Baseline
October 15, 2009 by zoechan014
Okay, so this is the baseline, before any hormone-alterations. The first few parts will be strictly medical hard data. Afterwards, I’ll talk about my expectations.
Full Legal Name: Ihtzaz Zohaib Ahmed
Date of Birth: It’s on FaceBook >_>
Height: 169.4 cm
[The whole world uses the metric system. Deal with it! :p]
Weight: 68.18 kg
Body-Fat Percentage: 15.69%
Blood Pressure: 112/68 mmHg
Blood Chemistry, Lipid Profile, Metabolic Parameters, Thyroid Panel, Liver Panel: all normal, normal, normal…
Endocrinology:
Procedure FSH Estradiol Progesterone Testosterone Estrone DHEA Reference Range [0.7-11.1] [0-56] [0.0-0.8] [210-810] N/A [1.8-12.50] Units mIU/mL pg/mL ng/mL ng/dL pg/mL ng/mL Values 6.5 47 0.6 770 68 21.7 FSH is slightly below the reference range, estradiol and testosterone are both towards the higher end of normal. DHEA is way above the range, though. I wonder if all this means anything… But I really don’t care. I just want to see a low testosterone value when these tests are repeated in a few months.
Current Medical Conditions:
Bipolar Disorder Type II, Daytime Hypersomnolesence Secondary to Bipolar Disorder, IBS, and Migraine.
Current Medications: (everything in parentheses I added after looking them up ~ aph)
Lamictal 150 mg, twice daily. (seizure med, off label use for regulation of bi-polar moods)
Keppra 500 mg, twice daily. (seizure med, off label use for bi-polar treatment)
Remeron 30 mg, at bedtime. (depression)
Vyvanse 50 mg, in the morning. (ADHD)
Focalin 10 mg, one daily (I only take it if I need it, though.) (ADHD)
Coreg 6.25 mg, twice daily. (Treats heart failure and high blood pressure, but off label use to treat migraines)
Nimotop 30 mg, two capsules four times daily. (for brain hemorrhage, but off label use is for migraines, which she suffered from)
Proscar 5 mg, one daily. (common med for pre-op transition to female)
I’m not expecting any major changes in body contours, so I haven’t taken any of those measurements. On the other hand, I
am expecting changes in body composition. I will lose muscle mass, and may gain some fat; I’ll try counter that with exercise. I wish I could have gotten a bone density scan, but again, exercise keeps your bones strong. I’m going to give it at least a year (assuming that I don’t have to stop the medication, for whatever reason) before initiating the feminizing hormones. I
think that’s everything. If I forget something, I can always edit this post. But I won’t be touching it after I’ve taken the first dose.