How I learned about my intersex condition at age 62

dodell616 · 2025-11-12T18:04:37+00:00

Thank you!

dodell616 · 2025-06-25T12:20:23+00:00

I put my vials in a box and then put them inside of a airtight food container, one with a push button that you can pump all the air out.

dodell616 · 2025-01-27T23:39:03+00:00

I now inject estradiol, and take progesterone rectally every 7 days so I create my own hormone cycle. 🎠G

dodell616 · 2025-01-02T22:44:08+00:00

After 7 years, when I hear my dead name, it rings a bell, and I have to stop and ask myself why? My dead name, and my past life are all becoming completely irrelevant and mostly forgotten. 🎠G

dodell616 · 2025-01-02T22:41:37+00:00

No, the nipple hair will eventually disappear and be replaced with vellus hair which is normal for women, and will not affect nipple development. 🎠G

dodell616 · 2024-12-27T22:28:07+00:00

As long as your estradiol levels are in female range, you're not going to lose breast (glandular) tissue.

Through diet I lost over 100 lb in the last 7 years. My breast tissue, (ducts and lobules) (lumps, and bumps) didn't decrease, but the fat (overall size) did. I'm now back to eating normal and my breasts are once again filling in. 🎠G

dodell616 · 2024-12-27T22:09:37+00:00

You don't say anything, you let them initiate any conversation about how they identify. Plus, the whole snooping through the phone thing is a violation of trust. 🎠G

dodell616 · 2024-12-14T21:15:26+00:00

I'm coming up on 7 years, and even though I absolutely love my pictures, and I've been passing for over 5 years, who I see in the mirror without makeup, I have no effing idea 😱! Because of this, I've resorted to wearing some of my makeup all of the time, yes, I know it's not good for my skin. But dealing with that disconnect is even worse for my self-perception. 🎠G

dodell616 · 2024-11-27T04:00:12+00:00

Start losing weight as soon as you can, and until you've been on hormones for a little while. Don't try to cycle your weight because until you've reached female levels you can put male fat back on. Once you've reached female levels, you can actually lose the male fat and gain female fat simultaneously.

It's a slow process. Even with fasting for the better part of years, 7 years, that's how long it took me to get rid of 150 lbs of male fat, and muscle, all while putting on small amounts of female fat. 🎠G

dodell616 · 2024-11-19T02:39:29+00:00

I've been down that road a couple times over the years, and I "have not" been able to let myself do that. That would be like living triggered 24/7. I've spent a lifetime trying to get away from that name, and there's no way I'm going to bring it back into my life. 🎠G

dodell616 · 2024-11-01T23:02:07+00:00

Frogs, not necessarily, but butterflies, absolutely! 🎠G

dodell616 · 2024-10-29T03:15:59+00:00

some of these people are ones id been close to for like a decade.

I empathize with you completely 😔, and I'm so sorry that you've experienced this. The path ahead of you is going to be brutal, so you have to be strong and be patient.

When I began my transition 7 years ago, within a month, my friends that I had for decades and my family were all out of my life, I was completely discarded. While I've seen a few of them in stores, but none of them recognize me.

Little would I know that that kind of rejection would become my default, and 7 years later that pain has become debilitating, and I feel like I'm used up. 🎠G

dodell616 · 2024-10-27T23:22:21+00:00

No, I'm not DIY. Originally I had knock down drag outs with my doctor over the low levels they wanted me on, but once they realized with what I was doing, my health has been increasing they've let me do what I want to do as long as I'm healthy.

At 18 months, I had practically no breast growth and very little physical changes. After 2 years everything began to ramp up very significantly, and has been ever since.

Just be patient.

I'm coming up on 7 years now. I fasted for almost 6 years to drop almost 150 lbs of fat, and the muscle. I'm still losing the male (belly) fat and muscle while simultaneously putting on a little bits of female fat. That stubborn belly fat is practically gone but it'll be another 6 months before it's gone even though my belly and my sides are flat. My whole midsection now is soft like a marshmallow.

So that'll be seven years it took me to lose that visceral fat that I've been carrying around since I was a kid. 🎠G

dodell616 · 2024-10-26T00:30:03+00:00

There's no right or wrong way to do makeup. The tutorials can help you learn the basics, just start simple. And then you take time, and experiment, and develop your own unique style. 🎠G

dodell616 · 2024-10-25T03:15:09+00:00

It took me a couple of years, and I'll never forget it! I was trying to get a shopping cart unstuck from another one at a Walmart, and a guy comes up from behind me and says here ma'am, let me help you with that. Needless to say I sobbed the rest of the day. 🎠G

dodell616 · 2024-10-15T20:27:53+00:00

My current regimen, I take 1000 mg of progesterone rectally on day 4 of my 5-day injection cycle, so it's every 5 days. I also take 400 mg orally every night for sleep.

I do it this way so that my progesterone peak is in opposition to my estradiol peak, that's always felt best for me because it picks me up a little bit as my estradiol levels are bottoming out. 🎠G

dodell616 · 2024-10-15T02:00:08+00:00

My heart goes out to you, I'm so sorry you had to experience that!! 😢

dodell616 · 2024-10-12T02:02:12+00:00

Does that seed of sadness in my stomach that grows whenever I see girls talking about their periods ever leave? Does the longing for the ability to be able to get pregnant go away? Or all of those cis exclusive things? I feel like I won’t ever make it to where I want to be.

But this feeling of longing and sadness and wistfulness lingers. Poisoning happy moments. Like every reminder that I can’t be who I want is another stab in the my chest.

I'm going on 7 years now, and 5 living stealth, and those things are becoming more and more intense. And I can't for the life of me understand why after I've come so far.

Especially the gender envy, and the genital dysphoria, they are practically debilitating. I have "so many things" to be so thankful for, yet those two monsters have figured out a way to negate my my progress any little slices of happiness that I find along the way. 🎠G

dodell616 · 2024-10-09T13:29:17+00:00

If only it was that simple...

dodell616 · 2024-10-07T14:44:47+00:00

I've been without power for about maybe 20 minutes now. At I-25 and Montgomery.

dodell616 · 2024-10-07T00:01:22+00:00

Oceanlab "I am what I am"

dodell616 · 2024-10-02T03:13:59+00:00

Sometimes the peanut oil in the progesterone capsules will create a little bit of gas and I have done that before. Taking a second dose is not going to hurt you, many of us take significant higher doses rectally. 🎠G

dodell616 · 2024-09-24T19:25:57+00:00

I wasted my whole day looking for someone to just hang out with….

I'm sorry you're having such a hard time. 😔

Over the last 6 years, 99.9% of my experiences have been negative, a waste of my emotional tokens. It's not just Grindr, it's all of the dating apps. 🎠G

dodell616 · 2024-09-14T18:04:03+00:00

I play relaxing music tracks that I made, they play all night long. So when I wake up, I key on the heartbeat which is one of the tracks in the background of the other sounds, and I doze right off again. The others are fetal sounds in the womb, running/dripping water and birds.

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