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Kitsukrou

How to best predict how my body will react to T?

I am most likely going to be starting testosterone within a few months, and am looking forward to it. However, there are a few things I worry about, such as becoming excessively hairy, skin roughness, male pattern baldness, and acne. This is because I don't want my appearance to become massively different from how it is now, I want to look more masculine by only a small or moderate amount. I am looking forward to changes such as fat redistribution, a deepening voice, increased muscle mass, and a faster metabolism. Nothing other than that, really.

I am wondering what the best way to predict my body's reactions to T will be (I realize that it's difficult to predict these things without a doubt, I just want to know how to make the most likely predictions)

Here's some info that you may or may not need to help me predict things: I am 17 years old, I am 5'6" tall, weigh 125 lbs, am overall slim (but slightly chubby on my upper legs and butt), have a somewhat faster than average metabolism for a biological female, and am not very muscular but not really physically weak either. I'm a little bit hairier than an average biological female.

Is looking at my father's genetics a good way to help determine what will happen to me? Do the mother's genetics play any role when it comes to the effects of T? If it's effects will align closer with my father's genetics, I am not very worried about anything because he is not a very hairy person, does not have a bad history with acne, and has almost no male pattern baldness despite being 59 years old.

If testosterone somehow makes things skew towards my mother's side, I am worried as her hair began turning white when she was only 18 (I currently have no sign of this happening, my hair exclusively resembles my father's hair in terms of color and texture) and she has almost always had a lot of trouble with retaining unwanted weight despite trying to get rid of it.

I just want to know how often and to what degree someone's parents genetics effect how testosterone will effect someone, and what relatives to look to to help determine what the effects are most likely to be.

Posted Feb 17, 2017, 3:23 AM UTC

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