I recently got diagnosed with ADHD a couple of months ago. That makes me curious; since there’s a higher percentage of trans people who are autistic, would there be a higher percentage who are ADHD?
What are your experiences with being ADHD and trans?
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Trans with ADHD (and most likely Autism) reporting in! o7
Trans fem here, and HRT somehow made my ADHD worse, which was interesting…
Like mentioned elsewhere, folks with menstruation cycles are well known to show exacerbated ADHD symptoms with the fluctuations in hormones.
Progesterone made my ADHD a lot worse. Second biggest reason I stopped taking it once getting up to where I wanted to be in top growth. (first being that I was constantly ravenously hungry)
Going back on spironolactone has made it better though. Missing my evening doses of that and estradiol will throw me off a bit the next day.
There’s a lot of research suggesting cis women with ADHD have symptoms (and metabolism of stimulant medications) fluctuate with hormone cycles. It’s not talked about enough that HRT would cause similar issues for trans fem folks. There isn’t great research on just how those effects would show up for trans people, but it’s reasonable to assume they would.
Conversely, estrogen and the like can mitigate psychotic symptoms so maybe that’s a side bonus?
Me, currently awake at three am on the first day of my period: did you say medication metabolism?
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