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Tales From The Lost Girl (pt.9): The Pill.

12:20 am Friday, 23rd December, 2011

I started on hormone pills when I was 19. I don't actually know what effect (if any) they had. My skin was already girly smooth, there was never much hair on my face and it was never course, my boobs started to grow when I was 10 or 11 [I think - they never actually got all that big and I always thought that they'd stopped growing because I was horrified that someone would 'find me out'] and the hormones hardly increased their size at all. In the long term they've kept me looking a lot younger than my age, they've helped me pile on weight (although the weight is in the right places - hips, thighs, boobs, bum) and they've introduced me to the joys of migraines. They also effect your emotions; mine were all over the place.
I started off on a contraceptive pill called Diane, but this was changed when I moved to London to stuff called Premarin. I started hearing bad stuff about how Premarin was made and got it changed to oestradiol valerate. The oestradiol's main side-effect is migraines and the frequency is creeping up again - looks like I'll have to go back to Premarin. I have to keep taking hormones even after the operation due to the increased likelihood of osteoporosis if I stop. It's a bit of a Catch 22!
Things that the pills don't affect are beard growth (I never had much), Adam's apple (I never had one), shoe size (my bugbear! I do have big feet) and voice pitch (mine wasn't particularly low, but singing along to Siouxsie & The Banshees got the level up - thank-you Siouxsie Sioux!).



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