I sympathize with you, I am pretty much a non voluntary "castrate" as I recieved my problem thanks to some medical problem that should have been prevented(my testicles have shrunk to nothing and I have probably no testosterone in my body)

I am also not someone who will take medication and ...

And then there is me. --Have had no HRT. --Just can't say that I've ever ever once ever have been depressed. I still get up in the mornings with a certain level of enthusiasm. I work hard and I play too. For me it's very hard to comprehend how anybody would get depressed because they don't have ...

With HRT

Little to no anxiety

Mood positive *Outlook positive

Able to make decisions easily

More friendly and able to communcate with people

Life is positive (Whats next?)

Without HRT

Anxiety to levels that Doctors are concerned about.

Mood? Depressed... Clinical levels like mental illness ...

do you guys without HRT have joint/muscle pain, does that get any easier?

notalife I read your post earlier but did not have time to respond. I did not find it dumb. I think I understand the comparisons you were trying to make. My first thought to your posts was that we are more complicated than dogs. I as a eunuch can remeber having testicles and how I felt. Dogs ...

I am trying to understand why I feel like hell and why dogs seem to feel ok after they are castrated, is it some psychological thing, where as I see myself comparing myself to other guys and see that I am on the bottom of the food chain? I feel almost at a peace and contentment here in my apartment ...

mrt (imported) wrote: Sun Dec 21, 2008 9:22 pm I don't feel like I'm just standing around waiting to croak...

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I wonder if this is the universal feeling of life without T because this is pretty much how I feel, the only time I am happy is when I am drowsy and I am hoping I die in my sleep

well I dont take any HRT, and I feel like absolute hell, however I think I would be willing to adjust to this hell if I had money and didnt have to worry about rent and a job, my problem is I hate putting chemicals in my body and I am not sure if I should some how suck it up what I am feeling and ...

Terry,


FWIW, after 6 yrs of estrogen & progesterone only, my balls felt like grains of rice. Really hard to find.

My sack shrank and was almost flat and taught.

There was no antitestosterone during the 1970's that I knew of, so I still had sex drive, I just needed lots of foreplay to have a DRY ...

well both my testicles have gotten small and hard and I assume they have atrophied at this point

I am not sure the difference between hard testicles and mushy ones but I heard they are both signs of atrophy if they are small , mine are about the size of small grapes