DocT (imported) wrote: Wed Sep 14, 2005 11:49 pm
If you are new here it is very important that you read posts about the effects of castration.
I agree wholeheartedly with DocT here. There are LOTS of side effects to castration, some are immediate and others make their appearance slowly over time. I have been a eunuch for two years now, without any added hormones, and I like the eunuch I am now much better than the male I was.
You may find, as I did, that your sense of gender will change. I've very clear that I'm no longer a "guy". For one, I cry at the slightest emotional bump in the road, including anger, and people around me were able to detect the change. Even frustration with a work project left me sitting at my desk in tears. "Hey! What's wrong with you? You were never like this!" I eventually had to tell my co-workers the truth because I cry quite literally on a daily basis.
It may be tempting to think that you can use hormone replacement therapy afterwards, but this is not the same as the body's own androgens. One's endocrinology is complex, dynamic mechanism, and our bodies respond to internal triggers and cycles in hormone production.
The best advice is to first read the caveats and warnings posted on thise site concerning castration. Then, try an androgen blocker first and see how you feel mentally and physically with a reduced libido and low testosterone level. It's on the order of a transsexuals "life test".
Believe me, none of us here want to read about another member's suicide. I cry enough as it is.
Best,
Greg