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Everybody talks about the face changes, and voice changes and muscles and so on, but what about your hands? Are your hands different, once you've been on T for a while?

my hands seem the same to me so far lol but i am also fairly early on T

Interest. Question. I've always liked my hands. But my mom always remarks on how dainty they are

I have very small hands, which I have been very conscious about. Biggest change is the thumb muscle getting bigger, as well as the palm, making my hands look wider. Fingers are not thicker, but the knuckles slightly more defined. Wrists grew thicker, although not by much. My veins have definitely popped up more, probably from fat redistribution (overall less body fat). My fists look larger in general. Also, callouses stay on the palms for longer now.
I am a little over two months on T, hope this helps.

I've heard guys remark about this. Some it happens to others not so much. It's more of a cartilage/muscle gain than anything pertaining to bone growth. I've heard feet and hands can get larger but it doesn't seem to be as a mainstream side effect that hits everyone.

No. My hands haven't changed. My feet have gotten bigger, but not my hands. I still have my piano finger hands, and all bony and crap.

Being MTF I am going the other way. My hands appear to be much smoother now with less prominent veins.  I would expect for you guys it would work the other way round and veins and sinews would become more obvious

In that context, yes, my skin is thicker, and I'm more vascular. Other than that, no.

It's just, I'm a little self-conscious about my hands. I don't mind that they are small, but they're... poofy? Like, I've had people think my hands were swollen and it was just, how they usually are. Here look, like this:

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(My feet are also tiny, I'm like a mens size 5 or 6, depending if I want to wear fluffy socks)

I used to have EXTREMELY bony fingers but they seem to have filled out in the tiniest bit. Not much though. I didn't even realize til now.

My feet only grew because I was still growing when I started T last year, at the end of October. Mine are a mens 9, sometimes 10, but in Australian sizing because I'm Australian, don't know what that makes them in US sizing. And you're hands look fine to me. But I can understand self-consciousness, mine are really lanky and bony, with super long fingers, and people always pick on me for it.

If it helps any I wear a size 9 to 10.5 in mens sometimes 11 (US sizes) and my hands are stupid small and my fingers are short and semi pudgy :I It's like playing the Sims with the slider bars or something. Let's give him big feet for a 5'3" height but that's not all! Let's make his hands stupid small too on top of it  >:(
Gentlemen, meet my hand: (https://www.susans.org/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi60.tinypic.com%2Ffcv62w.jpg&hash=70514e235c10b1ebb4f23b2b14121fa2656dcfcd)
I'm crossing my pudgy fingers I get lucky and my hands grow a bit.

I'm jealous! The base of my fingers are too poofy to be able to wear rings  >.<

(Also- just now realizing, that I'm so pale that I probably glow in the dark)

Yes, they're thinner, more muscular and veiny, and more hairy. 

I just recently had to get a new wedding ring cause my fingers have swelled up like lil sausages >< So annoying. Also you'll have to excuse the lighting. I have a lamp right next to my keyboard with a yellowish shade on it. Believe me, I step out in the sun and probably blind people because I'm so white LOL

My hands and feet started to grow around the 3/4 month mark on T, but not in length. They got wider though. I fit size 7 with how wide they are, but lengthwise they're more like a 5. At 2.5 years of T I can definitely vouch for the veins being more prominent. It used to take forever for nurses to find a vein, but now it's super easy (although not as good when you nic a vein doing injections, haha)
I also grew a 1/4inch (which at 5'2 really helps  :P)

An interesting note, most often your ring size will match or be within a half size of your shoe size. (In American sizing)

That just confirms the fact I'm weirdly proportioned! LOL I wear a size 7.5 ring and my feet are literally 3 sizes bigger

makes vains more visible, depending who you are thats it i think.

I have disproportionately-small hands (even for a "girl" they were too small for my body), and when I look at other people I find hands particularly attractive so I've always been aware of mine.

On T, I initially had some squishy puffiness that seemed to go away after a few months. Other than that, I've mainly seen differences in vein prominence and hairiness. I love the hair on my hands. I have gone up in ring size, but I'm not sure how much because I don't regularly try on rings. Rings that used to fit my thumb or index finger now only fit my ring finger, and rings that used to fit my pinky of course don't fit anything now.

Funny how most guys here have noted that their hands have more hair on them. Mine don't, in fact, I think my hands are the only place that doesn't have more hair. The most notable change about my hands, noticeable by myself and anyone that looks close enough (But won't show on camera), is how much my veins stand out. Especially when well hydrated, my veins are scarily prominent in my hands. Big, and as long as I'm drinking adequate water, blue and you can feel them if I let you touch my hand (I don't like my hands touched because it triggers my PTSD and borderline personality disorder). Also, not necessarily hands per se, but my fingernails are also thicker, and need cutting a lot more.

I have teenager hands... just vague, indistinguishable teenager hands.  (But I'm almost three years past my teen expiration date.  Almost old enough to drink. Not that the idea appeals to me.)  Though veins and knuckles are slightly more prominent now than before, my wrists have always been bony and breakable-looking... twice as much now.  You can practically feel the carpal-tunnel-syndrome when you look at them.  So I think T did make them slightly (and only slightly) more masculine. Not like, man-hands, but I really don't want to say Bieber-hands either... cat person hands? Computer hands?

My hands haven't really changed, counting out my fingers "filling in" so my rings don't fall off the moment I move my hand a bit faster.
Oh, and hair is starting to creep further towards my knuckles.

But I've always had kinda bony hands with long fingers and prominent knuckles, veins popping out immediately when the temperature's right etc.
I don't really know about the size but I usually wear size 7 gloves but they're a bit too short in the finger department so the knuckle part of the glove is usually closer to the first finger joints. Size 8 has right sized fingers but they're otherwise too big.

My hand shape is unusual to begin with after years of sculpting and drawing, but they got thicker and bonier. Right now, they're a little odd-looking because I've been off testosterone for a couple of months (pharmacy error - just back on it this week).

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My hands have gotten thinner and my veins stick out more. I did lose a lot if weight, but even before the weight loss my rings started falling off. My nails grow faster too. Stupid ineffectual claws XD

Funny, my hands have gotten skinnier on T (three months on it) fingers are the same length, but they're thinner, and more "violinist"s hands now than they were. My ring (size five) still fits fine though. My shoe size though is going up. Slippers that only used to fit with socks on now fit fine, though my feet still look the same as they did before, and my shoes don't feel any tighter. (I wear a mens 6 in Converses, not sure about other shoes, as I only wear Chucks)

Actually, now that I'm inspecting them, they're slightly broader, but that could be because I've been on them all day.

The biggest change has actually been my biceps, deltoid muscles, quads and calf muscles. They're definitively masculine, even though I'm a bean pole.

My hands didn't change until around 2 years, unless you count hair growth (around 1.5 years). In the past few months they have gotten thicker and more veiny.

2+ years and not a lick of change except maybe slightly fatter fingers (likely due to working out/weight gain - not T itself).

I've noticed the start of hand changes around the sixth month mark, with my fingers and thumb getting fatter. About 1yr for the prominent veins and now at a 2 months shy of my two years I find hair thickening on my knuckles and hair creeping up my hand. My fingers are still getting fatter and callouses definAtly from working in cars. Here's a recent pic I just took.

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My hands have become emore masculine and my fingers are a lot more bulky

i'm not on T but i always heard that my hands and feets look manly,even my arms and legs r so hairy, i'm not sure about my hands but i hope its true
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My fingers have become a tad bit slimmer since being on T and I've also had some hair growth but besides that no other changes.

I think my midfinger knuckles look more prominent, like the base of the fingers used to be more pudgy. Hair growth of course, and veins are more easily visible (they pop out a lot after exercising or in hot weather) which never happened pre-T. Not much noticable change otherwise.

Here's my hand/arm pre-T and right now... Sorry it's not close-up; this was the only pre-T hand pic I found.

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I am a small person (163cm ) and I have big and ugly hands. They look disproportionate to my wrists  :o

pics:
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Im about 9 months on Testosterone but, I've always liked my hands

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I've noticed the veins in my hands stick out more. My palms my be slightly thicker too.

I've always been self-conscious and dysphoric about my hands because they're thin and feminine, but lately I've noticed the veins are more prominent and my fingers seem more fleshy. I still wish I had an increase in arm/hand hair, because they're just as naked as they were pre-T.

I've always had piano fingers, and aside from the new hair on them, my hands don't look much different. They were not particularly feminine then, so I'm happy with that. Like many guys who commented before me, on T my palms got wider and my thumb got thicker, but my fingers are still long and thin. I wear a size 7.5 wedding band.

I had very dainty hands before I started T and now they aren't super thick or anything but they are definitely thicker than they were and are tougher to the touch. Surprisingly my nails have changed shape too. They used to be slender looking and now are more wide and rounder.

I don't really know about shape or size, but I know a lot of guys veins tend to stick out more on T, and you'll most likely get some hair on your hands too.