I am back with an update after about two months of taking only PM and WP. The side effects and discomfort I experienced early on (some leg cramps, weird temperature fluctuations) disappeared pretty quickly. My sex drive and function bounced back in a big way and my skin stopped feeling so soft and my nipples started to return to normal, so I gradually upped my PM dose before settling at 1000mg twice a day. After finishing two bottles of the first cheap brand I found on Amazon my skin had become soft again and my nipples went back to being perpetually sore and erect. I also continued to try to gain weight to see how that would work. In the first month or so of this experiment I quickly put on ten+ pounds. As others mentioned in this thread, I knew not to expect any major redistribution of fat. As I mentioned in my initial post, however, my chest was looking as flabby as it was when I was a good 20 pounds heavier, and despite gaining weight and seeing it in my face and my ass I was pleasantly surprised to find that I was not storing belly fat the way you would expect for a male in his thirties that comes from a family of obese men with huge bellies.
Things quickly escalated when I tried a new brand on Amazon (which of course is now unavailable, so I will have to switch again). Within several days of switching brands I had noticed a drastic change to my skin. Last week I noticed that my extremely achey and sensitive right nipple was puffed out a bit, and there was a painful little mass underneath. Yesterday I realized my left nipple had followed suit, and I was inspired to log in here and check in. Also in the last week I started experiencing serious sexual dysfunction again, so I think it's safe to say the supplements are doing their thing. I still don't know how far I'll be taking this or what my end goal is, but I feel great.
My favorite change so far has been the way my body looks and feels. It's very subtle, but I cannot believe how slim my waist is compared to my hips. I took my measurements for my wife to make something for me last September when I weighed a bit less than I do now. My hips were 39 inches and my waist was 31 inches, which is already a somewhat feminine ratio. My hips have always been narrow but I've been blessed with a bubble butt, which accounted for my 39 inch hips despite being so slim. My measurements today are 41 and 31. The numbers don't seem vastly different until you think about the implications of gaining two inches to your hips and ass while your gut stays relatively unchanged. When I first started gaining weight I had noticed that extra flab in my chest and eventually I did indeed start to store fat in my gut, but in the last few weeks with this new brand of PM my chest and stomach look great again. Soft, but definitely not flabby. When I started taking PM I was hardly the toned, muscular specimen I was in my mid-20's but I still had very masculine-looking muscle definition in a few places, particularly my arms and shoulders. That's rapidly disappearing. I'd say my thighs are looking curvier and bigger but I think they're actually just a little less muscular.
I had assumed that some of the changes to my muscles and fat distribution I have experienced so far would take 6-12 months, not 9 weeks. My ass and hips looks like they did when I was 185 lbs, while my stomach looks more like when I'm 165 lbs. My pants fit differently, and if they cannot sit higher on my hips than I used to wear them then I cannot wear them. This is true even of pants that I have been able to wear at my absolute heaviest. My wife knew that I was experimenting with some of these supplements, but the other day she demanded to know what workout I had been doing to have my pants fit the way they were. The truth is that despite my intentions to accompany PM with a workout routine, I have not intentionally exercised since I started this whole thing. I don't know why I have gotten such good results, or whether they can be partially attributed to some other factor like my nutrition or the medications I am on. I've wondered if I'm just genetically inclined to be more sensitive to these hormonal changes, as I have noticed from lurking here that some people have their breast buds start to develop within a month while others might need higher doses for six months before they see similar results.
I feel a growing sense of dread, as at some point in the future I will have to start taking breaks or stop altogether if I want my sex life to continue as it is and if I don't want to have visible breasts. As it stands right now the changes are probably invisible to everyone but my wife, who occasionally mentions how silky and soft I feel lately and still suspects I am hiding a secret butt workout from her. She knows why my nipples are more pronounced and what I've been doing, but I think she was pretty skeptical that there would be substantial changes. I'm sure she is slowly coming around. I love these small changes and am not thrilled by the idea of losing them.