Stronger emotions with no testosterone?

[aspie_nico (imported)]

I am "chemically castrated" with triptorelin so my testosterone is almost zero. I am experiencing that my emotions seem to be stronger than with testosterone what is good at the moment because they are positive emotions.

It this normal?

[hopper44 (imported)]

I can only speak for myself, but yes I've found that my highs are higher and lows are lower. Generally more emotional, some days giddy and other days depressed. Just went back on HRT cause I couldn't take the roller coaster ride.

[daifu-orchid (imported)]

I am "chemically castrated" with triptorelin so my testosterone is almost zero. I am experiencing that my emotions seem to be stronger than with testosterone what is good at the moment because they are positive emotions.

It this normal?

I guess so, or so I remember during no T. Laughed -or cried much more easily. Also better at recognizing emotions in others.

[tugon (imported)]

At first emotions are very much a roller coaster ride. After 18 years as a no T eunuch I am not sure if the track smoothed out or I became comfortable with the wider range of feelings.

[sparkey49 (imported)]

With no T I was a roller coaster still some with T but not as bad especially the lows.��

[rob2beunuch (imported)]

Hi. Banded since I was 13 and now 50. My T levels are 6.2nm/l. (178 ng/dl) Is this quite low? And on castration will I be less likely to notice the difference hormonally?

[nvrgag44 (imported)]

question 1 first. The only emotional change I notice is I do cry noticeably easier than before castration. But that was changing even before castration as my T levels dropped from the high 200s to 60 just before castration. Eunuch calm? The same issues that pulled my trigger before castration still do so it's hard to say. My wife still says, "I'm the only one who can hear you" when I cuss at the TV.

question 2; I can only speak for myself about how you will react to T levels after castration. I had radiation for prostate cancer in '06. It cured the cancer but cooked a lot more than the tumors. I never checked T levels until after the radiation but it ran around 280. I see the oncologist every 6 months and he always writes "testicle atrophy". It was steady for years but started to drop about 2 years ago. It went from 280 to 180 to 120 in about a year. During this time I surprisingly had no noticeable reduction in libido. I had been reading EA since 2012 (?) and decided to get serious about castration. I started injecting Everclear about a year ago. I developed an infection so I stopped injecting and took antibiotics. I started injecting again last July and got another infection. My T level was 60. This time my urologist said he would castrate me. The surprising thing to me was that I still had some libido right up to the end. Even after castration it took some time but now I have no sexual desire at all and I'm fine with that. Until it was gone I didn't fully realize what a distraction it was.

[Nathan74 (imported)]

I like the way that having no testosterone changed my emotional state. I became more emotional overall but luckily not more depressed. My lows stayed the same but my highs intensified. I like how I can cry more easily and how more tuned in I am to my own inner emotions and the emotions of others without testosterone. After trying 6 months of TRT which was a mistake and a learning experience, I can truly say that I like being more emotional as a eunuch as opposed to being controlled by testosterone.

[Valery_V (imported)]

As a result of my nullification my emotional state changed.

No, I did not turn into a crybaby, but I became more sensitive towards other people.

If before that I was able to calmly say "No", then for some reason I somehow felt uncomfortable and I felt an inner need to explain my refusal .

With a low level of testosterone, in my opinion, it is still useful for a person to somehow control his internal emotional state.

My hobbies, desire to listen to well-known music, to look at understandable pictures, and the like have always helped me in this.

[shemp 83676 (imported)]

I was encouraged by my wife to be castrated years ago. I was receptive yet cautious and a bit fearful at the unknown. She encouraged me because I couldn't satisfy her with my small penis and quick orgasms. Rather than jumping with both feet and being being castrated, I agreed to a 6 month trial of chemical castration with bi-weekly injections of Depo Provera. At the end of the trial, I still was hesitant so my chemical castration continued for another 2 years before I agreed to my surgical emasculation. During this time, I did become more calm and thoughtful, more compassionate.