Re:Taking Sex Differences in Personality Seriously (2019)
by SomeHacker44 on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @05:21AM
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I wonder if experimentally doing this is reversible. Feels like Banks's Culture. Could be interesting to try, to get a feel for the differences in perspective GP reports.
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Re:Taking Sex Differences in Personality Seriously (2019)
by TaylorAlexander on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @05:27AM
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It’s largely reversible in the first six months or so. Generally breast growth is not reversible and for some people that takes a while to start but for some it begins to happen sooner. You could try it for a couple of months and stop if you feel tender nipples, which is a sign of breast growth activity. Though my biggest changes have come a year in to the hormones due to the way they ramp things up over time. I was taking 2mg E per day at the start and now I’m taking 8mg E and 200mg progesterone (which helps suppress testosterone), so my experience now is much stronger than it was a few months in.
Re:Taking Sex Differences in Personality Seriously (2019)
by SomeHacker44 on Thursday December 29, 2022 @07:40PM
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Very interesting. Thank you for sharing your story and participating in the discussion. I looked some of these things up with a search engine, but do not know what to trust. Regarding progesterone I saw a few places assert that it increases testosterone (example link below), but it did not discuss the mixed case with E(strogen) you mention.
Re:Taking Sex Differences in Personality Seriously (2019)
by PartiallyTyped on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @06:06AM
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Some doctor experimented by dosing themselves with progesterone, and found that after a few days it increased their libido significantly, but is completely reversible otherwise.
Depending on method of administration, changes occur sooner or later. A common one is "monotherapy" with only estrogen injections in oils which get released over time.