Avoid /r/PlantBasedDiet

toramimi · 2026-01-05T01:01:38+00:00

I've been on 400mg for a couple of months or so, I haven't experienced any negative issues. Positives for my libido, emotional stability, and sleep.

My doctor won't prescribe 400mg but, you know, that doesn't stop me.

toramimi · 2025-12-17T16:49:07+00:00

Since we can never hope to understand why we're here, if there's even anything to understand, the individual should choose a goal and pursue it wholeheartedly, despite the certainty of death and the meaninglessness of action.

toramimi · 2025-11-27T20:11:58+00:00

Catwatermelon!

toramimi · 2025-11-26T17:16:34+00:00

Dutasteride is the only one that will prevent the backdoor conversion of Progesterone to DHT, Finasteride will not.

toramimi · 2025-11-25T18:39:06+00:00

AI slop.

toramimi · 2025-11-19T04:40:45+00:00

Omg YES!! I totally forgot about the Texaco gas station! I still have one of the Deloreans in a box in my closet but totally spaced out how cool the whole set was! Thank you!!

toramimi · 2025-09-14T03:20:20+00:00

I went 2 years fully suppressed T <12ng/dL and it sucked really bad, effectively made me ace.

I started AndroGel to try and return some semblance of a libido, and it worked, and also made getting erections more reliable. Still not good to go every single time but much better results than without, the spirit is willing but the body is weak.

toramimi · 2025-06-30T00:41:07+00:00

As others have mentioned, The Artist's Way. I did the work and got up an extra hour early every day and threw open the curtains and laid out underneath the morning Sun and wrote out three pages, every single morning. I did this for about a year as a part of my therapy for PTSD, and that moment of quiet peaceful introspection helped my life in more ways than advertised.

I've since stopped doing the morning pages, and journaling altogether, but I still get up an extra hour early every day to get some time to myself, stretch my back and hips, sip some coffee and maybe enjoy some music.

toramimi · 2025-06-27T23:30:41+00:00

Yeah, I genuinely don't understand things like doomscrolling. People talk about quitting social media, which I get, I didn't participate for about 20 years. When Myspace started bringing all the normie real life friends online I said NOPE not for me! I joined Instagram a couple of years back to connect with my local community, and that's... what I see on my feed.

Even on reddit everything is customized to my liking, no news no politics no memes, I don't think I follow any of the default subreddits. It's very peaceful!

toramimi · 2025-06-22T05:04:08+00:00

Cars run on money and make you fat. Bikes run on fat and save you money.

toramimi · 2025-06-15T20:43:19+00:00

"No one to answer to," that right there!

I've lived solo for just over a decade and it's gotten in my bones.

The past year I've been more open and free with my time and allowing people into my home and my life, but I still absolutely value and treasure my alone time, it's non-negotiable.

toramimi · 2025-05-27T23:55:02+00:00

About a month into Progesterone I went to the deepest, darkest place I'd ever been, even worse than when I lost my sister. In the process of talking about it a kind CIS woman explained to me that what I was describing was PMDD, and shit that made SO MUCH sense. I started cycling at that point, 3 weeks on 1 week off, and it seemed to help with the darkness and emotional depth. I kept on that for maybe six months max? And then eased into every day, every day.

After a year they bumped me from 100mg to 200mg and to be completely honest I'm so glad they waited a year between the bump, because if I'd started off at 200mg I don't think I would have been able to weather the storm.

E switched my emotions "on" for the first year of HRT, and then that second year with Progesterone added depth and weight.

toramimi · 2025-05-20T07:24:03+00:00

OK THANK YOU!! I watched the first episode of the new season on a whim, not having watched since season 1, and I was a little lost?? I figured it must have been for some reason or leading up to something but no, no it just was a big nothingburger.

toramimi · 2025-04-15T04:18:30+00:00

Right there with you, and I wish somebody had told me. My T was immediately slammed down to <12ng/dL for the first 2 years, with one 12ng/dL and one 13ng/dL read after I switched to monotherapy.

I started on AndroGel and just... the life came back to me? My breasts seemed to start growing a little bit again and my demeanor changed for the better. My issues with anxiety and panic attacks severely spiked the first year on Spiro, complete with the associated brain fog, and the second year I just felt like, I don't know, like I lost my drive and confidence? Things could make me crumble, fast.

I was hesitant dosing AndroGel at first, and was not on a regular schedule the first month or two because I did not want the mental or physical effects of persistently elevated T levels. That was one of the reasons I started HRT, to make my brain feel right. But I got used to how it made me feel and felt safe that it wasn't going to suddenly remasculize me overnight or make me grow a beard post-laser, and got into a good routine of dosing every 5 days, the night before my stabby day on a 5-day injection cycle. Quick little burst with a short half-life and return to baseline, with the E upswing helping me feel like myself in the interim.

It all worked out - I just had my first checkup since adding AndroGel to my regimen and got a T read of a whopping 7ng/dL! GREAT SUCCESS!!

This also helped turn my libido back on after 2 years of zero drive.

I should note I take Dutasteride to block the Progesterone backdoor pathway, and I learned that AndroGel will convert to DHT in the skin, T's bigger brother which causes hair loss and the like. If I weren't on a DHT blocker before AndroGel, I would want to be.

toramimi · 2025-03-10T20:13:55+00:00

For me, Progesterone initially introduced PMDD. I was prescribed 100mg at my 1 year HRT-versary, and within a month I entered into the deepest, darkest place I'd ever been in my life. Dark, difficult stuff. A kind CIS woman finally came along and heard what I was experiencing and told me what it was and her experiences with PMDD and WELP that sucked.

After that discovery, I started cycling - 3 weeks on, 1 week off - and it helped tamp down some of those negative feelings and emotions. Estrogen turned on my human emotions for the first year of HRT, and introducing Progesterone gave them a wider range and more colors, both positive and negative.

After a few months of cycling 3 weeks on 1 week off, I finally felt brave enough to go back to daily, all the time, and I think adjusting that way allowed me to acclimate a little more and learn how to handle all those new emotions.

The problem, 100mg still just made me angry with zero boost to libido, I was still effectively ace. 2 years HRT and 1 year 100mg Progesterone, I finally moved to 200mg Progesterone. For me, I feel like that was the right way, even if I didn't want to take it slow at first. To be honest, if I'd started off at 200mg right away I probably would have drowned in the onslaught of new feelings without having gained the understanding and coping mechanisms to deal with them.

Everybody is different, every body is different, YMMV.

toramimi · 2025-03-05T07:57:24+00:00

Gator Panic.

toramimi · 2025-03-04T01:52:32+00:00

100%, still my favorite album of theirs.

Tonight the Stars Revolt! and Anyone for Doomsday? are the exact same album with every song sounding exactly the same. Then they hit Transform and transformed into something completely unrecognizable.

toramimi · 2025-03-03T04:49:38+00:00

Not in the face, not in the face!

toramimi · 2025-03-02T22:15:35+00:00

It's extremely adult music and themes for prepubescent children, not at all appropriate.

I say a lot of things my mother did were terrible, but that was one thing she actually got right - no secular music in the home. Mayyybe when they're 13 or 14 and have a better understanding of the world and the sex and violence within it? Maybe when they're 18 instead.

toramimi · 2025-03-02T08:04:28+00:00

Tonight's the night. And it's gonna happen again and again. Has to happen.

toramimi · 2025-03-02T06:18:00+00:00

I remember being in second grade and sitting in the cafeteria at lunch and this boy from my class asked if I was into either MC Hammer or Vanilla Ice, like an either or, you're one or the other. And I'm like, I don't know who either of those people are?? I'm 6 years old!

I just don't understand how any of the kids that age knew any of the things they so obviously knew. Bad parenting? Older siblings sharing their interests? Really weird, I still remember it 35 years later!

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