Voice shifts?

[patrick1967]

i don't know if any one else has experienced this, but as with everything else, most likely. It seems like my voice can't decide which register it wants to stay in. It is not cracking or breaking mid speech, it just drops for a few days to a week then seems to pitch back up before dropping even lower. From day to day or week to week I can sound like completely different people

[Kylo]

It happens when I laugh or raise my voice. Then it staggers between old and new, no idea which one is going to come out when I do that. Though laughing has definitely changed, it sounds like a different person's laugh.

[patrick1967]

Mine just changes then changes back. i can see a 15 htz swing in a week, but it never breaks or cracks. If i am in the lower register i am there til I wake up and it is higher up again lol

[Kylo]

I'm having to learn to relax and speak from the chest. If I wake up and talk right away, I've forgotten to do that... and it's the old voice. Weird thing is now that my voice has changed too much to be able to compare it to the one before any T, I have no idea if I'd even spoken from the chest in that voice before and what it might have sounded like. It wasn't until T I understood what a "chest voice" was or that you can speak from it and it sounds massively different.

[FTMax]

I found early on I had to make a conscious effort to force it into a lower register. It could go there, but the natural inclination was to speak higher.

[Kylo]

Talking a lot seems to unbalance the voice a bit too, like it "wears out" after 10 mins and starts sounding like a teen whose voice is breaking.

And every time it happens I'm reminded of my childhood friend who I teased mercilessly about it when it happened to him and how he really deserves to return the favor now.

[Austin Rodgers]

I've been on T gel for almost 2 months and I've been having just now started experiencing voice shifts. My neck is almost sore right at the bottom/base of my neck, I feel like that may be my vocal cords? A lot of guys don't really experience a big drop until around 3 months, so I'm sure you will have a lot more small voice ->-bleeped-<-s.

[Elis]

I've noticed everything everyone else here has mentioned. It left me sorta worried that my voice was never going to stsy low and in the proper pitch; but when it came to 6 months my voice had stabilised and has remained pretty much consistant.

[Kylo]

Around 3 month and I'm starting to feel it settling in a comfortable 'place' to speak. It's croakier than it used to be in my head, but to other people it doesn't have that rumbly croaky quality apparently. It sounds normal to them and it sounds quite normal in a recording. I hope it drops more though

[kings joker]

Does anyone else feel like their voice is deeper on some days and not others? Some days I wake up and speak in a natural deep voice and I love it. I used to only speak that deep first thing in the morning but would eventually speak out of it as the day goes on. Now I'll stay deep all day but wake up the next day and a swear be talking a few pitches higher.  What gives? shouldn't a voice just drop and stay dropped? Its not like I'm getting squeaky or jumping all over the place.

[patrick1967]

Kingsjoker, that is exactally what I am experiencing. Not shifts during one day, but shifts day to day.

[Kylo]

I guess it's because conditions in the throat change from day to day. Some days you might have more tensed muscles there or maybe it's depending on how much force you're speaking with. Some days I am definitely deeper and don't know why. I haven't had a sore throat yet since starting T but if I do I imagine that will change it too.

[kings joker]

I guess it's because conditions in the throat change from day to day. Some days you might have more tensed muscles there or maybe it's depending on how much force you're speaking with. Some days I am definitely deeper and don't know why. I haven't had a sore throat yet since starting T but if I do I imagine that will change it too.

Yeah I've been singing in the car alone a lot to try my new voice on for size. I can now hit this baritone note that makes my face vibrate! 

I have had 3 people on 3 separate occasions comment in the last two days on my voice; I hadn't seen any of these people in 1-2 weeks. 2 asked if I was sick/ lost my voice, I said no and they quickly responded with a smile and a "Oh, cool". The other person just said "woh dude your voice has changed so much".
Kylo, it happens really quickly, in a matter of a week or two. Just when that week will come is the real question. I'm wondering now if this isn't my "big drop" then how low will my voice go?!

[jagfel]

I heard my new voice for the first time in an echo of a telemarketer's phone call of all things and had to quickly compose myself and tried to cover up being completely distracted by it.

Still got the croakiness a lot and am trying to keep a habit of having sore throat lozenges on my desk at work so people don't ask questions I don't want to answer.