A lengthy thread on a hitherto little known medical consequence of young women being prescribed testosterone, namely severe long-lasting pain during and after orgasm that can apparently only be alleviated by a hysterectomy.
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For example, the NHS:
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This is a case in point.
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In this youtube episode, she takes up a topic that has hitherto been taboo or unknown amongst FTM women, and it appears to be a moment of discovery for many.
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In other words, according to Dowling, 80% of FTM females experience testosterone-induced uterine pain.
That is A LOT.
So Dowling and Angel together seem to be good sources of information.
"The No.1 reason I'm getting a hysterectomy is: At the very peak, when I orgasm, I experience an extreme cramping feeling. More than just when I used to get menstrual cramping. So I'm orgasming, and I'm at what's supposed to be nature's beautiful pleasure..."
"In the last 2 years, I could know exactly when I would have cramps, and that was at the peak of my orgasm. At first it wasn't that bad. It was just a little bit of pain, a little discomfort. But in the last two years, it's gotten more and more drastically painful"
"And in the beginning of this year, it's been excruciatingly painful, and it hasn't just lasted a couple of seconds to a minute or two, it's extended. It's extremely painful for about five minutes, and then it tapers down very slowly."
"So at least 2 to 3 hours after orgasm, I could still be in pain.
So this leads to me only wanting to be sexually active at night, because then I fall asleep and I don't feel the pain."
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"I'm a little more hesitant to initiate, because I know I'll end up in pain."
"So we as a family have decided it's about time I get a hysterectomy to solve this issue."
"Buck Angel was having the exact same problems. So he went and got all types of tests, nobody said that anything was wrong with him, all of his tests would come back great, and then one time, he was in a different country, and I don't want to say for sure but..."
"...I believe he had some type of eruption in his uterus and he had to be rushed to the hospital and get an emergency hysterectomy.
When I heard that story from him, I feel like that was my message from the universe that I should get this."
"When I expressed to him that I was experienced the exact same pain, he got an overwhelmed feeling and he even got teary-eyed as he was talking to me that I NEED to get my hysterectomy, I need to take care of my body."
"He started talking to me about how many other men [sic] he's talked to about this issue. I had only opened up to 3, 4 trans friends and they all told me they had their own versions, some just random pain, some cramping hours or a day after an orgasm."
"Since Buck & I have opened up about this, a lot more people have shared that they also suffer, from bleeding, from just not feeling well in their reproductive area."
"A lot of transmen don't want to talk about this, because talking about reproductive health means you're not talking about a penis, you're talking about ovaries, a uterus, fallopian tubes, a cervix, a vaginal cavity. You're talking about female reproductive organs."
"And so to talk about that and also be confident in your masculinity and your identity as a male person or as a male-identified person can be really hard."
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"I want to be proud about my masculinity and still be proud and OK with me being born into a female body."
"That's been a hard thing to do. (...) When I first started transitioning, I wanted to change a lot of things. And as I changed my secondary characteristics, that are male, my top surgery, I feel a lot more comfortable in my body and who I am."
"Just like Buck, I've gone to gynecologists, I've gotten ultrasounds and Pap smears, pelvic exams, I've gotten every test, and everything always comes back normal."
"But then I talk about this pain I have, which is at the very peak of my orgasm, then the doctor says, well, my muscle is atrophying, it's cramping down. And because it's not really fed right, it doesn't really have what it needs to cramp and release, cramp and release."
"Granted, there is a small percentage of people who get a hysterectomy and could STILL experience cramping, but a majority of people I've spoken to have had their issues solved with a hysterectomy. So that's my story."
"I'm getting a lot of questions why I'm leaving my ovaries in. I don't really know any 75, 80-year-old transmen who've been taking hormones for 50,60 years. I started hormones when I was 22. So when I'm 70, I'll be taking hormones for almost 50 years. That's a lot of years."
"I don't know what my body's going to be when I'm 70. I don't know what type of health I'm going to be in. I don't know if I'll be able to continue my hormone therapy throughout my older age."
/end of Aydian's video. Next, the responses.
And that brings us to the end of this thread, by far the longest I've ever done. Apologies for crowding your timeline.
I thought it was worth documenting in full because this horrendous pain caused by the uterus atrophying due to testosterone seems almost totally unknown.