Hi everyone- I was just wondering if anyone else has had any investigations into their hormones? I am 34, female, look very feminine and am healthy in every other way. Having always had irregular periods (once every year or so which to be honest I was quite happy about- they are such a nuisance!) I decided to investigate. I have always identified as asexual- just no sexual attraction to ANYTHING! Anyway all the hormones are low- 'non-existent' to quote the doctor (FSH, LH, oestrodiol, progestin)...... Further investigations are now following. Could this be related to being asexual- chicken? egg? What are other people's feelings/experiences?
Hormone investigations
Wed, 14/07/2010 - 8:14am
Thu, 26/08/2010 - 7:35pm
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Hi Dianne35
Your story is very interesting and goes to show how powerful hormones can be over our behaviour. I haven't had free testosterone tested- although the doctor made me get a pituitary MRI, bone density scan and a whole swag of blood tests- results still to come- so maybe testosterone is something in the mix there. I am very wary of messing with hormone levels- especially hearing cases like yours and my own experience of when I was on the pill to regulate periods- just a complete basket case.
Have you noticed any change in the 4 years since you came off the drug? Any improvement?
Thank you for sharing your experience.
Hi Bilby,
I'm insulin resistant with a past history of PCOS. As per usual with this, I'd always had abnormally high testosterone and no doubt because of that, was highly arousable and sexed.
Then, 4 yrs ago, I was pressured by a doctor to take a drug to combat the excess testosterone. Within weeks, my testosterone had dropped to less than a third of what it was (to what is *considered* 'normal' level for a woman), but it seems the drug did more than that - that it actually BLOCKED the action of the testosterone that was left. As a result the drug killed everything! And I was left to just deal with this massive change, some doctors flat out denying it could even occur, despite my experience and new research evidence I found on the internet later. I rather suspect that the drug has clicked into the testosterone receptors in the neurons in my brain, and in that way, has blocked the action of the remaining testosterone. Maybe it doesn't happen to everyone, but if it happens to *anyone* they ought to take it seriously - if only because it would be a pathway to new discoveries. There are thousands of examples of idiosyncratic effects of drugs and things going differently for a minority to the majority.
Did you get your FREE testosterone tested?
I have trouble chasing my situation up further since it was a so-called 'hormone expert' who foisted this drug upon me in the first place. (A hormone expert who didn't even understand the process of how insulin resistance progresses to type 2 diabetes as explained by Dr Sandra Cabot - she just rubbished that knowledge!).
Upshot is, it's not just affected ability to be aroused, but ability to fantasise (which research shows is correlated with testosterone!), and ahem ... physical functioning as well. Even things as everyday as kissing someone you are romantically in love with, I now realise have a testosterone surge behind them. People have no idea what a huge effect a TOTAL lack of testosterone - or blocking of it, has.
As a result, I've wondered if maybe some asexuals have an innate blockage of testosterone from birth.