I have been a eunuch now for 14 months and was on chem for almost 2 years before that. When on the chemical I didn't notice a change for about 4 or 5 months in my mental clarity but then I was a bit foggy and slow for about 6 months while my body adjusted, then I seemed to come back to normal

Not sure why, but, I went through the same thing after castration but for a shorter time.

On a separate note I chatted with a very close friend yesterday who was diganosed with low t a month ago and he started using Androgel and says he feels more focused then he has in years. I am not sure if that is a short term effect from just starting the T or not.

Generally I think your mind comes back to normal once a routine is established.

All that said, do chem for a year before going permanent. There really isn't a rush if you are getting the low T effects from the drugs.

Bummer! This ol' nutless one was hoping that loss of nuts = gain in brain. It seems that as I get older and go through fartdom to codgerdom and progress to cootdom nothing makes me smarter. It's kinda a triumph of hope over experience!

Ive noticed no change in my mental abilities or a fog, Its been 19 months sense my surgery, my T Level at last blood test was 8.9 ng/dl, Energy level is fine.

but each person is different.

for me though its been just as I hoped. it calmed my sexual desires to almost nothing, not saying I dont get interested..... things do still work when I want.

Ken

Why do all the comments and responses here have to be so complicated. For goodness sakes, keep it simple. Once you are castrated it frees up a big chunk of cognative capability that was previously obsessed with distracting thoughts. So to use an automotive metaphore, You don't have any more horsepower but you have torque to spare.

smoothie36 (imported) wrote: Wed May 22, 2013 6:09 pm Why do all the comments and responses here have to be so complicated. For goodness sakes, keep it simple. Once you are castrated it frees up a big chunk of cognative capability that was previously obsessed with distracting thoughts. So to use an automotive metaphore, You don't have any more horsepower but you have torque to spare.

However that is the opposite of my experience from having low testosterone to being at normal levels. There is no one size fits all in anything.

The eunuch is always the most mentally capable person in the bar or any drinking establishment!!!

Around twenty years ago, I volunteered to work in an outreach program at a Roman Catholic parish. As it happens, I was then, was before then, and have been ever since, a member of one or another congregation in the United Church of Christ (UCC - which is not the same as the United Church of Canada), a religious organization I am inclined to endorse because they welcome, in principle- if not always yet fully in practice, the whole variety of human biological diversity. I was co-chairman of the "Open and Affirming Committee" that led the church congregation of which I am a member to adopt an "Open and Affirming Statement" that, again, in principle, rules out the church of which I am a member objecting to a member who is anywhere within the LGBTTTQQ (or, as the preferred term may be becoming, "genderqueer") multi-dimensional spectrum.

So, I was given the title of "catechist" in that Roman Catholic parish, and parish obtained a dispensation so that I could take communion with the other members of that outreach group. In the UCC (which has no centrally-imposed doctrines, dogmas, or creeds that one has to accept to be a member, so atheists, for example, are as welcome as is anyone else) congregation of which I am a member, the liquid used for communion is plain, unfermented grape juice.

Sew what?

Well, I discovered that ethanol is not exactly my best friend. Small amounts (placebo effect?) tend to mess up my brain function.

However, telling lies to a police officer is a crime. So, though no police officer has ever asked me, in effect, "Have you been drinking?" I find I need to be prepared for the possibility of being so asked. I drink water, milk (usually skim), diverse forms of tea, some coffee, and, were I to answer, "Have you been drinking?" I would, being autistic, necessarily reply in the affirmative.

So, because I live in Wisconsin, where bars/taverns are often the only eatery in some small rural towns, I have sometimes had food in a drinking establishment. However, because I reckon that I am always the only eunuch in the bar or drinking establishment. However, if I am

devi (imported) wrote: Sat May 25, 2013 12:14 pm the most mentally capable person in the bar or

drinking establishment, would I be the most mentally capable because I am a eunuch, because I avoid drinking alcoholic beverages as though they are the plague, because I am autistic, none of those, all of those, or for no reason of any sort whatsoever?

In a stage of human evolution where being at war is honorable, what on earth or elsewhere would be a way to actually and accurately measure how mentally capable any person really is?

I was a physics major for three years prior to my college studying of engineering. The best way I have ever found to test the mental capability of a physicist is to simply say, "Measurement problem?". Why does, "Measurement problem?" tend to wildly freak out physicists?

If I am asked by a police officer, "Have you been drinking?", and the police officer does not specify anything about a liquid I drank, the only truthful answer I can give is, however stated, "Yes."

Why do I wonder whether, if I answer a police officer truthfully in that way, I may be subjected to being charged with obstructing an officer?