or so to see if further adjustments need to be made.
sorry for basically writing you an essay when i could have just said “i inject testosterone cypionate, 100 mg every 2 weeks.” i like to believe that people are curious about all the details, but the reality is probably just that i like the (imaginary) sound of my own voice. -
i'm probably not the best person to ask. i never really did it using a "traditional" binder because i didn't even know binders existed back when i still had to bind. in middle school and at the start of high school, i just used a back brace that i bought from the local pharmacy using my allowance. admittedly this was pretty effective when my chest was virtually non-existent, but at the end of the day, it sort of felt like my ribs had been beaten in. it also got way too itchy and sweaty for me. towards the end of high school, i just started wearing a really stretchy but tight bra designed to give girls extra support while working out. sometimes i'd even put on two at the same time - a tighter one and a slightly bigger one. once at least one of the bras was on, i'd kind of pull my junk down under the bottom so it would get even more pressed down by the elastic at the bottom. i'd then make myself even flatter by putting this stretchy spandex undershirt on over the bra(s) and then tucking it tightly into my underwear. this sounds very complicated, and there are probably much "better" methods for binding (like simply buying a binder from underworks), but it worked well for me and it in no way deformed my chest in such a way that affected my top surgery results (i'm not sure why, but some people worry that binding in certain ways may affect the appearance of their chest post-op).
anyway, i'd check out youtube to see if there are any videos on binding. it wasn't a resource that i turned to, so i can't say with any certainty that there's good advice on there, but i suspect you'll find what you need. good luck figuring out a method that works for you. if you find that the more traditional ways of binding don't work for you, just keep playing around and try to get inventive like i did, and i suspect you'll find something that's effective without being too uncomfortable. -
yeah, aside from all the other potential complications that distance brings, it probably wouldn't work out simply on account of my irrational fear of traveling by plane.
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since i don't think i can say it any better than i did on my tumblr, i'll just cut and paste: age isn’t really a huge factor in and of itself. it kind of affects other things that matter to me, but as long as it’s greater than 17, the number itself is pretty meaningless. so, yeah... i wouldn't rule the possibility out on the basis of age alone. but the fact i probably only know you from the internet? that makes the chance pretty slim, unless you live near me. i don't think i could invest in a long distance relationship unless i really loved someone or really wanted to be with someone, and i suspect i'd have a hard time falling for someone i knew primarily through electronic communication.
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nope. i've met people on the internet who i could see myself crushing on in real life, but letters on a screen don't really do it for me.
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hard to say. sweden's kind of been a place i can escape to for the summer. i'm afraid that once i'm living there for good, all the shit i have to deal with here is simply going to follow me. i'll see how i feel after going to grad school there for a couple years (i'm being optimistic and assuming i'll get in ;)). however, i have a lot of ties to sweden now (familial and otherwise), so while i may not live there permanently, i always want a reason to go back.
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uppsala. i also have relatives and friends down in skane so i've spent a fair amount of time there as well (2-3 weeks at a time), but i've never really "lived" there.
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thank you :)
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japp japp, det ar sant. tanken ar att jag ska studera till hosten om jag kommer in pa min utbildning. annars blir det val jobb. jag har anmalt mig till nagra mastersprogram sa nu ar det bara att halla tummarna.
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