My friend swears her adams apple got smaller from hormones & it kind of looks like it too :o Is that possible? I know the adams apple is cartilage & I know cartilage shrinks when you're on HRT so it seems kind of possible. What do you guys think?
I don't believe there is any shrinkage that happens. Although it can be repositioned and even hidden through voice training.
I can't say mine has gotten any smaller. It is cartilage and unlikely to just shrink at the end of the day. I have noticed mine is less prominent, due in part to voice training and maybe also some sub cutaneous fat depositing in the neck area softening out the definition of the lump.
Mine is less prominent now, and yeah I think it's due to fat placement. But just remember, everyone has one! :)
I don't know but there could be something that HRT does for cartilage, like I use to be able to crack my neck like 3 times on each side, now I can only get one crack each side n not as often as before.
It has for me! Probably reduced by about a third, HRT or age? And over a decade... Still there though! :'(
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Quote from: Clhoe G on December 09, 2014, 11:25:06 PM
I don't know but there could be something that HRT does for cartilage, like I use to be able to crack my neck like 3 times on each side, now I can only get one crack each side n not as often as before.
Totally off topic, but do you like... sound like Andrej Pejic too? xD I just see Andrej when you pop up on topics lol
Quote from: TSJasmine on December 10, 2014, 02:44:26 AM
Totally off topic, but do you like... sound like Andrej Pejic too? xD I just see Andrej when you pop up on topics lol
I don't know, I've never heard her voice, but I'm always hearing I look like her, it's kinda freaky.
Quote from: Clhoe G on December 10, 2014, 03:17:03 AM
I don't know, I've never heard her voice, but I'm always hearing I look like her, it's kinda freaky.
It's a compliment lol I can't tell if you really do though or if it's just the angle xD Either way, she's gorgeous & I love her. & I love you too because you remind me of her
I don't think mine has shrunk but it sure does seem to be less prominent, not sure why.
Quote from: Clhoe G on December 09, 2014, 11:25:06 PM
I don't know but there could be something that HRT does for cartilage, like I use to be able to crack my neck like 3 times on each side, now I can only get one crack each side n not as often as before.
If your neck cracked a lot before I would think you fell as a child or teenager at some point maybe landed on your back or fell off the bed? A cracky neck is normally indicitive to that and if you have seen a chiropractor or had any kind of adjustment for your spine you would probably see that reduce.
As far as HRT and Adam's apple... I wish. Myth I believe.
Quote from: TSLexiknight on December 10, 2014, 09:23:01 AM
If your neck cracked a lot before I would think you fell as a child or teenager at some point maybe landed on your back or fell off the bed? A cracky neck is normally indicitive to that and if you have seen a chiropractor or had any kind of adjustment for your spine you would probably see that reduce.
As far as HRT and Adam's apple... I wish. Myth I believe.
Nope, I've just got a lot of bones that crack.
No, since it's cartilage it isn't going to get smaller on HRT. However the neck muscles may diminish in size, so that may affect how prominent it appears.
Mine isn't visible at all like I can barely even expose it anymore. I asked my gf if she could see it while I was lying down and she said she couldn't, she had to run her fingers over the area before she could feel it slightly. So it looks like an adam's apple that a cis woman would have. I'm quite happy since that's another surgery I don't need. Hrt did revert my neck back to the way it was before T made it bigger, so its pretty thin again and my voice training probably helped too.
I also had changes with my Adam apple but it is definitivly not from HRT directly. I lost 30 pounds and by the same time i lost neck muscle wich made my Adam apple looks less prominent. It looks like it changed position and went under my chin instead of middle of my neck
It is still to big in my opinion and i will get it shaved when ill get the FFS done but there is still hope that it get even less prominent.
If you speak in your female voice, the trachea kinda gets pulled up and back ever so slightly too, diminishing the size.
Never had a adams apple so I have no clue.
Quote from: cheryl reeves on October 24, 2015, 02:53:37 PM
Never had a adams apple so I have no clue.
Same.
(I have one, it's just not visible).
+1. I never had a visible adam's apple.
Mine got smaller when I killed my thyroid to treat Grave's disease, it's not very prominent and I'm pre everything.
No, I feel it actually becomes more visible with age but remember that everyone has one. I've seen girls with bigger ones than mine. It is okay!
As a result of natural poisoning by T, mine grew at an early age. After years of HRT, it got even worse as my neck got nice and slender. Now it looks like I swallowed a golf ball. I am getting a trachea shave next month so I can finally have a nice looking throat.
Quote from: Christine Eryn on October 25, 2015, 02:45:47 PM
As a result of natural poisoning by T, mine grew at an early age. After years of HRT, it got even worse as my neck got nice and slender. Now it looks like I swallowed a golf ball. I am getting a trachea shave next month so I can finally have a nice looking throat.
Exactly what I mean! Our muscles get slimmer so as a result our neck gets thinner and the Adam's apple sticks out more. But like I said, many cis women have it too so it's not something I'd obsess over.