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started around week 6

It didn't 'drop' it sort of just gently went down....really gently. But I got throat pain more or less straight away. 
It was noticeable after 3 months my voice had changed and people stopped giving me double looks when I spoke at about 6 months. They just accepted my voice was male most times.
My voice is still breaking though I believe because my throat still hurts often. I'm between 8-9 months on T now.

Probably around the 2 months mark. I started having soreness in my throat on my 2nd shot.

It strated less than two months in and it was very significant by 4 months.

No sore throat, but had some cracking at about 3 months.  Was really distinctly lower at 5 months.

Well, My voice began to crack around Month 3, and then began to drop about 2 or 3 weeks later.
But this was also me being worried that I'd get fired when my boss figured out what was going on, so I was forcing it to stay high...
So I guess that wasn't very helpful at all.

I'm almost three months in on gel and my voice has started to noticeably drop. It cracked a little bit closer to the end of month two, but I don't experience a lot of that. It's just been dropping steadily.

My throat was sore after my first shot, but the cracking of the voice only started properly around the 3 month mark, and was noticeably lower at 4 months.
However I got a new job at about 6 weeks on T, I was always stealth and passed, so Im assuming my voice lowered atleast a little bit.

i was lucky my voice started to drop about a week after my first shot

I had a sore throat almost immediately but I wasn't sure if it was the T or if I was sick. I'm now 100% sure it is a little deeper, and it's cracking all over the place. Or sometime I try to talk and it tickles so much I just end up coughing instead.

I noticed a small difference within a couple of days.  After a few weeks I had difficulty reaching the same high pitches I used to, and it's only getting harder.  My voice didn't start to crack until almost three months though, now it happens a lot.  Always makes me laugh and make some dumb joke about being a 13-year-old boy.

For the first few months I was only having 1 shot per month. After my second shot I recorded my first video, just saying something like "I'm 5 weeks on T" and when I watched it over, I noticed my voice had changed. I was so excited, I called people to ask them if they noticed, and they didn't, but I could hear the difference. I thought my voice was so deep hahah. It wasn't at all. But there was definitely a change right away.

I had sore throats sometimes. I'm going to say around 9 to 12 weeks is when my voice started to sound male. It's been getting slowly deeper since then but it is a slow process.

Oh, and it cracked CONSTANTLY around 17-20 weeks or so. Like every time I opened my mouth it would crack. That lasted quite a while if I remember right.

i started T in mid june, it was completely dropped by the time school started in September.
don't remember exactly when it started though.

Heh. I looked it up in my journal...trip down Memory Lane. My throat started bothering me about two days in, and my voice was already giving me trouble on the third day. I was singing a song that I'd sung before, and my voice was getting weird on the high notes.

A week in, I thought my voice had actually shifted a little. On the eleventh day, I was sure. I didn't get any actual cracking until about three months in, and I think that's when I started to slip into definite tenor range. The tenor shift took some time, so call it maybe four months to a tenor.

I have had a few major shifts since then. I didn't get into light baritone range until about a year later, but I think I was on finasteride by that time. The meds have probably slowed down my changes some. I had another major shift this summer, complete with coughing and tickling and cracking. I'm just a stronger baritone now, but it took me more than three years to get it.

I noticed the change happening the following morning of my first dose. My singing voice, that is. I couldn't get the 'higher' registers to cooperate with me anymore. Then, a few days after that is when the growing pains started. My voice cracked pretty badly on the fourth day to the effect that it completely cut out on me mid-sentence and it took me a minute to get it to let me finish. In front of people... lol. That thankfully hasn't happened again.

I already have the tenor setting in (reverberates in my chest also) and yeah. Not painful anymore either (hot drinks really help with that - coffee most of all, surprisingly enough). Its settled down a fair bit but I don't expect that to remain for long (seems to want to go in cycles, most noticeably about a week into each of the doses). And my Adam's is quite more apparent (wasn't small to begin with, but it is definitely larger), despite my under-jaw concealing it most of the time (consequences of a Gene Simmon's tongue).

Only on my fourth shot as of yesterday.

So, right now, it seems I have two modes of volume at my disposal. Low and lower. It is exceptionally difficult for me to even raise my voice (I have never been able to 'scream' so...), and I can just forget about even trying to shout or yell. Not going to happen. I also cannot reach the same pitch level of most male singers on the higher notes either (which I had no problems with prior), but I expect that is due to the angle of my larynx shifting and the cords still thickening (don't think that will be a permanent change, I'll maybe get SOME of the higher volume and register back at some point). When I do attempt to get up there, it just fails on me. Not really in a 'crack', it just... cuts out.

very quickly, it started in the first two weeks but took about 2 months to drop to where it is now.

Quote from: Magnus on November 03, 2012, 06:48:48 PM
When I do attempt to get up there, it just fails on me. Not really in a 'crack', it just... cuts out.

My voice still does this. It's annoying.

I was getting a new little crack a couple of weeks ago, but I didn't go any lower. I just lost a wee bit of my upper register. I wonder how long the little shifts will keep happening. And even the big shifts...

Mine went down dramatically within a couple of months.

About a week. My voice has always been a bit deep so I think perhaps its genetics. Vocal cords probably have to do with the pitch.

6 weeks in i got a cold and was ill for a week and in that time it dropped loads, my hair also went from being really straight to sprouting curls in that time too.

My voice is still dropping and I have been on T for 11months....my doctor started me on a low dose and we moved it up slowly ... I have only been on a full dose for a couple months.

Like most guys have said, around 2.5-3 months is when I got the biggest drop. At 6 months I think I got another slight change. Now I'm just waiting for things to balance out.