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The last few days I cried way too much over something so small. What does that mean? Does it mean my hormones are out of wack or is that normal to experience even after 1 year on hrt? I haven't cried like that since my 2nd month on hormones.

It's normal. Over the last year I have gone on several crying jags. I have been emotional all my life. I even cried when we lost a baseball game or I went 0-4. It just means you are connected to your female self. As guys we are told not to cry because it is a sign of weakness. As a female I feel a sense of compassion and empathy.

Dawn

I cry all the time it's healthier than Visine

I was cooking and I just started crying earlier.

I just thought, those poor onions...

I'm kinda jealous, 7 months of HRT later and I feel absolutely no different emotions wise, no easier to cry then before >_<

Crying for no reason is part of being a woman. I am much more emotional now, than i was before I started getting hormones.

These days I cry my eyes out when watching a movie or tv show that even attempts to pull on my emotions. The  estrogen does make us very emotional.

Shame I feel sorry for my man, as when I get my hormones injection once every two weeks, I get very moody and emotional for a day or so afterward.. but he still loves me

I only cry when I drink....

give me some estrogen so I can cry when I watch my Romeo and Juliet and Titanic tributes without drinking! lol

I don't apply since I'm not on hormones.

I have always been more likely to tears than is deemed normal for a male. What changed with hrt was much faster onset of tears and inability to control it. This was especially true in my earlier days of HRT when it felt like a serious flood of new emotions. The flood has dialed back some as I've adjusted to what feels like a new setpoint.

YUP!
I prefer this response to how things were before, lashing out violently, and tearing my surroundings to pieces and shrieking at everything everyone.

I've always been pretty darn sensitive to even the slightest things, sad songs, movies, events, gestures in general.
I'd never have let myself cry in public before, and if I did I made up excuses, and then I'd explode by myself in private full 'Wreck-it-Ralph' mode. RAWR Hyper-masculinity and over compensation <3

I'd even have given myself migraine headaches tensing up and struggling not to let the tears out.

This way is far far far more positive, (and results in far less physical pain and property damage lol.)

My emotional world surely is a place I now love to inhabit after years on HRT.  Like any new experience there is a learning curve and I learn slowly sometimes.  The stimulus may indeed seem insignificant but I think of the fullness and depth of feeling as a luxury to now enjoy.  I find less joy in bawling in the middle of a fast food joint and that happened my first year in.  Now I recognize the swelling rise and heat in my face before tears and also carry tissues.

It was much easier for my former self to compartmentalize life and feelings, especially those leading to tears.  Old me put them away for good or to ensure I was acting like some stoic man...what an ironic joke.  We are all better off IMO to be able to share feeling and tears too. 

It may seem paradoxical but being more vulnerable and emotional allows me to feel stronger not weaker.

State of mind decides how easy it is to get upset about anything.

I sure HOPE it is normal, or else my wife will have me committed

It's perfectly normal to cry and burst into tears over the most ridiculous and stupid things, sad movies and songs, it happens me all the time, why because I'm a woman, it's a girl thing, welcome to womanhood.

I have very little knowledge of 'normal', so my opinion doesn't count for much.

But I have always cried over silly things, even before I recognized my girl side.