Hello it is me ChaseyPoo and today, I am going to talk about
Something that I've been on for a year
And it's transition-related
Also, my house is like really crooked so every time I film behind here - I know that it looks crooked
especially on this side
But you have no idea the camera lens like makes it like that and the wall is actually straight
And this is straight and like it's on an angle, but my apartments on an angle. I can't do anything about it - So I'm sorry
partially one of the reasons why I don't film in front of a cat wall anymore. Cause the lens makes it--
ANYWAYS! I don't usually make transition updates anymore because
Unless it's like a year-on.. a year on T Lol. every year on T. Or my picture every day, and then my top surgery which is coming up my date
Not my actual surgery like five years
but anyways I,
Last year had to like do something transition-related
And I just wanted to update because I feel like a lot of people have been asking questions and stuff like that so yeah
So what's going on?
Well, I have had some bleeding issues for like I don't know two and a half years
So they put me on Progesterone pills, which I took every day, which was supposed to help with the bleeding and it did help
but I didn't have any bleeding until like
I started to get bleeding like three times or something in one month, and it was just too much for me
So I talked to my endocrinologist, I was like I don't know what to do
I don't want a hysterectomy okay, and I've made so many videos about this in the past
I don't need a hysterectomy. Medically you don't need a hysterectomy unless there is something medically wrong with you
And there's nothing wrong with me in those parts at all like everything is okay
And I don't want to have a hysterectomy because it's just another surgery and I don't recover well from surgery--look
It's a long line, and I just don't want to have surgery
Okay, so he told me that the only thing that I could do is go on hormone blockers
And that's what I did. So a little over a year, actually I've been on it
I just didn't realize that it had been a year, and I forgot to make this video and now I'm making it now
So don't be mad at me, but anyways
I started to take
The hormone blocker and I took it every month I did that every month one until I realized that there's an every three month one
And I was like, can you please put me on that one? So, he was a bit hesitant?
I don't know why, but he put me on the three months. I don't want to get poked every month like-
Hello? Around the time that I switched to the three-month injection is when I also switched the
administration of testosterone to my body so I usually do the gel the testosterone gel
And I put it on my shoulder and that's good. There was something new that had come out
It was like a nasal gel for testosterone, and I was like no one's talked about this
No, one's tried this. I want to try this, I want to talk about it on Youtube so I decided to try it
Mmm-Mmm [like bad not good] also made a video about this. It did not go well for me
Okay, the amount that you would have to put and snort up your nose
I swear to God is way too much and this product is not covered by my insurance in Canada
It's not covered yet, so it was gonna
Be really, really expensive like $250 a month
But by the amount of things that they needed like I needed to squirt it in my nose
They probably would have ended up being more than that because you have to put it in your nose in one nostril and the other nostril
I did it once a day because that's what I was told
But I looked at the packaging and it says three times a day
So I was only doing it one time a day. And because of that I was not getting any testosterone in my body
But, I was also on the hormone blockers
Which means I also didn't have any estrogen in my body so what happens to the body when there are no hormones?
HOT
FLASHES!
Literally, I just got so many hot flashes, and it's not because of the hormone blocker
adverse reaction to the hormone blocker
It's completely normal your body needs hormones so because I didn't get enough testosterone in my body and I my body no longer produced
estrogen from my ovaries I
Was just left to get hot flashes like 12 times a day, and they were Bad like oOoh.
So I decided to get my testosterone levels checked. I'm like I know
I'm low okay
Because my testosterone levels have been like up and downs and like really low in the last like year and a half
And I have no idea why?
So I looked at and I knew it and I knew and my level was literally like 3.8 which is
SO low I'm supposed to be between 19 and 21 we use a different measurement in Canada
You can actually like literally Google conversion to what you do with the 300 to 1000. That's what you guys do in the States
And then you-you can just like convert it to ours if you want to know
But I was just at a very low level
That's like a level like where cis women are at like even lower because I also didn't have any testosterone and like people who have
Ovaries also produce testosterone, but I just wasn't because --I just -- I don't look there was a little bit testosterone
I don't know. What was going on
It had nothing to do with the hormone blocker though, so that was great so basically
This is my voice one year on hormone blockers
I have been completely fine being on it for a year it has done what it's supposed to do it has suppressed my estrogen
Which is great because that's what I needed. I have had literally no issues with bleeding, which is great
And now I'm kind of had a good like mix of my testosterone levels and my
Estrogen levels and stuff like that so that's great except for one thing
I don't know why I just said estrogen because that's the problem. That's the one thing, okay?
I have been completely fine on this, but I just had my appointment like three days ago
And he told me that the protein that they use to measure bone density or bone protein or something like that is not good
Right now like it's it's at a level. That's like if it stays at this level for awhile
It's a bit concerning. So because my body is no longer producing estrogen all the body's need -- you need estrogen in your body
Okay, but my body is completely like not-- take-- I don't have any so my bones are kind of not--
Deteriorating, but like I need to really be careful and
So what my endocrinologist
Wanted to do is to up my testosterone level so that my testosterone levels are higher and will convert to estrogen
But the issue with that is that my hemoglobin is too high so my blood is thicker or something red blood cells. It's a lot
And the problem with that is that that is a bit high, it's at 171
And I think like the max that's on this scale is 175, so I'm not a super high risk like it's not bad
But I'm up there and I've been up there for a while now, and it's not great my cholesterol is amazing
But the issue is that he can't up my testosterone levels because if he does that my hemoglobin will go up and the only thing
That you can do to lower hemoglobin is to like take less testosterone which I can't do that or give blood but
But here's the thing. I'm not eligible to give blood.
Technically I am in Quebec in like six months or something I'm allowed
But I don't know the rules are very confusing, but I just looked it up
And it seems like in six months I can so the only thing other thing that I could do right now
If I'm really nervous about it is to do
Bloodletting where I literally just go to a clinic and they just suck my blood out and then they throw it away
This is perfectly good blood
Can you just take it and give it to someone who needs it?
So I guess I'm just gonna have to wait until I'm eligible and do that
But here's the thing as I almost pass out every time I do a little blood test where they take like little vials out of me
Can you imagine them taking a liter out of me?
But some people have said that they've only had to take like they have only had to do the bloodletting whatever or the blood donation
Once and then they were fine, so I'm like please I really hope that that's what happens anyway
So that's basically my whole story with that
I will keep you updated on how my testosterone levels are my hemoglobin and stuff like that, but my endocrinologist doesn't seem super
anxious about it or worried so that makes me feel better and
It's just because I have a lot of heart disease in my family, and it's like blood clots and stuff
and it's just really scary but
Anyways, so that's it. The hormone blockers are working
I'm going to stay on them a lot of people ask like do you have to stay on them forever?
If I go off of them, I might have issues with bleeding again
so I could either go back to taking progesterone or I can just deal with the bleeding if it does happen OR
I Can get a hysterectomy so right now
it's kind of like a chemically gotten a hysterectomy kind of a little bit kind of because
I- My ovaries aren't producing any estrogen, so it's like they're not there
and if I had a hysterectomy, then they wouldn't be there either so
and I'm talking about like a total hysterectomy, where they take everything out so technically
I - Like this because I have a choice to not have a hysterectomy, even though my body is kind of doing
It's just scary it
Just it scares me to like one day there's an apocalypse and there's no testosterone and like I don't know what to do or like
I can't afford the testosterone. I don't have insurance something happens. I'm on vacation
I don't know, and I'm on the hormone blockers therefore my body no longer has hormones
And I have to deal with those hot flashes again
And then if you, you can't just be no hormones for like a long period of time it's not very good for you
Like years, it just scares me, okay
I have a lot of anxiety and like this isn't something that I want to deal with so yeah
Anyways! That's all I wanted to say for today. Thank you so much for joining me! If you have any questions about hormone blockers
Please go ahead and ask I'll link the video below where I did the Trans 101
Where I talk about hormone blockers because they are typically used for Trans teens or teens or like youth that have
Precocious puberty, I think that that's the first word yeah
We're like puberty starts like way too early
So they like AAahAh so they take the hormone blocker to like pause them until they like get to a range where people start puberty
But there are adults also who take it
And I don't know many people who my age or who have been on testosterone for almost eight years who are on hormone blockers?
But I'm here to tell you that I am and it's okay
And I don't know if you're on it and let me know okay. I'll see you later. Have a great day. Bye! [Mouth click]