What on earth! I've read experiences on here, how... just, emotions are overwhelmingly present after a certain point while on HRT. I remember when I started, the effects were mild at best... now, today, this feeling, this overwhelming energy, I can't fathom that it is -me- who is feeling this way. I'm not just reading about it, I am living it.

At first I was confused. Worried if I didn't eat enough protein to make me feel a bit more stable. Did I get enough sleep? I thought the pills were in fact making me more disorientated, when in actuality it was my mood amplified. I've been sad prior to taking HRT, but never anything overwhelmingly physical. Now I feel it building in my throat, like holding back tears, even if nothing around me is provoking that. Today I feel as though when I focus on something I feel incredibly pained. My eyes fill up. It's so strange!

Again, yeah, I was worried. Then it donned on me. I just wanted to say something, put into perspective of what the heck just happened.

Hormones will do that to you and it did me until I would say I was stable. I'd hear a song on the radio while driving and I'd cry my eyes out and need to stop even though I had heard it a hundred times before. I became more empathetic and caring and less "male" if I can say that.

With me, in time, I have gotten used to the emotional feelings that used to overwhelm me and I rather like who I am now as opposed to before. It is truly like a new person lives inside of me now.

Love,
Clare