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Guest Amanda Whyte

I have read several posts about ladies getting moody while on HRT. I am just wondering how this feels and/or presents itself? Do you realise you are moody and just cant do anything about it or do you not know when you are?

How hard is it to deal with or explain away if you are still presenting male at work?

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Amanda, I would answer you, but I'm just not in the mood.

;)

HUGS

Carolyn Marie

p.s. I get moody sometimes, but I did before I started hormones, too. I'm not on Progesterone or shots so my mood swings are not very noticeable or frequent.

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Guest Donna Jean

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I get moody.......Especially when on progesterone. And I know when it's happening.

I can be short with people and on occasion, snap at people.

It's then that I cry super easy and I sometimes want to be alone......

Outside of that....nothing happens!

Dee Jay

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Guest Ney'ite

Amanda, I would answer you, but I'm just not in the mood.

That was a riot, Carolyn!

From my personal experience, I, too, was moody beforehand (just ask my soon-to-be-ex-wife-turned-BFF-roommate). As for now over 2 years on HRT? Again, ask my soon-to-be-ex-wife-turned-BFF-roommate - she would EMPHATICALLY agree 150% I am even more moody than I was before. She affectionately refers to me as "D.Q." - which means "Drama Queen."

*rolls eyes*

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I was moody before, I just got very quiet and went off by myself.

Now I am more likely to just start crying and then get very quiet and go off by myself.

Love ya,

Sally

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The moodiness pre-HRT was different. It was more like my frustrations would bubble up unexpectedly and consume me. It was very black and white..

Now, it is more of a full-spectrum moodiness with detail and subtlety to it and the paths it takes are unpredictable. Usually, a tremendous crying session puts me all togethere again and afterwards I often feel GREAT...

This moodiness is cyclical and somewhat predictable, the other moodiness was angular and sporadic. No amount of crying after a man-mood could ever make me feel much better..

I added progesterone 5 weeks ago and the moods have deepened and broadened even more. I thought I would hate the moods, but I really don't think I mind them very much. I feel more alive than ever, I feel more female than I ever imagined already. I an eager to see what years of HRT will achieve...

YMMV, bit for me, I'll take girl moody over boy moody any day! lol..

Hope this helps, Amanda..

Love, Svenna

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Guest Amanda Whyte

Svenna, it does help, thank you. I havent had one of my real bad moods in the last 2 weeks so that is good but I still have had bad moods. They are usually triggered by something dysphoric. The ladies stopping talking because I walk in the room because I am a man, seeing something I want to wear or something bad happening when doing something I have to do because I am the "man" in the family. If a car breaks down I get pretty depressed for instance.

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Mandy,

It really grinds on me when I am expected to react and act like a male, too. Seems no matter how many times I tell my spouse I am female, she still expects me to act like a man. It is as if she can't see that gender expectations are driving her behavior toward me. I guess thats it, she really doesn't see...

Ugh...someday this stage will be behind us...

Someday!

Svenna

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Guest Amanda Whyte

Svenna, I know what you mean. Had another talk with my wife and it came full circle again. Basically since I hid any transgender feelings from the whole world till recently, she either doesnt believe I ever felt that way and am just saying it now because my first therapist brainwashed me or I lied to her for the whole time we have been married. When we arent talking about it though, we are in a better relationship then we have been for years. More affectionate, loving, and spend most of any time we have available together. It is really confusing.

I think I am actually going to start a new thread about this.

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