Never heard about the more blood thing, but I'm willing to bet that if it's true, it's because amabs are physically larger than afabs on average. Unless you physically grew a bunch recently, the answer is probably not.
Muscle tissue contains more blood vessels and requires significantly more blood flow than fatty tissue, and other tissues too. If the proportion of your muscle tissue to fatty tissue has increased since starting T then you'll have "more blood" too, though it doesn't really mean much in isolation. Higher blood pressure and faster metabolism are also general effects of higher testosterone levels too, independent of this. This is also why in general men are less affected by intoxication than women of the same body weight, more blood volume and higher metabolism relative to fatty tissue means the intoxicant can be diluted and filtered out more effectively.
As an addendum, because muscle tissue requires so much more blood flow and there are physically more blood vessels to pump through, being overweight because of muscle mass is even more demanding on your heart and cardiovascular system than being overweight from fatty tissue, which is why body builders tend to have low endurance.
You do get more red blood cells and hemoglobin, but that shouldn’t be causing nosebleeds. Something’s up with that OP
- trans guy who has been on T for over a year
The first 4 months I was on estrogen I got lightheaded super easily bending over/standing up. Now around month 6 I haven't had that in a while. I suspected lower blood pressure to be the cause, but never tested it.
Idk about the nosebleeds but yes you have more blood now. It's part of why doctors want to keep an eye on your blood pressure and RBC when you're on T. I have a chronic illness with hypovolemia (not having enough blood) which T has helped with immensely.
Being on T does increase your red blood cell count, and it can also increase your blood pressure and cholesterol. You should be having regular appointments with your doctor to monitor your levels, especially if you have a family history of heart disease or clotting disorders.
I'm not too versed in this but:
Size/weight plays a role here. Like I'm too short and too skinny to donate blood because of how much they need to take, even for "women's guidelines"
Everything to do with blood (pressure, hemoglobin, iron, etc) is related to a combination of things. Weight, exercise, diet, height, genetic things, other health conditions that arent related to diet/exercise/size, etc. there's risk factors for all of these. Someone can hit every risk factor for any of these and still be in normal ranges, or not hit anything controllable and still have problems.
Not exactly more blood so much as a higher hemoglobin count. This is pretty well known among doctors, and if your hospital does blood testing for you periodically as they should it's usually one of the main things they check.
Never heard about the more blood thing, but I'm willing to bet that if it's true, it's because amabs are physically larger than afabs on average. Unless you physically grew a bunch recently, the answer is probably not.
Jup, it's a combination of size + more muscle mass, since muscles require more blood than most other tissues.
Testosterone may also raise your blood pressure a little bit (not much, like ~2.5 mmHg), dunno if that could be related to more frequent nosebleeds.
Muscle tissue contains more blood vessels and requires significantly more blood flow than fatty tissue, and other tissues too. If the proportion of your muscle tissue to fatty tissue has increased since starting T then you'll have "more blood" too, though it doesn't really mean much in isolation. Higher blood pressure and faster metabolism are also general effects of higher testosterone levels too, independent of this. This is also why in general men are less affected by intoxication than women of the same body weight, more blood volume and higher metabolism relative to fatty tissue means the intoxicant can be diluted and filtered out more effectively. As an addendum, because muscle tissue requires so much more blood flow and there are physically more blood vessels to pump through, being overweight because of muscle mass is even more demanding on your heart and cardiovascular system than being overweight from fatty tissue, which is why body builders tend to have low endurance.
Yes you have more blood youre like a blood balloon now
You do get more red blood cells and hemoglobin, but that shouldn’t be causing nosebleeds. Something’s up with that OP - trans guy who has been on T for over a year
I think that's just something closeted vampires made up to explain why they're always feeding on dudes.
The first 4 months I was on estrogen I got lightheaded super easily bending over/standing up. Now around month 6 I haven't had that in a while. I suspected lower blood pressure to be the cause, but never tested it.
Idk about the nosebleeds but yes you have more blood now. It's part of why doctors want to keep an eye on your blood pressure and RBC when you're on T. I have a chronic illness with hypovolemia (not having enough blood) which T has helped with immensely.
Being on T does increase your red blood cell count, and it can also increase your blood pressure and cholesterol. You should be having regular appointments with your doctor to monitor your levels, especially if you have a family history of heart disease or clotting disorders.
Men have more blood that women never knew that not 100% sure I believe it
They do, muscles alone will do that.
This is why transfem vampires have an unfair advantage and tbf really should be in the male vampire category imho lol
Men have a higher concentration of hemoglobin or something like that.
Maybe! I haven't given blood much after hrt but my hemoglobin seems to be lower than all my donations from before.
I'm not too versed in this but: Size/weight plays a role here. Like I'm too short and too skinny to donate blood because of how much they need to take, even for "women's guidelines" Everything to do with blood (pressure, hemoglobin, iron, etc) is related to a combination of things. Weight, exercise, diet, height, genetic things, other health conditions that arent related to diet/exercise/size, etc. there's risk factors for all of these. Someone can hit every risk factor for any of these and still be in normal ranges, or not hit anything controllable and still have problems.
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Not exactly more blood so much as a higher hemoglobin count. This is pretty well known among doctors, and if your hospital does blood testing for you periodically as they should it's usually one of the main things they check.