In June of 2018 I was asked to be a part of an ongoing study on XXY males at the NIH (National Institute of Health). I was told I would have all travel paid for and would spend a week at the NIH in Bethesda Maryland with the Top doctors and fellows and receive a comprehensive outline of EVERYTHING my Body was facing with being XXY.
I arrived alone in Bethesda Maryland eager to help the future of my syndrome and eager to finally have some answers about how my body was reacting and changing due to the syndrome.
By Wednesday of that week i had an emotional breakdown and had to call my parents for support. Hell, I called a lot of people for support.
To catch you up to speed every minute of every hour had some kind of testing
MRI Chest, Abdomen, Pelvis, Scrotum, Brain
MRA Same with and without Contrast
EKG
EEG
Neurological
Hearing
Vision
Dental
Skin Biopsy
DEXA Scan
Hormone Testing
Different Analysis
Physiological
Meet with a genetic counselor
I did not take anyone with me to the study, but can see in hindsight WHY that would be beneficial.
On Wednesday I had Hormone levels tested and a discussion with the endocrinologist on the study board. These are some of the things he said about XXY.
“We are doing a huge disservice to Medical Students whom we allow to focus on 1 specific type of medicine because we fail to teach them that many factors can be causing the symptoms.”
“Up until as early as 2016 , Doctors were telling Clients who knew they were having an XXY baby to abort or have the baby and fly blindly through Life!”
“Here at the NIH we have been researching XXY and other variants since 2014 and still everyday is a learning curve.”
In one of my earlier post i had mentioned bat 22 i had a prostate cancer scare and was advised to get of Testosterone Therapy. The Endo at NIH said ” Had your Dr at the time known anything about XXY like we do now, he would of suggested you start Estrogen therapy because your body isn’t responding to testosterone..but he didn’t know…we didn’t know.”
I found out that day I had Lupus and Osteoporosis of the Lower Back and Spine I also was diagnosed with Epilepsy. It was their recommendation that I start on Estrogen immediately and the amount they needed to give me to stave of the Lupus and Osteoporosis was going to cause me to fully transition into female.
WOW
He then said…”If you return home and don’t take our advice you will be dead in 5 years. If you do go home and take our advice we can possibly give you and extended 14 to 15 years.”
My Dad said emphatically “Tell him you want the estrogen. I would rather you be here another 15 years as a female then I would want to loose you in 5!”
When I went in on Thursday and saw that Dr again he said “you just need to tell me rather you would want patch, pill or injection. Your body has to have a dominant hormone and for you that is not Testosterone.” Later on that week I found out my un descending testicles were pre cancerous and would need to come out as soon as possible, Those were removed in September. so NOW my body does not create any hormone and So I will be on estrogen for the rest of my life.
The week was enlightening. The issue now is returning to a world of Doctors and having to educate them on things they are clearly in the dark about….
But This is my life
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Thanks for this… we called NIH and they did not call back – perhaps at 78 they figure we’re a lost cause and or our mother’s Stilbesterol put them off. The amount of ignorance in the medical professions is abysmal. Furthermore, the medical schools are even worse.
Stick with it and don’t take their life expectancy quotes to heart – Be brave and keep your warrior woman handy. Tom/Ms.G –
Well they did call back the second time we posted to them. Curiously they’ve lumped all extra exes under KS which we find rather strange. And then all others with KS as Intersex – which we don’t mind particularly. We are Intersex for sure. But how we got there is up for grabs and not something NIH or the Pharma-suits want to investigate. A recent study with mice found that DES given prior to conception can cause xxy.. We presume that mother’s who experienced miscarriages we put on DES right away and so their sons may well have been made xxy. We know those sons who got exposed after conception in the first trimester, while still xy, have many of the same conditions that xxy’s have esp. sterility or very low sperm count. Mothers who took DES for the duration of their pregnancy would have had sons who were sterile, borderline sterile, and feminized brains.
Whiie DES was banned in 72 – it was rereleased as a morning after pill at a single dose of 250mg.
Consider that this is 10 times the dose given to mothers previously. And millions of times more than the picogram of estrogen that a normal pregnancy would use to obtain the necessary changes in foetal life. A picogram is 1 trillionth of gram.
Stay away from all xeno-hormones — synthetic hormones that are not bio-identical. Premarin is one such. Some parts of the endocrine system see it and other parts don’t. This is why the big HRT test done about 10 years ago was stopped. The hormone used was premarin and after two or three years most women taking it had serious side-effects including cancer, depression, heart attacks etc.
While NIH did call back – they said we would hear from them if they decided we were a good fit for their study. No call back… So it goes… For a link to the EU precautionary principle – Late Lessons from early warnings – Go to DES (Sad so Sad) on Facebook. And look back a ways.