Is my voice changing already?

[Ravin]

I've been on T for a little over a month.

I had a cold a week and a half ago which (as it usually does with me) has lingered as a bit of sinus crud.

My voice has been a mess. It sounds rough and hoarse, and has squeaked a few times. When I pitch my voice up (usually when talking to the preschooler), it's thready. This started at the height of my cold.

So...is my voice already changing, or is it just hoarse because of sinus drainage? The sinus stuff isn't bad enough to warrant going to the doctor for.

[Drea]

There are certainly guys who report fast changes and even recordings demonstrate it.

It seems improbable that there can be sufficient physical changes in such a short time.

I know one guy who never experience a drop in voice, but he already had, pre-T got his voice where he wanted it. What he experienced from T was he lost the ability to raise his voice higher and that took much longer than a month.

So perhaps some of the apparent fast effects are a combination of expectation and either consciously or unconsciously speaking different that generates some change but the change may be more from way of speaking than actual T effects.

I could of course be completely wrong and physical effects are that fast.

[JJ]

Voice was the first change for me and it was within a couple of weeks.I've said a number of times elsewhere that my voice was the first thing that changed and it was wat faster than I ever expected

For some it can happen very rapidly. Mine kept dropping too though sometimes it would level off for awhile. I now am a low baritone and sound like I should be a foot taller and 100 lbs heavier. I had heard all the unsunbstantiated rumors about voice not really getting deep etc but know first hand in some cases it does.

For awhile range becomes very limited but as Bulldog has posted elsewhere in time and with vocal exercises the range comes back.

I was kind of like you -shocked when my voice started to change so quickly and thought it might be my allergies or an early cold though it proved to be neither. Since then I have read a lot of reports from transmen who experienced the same thing. Like everything else though each individual experience can be different . I know in my case I did not expev=ct that kind of change that fast. And sometimes strained my voice by unconsciously trying to pitch it up into the old range when speaking with my daughter who was very uncomfortable with the change at the time.

There were a couple of other changes that happened really quickly too. Others are still happening over 3 years on T..

Either way-enjoy. The journey has eally begun

Johnny

[Charlize]

I can only speak of this with the memory of my youth. I remember when suddenly my voice changed and was difficult to control. It just seemed to crack and i remember my mom laughing and saying i wouldn't be in my choir any more. Enjoy, i wish i had.

Now i can manage to keep my voice a bit higher but it still can drop with a seemingly comic affect at times. Folks just don't expect the bullfrog that developed through years of existing male.

Hugs,

Charlize