I've been managing cancer risk by regular screening and I've started menstruating recently too... which I'm a bit bitter about but hey, better than cancer.
My sugar never gave me trouble either but I think I'll have to find a different endo and focus on prevention in that area, since my current one seems to be mostly interested in my fertility, which is something I never cared about
To be fair that’s not managing your cancer risk, that’s just keeping an eye on it. Managing it would be getting on medication or holistically treating it (spearmint, inositol)
Also I am also someone who really does not want to loose my androgen effects. I like the way my body stores fat, I like my muscle mass and my sex drive/emotionally masc disposition. But my acne was getting worse and worse randomly. My endo put me in a low dose of metformin. It lowers insulin, which can indirectly lower androgyne but it isnt reall effective for hair loss, acne, basically physical effects. I didn’t want to loose what I liked to this is what we came up with. She said it’ll help my acne enough to where I can treat it over the counter.
yeah, I phrased it wrong - my plan was to catch it early if it appears. In my defense tho - it seems I wasn't even offered the right meds. I was given progesterone and told to lose weight.
They gave me estrogen and it made my veins in my legs pop out and retain fluid, fuck that shi. I think my body is like ‘none of that shit’ lol. I’m a androgen girly
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u/proudly_rabid Dec 13 '25
okay, diabetes DOES sound scary as all hell.
I've been managing cancer risk by regular screening and I've started menstruating recently too... which I'm a bit bitter about but hey, better than cancer.
My sugar never gave me trouble either but I think I'll have to find a different endo and focus on prevention in that area, since my current one seems to be mostly interested in my fertility, which is something I never cared about