HRT & ambition

[Anonymous]

I thought I’d chime in with my experience with this .

HRT for me has been unexpected in quite a few ways. Overall it hasn’t dramatically changed my outlook on everything, nor has it radically altered the way I think, but it has had some more subtle and profound effects.

Apart from the obvious physical changes, what I’ve noticed most of all seems to be an increased sense of longing for intimacy and friendship and a desire to be closer to friends. It seems to have heightened aspects of my sensitivity in some ways and made me tougher in others, like I more pragmatic. This could simply be that my life is changing in ways I like and I’m more straightforward, or it could be simply that I feel happier and hence able to deal with life better.

From a physiological point of view, I was totally expecting my libido to be wiped out or at least highly reduced – as that was what I heard over and over, but no, in my case it actually *increased* it, heightened it and made it more colourful and stimulating and more mental. Whereas before, I could “take care of business’ and it would be out of the way, now mentally at least, it’s a switched on a hell of a lot more. Physically it’s harder to attain orgasms and so on, but they are better – but I never actually thought the dam thing would actually get stronger. And there’s no testosterone in my body so it’s not that. Whatever, maybe it’s my biochemistry, but it’s not the first time I’ve heard about this. I’ve a couple of friends that attest to similar experiences.

Mentally I am a lot more capable of dealing with things that would previously set me off into angry rants – but in many ways it’s really like, HRT has taken all my best elements and sort of fine tuned them and packaged them together in a way that fits better. I suppose that’s the best way of describing it. In short, ambition wise, it’s helped me a lot, in that I can focus on what I want a lot better and well, I’m not depressed anymore!