Month One

By far, the most significant change this month has been my voice. I’m thrilled; a deeper voice is one of the main things I wanted out of hormone therapy. My voice has peaks and drops throughout the day, and I can’t sing to save my life. It only tends to crack, however, if I try to project my voice.

My existing facial hair seems darker and more noticeable, and the shape of my face has changed slightly. A few more hairs have showed up in the middle of my chin–the very visible gap seems to be slowly filling in. A single dark moustache hair has been spotted above the right corner of my mouth, along with increased blonde fuzz in the area. It seems that the hair I do have has been growing a good bit faster than I’m used to.

Other people have commented that my arms and back and shoulders seem bigger. I feel physically stronger, but that could just be in my head. I may be losing fat in my hips and butt, because it’s been difficult to keep my pants up lately.

I sleep all the time. I’m always hungry–in fact, I wish I had known how hungry I really would be so that we could’ve doubled our food budget. My face and body is mostly free of acne; I haven’t gotten any more than I normally would, that I can tell.

I’ve always had a very high sex drive, but I am definitely more willing to have sex, and able to have sex more often than I did pre-T. I’m not sure if this is just because my comfort level with myself is increasing, or if it’s a biological side effect of T. It may also help that my dick has grown quite a bit in the past month–it makes it easier to feel male during sex.

Sometime after my third shot, I woke up one morning and it dawned on me how good I feel now. I feel more social than I have ever since I can remember. I’m more quick to assert myself. I feel like I’m friendlier and I think I smile a lot more.

A pattern is starting to emerge in my shot cycle. A few hours after a shot, I’m incredibly tired. I usually do shots in the evening so that I can sleep 12-14 hours that night. For the first two or three days of my shot cycle my dick is hypersensitive and often painful to touch. My mood is fairly stable and good for most of my cycle, until usually the night before my next shot, when I usually notice a sharp increase in irritability, emotional sensitivity, and a sharp decrease in my energy level.

The clinic told me to listen to my body and adjust my dose and schedule slightly until I figure out what works best for me, so long as I don’t go over 200mg per 14 days. My prescription is for 150mg every 14 days, but I’ve gone to a 100mg/10 day cycle. I’m waiting for a bit to see how well this cycle works for me; if I still notice a drop-off at the end of the cycle after another month has passed, I’ll most likely change to 75mg/week.