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[TaraJo]

For example; does the lack of testosterone make them less physically strong over time?

Oh, yeah, I actually have a couple of stories about that.

I started hormone treatment in November 2008, so since then, I've had very little testosterone in me and the majority of the change from lack of testosterone happened pretty quick.

Nov `08 was also around when the recession hit and I was out of work for a while. When I did find work again, I was working in a nursing home as a nurse aide. I had done this work before and I enjoyed it. Thing was, when I did the work before, I had that testosterone going through my system; now I didn't. I was supposed to grab the other side of a sheet with a resident on it to lift him to a higher position in the bed, right? Plan was, count to three, lift and pull. One..... Two..... Three! I lift and..... waitaminute...... he's a whole lot heavier than he looks. It wasn't that I couldn't do it as much as the jobs that were physically easy before were now quite difficult.

Later on, I went to the store to do some shopping. I was going to buy a 24 pack of Pepsi. I had grabbed those things several times, walked all over the store and never had trouble with it. However, all those times were 'before.' Now when I tried it was much more difficult; I think I dropped the first case I grabbed on the floor just because I was a little off guard about how heavy it would feel.

Do they find the way they approach certain situations to be radically different? Does their personality change in anyway, shape or form?

It's changed me quite a bit, but it varies for everyone. Before, testosterone made me angry and violent all the time; I hated it. Now most of that anger is gone and violence is pretty limited to video games for me as of now. I cry easier too, which I like if you can believe that; it's an emotional release that I didn't feel like I had before.

Although, for a while, those emotional changes were a bit overwhelming. Combined with the fact that my life was a mess (homeless, penniless, dumped by family), I was really unstable. My left forearm is covered in scars from self harm; I haven't done any of that since November 2009, but for a while there it was really tough.