hello all. im a 31 yer old male to female transsexual. i was surgically castrated 2 days ago after about a year of chemical castration and hormones. I was wanting to ask the surgical eunuchs out there about how long after your castration did you start to feel the side effects like hot flashes and other stuff. Im probably not going to experience this because i was already chemically castrated and im on estrogen but i just want to prepare myself just in case i do so anyone who can ofer me a timeframe for the side effects would be greatly appreciated

If you're on estrogen at 2mg to 8 mg per day, you shouldn't feel any hot flashes. Spontaneous and nocturnal erections should stop within weeks. You may or may not be able to achieve and maintain erection and even orgasm, it just depends on your physiology and psychology.

i dont know whats going on. iv started feeling very flush. have been getting hot and sweaty then freezing cold a few minutes later. maybe its all in my head or maybe its the pain medication im on. what is the usual timeframe for a eunuch not on estrogen to start getting hot flashes. i take injectable estrogen and im at the end of my cycle now so im sure my levels are very low. in 2 days i get another injection. maybe that could have something to do with it also

In my view, because of biological diversity, many people will have similar experiences, while other's experiences may vary profoundly from what is most common; I have been unable to imagine, given the present state of biological understanding, how anyone can accurately anticipate exactly what the results of surgical castration will be.

I got my orichectomy in 1986 as part of an effort to delay, and -- if possible -- prevent, the sort of cancer from which my dad had died and my brother was dying. It had come to me that my family history strongly suggested that my cancer risk would become dramatically lower if I were nearly testosterone-free. Yes, I am resolutely transgendered, and, during the binary gender rule, was put on female hormones by a nationally-recognized endocrinologist. After a few years, further research suggested to me that the prescribed female hormones might also raise my risk of cancer, and the hormones were discontinued. My transgender life took the form of M to F to E.

The reported-in-the-medical-literature average age of death for folks who have the genetic condition which predisposes me to cancer, familial adenomatous polyposis, is 42 years. I have, thanks to low testosterone and no colon, made it without cancer past the age of 72.

I have a simple way of living. Events happen, some of which affect my life. I adapt to such events as affect my life according to my actual response abilities, and I only discover my actual response abilities as I respond to events which affect my life.

So far, during my life, I have always responded to every event which has affected my life by taking yet another breath and encountering the next event. In doing this, I am not passive; I vigorously embrace every event, in one way or another, which comes my way. I allow that there may be an event to which my response ability will be never again taking another event (such as, never again taking another breath?). At such time as that happens, I expect to embrace it no less than any prior event in my life.

The result for me, in my life? I cannot be taught, nor can I learn, to be afraid of what is, to me, the gift of life.

For myself, and perhaps this is not so for anyone else, the more effort I put into attempting to know with certainty a future which does not yet exist, the less effort I have available for adapting to the current (present moment) event in my life.

none of that has anything to do with the question i asked. can someone please just answer my question

YMMV Your mileage may very, each person is different, I took the chemical castration route for a year before being castrated, I did not take hormones after. So right there we are on a different path, but for me the hot flashes lasted for several years, real good ones at first to very mild tword the end, the night sweats were over by the time I was castrated but I did experience them for 3 to 4 months after I started.

The bottom line is, which I know is not the answer your looking for, everybody is different and so will your experience be different. Having said that, you are on hormones, so you should not notice much if anything.

Good Luck to you,

River

To answer kyennamo question, Going from chemical to surgical castration I had no new effects whatsoever.

I was unable to get erect after my surgery due to damage to my penis. I tried Testerone injections but they just made me horney and frustrated. I stopped and within a week I noiced a decrease in my libido and within six weks it was gone completely and I do not miss it in the slightest. Being a Eunuch is not at all the disaster I thought it would be after my surgery. I enjoy my Eunuch body and now my feminised Eunuch body. The fact that you are already chemically castrated you should not notice anything different other than the empty scrotum.

I have been a Eunuch for 6 months and M to F and on Estera Dot patches for 5 months, and I now very comfortable, especially after having that awful package between my legs removed, with an empty scrotum, that has shrunk.

A very Happy Girl