To what extent have hormonal imbalances affected your life, personality, self-esteem and generally the way you approach life?

I’d get really horny and approach women with the hope of having sex with them.

I wear a hard on a lot. It’s known as dirtybastarditis I believe.

Thanks, I know that hormones affect that section of life too, but I was looking for a different type of answer!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, my hormones are now gone. Yep, what freedom! lol
2 years out of the men-o’ pause zone and feelin’ great! My doc tried to get me to take hormones, told me I’d get depressed. Not so!

It’s all good, no more romantic angst, all I wanna do is write some good works before I exit this theatre.

This is not to say that a bit of sexual friskiness might not still show up, but, in the meanwhile I am happier than ever and hey, for those times of sexual drought, I’ve got turbo jets in the hot tub. lol

@ZEPHYRA I also get spikes of road rage when I feel traffic is going to slow. I don’t know if that’s hormone related, though.

Ask me this question again and I will kick your A$$! ~
Seriously, I hate when I cry inappropriately. Especially when I’m angry and need to get a point across.

I have a 14 soon to be 15 year old son…need I say more???

I had to truly get some help for pms. I was already unhappy and just that extra each monthe sent me into the horror. Thank gawd for evening primrose oil.

What are you trying to say????

The first thing to spring to my mind was my thyroid situation. For the first 15 years of my life, I apparently had a hyperactive thyroid but didn’t know it. I thought my high energy level, skinniness, and lack of a need for sleep were just normal. At 15, I had thyroid storm and nearly died. That was the first time I even knew I had hyperthyroid. I missed months of school, and developed severe anxiety when I returned. That’s affected the entire rest of my life.

As a result of the thyroid storm, my thyroid basically died. My whole life changed because of that. I went from being an active and energetic teenager, with a very bright mind, who weighed 114lbs (125lbs before the ‘storm’) to a lethargic and sluggish young woman, with a brain that could no longer grasp math, and weighed 170lbs in the space of a year or two. Despite daily thyroid medication from the age of 17, I have never again felt ‘normal’ (probably because my idea of normal was so skewed). It certainly didn’t help my depression any, that’s for sure.

I lost a lot in the whole process, I think. My confidence took a hit (probably a good thing) due to the body and mind changes and the anxiety. I didn’t want anything to do with doctors for a long while afterward, either. A lot of potential probably went down the drain, and I still feel like a lazy bum, almost 30 years later.