I transitioned 9 years ago and these symptoms started to me around 4 years in. Usually they’re not talked about in trans spaces despite being documented.

  1. Lower body temp than people who aren’t on HRT despite not feeling the cold. Sometimes I even feel hot despite my body being 36.5°C

  2. Terrible blood pressure, my nails on my fingers and toes are always purple-ish and the nails grow thin and weak.

  3. Dry skin.

  4. Extreme dry eyes, they actually cause me vision loss.

  5. Bruising, random bruises appearing on my thighs out of nowhere. One day I fell on my knees and even tho it wasn’t a hard fall I got a terrible black bruise on my knee.

  6. Dizziness, people report headaches more often but I don’t get those as often as dizziness.

Some people say “wow HRT made me feel so good” and I’m here feeling like a corpse in recent rigor mortis 💀

  • Ada@piefed.blahaj.zoneMEnglish
    171·
    7 days ago

    For what it’s worth, I started around the same time as you, and aside from dry skin, I don’t experience these, so it’s maybe not be as simple as HRT.

      • Daisy (she/her)@lemmy.mlEnglish
        19·
        7 days ago

        Doctors are notorious for blaming any issue on hormones. You could go in with a broken arm and somehow it is the hormone’s fault…

        • Katerina@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
          2·
          6 days ago

          Even my brother who is a doctor thinks it’s because of hormones, so at this point I don’t care. If it’s something else I’m not going to find anyone who knows what it is, so if I have to die of some condition so be it 😂

          • doubtingtammy@lemmy.mlEnglish
            21·
            6 days ago

            If you were a cis woman on hormonal birth control for years, i don’t think a doctor would declare a 1:1 causative link between the hormones and these symptoms. They would recognize the hormones as a factor, but not the only cause.

            • Katerina@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
              2·
              6 days ago

              Cis women get dismissed a lot more by doctors than anyone else… I feel like you’re downplaying how many women die of medical malpractice because doctors dismiss women’s pains.

              • doubtingtammy@lemmy.mlEnglish
                31·
                6 days ago

                You’re saying that cis women get dismissed more than trans women? Ok. That doesnt change that blaming every health problem on hormones is some misogynist bs

      • AnBee@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        5·
        6 days ago

        Trans broken arm syndrome. I am nearing 10 years HRT. I am the healthiest I have ever been.

        Your doctors are stupid, sorry you had to experience that.