How long after hormone start did you say this is the answer

[rosinstraya]

About 2 minutes.........

[Harley Quinn]

By lunch.

[Rebecca]

Before they arrived I knew T was my problem and reducing it was important to save myself but was genuinely unsure what E would do to me as a person.

3 days after starting I got the first concrete proof for me..... my first dream in over 30 years.
Dreamt every night since and love it.

Will never give them up 

[Michelle_P]

LOL!  I just took my first dose today, and found myself dancing around the kitchen, grinning and damn near crying from happiness.  OK, 'just' a psychological boost.  It's all in my head.  And ain't that the point?

Well, now I'm on day 11, at full strength on spirolactone, and after the last couple of days I am absolutely certain it's the right choice.  Emotions are running close to the surface, the old 'flat effect' is fading away with no effort, and there's a strong sense of calm beneath the surface.

It's like I've been living with a buzzing angry beehive in my head for decades, and I was so used to it that it didn't consciously register.  Ah, but now it's gone, and the quiet is wonderful!

[EmilyMK03]

It was about 3-4 weeks for me.  Very gradual and subtle, which is not what I expected.  But I'm fine with that. 

[WendyAnn.1969]

I always say it was like a forest fire that was burning in my brain for 45 years..... After 24 hours - it had gone out and after 4-5 days - the smoke completely cleared....

The sun came out for the first time in my life... I think it would be a lot like a blind person seeing a sunrise for the first time... Undefinable calm and beauty for me.

[Fresas con Nata]

Emotions are running close to the surface, the old 'flat effect' is fading away with no effort, and there's a strong sense of calm beneath the surface.

"Flat effect"? Could you expand on that?

[kaitylynn]

My first foray in 1996, it was inside of a week that I realized the answer was now my path.  After a few months, I questioned again when the emotions started to go out of control and by seven months, it was still the answer but I could not have transition and HRT be my priority.  It took about a day when I recently started HRT again to know that the cart was on the correct path again.

This time has been much smoother than the last and I am happy, content with how it is all going.  Guess overall maturity has allowed me to stay within reasonable control of the emotional energy this time.

[Michelle_P]

"Flat effect"? Could you expand on that?

I've been emotionally 'distant', sort of not engaging with others, my whole life.  I suspect much of this was hiding behind a male persona, a construct that let me hide while effectively passing as male to others.  In other words, I didn't let my feelings show out of fear that they would show me to be feminine.  I presented the world with an affectation or image that was emotionally flat.  I learned to be this way early in elementary school.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduced_affect_display

[alice1234]

About a week in i felt better my anxiety eased and i just knew i was on the right track.  But it took a lot of patients to see results but the inner feelings were the most important thing to me all the best in your journey

[stephaniec]

It's been a pretty amazing feeling since the first day. I've so much wanted this my entire life and the release of actually do it is phenomenal  .