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2004-06-19 01:47:14 PM
Hello,
I've read that drugs used to combat precocious puberty are also used
in sex change -- I guess this is to help the transition -- female to
more neutral and then to male? I'm wondering if these drugs could be
used on someone who's post-pubescent (age 25), and not desiring a sex
change, but who does have hormone-related problems. Used long term.
I found out about these drugs while doing a search for non-surgical
breast reduction, and it got me thinking about one of my other
problems: acne. Am I right that what everyone with acne, no matter
their age, sex, diet, treatment, has in common is that it started at
puberty. What I'm hoping is that there's something that can be done
to turn off the hormone production that began at puberty that allows,
or causes, acne and that caused breasts to develope and causes them to
remain developed. I know that if this were possible, and allowed, and
I did it, I would be unable to reproduce but this isn't a concern to
me. Please will you tell me if this is possible, if it's allowed, and
what the drawbacks would be.
Thank you,
Ann
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Hormone adjustment is quite a complicated matter and can only really be
addressed adequately by a personal consultation with a physician who
specializes in such matters. It all depends on your state of health,
your current hormone balance, and what you wish to correct or achieve.
In some cases, it's not a matter of adding new hormones so much as
reducing the production or presence of existing hormones. Acne and
breast development, for example, are normal results of the _presence_ of
hormones, and so eliminating them would require eliminating the hormones
that cause them.
Acne does usually start around puberty, and it can persist for many
years in varying degrees.
Breast development is physiologically normal in girls at puberty and is
often the first sign of puberty. Breasts continue to develop slowly
until the mid-thirties under the influence of menstrual hormones, and
then very gradually shrink again until menopause, at which point they
shrink a lot more quickly.
Some degree of breast development (gynecomastia) is also not uncommon in
boys (about 50% show some evidence of it). Usually it's so mild that it
isn't really noticeable, but sometimes it's obvious enough or a person
is bothered enough by it that it needs to be addressed. Surgical
reduction of any breast development works well, and it's simple since
the development is usually pretty slight. Although hormones encourage
the development of the breast, they need not remain present for that
development to persist to some degree.
Some illnesses and drugs can cause breast development and/or acne, too.
I don't remember which ones influence the latter, but alcoholism,
marijuana use, cimetidine, certain types of tumors, and some other
factors come to mind for the former.
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Ann wrote:
in order to shrink your breasts and clear up your acne... and you are
only 25?
When you accidently leave food out on your counter and wakeup to
discover a million ants everywhere, do you spray poison everywhere or do
you throw the food out?
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