Day 90 and week 13 approaching. I will take a couple of pictures on Friday, which is as close as possible to Christmas before I go on holiday or have the family around. In the meantime, I thought I'd make this post to talk about changes that happened in the past 2 weeks, some of which are super weird for me. I'm curious if I just have a bad case of pink fog or if others have experienced the same.
At the end of month 3 on 4mg Progynova, this is what I noticed:
1) Breasts are growing and rounding up a bit. I have a band 38 and a wide chest, so the change is not "WOW", but they are indeed growing and pushing out a bit. I have a horrible (for me) case of asimmetry and my right was always looking down. Now it's finally starting to wake up and look up a bit more. The nipple on my more developed side, that was always "looking straight out" is now looking up most of the time, meaning that the boob is filling up inside and underneat. The boob crease is now visible most of the time on both sides.
2) My band size is shrinking. I have yet to measure this, but my 38 bands are now comfortable if I hook the bras on the second line of hooks, while before I had to use the widest one. It's not a massive change but I haven't lost much weight otherwise, so I think it implies that my waistline is slowly changing to a more feminine one (albeit very slowly)
3) My bum and hips are slowly widening. It's subtle, but the top of my bum seems more "pillowy" than before. I still have quite a chubby "beer" belly, but if I wear something a bit more constricting, like a pair of pantyhose, the shape changes to a more wide-hip configuration. This kind of goes with point 2 on body changes and fat redistribution. I didn't expect to see this at month 3, tbh.
4) My downstairs is taking a hit
. It all worked well until last week but now it's a real struggle to wake it up. This is the one change I really really don't like, and I need to come up with something to keep the wife happy. Compared to Pueraria Mirifica, my erections died off in 3 months on E while it usually took just 3 weeks on PM. This gives me hope for the future and it's a clear indication that I will most likely drop PM and buy more E if I want to go on with further breast growth in the future.
5) My energy level is higher than normal. My body pains, some given by age and some from a broken ankle a few years back, are gone. I feel 10 years younger.
6) This is a weird one. I smell different. Not just I don't smell "manly", but I actually have the smell that my brain associates with a vagina. This thing surprises me every day. (Sorry for the details) When I come out of the shower and the steam enhances the smells in the air, there is a distinct smell of vagina in the air and I catch areas of my body that smell of that. I absolutely didn't expect this to happen.
7) The area on my areolas itch and hurt on and off. It goes from crazy itchy to a strong dull pain distributed across my chest but mostly under the areolas, to nothing at all. The skin around my areolas, more or less in a circle surround tin areolas one inch wider than the areolas themselves, is changing in texture. It dries more quickly and it now becomes harder when the areola is... erect? It's like I have erections in my nipples. As gross at it sounds, I think that this is exactly what it is, and it is not just about the nipples anymore but the whole area around them. A couple of days ago, during one of these "erections" caused just by brushing my boobs against the edge of the table, it was as if my whole areola turned into a giant mountain with the nipple on top. I have seen this in women, but I didn't expect that to happen to me.
Bottom line: it's a weird ride. I expected some changes along the way but they seem to be all coming up at the same time. Probably the fact that my downstairs is sleeping is a sign that estrogen is at a high level and T is low. I won't do blood tests because I will stop E at the end of January (when I run out), but I suspect that I am at the stage where things happen because my levels are on point.