Pride in being clever

[the_fantastic_ms_fox]

Some people may remember that last year I was "taking gender studies and calculus?" Sounded like an odd combination, didn't it?

Hah! Not anymore!

You see, I have just combined women's health resources, BC biomedical blood-work, transgender information pamphlets, and, of course, calculus, to chart out a planned progesterone regimen that should see my P levels rise, fall a bit, rise again, and fall again over the course of the wax and wane of the moon. I just ran it by my doctor today.

I have done this because:
- I want to be less crazy, or at least less hormonally crazy, or at least more predictably hormonally crazy. I want to know roughly in which week to expect big ol' mood swings, fatigue and so on rather than just "whenever," which is what I've been getting.

- My body-sense has "phantom cunt sydrome." It does not (I do not) get that I don't have a female reproductive system. The further I go into this, the more pronounced it gets. When I lie on tits and they hurt, I think, it must be that time of the month. (and then there are the times where I wonder what the fuck is that in my pants, and how can it come off) After some observation, I've decided that, given the choice between ignoring the u=♀ signals, and honouring them by manipulating my body to fit, I should go with the latter. Hey, it's worked so far.

- I have the feeling that female hormones are kinda supposed to follow one of several tracks: prepubertal; fertile; pregnant; postpartum; perimenopausal. I don't think that "leaving the lights on at 50% all the time" is a good idea. But that's what HRT does. So I want an alternative

- I can, yo


Why the moon?

- So that I'm not going through the same cycle-phase on the same day of the week

- So that I can remember which week I'm on.

- It's all cool and Dianic.


(Speaking of the moon, there are contradictory studies on whether night illumination affects women's cycles.)


Next month, I do this with Estrogen. This may be especially convenient as my blood levels were high enough that I might be able to do most of a cycle by selectively reducing the dosage.

:D

Comments

[inzpyrd.livejournal.com]

It's quite possible that this would be an awesome post for transgeek

Sounds like the punchline of a very obscure XKCD...

[darthmaus.livejournal.com]

OK that makes you my new hero :-D

[silverpower.livejournal.com]

Care to go into more detail? The usual recommendations as far as cycling HRT for people like us normally involves some very drastic changes, which does some really shit things to your mental state.

[eva00.livejournal.com]

That's awesome. Really awesome.

[freedryk.livejournal.com]

Could I see your work, too? Useful math is cool.