Just a transmasc human dealing with PCOS

Soon i'll be half a year on T. Starting HRT is the best healthcare decision i have ever made.

Positive changes I expirienced:

-voice change, facial and body hair, body odor change, bottom growth, more muscle, vienier hands and feet, no more periods

Negative changes I expirienced:

-drastic increase in acne, especially body acne

If youre worried about PCOS affecting your change at starting T, here's what I recommend: connect with the trans community in your area, and ask what endocronologists/doctors they recommend! Usually there is a small handful of endocronoligists/doctors that have a good reputation within trans circles and are expiriences with trans patients. Once you go to a doctor with a lot of expirience with trans patients, you can ask them if PCOS will be affected by starting T.

Every day i am so grateful to be on T. It just feels right for my body and right for me. I hope all of my fellow trans people with PCOS keep fighting, keep being strong, and keep having hope.

m a minor, n i got diagnosed w PCOS a little over a year before i started T. its a small kinda notice/advice thing, but maybe someone will find it helpful. if ur a minor/start on a lower dose n also have pcos, it becomes trickier to calculate when u’ll get a certain change, n theres a chance some things might come sooner or later then they’re supposed to. i noticed my body hair changin within a month of startin, yet my voice has yet to drop a ton (despite me bein in the range for it to happen). things also jus happen at diff times too, so be patient!

One week, one month, one year, two years!

I kind of disregarded my beard anniversary this year but I started letting it grow on Nov 1st, 2017! I was really fucking scared but honestly very suicidal at the time and needed to do something drastic to change my life.

It’s been ultimately a positive experience, and one I would never give back for anything. For those who don’t know, I’m a cis woman who was diagnosed with PCOS when I was 15. I started growing facial hair and stomach and chest hair at age 12, and shaved it DAILY until age 26.

PCOS affects one in five people with ovaries, and there are millions of people with ovaries who naturally can grow a beard and other body hair. We’re conditioned to believe that women do not grow body hair, and so we spend decades hiding it, pretending it’s not an issue we face.

People I know, myself included, have been terrified of anyone finding out. They refuse to let partners touch their face, their stomachs, they panic if they go on a trip and forget a razor.

This is BULLSHIT. There’s nothing wrong with your body hair. There’s nothing wrong with YOU. You’re not even uncommon!

Sorry I kinda rambled but seriously y’all, face your insecurities head on. It’s worth it.

CALLING ALL PARTNERS, FAMILY MEMBERS, FRIENDS OF SUFFERERS AND ALL THOSE DIAGNOSED OF PCOS!

I, along with another tumblr user (who I shall not name because I haven’t had a chance to talk to them yet) have created a help blog for those suffering or know someone suffering from PCOS. Both of the admins have PCOS, and as far as I know we are too young to be doctors, so everyone will be getting secondary advice from us.

Here is what the bog hopes to achieve:

Answer questions for those newly diagnosed and for those who don’t feel like they received enough information

Support each other, hold discussions and have followers answer questions if the admins do not know the answer

Talk about things people without PCOS do not understand (for example, the difficulties with hirsutism, testosterone flares, infertility or difficulties with falling pregnant, other disease and syndromes having PCOS leads to, weight control, etc.

To share experiences and tips in regards to medications, diet plans, alternative ways to help control your PCOS, etc.

Support all sufferers of PCOS, who may feel out of place and overly-masculine when they do not wish to be.

Support teens with PCOS understand and work through puberty whilst working with this syndrome

Help people who have received bad advice from peers or doctors (as some apparently don’t treat it often, or at all)

Help people who are going through the process of diagnosis and supporting them after the results have come in

Helping those who have been diagnosed with other syndromes in relation to PCOS

Help those with family members, friends or partners understand the struggle with PCOS, and as to why they may be reacting in such a way

To be able to ask or tell the public things without judgements (all judgemental posts will be deleted) or threat of being ridiculed (any ridicule will be mocked openly by me because apparently I am the Queen of Answering Hate)

PCOS is hypothesised to affect both (in terms of sex) males and females, but mostly in the latter, so we support all sexes, genders, sexual orientation, etc. 

We decided to make a blog like this because no one seems to understand what PCOS women go through, unless they have PCOS themselves. This is a way for people to rant or express their feelings to an audience that understands completely what it feels like.

Here’s a little basic info on NuvaRing. This birth control method is a clear plastic 2 inch diameter ring that houses a combination of estrogen and progesterone.

USE: Think of it has a 4 week cycle, mimicking a 28 day menstrual cycle. A new ring is inserted and left in the vagina for 3 weeks (21 days). At the beginning of the forth week, the ring is removed and NO ring is inserted for 1 week. This allows for the withdrawal bleed (kinda like a period but b/c with this type of birth control you won’t ovulate there are no remnants of the ovum/egg, only the lining of your uterus). At the start of the next week, insert a new ring. 3 weeks on, 1 week off.  

Check out this CALENDAR for a visual: 

IF THE RING FALLS OUT: The ring can be out of the vagina for up to 3 hours and replaced with no need for back up. You can take it out, just remember to put it back. If the ring is out of your vagina for longer than 3 hours and you are sexually active there is a risk of pregnancy. Be sure to use a backup contraceptive method for at least 7 days.

NO PERIOD?: With all types of hormonal birth controls it can take a few months for the body to acclimate to the medication. If you don’t have this “withdrawal bleed” the first month or two:

Make sure you’re not pregnant aka take a pregnancy test

Give it 2 cycles and then call your care provider for a follow-up appointment 

Learn more about the Nuvaring.

xo. Amanda

Note from Chloë about using hormonal birth control continuously:

Yes!  You can do it! It is healthy and fine to do.  

For the Nuvaring:

Insert ring for 4 weeks.

On the first day of week 5, remove one Nuvaring and insert another immediately.

Same rules apply for the ring falling out etc - it’s ok for it to be out up to 3 hours with no need for back up.

-PCOS fighter

-PCOS warrior

-PCOS gang member

-PCOS martial arts student

-PCOS fucker

-Peepee Comatosed Over Succ

Its not just a overweight woman crying over acne.

Its not just a heterosexual couple trying to get pregnant.

Its not just a white woman on a fancy low-carb diet.

Its not just cisgender women distressing over facial hair.