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Community Conversation => Female to male transsexual talk (FTM) => Transsexual talk => Testosterone => Topic started by: TheGrayWolf on August 31, 2014, 08:24:20 PM

Title: One year on T
Post by: TheGrayWolf on August 31, 2014, 08:24:20 PM
I'm about a year on T now (minus a few weeks when I had to go off it, but it's a year more or less), so I thought I'd make a post on the changes I've had. I know we're not allowed to give specific dosage info, so all I'll say about that is I do my shot bi-weekly and the dose isn't high but it works for me.

My voice is obviously a big one. I don't know if it's going to change anymore, but it's been in the male range for many months now. I also have an adam's apple now, not sure when that happened but it must have been in the last few months. Facial hair is coming in more as time goes on, mostly on my chin and upper lip, and it's just started to creep down my neck fairly recently. Not much in the sideburn area. Stomach hair is increasing below my belly button mostly and I still have that one chest hair that grew several months ago. I just have more body hair in general. My skin is maybe a couple of shades darker, apparently due to the increase in red blood cells. Not a startling change but it's noticeable if you look for it. I'm definitely stronger, but I don't know that I've gained much/any muscle since I don't really work out much. I think I lost pretty much all the fat that was on my hips, which wasn't much to begin with. I have acne but it's not too bad usually.

That's all I can think of for now. I'm sure I'm forgetting things so feel free to ask about anything. This year has gone pretty quickly and when I look back I know I've had a lot of changes, but I've also heard that between year 1 and 2 things tend to progress a lot more. Hopefully this is interesting to some people. I know that when I was pre-t/just starting I was really interested in posts like this. Again, feel free to ask any questions you have. :)
Title: Re: One year on T
Post by: zero.cool.crash.override on September 01, 2014, 12:51:38 AM
Thanks for the specific update.  Good real info.