its been a little bit that i’ve been on E, and i keep dropping and failing to hold onto stuff with my hands, i think due to the changes to my skin.
so far in the past week alone i’ve smashed my cell phone twice by dropping it into machinery, i’ve dropped the back end of a go-kart onto my foot, with the only savior being my steel-toe motorcycle boots, and i’ve dropped myself through means of failing to grip onto a door handle properly.
overall my hands are a lot dryer than they were before.
any tips and tricks to help curb these issues would be super super appreciated!
(overly nerdy explanations about the physiological/hormonal mechanisms behind this are absolutely welcome :3)
I have no idea, I always dropped stuff and ran into stuff a lot before I transitioned, and it seems to happen a lot still after transition … I guess one answer is to pay more attention, be more mindful of your movements, go slower, etc. I don’t think my hands became much drier or changed that much physiologically - they lost fat and became more slender, and the skin is softer and less calloused, but I think overall it hasn’t changed in terms of its capacity to grip.
I also finally capitulated and bought a case for my phone, which has helped with gripping it and preventing damage when it drops. Honestly, estrogen mostly just made me much more reasonable and mentally “normal” so a lot of changes like buying a phone case should have been obvious before, I was just weirdly obsessively refusing to do that and taking unnecessary risk while holding myself to higher standards (to not ever drop my phone), etc.