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Obviously these things are highly individual, but my personal experience totally aligns with this article. I’m a transgender woman and when I started taking est

by elil17 8y ago

Obviously these things are highly individual, but my personal experience totally aligns with this article. I’m a transgender woman and when I started taking estrogen my pain tolerance increased noticeably over the course of about a month. Stubbing my toe just doesn’t bother me like it used to

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vanderZwan 8y ago
I wonder if this knowledge can be used "in reverse", like testing for both pain pathways to determine one's biological sex in a less binary way. Perhaps that would give a better indication of which type of treatments will work best on an individual level, even beyond just pain relief.
- Raphmedia 8y ago
  While those kind of research help show that gender and sex are on a spectrum and not binaries, I really doubt that you could use this to accurately pinpoint someone on it.
Raphmedia 8y ago
(I'm also a transgender woman.) It seems like different kinds of pain affect me differently. Stubbing my toes or getting slapped has never been painful to me, but I've had messed up hormone levels all my life. This seem to have stayed the same. The pains from doing exercises really lowered. Muscle cramps after going to the gyms are much more easier to ignore. However I've noticed that since my main hormone is estrogen other kinds of pain are really painful. Cold hurts a lot, to the point where I had to change my winter wardrobe. I've also noticed that the pain that comes from laser hair removal also increased but that may be due to the skin getting thinner and more sensitive. There's definitively more of an emotional weight to pain now. Stubbing my toes will make me very angry, tripping might make me sad, etc. Before my transition, it was all the same annoying dull emotion of "ow, I'm in pain". Sometimes, I carry the emotional pain a bit longer than the physical pain. Reliving that same emotion later can bring back the physical pain. Hormones are fun!
tziki 8y ago
That's interesting, most studies on humans find that women have a lower pain tolerance than men.

by elil17 8y ago

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vanderZwan 8y ago

I wonder if this knowledge can be used "in reverse", like testing for both pain pathways to determine one's biological sex in a less binary way. Perhaps that would give a better indication of which type of treatments will work best on an individual level, even beyond just pain relief.

Raphmedia 8y ago
While those kind of research help show that gender and sex are on a spectrum and not binaries, I really doubt that you could use this to accurately pinpoint someone on it.

Raphmedia 8y ago

(I'm also a transgender woman.) It seems like different kinds of pain affect me differently. Stubbing my toes or getting slapped has never been painful to me, but I've had messed up hormone levels all my life. This seem to have stayed the same. The pains from doing exercises really lowered. Muscle cramps after going to the gyms are much more easier to ignore. However I've noticed that since my main hormone is estrogen other kinds of pain are really painful. Cold hurts a lot, to the point where I had to change my winter wardrobe. I've also noticed that the pain that comes from laser hair removal also increased but that may be due to the skin getting thinner and more sensitive. There's definitively more of an emotional weight to pain now. Stubbing my toes will make me very angry, tripping might make me sad, etc. Before my transition, it was all the same annoying dull emotion of "ow, I'm in pain". Sometimes, I carry the emotional pain a bit longer than the physical pain. Reliving that same emotion later can bring back the physical pain. Hormones are fun!

tziki 8y ago

That's interesting, most studies on humans find that women have a lower pain tolerance than men.