#kallmann

... and the alarm in the hallway was broken. The only reason I knew something was going on, was that I happened to wake up and see the flashing lights of firetrucks outside. Only my girlfriend was able to smell the smoke.

Luckily it was a small facilities fire, put out easily and everyone in the building is ok. But I'm still seriously freaked out. If it had been something worse, with the alarm broken, I probably wouldn't have noticed anything in time. Usually Anosmia doesn't really faze me, but it's moments like this that I realize the full implications.

I take 3,000 IU of Pregnyl (human chorionic gonadotropin) twice a week so that I can produce my own testosterone.

I have Kallmann syndrome. It is a congenital hormonal condition with prevents puberty from starting or fully completing.

It is a rare condition which is not widely known in the medical community which sometimes means it can be difficult to get diagnosed as often patients are dismissed as “late developers” or “late bloomers”. I myself was not diagnosed until I was 23 years old.

The condition is also also associated with a lack of sense of smell, known as anosmia.