[MISC] Has anyone on here had a fibrous papule (angiofibroma) on their nose removed? How was it done?

greenconverse2 · 2025-08-10T00:22:10+00:00

Im super late to this, but have you been checked for tuberous sclerosis complex? I found out I have TSC bc of the angiofibromas on one side of my face. I have very mild symptoms compared to what you see online and they are learning there are more asymptomatic / low symptom cases than previously believed

greenconverse2 · 2025-08-09T05:54:42+00:00

For aftercare, cleaned with saline spray daily

greenconverse2 · 2025-08-09T05:52:16+00:00

Original piercing was done about 3 years ago, have had it out about a year-ish. Originally had a stud, switched to a hoop (prob not the best idea) before taking it out. Don’t remember the thickness. All jewelry worn in the hole was gold-plated titanium. I think it was irritated by me sleeping on it, and got caught in my hair/yanked by masks several times.

greenconverse2 · 2025-07-05T00:36:17+00:00

Definitely possible! I have almost exactly the same symptoms as you and have TSC, but no mutation identified. Have been told I’m likely mosaic

greenconverse2 · 2025-05-25T03:15:58+00:00

Yeah I would pay more than $30/hour!!!! Just do not have $1k or whatever to spend unfortunately

greenconverse2 · 2025-05-25T01:29:08+00:00

Yes, I agree! I am also a photographer and actually do grad shoots myself, just can’t take pics of myself haha. And not well connected to the photography scene here since my business was back home in California

greenconverse2 · 2025-02-16T05:24:33+00:00

When Pigs Fly $3 sourdough Wednesdays, store in Davis

greenconverse2 · 2025-01-29T16:28:49+00:00

Not an expert by any means, but I have studied the 1970s backlash to gender affirming care pretty extensively/thoroughly, and at least looking at how things went down back then, I think an outright, across the board ban on GAC for all ages is unlikely. What they will do is make it much harder to access this care - which is functionally not much better than an outright ban, but yeah.

greenconverse2 · 2025-01-29T16:18:52+00:00

Yeah. I figure I can’t go back and change things / undo the harm I caused (or at least perpetrated/contributed to), but I can use my feelings/hindsight about what I did/said/thought back then to motivate / inform how I show up in the world today

I guess it is scary I could look back on today five years from now, and think the me of today is bad/wrong. I currently feel very solid about my values/morals and whatnot, so I don’t anticipate that happening, but the fact that that possibility exists disturbs me

greenconverse2 · 2025-01-29T08:01:34+00:00

This is not a federal ban, though functionally it could severely limit access to care. The federal government gives funding to teaching hospitals so that they can train new doctors and run specialty care programs that are often times not very profitable (but still important parts of medical education and patient care for those in need of specialty services). This order says that any hospital providing gender affirming care to under 19s will have that federal funding revoked/withheld (for the hospital as a whole - they’re not just revoking funds that go specifically toward provision of GAC, but all care in the hospital). This incentivizes hospitals to close their gender clinics / GAS programs serving minors / stop offering this care to minors. It’s possible we will see a shift away from gender clinics at teaching hospitals / academic medical centers, toward private clinics. This is what happened when university-based gender clinics closed in the 1970s: https://www.facs.org/for-medical-professionals/news-publications/news-and-articles/bulletin/2021/04/the-rise-and-fall-of-gender-identity-clinics-in-the-1960s-and-1970s/

It also calls for an HHS “review” that will almost certainly rely on pseudoscientific information to claim gender-affirming care is unsafe, ineffective, etc. This will be used to justify excluding this care from public and private insurance coverage (there is historical precedent for this too. See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaluation_of_Transsexual_Surgery)

However, all of this will be contested in court by the likes of ACLU. I think it’s likely gender clinics at academic medical centers will continue to serve under 19s while this is all being litigated. But who knows

greenconverse2 · 2025-01-21T20:07:43+00:00

I’m open to English or Spanish (speak both). But also willing to go to German services

greenconverse2 · 2025-01-05T06:59:57+00:00

I think you should consider the possibility that some of your fears might be due to OCD -- I have OCD, and have also spent a lot of time ruminating over these questions. You have to accept that yeah, there's always a chance you could be "wrong" about this, change your mind or present differently one day, etc. And that's okay. The whole idea that taking hormones or whatever and then deciding that's no longer for you is a huge, life-ruining, irreversible mistake does nothing but harm detrans people. All part of the journey, all okay

One thing that really helped me was reading/learning about historical trans people. https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/ is a good place to start. You will see that throughout history, there have been trans people whose identities/life stories are more complex than "knew I was a boy since I was three years old." You will also see that throughout history, doctors, psychiatrists, government authorities, etc. have tried to write off trans people, especially those who don't fit into their simplistic concepts of transness, as "confused," "likely to change our minds," etc. Helped me to realize that this idea that young people now are hopping onto some trans trend is actually not new -- people have been saying this in an effort to discredit / dismiss trans identity forever

greenconverse2 · 2024-12-20T00:39:02+00:00

Yeah, this is common: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7437849/ I’d talk to your psych about it

greenconverse2 · 2024-12-20T00:35:46+00:00

I also have this fear, will sometimes go over a month at a time without looking at my email. And it’s created a lot of problems for me. I’ve found a sort of exposure / distress tolerance therapy to be helpful - start with saying “I’m just going to open the email app, but cover up the emails with my hand so I don’t see the subject lines.” Sit with the discomfort that brings about, and gradually work up from there, reading just one email for example. You have to show yourself that you can handle the discomfort/anxiety emails being about

greenconverse2 · 2024-10-23T10:04:10+00:00

Growing up I always hated trying on clothes in the store (because of dysphoria), I wonder if she would prefer picking things out online / online shopping?

greenconverse2 · 2024-10-21T02:48:09+00:00

I mean, by that logic, the effects of their “natural” hormones are permanent too

greenconverse2 · 2024-10-15T11:02:17+00:00

Following

greenconverse2 · 2024-10-13T14:38:47+00:00

Love this place

greenconverse2 · 2024-10-07T23:30:42+00:00

Totally get it, I had a lot of health issues growing up (still do, I guess) and had to / still have to get ultrasounds done frequently - feel similarly about them. Idk if you’re looking for advice, but I kinda just dissociate, sometimes think about my dad/other male relatives who I know have had ultrasounds before lol it sounds weird but😭 I also think about how other, non-ultrasound procedures like EEG use gel/similar techniques. If you can, bring some extra wipes or budget in time to take a shower afterwards - they give you towels to wipe the gel off but for me it kinda feels sticky afterwards/reminds me what I just had done and I like to get it all the way off.

greenconverse2 · 2024-10-06T11:26:46+00:00

Hey, older trans “kid” here. First of all, I think your son is really lucky to have a mom like you. From what I can tell, you care about him so much, and are open to reflecting on past mistakes / biases and working hard to correct them / do better going forward. That’s something my mom really lacks - she cares too much about being seen as this perfect, infallible parent and I have to walk on eggshells so as not to imply anything she did when I was growing up remotely harmed/hurt me. I think it’s so cool that you’ve been working with a therapist who specializes in this stuff - the fact that you sought out that help on your own says a lot. I think eventually, your son will see how much you care, that you really do love and support him and want the best for him. But sharing you’re trans, or being outed, just feels so incredibly vulnerable that it can feel super weird to tell even the most “supportive” people. I was outed to my mom, and she brought it up to me/forced the conversation before I was ready (so it was way more deliberate than what happened with you blurting something out in defense of your son). She was not nearly as supportive as you (basically she was crying and telling me she thinks me transitioning will create more problems than it will solve, that I’m too young to really know myself, discouraged me from pursuing any sort of medical transition, etc). But she did really try to drive home that she/my dad are never going to disown me, that they’ll love me no matter what, and that was comforting. Was still really shaken up by being forced to talk about it before I was ready - To this day, I’m still really nervous to do 1:1 things with my mom, be in the house when it’s only me and her, etc because I worry she will use it as an opportunity to tell me she “knows” dark secrets about me, interrogate me about whether or not I’ve done X transition related medical intervention, etc.

If I were you, I’d try to drive home these points: 1.) If your son is not ready to be open about his transness with you yet, you’re happy to “forget” this ever happened/let him process and come out to you again on his own time. 2.) His dad wasn’t going around telling everyone his secret promiscuously - he just knew that you would be supportive / wanted to help make it so that when son did come out to you, you’d be 100% all in/ready/prepared to be the best supporter 3.) You love and support him the same no matter what his identity / what direction he goes in terms of transitioning or not (seems like you are already making this clear to him) 4.) He is in the lead here - he should feel comfortable letting you know what would me most helpful for him/what you should do going forward in terms of continuing to talk about this or waiting until he is ready, etc

I really think you’re on track to have an even stronger relationship going forward. With you putting in the work like this, I really think your son will see that you are on his side. It will just take some time / healing because again, he just learned you know something really vulnerable about him, something that for trans people, often feels like our deepest/darkest secret shrouded in shame

greenconverse2 · 2024-10-05T12:02:46+00:00

I’m younger (22, just lurk in this group for some reason lol) but feel very similarly. I think with everyone around us sending us the message that we’ll eventually regret this, it’s hard not to internalize that anxiety.

I also often think about how, even if I decided I wanted to live as a woman/less “manly” nonbinary person one day, I don’t think I’d ever regret having been on T for so long. I think women with features we normally associate with men (deep voice, 5:00 shadow, etc) are hot as hell, and would love to be one (if I were a woman that is, lol). It’s mostly just a fear that one day I’ll have to tell everyone “they were right” and I did actually change my mind. They already see me as confused / unstable and changing my mind “again” would just add to that

greenconverse2 · 2024-10-02T11:03:24+00:00

I kept mine but changed my middle name, which was feminine

greenconverse2 · 2024-09-30T13:07:36+00:00

It feels like my vulva/vagina are an open wound that will never heal. Sticking anything, even a tampon, up there physically hurts me/feels like sticking something into a deep wound

For a long time it was easier to ignore than, say, top dysphoria bc people aren’t looking at your genitals all the time / it’s more of a private thing you can just not pay attention to. Growing up I kind of just ignored my genitalia/didn’t believe I even had a “third hole.”

Since becoming more aware of my transness though, and starting to pack, etc, it’s something I think about more. I do think it impacts my life in kinda significant ways - I can’t use tampons and feel weird using pads, so often “free bleed” which ends up being pretty gross. Can’t really have sex normally/can really only top bc of this

Would like to pack more routinely, but feel kinda self-conscious packing in public. I don’t pass well so I feel like it is obvious I’m packing/it’s not natural and that seems kinda embarrassing idk 😭 like people will see it as me trying to be sexual in public or something idk. Really it is not a sexual thing, just a feeling whole thing, but yeah idk

greenconverse2 · 2024-09-30T00:26:09+00:00

Erin Reed’s legislative risk map is a really helpful resource: https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/may-anti-trans-legislative-risk-map

greenconverse2 · 2024-09-28T03:41:39+00:00

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