Periods... (Ftm/transmasculine, etc.)

Until I started T, I took birth control for a while to keep it away. It helped for a while, and I recommend considering that if you can't get on hormone blockers.

 

Wow 16 and still no curse! Lucky you. I was only just 14 when I started. Yep the pill back to back will stop periods entirely. The coil, injection and implant are meant to do the same thing but I've had no joy with them. Not familiar with American law; does your parent have to know if you go to a doctor or family planning place?

 

I was 13... And immediatelly got quite awful period anxiety that lasted for a couple of years. But then... I just learned to... ignore it. There was a trip abroad from my school I really wanted to go to. I calculated that I will have period during it, but went anyway. It was a tough one, not much access to bathroom, sleeping a couple of days here, a couple of days there, lots of walking, and carrying a heavy bag. Of course, I did get that period on the trip. But I was so fascinated with what we were doing, I was so busy with other things, that I just took painkillers and forgot about it. Also, I was thinking secretly to myself that I'm a wounded soldier or Indiana Jones kind of person, and I'm tough, and it's an element of the adventure. The anxiety, which I and everyone else mistook for PMS, and which also made my periods much more painful, never came back since then.

 

Wow, sixteen and no period? There might be a chance you won't get one at all and you might have some sort of hormone thing. I know that's pretty late these days. I'm not a doctor obviously, but I think I remember reading somewhere that that is around the end of when it is normal to start and after sixteen you might want to see a doctor about it.

 

You might not ever get it. I've read several stories of intersex people that only found out they're intersex because they never got a period.

If the worry is that bad, go back to the doctor's and ask about options. You don't have to explain your gender, just say the idea of having a cycle is causing you distress. If the doctor shrugs you off and tells you to stop worrying or 'it isn't so bad', go to another doctor.

 

I don't like my period and would want it to get away. But birth control is not the way for me. I am 17 years old and haven't touched a pill of this stuff. It contains female hormones after all and these do absolutely not belong in my body.

 

My advice worry about them when you get them; no point worrying otherwise. If you don't start them and the doctor wants you to take hormones you are allowed to say no.

 

I got mine a few weeks after I turned 11 and emerry is completely right - keep busy and try to ignore them. After the first few times they start being annoying rather than anything else so if I were you I'd just revel in the fact that I don't have them yet and try not to worry.

 

I started when I was 12 but still only have 4 per year. :/ Really, they're just an annoyance- as long as nobody notices though I don't feel too bad. X_X I get tons of dysphoria when I'm "found out".

 

Oh my god I hate my period so muuuuuuuuch! It's never lined up with being male for me yet but it's only a matter of time. Periods, to be honest, are not as bad as they sound, though...sure it sucks to have blood coming out of...stuff but you just lay low, relax for 5 (or some other number, for me it's 5) days until it's over. I'm usually agender when it happens and it does suck but it's not the end of the world.