Well, where to start?
I guess I identify as female... certainly I'm married to a heterosexual male!
As a child I was definately a tomboy and have always found it hard fitting in with girly-girls but that's partly cos I was so much bigger than everyone else... tricky swapping clothes and shoes with the other 8/9year olds when you're already bigger than the teacher... I was 5'6 at 8yrs and already 6'0 by 11yrs...anyway I digress. I must identify as female cos I used to get upset if people mistook me for male! besides all my bits look female! Unless I've always identified as inter?
When I got the second hernia last year and the testicle, that had been forgotton/left behind, was removed (malignant seminoma and all) I felt pretty low and my sex drive dropped... I figured at first that it wasn't too surprising considering everything I was going through (I'd also just been made redundant and we had to sell our house and move...hence how I got the hernia... lifting heavy boxes).
Then I got to reading articles about AIS and different intersex conditions mainly from coming here and hearing about the tough times people here were having. I read about the effects of not having testosterone (thanks to peaceandparty's postings) and wondered if maybe I was PAIS and just no-one told me yet... or the tests hadn't been done properly?
Anyways... still don't know for sure yet, hence all the blood tests etc. but the upshot is that I have heard that CAIS women are lately finding that oestrogen alone may not be enough and I wanted to find out from an expert... don't know yet what my current testosterone levels are... if they're "normal" bag goes that theory!!
Well I'll keep you posted... to be honest I'm not sure if it won't turn out to be some wierd placebo test..... yes rub the cream in and it'll all feel much better
HeHeHe LOL
See this site... I'm referring to third paragraph in section titled "does it do more harm than good"
http://www.medhelp.org/www/ais/32_GDCTOMY.HTM
I also like this site for it's easy to follow explanation but without dumbing down!
http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/g...gendertest.swf
Well thaks again... sorry this is a bit of a long messy posting
Jos