changes I've noticed
I really want to talk about the changes I've noticed with someone but nobody wants to hear about it. I've been on testosterone since november now, that's about four months. I don't percieve a vocal change, though I often have a huskier voice than I expect. Mind you I often go days without talking above a murmur, talking to myself, except a word here or there in response to Dan. Anyway, I don't see it changing yet. However, there's one weird change. I smell different. It's logical but surprising. I don't smell different in my sweat, but my crotch! My vagina was left behind after all the surgery and I guess it can still ooze lube or whatever. It had dried out before the surgery due to the cancer killing the ovaries. With the testosterone it started up again and I have been getting that "snail trail" effect intermittently. Some days my underwear stays damp. Gross but natural and nothing to be done. Well it doens't smell like mushroom anymore like it used to. It used to smell slightly sweet and mild like mushrooms. Now it smells like semen. Strongly. I smell it when I pee. Not always, just when I'm having a damp crotch day. It's rather disconcerting, really. But I'll adjust. Now I noticed another thing. My eyelashes. They've always been really short and sparse. Even mascara barely made them visible. Now I just noticed they're getting kind of lush. They're longer and thicker. Not to where others would see it. You know how that is, you know yourself more intimately, you notice. I'm also getting very small fine dark hairs on my chin and along where my ears meet my cheeks. Not what you'd call a nascent beard at all. I have begun shaving my face every few days. It is fun for me and good practice to learn to do it before I have coarse hairs making it more difficult. I also am testing that bogus theory that shaving makes hair come back thicker. I know it doesn't. LOL But also, till I actually read as masculine, no point in having chin hairs. My friend the other day who knows about my transition said he thought my face was looking a bit more squarish too. If so, it's pretty subtle. It could also be explained by the changes to my hairstyle. Well I just wanted to express to somewhere the smell change and the eyelashes. :-)
Yes, I'm self injecting. It's not hard to do. Doesn't hurt. Except yesterday, I poked myself a wee bit and it stung. So I backed out and poked myself in a different spot and it didn't hurt. The first poke bled like crazy. So I must have hit a wrong spot. I'll remember that! When my friend was over watching me the time before, so he could learn things his own Dr. hadn't covered (why??) and so I wouldn't have my first injection solo while I was utterly alone, he was shocked at how slowly I went. He jabs it in like he's killing a kitten for it's own good, LOL In a hurry to get it over. I'm careful and methodic, making sure everything is going smoothly and I'm in control. Wildly jabbing the needle in with panic is not good practice. As time passes I'll speed up but I'd rather do it slowly. Witness how it allowed me to notice I had it a wrong spot yesterday. I might have hit a vein or a nerve if I'd kept going. I clearly got it lined up slightly wrong. As it is, I only went in by about a quarter of an inch or less so didn't penetrate past the fat layer. You have to listen to your body. those nerve signals aren't there for decoration.
Yes, I'm self injecting. It's not hard to do. Doesn't hurt. Except yesterday, I poked myself a wee bit and it stung. So I backed out and poked myself in a different spot and it didn't hurt. The first poke bled like crazy. So I must have hit a wrong spot. I'll remember that! When my friend was over watching me the time before, so he could learn things his own Dr. hadn't covered (why??) and so I wouldn't have my first injection solo while I was utterly alone, he was shocked at how slowly I went. He jabs it in like he's killing a kitten for it's own good, LOL In a hurry to get it over. I'm careful and methodic, making sure everything is going smoothly and I'm in control. Wildly jabbing the needle in with panic is not good practice. As time passes I'll speed up but I'd rather do it slowly. Witness how it allowed me to notice I had it a wrong spot yesterday. I might have hit a vein or a nerve if I'd kept going. I clearly got it lined up slightly wrong. As it is, I only went in by about a quarter of an inch or less so didn't penetrate past the fat layer. You have to listen to your body. those nerve signals aren't there for decoration.