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That's good news ^^; did you have any weird side effects before or after yours stopped? Like cramps without bleeding or vise versa? I'm sorry if that's too personal, you definitely don't have to answer!
My period was usually heavy and lasted a full 7 days. When I started T I may have had a normal period but then got light spotting after. Though I can't remember for sure.
Every now and then (definitely not as often as once a month) I will get some painful cramps that are like menstrual cramps, but they only last for like 5 minutes and are done. I don't even know if that's related to T or PMS or something else entirely, but if it is and that's the price I gotta pay, so be it, I prefer it 100000000% over actual menstruation.
During the first year, my period came back (by spotting) IMMEDIATELY if I was late on a shot. I remember I had the beginning of a light period only 1-2 days late on a shot once. I just about cried. Nowadays though I can be super late (been as late as 5 days before) and nothing happens. I am supposed to take a shot once every 2 weeks.
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I remember that there was one case of a man getting pregnant post-transition, back in the early 2000s, and everyone was framing it as "medical mystery! this MAN is preggo! but that's cause he used to be a woman lololol", etc. I'm pretty sure it was being called an anomaly anyways, though, so I'm under the impression that it isn't to be expected at all.
It can happen and if it does there may be birth defects. But it has not been studied extensively so nobody knows for sure how it works.
MAYBE if you use T for a long time, used the pull out method properly...
maybe. I'd at least feel safer with that than just blowing the load inside and going 'whelp lol no period means no baby!'
Personally I'm so against pregnancy for myself that I've always insisted that if something happens they're helping to pay for the abortion. I know people say don't use abortion as a BC method. But... Yeah I totally did, because I was ignorant about condoms. And the pull out method is definitely not awesome either but it's at least better than cumming inside.
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My boyfriend and I just both happen to be those people who think condoms are the worst ever so it'd really suck to have to use them forever due to lack of alternatives.
A lot of it has to do with the sizing of condoms. If you you can get the right size it can be great (or so I'm told).
http://www.theyfit.co.uk
Unfortunately this is where the US falls behind. US has standardized sizes. While EUR has gotten with the program and are sex positive, USA has not and shipping laws prevent any of the EUR companies from shipping condoms over to the USA. However you can get a friend to forward to you or use a forward service (the usa link on theyfit recommends a forward service to use).
Of course this doesn't solve your "cost" problem at all and I don't know if they're latex free. But "custom condom" is a google search away for you and there's a lot of different (non-usa, unfortunately) services.
That being said, I found a link for bulk non latex condoms (For the US) to go with what I said earlier.
http://www.condomdepot.com/product/catalog.cfm/nid/209
You could also try
a sampler? Though $20 for 10 condoms seems a bit much.
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Wonder if my current doctor would know anything about taking hormones and using semi-permanent birth control at the same time, or if that would be a better question for a doctor who actually had experience with HRT
confused I've heard of FtMs on T that use IUDs but I imagine it'd be really difficult (and expensive) to find a non-hormonal one. Also the side effects of EVERY BC method scare me off. an IUD would be even harder to get rid of if I had one and didn't want it anymore.
That being said, I just don't have sex anymore...
Pregnancy and STDs scare the s**t out of me.
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