anyone's voice changed like...real fast?

[emil]

I know it sounds ridiculous but i'm less than a day on T and my voice has been sounding quite different within the last few hours (not just to me but others noticed too), and now it's cracking and interrupted like I'm losing my voice. Sort of like a bad cold but different.

So I was wondering if anyone noticed a change in their voice that quickly.
The fastest I'd ever heard of was three days on T.
Don't really want to discuss that you do or don't think it's possible (my endocrinologist said most people don't see a change within the first months), just asking whether anyone else out there had it.

[Anon]

I didn't experience any voice change that couldn't be chalked up to some sort of placebo effect. Maybe you've actually caught a cold

[emil]

yeah a cold has crossed my mind as well  that's why i was asking if anyone noticed changes that didn't turn out to be a cold.

[Annah]

for ftm trans on T it takes a lot longer than four hours to see any sudden changes.

As "Nobody" stated, you could have a cold or it may be placebo related

[Leek]

My voice also seemed to get a little sore within the first week or so, but looking back I'm pretty positive it was just placebo. (Then again, there are some belief systems that would hold the position that all the dramatic physical effects of T over time are nothing more than the result of a placebo effect. But that's another story.)

By about 4 to 6 weeks, my voice had definitely begun to break, as I took video of myself throughout early transition and I can objectively attest that by that point change in my voice began to take place.

[anibioman]

i know a guy whos voice dropped crazy fast he is avantgarde93 on youtube.

[Wraith]

Nope, I felt a bit weird in my throat the first few days and felt like i had something stuck in there, but I had no noticeable effect until I suddenly dropped and cracked horribly at the 4 week mark. Now it seems I get a bit sore every time I'm about to drop a bit, but it's a 2 steps forward and then 1 step back kind of thing.

Maybe you were just "hanging there" by the edge and only needed a small nudge I remember you had quite a male sounding voice already pre-T!

[zombiesarepeaceful]

Dropped noticeably within a week, throat started to feel sore within a day. It was the fastest change for me. It wasn't just me either, other people commented on it. Some people actually do have theirs change freakishly fast.

[wheat thins are delicious]

You are probably experiencing a placebo effect, like others have said. 

[MaxAloysius]

I got a ridiculously sore throat in the first week which I convinced myself was brought on by slight changes thanks to T (may or may not be true) but when it cleared up my voice was still mostly the same.

[emil]

Maybe you were just "hanging there" by the edge and only needed a small nudge I remember you had quite a male sounding voice already pre-T!

Yeah that's what I was thinking too.....plus I already had high T levels and a small but pointed adam's apple. Well whatever it is, placebo or cold or freaking fast effect of T+blockers, it's still there this morning. Let's see what happens

[Superrad]

My voice dropped noticeably after a week and within the first month I lost my girl voice for one no one would ever really consider female. That being said, I don't think a day will do much but placebo effect. I was pumped after I got my first injection so I was just imagining a lot of stuff anxiously.

[Cody Jensen]

Hey for all you guys who's voices are starting to drop, I was wondering exactly what it feels like? I am a bit concerned that it'll feel like having a really bad cold. Also I sing, will I still "able" to sing using my guy voice?

emil: I am going with what most others have said and I'm going to say it was a placebo effect

[wheat thins are delicious]

Sometimes in the beginning it felt like a cold but mostly my throat felt tight, tickly, or like I kept needing to clear it. 

[Bahzi]

Hey for all you guys who's voices are starting to drop, I was wondering exactly what it feels like? I am a bit concerned that it'll feel like having a really bad cold. Also I sing, will I still "able" to sing using my guy voice?

emil: I am going with what most others have said and I'm going to say it was a placebo effect

For me it's not been like a bad cold, but my throat will get a bit sore intermittently, and I just sounded hoarse at first (and still do periodically).  It's been a gradual drop (I've been on T over 7 months now), but my pre-T voice was pretty high so the changes in that time have been pretty dramatic.  I can sing...some days.  Others it's just way too unstable and I squeak and crack.  It's better now than it was a few months ago though.  You want to keep singing throughout the changes, even if you miss notes and sound bad to yourself.  It's important to exercise the muscles and keep learning your new range, even if it's ever changing.  It's obnoxious sometimes, but on the good days, I've got a really pretty tenor tone, and though you lose your upper range initially (mine's still gone, falsetto is impossible, nothing comes out, just air), I hear it eventually returns.

[Jeh]

As for singing, my voice changed pretty fast, within the first 2 or 3 months. It never squeaked or cracked, it just dropped. I was able to sing the whole way through it. The first thing that happened was I lost my falsetto. Then my bottom range just slowly grew. Now I sing bass in a choir, and am continuing on as a voice major in university. I do encounter problems singing high, because my falsetto hasn't come back yet. I don't know if it does or not. I never felt like I had a cold, and it was never sore, but it was a bit gravelly at first and people said I 'sounded' like I had a cold. It just didn't feel uncomfortable like a cold does.

[meh]

If you just came back from the doctor's office from getting your shot, chances are, you picked up a cold.

Mine started changing at 4 weeks; dropped significantly at 6 weeks.

[Cody Jensen]

For me it's not been like a bad cold, but my throat will get a bit sore intermittently, and I just sounded hoarse at first (and still do periodically).  It's been a gradual drop (I've been on T over 7 months now), but my pre-T voice was pretty high so the changes in that time have been pretty dramatic.  I can sing...some days.  Others it's just way too unstable and I squeak and crack.  It's better now than it was a few months ago though.  You want to keep singing throughout the changes, even if you miss notes and sound bad to yourself.  It's important to exercise the muscles and keep learning your new range, even if it's ever changing.  It's obnoxious sometimes, but on the good days, I've got a really pretty tenor tone, and though you lose your upper range initially (mine's still gone, falsetto is impossible, nothing comes out, just air), I hear it eventually returns.

Thanks for the advice man

[emil]

update: 4 days on T, my voice sounds different every day (didn't catch a cold). most significantly i seem to have lost some of my upper range. sometimes I'll lose my voice unexpectedly in mid-sentence, singing already sounds awful/can't sing for more than a minute really.
apart from that no other changes so far.

[Superrad]

For me it didn't hurt or feel like I had a cold. I felt like I was more 'aware' of my vocal chords. I can still sing, but I've had to move down an octave. I do have moments when I try to sing high and my voice cracks ridiculously or nothing comes out. Sometimes I go to cheer or scream and feel a little bit like a tea kettle until I realise that I don't have that high range any more.
It was a pretty gentle transition and even though people said I sounded sick at first it didn't feel like being sick at all.