GenderLife Forum: The Information Exchange

I have had a real strange thing happen to me in the past week since my Orchi. For years since I started puberty I started having chest pains that got worse as I developed, it eventually became complete muscular pain in all my bodies muscles. Well since Tuesday these pains have been easing. As of today I no longer am in physical pain with those muscles. I'm starting to think that I have had some kind of allergic reaction towards the testosterone that my body was producing. Now that I think back this started around 11 1/2 years of age just as I entered puberty and became sexually active. I need to know if anyone else has suffered from symptoms similar to this and if they stopped with SRS or Orchiectomy? This is very important to me and maybe others of us.

I'd be more inclined to think it was stress/anxiety related.
Having your testes removed has likely eased a lot of tension and given you a general feeling of accomplishment.
How come you never had the muscular pain investigated?

I actually have been a patient in the Muscular Dystrophy Association clinic up until two weeks ago when I was released. But I've had these chest pains and muscle pains every since I was 11 years old and now there gone. The only thing that has changed is now I don't have the little bastards producing testosterone in me now the chest pains and muscle pain is gone as well. I never hurt like this when I was younger before puberty. As a matter of fact I was the fastest running in my school up to the 9th grade when I ran the mile in 4:48 and the next year I could not even complete 1 lap 1/4 mile because of severe chest pain like a heart attack kept me from doing it. I got gradually worse until I was 24 when I entered the hospital with a CPK level of 11,000 normal tops at 116, I had a case of Rabdomolisis that almost took my kidney's. Yes I agree stress probably had a big role with this because up until I went on HRT I had allot of stress problems but those melted away as I became happier with myself and at peace. Allot of my muscle problems had eased as well on the Androgen blockers. But the chest pains did not stop until the little bastards where cut out of me.

Sounds pretty far fetched to me.
And talk about oversharing.

It might be over sharing Vexing but I'm trying to figure out what has caused me a lifetime of pain only to be taken away with my orchi.

We can't be for sure, but, I am guessing it is all in your head. Literally.

Also, I should say.... you would not be the first transperson to have physical symptoms alleviate after transitioning. I have heard many people that had a history of pain disorders, depression, etc... that subside after transition. I would say that what you are experiencing is not directly related to your orchie in a physical sense.

That's a strong possibility and anyone who says there is no mind/body connection knows nothing about human physiology.