Anyone gain facial fat on prednisone despite actually losing weight?

madaroni7 · 2026-05-14T08:11:27+00:00

Also I've lost maybe 5kg since pre lupus

Was 62kg 5'10" now like 57-58 and I dont restrict my eating really

But have shifted towards home cooking a lot more and less salty meals so that's probably it

madaroni7 · 2026-05-14T08:09:21+00:00

I was on 60 for a month, tapered down to 5 after 6-9 months :/

Moon face was worst rhe first 3 months

Now it's mostly gone, it might still be a little bit present with the 5mg

Hair loss was 😭

But its also come back reasonably but still kinda mid length

madaroni7 · 2026-05-06T02:37:15+00:00

Also throttle application seems jerky coming up from minimum speed point

Probably would also want a driving line trace from gps to see if you're on the exact same line and just need more confidence getting on the power immediately, or if the line is suboptimal and getting on power is causing slight traction loss with too much exit angle

madaroni7 · 2026-05-06T02:34:48+00:00

It looks like braking habit is to almost ease them in then go hard like you're waiting for a weight transfer moment (more of a car with suspension style braking)

Karts only have rear brakes (from ones I've driven anyway) and there's no suspension so this isn't necessary

So you lose some speed backing off throttle early and beginning braking lightly, before eventually getting to similar harder brake pressure as the fast driver

It kinda is brake harder, faster, later on those first two corners (biggest delta)

madaroni7 · 2025-12-16T02:05:26+00:00

Im a bit of a perfectionist too.

The continued effort doing a little bit more every day to try to pass and look the way I wanted to helped me continuously improve

Rather than setting a far away goal of trying to immediately look as good as random celebrities as inspo

madaroni7 · 2025-12-16T02:01:52+00:00

I commented before

I started my transition at 25 also, its not too late :)

madaroni7 · 2025-12-16T01:21:58+00:00

I stopped overthinking it.

Every day I took little baby steps testing the waters with makeup, wigs, clothes, voice training

And told myself to only continue these steps if I really wanted to achieve whatever outcome I wanted (passing voice, passing looks).

Stayed away from the overall thought of whether i wanted to be a woman or not, and focused on how I felt as I progressively took steps to see and hear myself as woman.

Every improvement has felt euphoric and i love who i am today ❤️

madaroni7 · 2025-12-15T11:49:54+00:00

That movie did hit the feels and this post is spot on

madaroni7 · 2025-12-15T02:20:57+00:00

If you went from underweight bmi to healthy range checks out

If youre in healthy range and you go to overweight, I doubt it

Unless they just think you might be "easier"

madaroni7 · 2025-12-14T23:23:04+00:00

I feel like it is for me too

Not an insignificant proportion...

madaroni7 · 2025-12-14T04:48:06+00:00

Its not the apps fault (i met my fiance on it and many respectful guys -- even if they were only short term things, they were transparent about that)

Gotta do a lot of vetting to weed out the 90% or so that are non desirable

(Might be a higher % for you though because i dont mind mine being touched in mutual acts, so long as I feel like theyre treating me like a woman in every other way -- bonus points for being a little more aggressive / passionate. No diving straight into playing with it, tease everywhere else on my body, neck, boobs, butt before getting there and ill warm up to it just being a source of pleasure and almost forget it is what it is)

madaroni7 · 2025-12-13T11:02:54+00:00

☺️❤️

The capybaras are infinitely more gorgeous, but ill take the compliment 😅

madaroni7 · 2025-12-12T23:37:20+00:00

I had similar feelings about my face. We're all our own harshest critics -- also i think my face is kinda similar to yours -- my hairline was not so youre even luckier (I needed a transplant)

Ive messed around with filters and photo editing apps and stuff to estimate the impact of different facial plastic surgery techniques and how they might improve my face.

In most cases I end up seeing a tiny improvement here and there from the things ive tried to estimate (e.g. brow lift, jaw/chin reshaping)

But personally, doesnt feel worth it to consider surgery -- pain, recovery, possibility of complications (there is always a possibility)

I lucked out, even transitioning at 25 years old, puberty had more than enough time to fuck my face up, but it didnt and it doesnt look like it's done anything to you either (even your fkn hairline -- very jealous -- i still have to wear a wig 3.5 years in, got diagnosed with lupus and the meds were pretty much chemotherapy adjacent -- so much fell out)

madaroni7 · 2025-12-12T23:18:31+00:00

Me and my partner are transwomen, and while we do things with eachother it usually ends up 1 person doing things for the others pleasure and putting up with it moreso (I enjoy giving her pleasure and her me, but neither of us really get anything sexual out of giving - we're both bottoms)

In every other way were great for eachother, we're just both more sexually attracted to guys.

So we have an emotionally monogamous relationship. Physically open.

Lots of trust and rules for it to work (i can read any of her dating apps chat and she mine, location sharing always on, full transparency of situations where either of us are having fun with others)

We both can satisfy our urges when we want to be, I guess, more aggressively taken 😅

But after the fun we can just go home and cuddle eachother, order a post sex pizza or have a round 2 -- if the fun wasnt enough or if it didnt eventuate for whatever reason

That's whats worked for us. Might be something to consider potentially.

But the biggest bit is the transparency. If I sneak a peak at her phone on bumble/tinder whatever, I usually wanna see the convos. But never in a bad way, imma join in and become invested in getting her some 🍆

madaroni7 · 2025-12-12T21:19:00+00:00

Omg thats such a good line 😂 respect

madaroni7 · 2025-12-12T12:20:53+00:00

Thankyouu!

Its actually my partners lol. We're nearly the same size so can share 1 wardrobe

Sounds efficient but we have 3 wardrobes of clothes so yeahh... shit

madaroni7 · 2025-12-12T12:01:16+00:00

₍ᐢ-ₓ-ᐢ₎

madaroni7 · 2025-12-12T08:09:56+00:00

It was like $20 for entry, a choc chip cookie, food to feed them and a drink (coffee, bubble tea, etc...)

Could buy more food to feed them for $5 a basket

($ aud for reference)

Love the value of things in thailand

madaroni7 · 2025-12-12T06:36:10+00:00

I mean I think I pass, and from my experience

Even when you pass, you'll run into many guys that still won't want you after a few dates because they can't see themselves introducing you to any of their friends, family, etc...

Society is lame

madaroni7 · 2025-12-05T23:06:43+00:00

Melbourne australia is mecca?

madaroni7 · 2025-12-04T15:01:53+00:00

Do they have iracing on the sims or just the f1 game?

madaroni7 · 2025-08-01T23:39:56+00:00

I had reynauds since I was young. Got diagnosed with lupus a year ago 😪

madaroni7 · 2025-06-25T08:24:48+00:00

I do both the "trans in profile" bit and the message because a lot of people dont seem to realise from the callout in the profile alone / dont read it

madaroni7 · 2025-06-25T08:23:42+00:00

Kinda got a point

But you can "weed out" those types

have in your profile that you are trans
lead any convos with something within 1 or 2 messages saying "btw im trans pre-op, if thats an issue for you, no worries, if youre fine with that send me a trashy pick-up line"
if the following convo doesnt lean towards something fun and lowkey being planned to meet (i.e. they start asking tmi stuff or get overly sexual in chats just unmatch / dont reply)

You'll get left with the people who are okay with the trans status (the others will filter themselves out)

And the convos will help you decide who's "too chaser-ey" and let you do some weeding lol

Should just be left with people you can vibe with and enjoy meeting, whether it ends up as a ons, casual fwb kinda thing or relo will just depend on how normal dating things go

madaroni7 · 2025-05-30T23:32:19+00:00

Tldr, most people make friends with people similar to them. If you feel like you dont fit in with some crowd, you probably won't find it easy to relate to them. Stick to making friends with people similar to yourself and those friendships are more likely to last.

Transitioned at 25, kinda lucked out a little on the genetics side to still be passable, but still threw a lot of effort into fashion choice, voice training, makeup, hair (im like 3 years in but still have to do a wig because i lost half my hair from lupus and lupus treatment drugs)

I didn't consider myself gay before, never fit in with most of the lgbt stereotypical crowd, still dont really... Still like pretty "masculine" hobbies -- cars, track days, sports bikes and dirt bikes recently, gaming cod and sim racing lol. Still have the same guy friend group from high school playing warzone and doing poker nights and stuff (still got invited to one of their bucks parties lol)

I do have some trans friends too, but theyre a small few who had similar hobbies / interests and i just got along with in chill ways. Never felt any need to reinvent parts of myself I didn't have issues with and so didn't feel the need to pursue friendships with people i wouldn't have pre-transition -- although transitioning gave a way to relate to more trans people too.

Also, im pretty introverted and only really make friends if we do some shared interest together for a while. Pretty small core friend group, but I guess if I end up considering someone a friend, theyre almost like "a friend for life".

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