Brandon_Westfall

My mother, brother, and myself moved away when I was 12. We lost contact with our family until recently.

After moving to Boise, ID a year and a half ago I spent some time catching up with my family and found I have several family members with the same condition. Two of my uncles have Kallmann's Syndrome as well as my aunt and her two twin daughters.

Had I been around family at a younger age I likely would have caught it in my teenage years which would have simplified things greatly.

Memories are lessons from the past, I don't mind sharing ;)

Lisa and I were both very young at the time. She was 19, I was 21. We were both immature and stupid. We were going through relationship issues mostly based on financial problems as well as me shutting her out of a lot of aspects of my life.

For some brilliant reason we thought marriage would solve all of our problems, clearly it did not. Over two years we started pulling away from each other more and more and in the end she ended up cheating on me.

Our entire marriage was a mess. A lot of it in part of my medical problems. While she knew I didn't have much of a sex drive she never knew why and she did not know how it impacted my life. I was very depressed during our marriage as well as the years after.

It was very difficult feeling my medical problems were the cause of our relationship failing. Even more-so since I did not know what was wrong with me.

I am glad I am in a place in my life where I can be open about every aspect of my life. One of the biggest parts of a successful relationship is communication. If you can't speak openly with the person you are with, it will never last.

The first step of treatment is hormone therapy. Essentially I will need to be on TRT for 6 months - 1 year before I see any major changes. I've been on hormones on three separate occasions over the past two years, none of which were for long periods of times.

The biggest change i've had so far has been mental and that had little to nothing to do with hormone therapy. I am part of a very strong support group on facebook that has allowed me to open up about my condition and share stories.

There wasn't really anything in particular that I hated about going on the show.

Filming the back story was definitely the most difficult thing I did in the entire process. It was filled with raw emotion as I never really sat down and told anyone how this condition affected my life.

They had to stop filming several times so that I could gather my thoughts. I don't regret doing this at all though. I'd rather people see me how I was two years ago and understand how an invisible disease like this can destroy someone's life.

My head does match the size of my body. Camera angles are everything.

Here are some recent pics of me: http://imgur.com/gallery/IFIFx/