Hello everyone!! It's me again. Is there any tips or tricks to maximize effects of HRT? Or is it better to just let them work their magic? Also, should I be working out and losing weight before I start taking them again? Or should I worry about that once I'm on them for a while? I've heard to lose as much weight as you can before you take them as they make you gain weight, but I've also heard to not worry about as the more fat you have, the bigger breasts you'll get and the fat redistribution aspect will be better. Also, VOICE. I CANNOT for the life of me get the voice down. I either sound gay (no offense to anyone!!) or still sound like a man, just with a higher tone/pitch. I've done trainings and exercises (granted not as much as I should) and have read/watched about every article and video there is on this subject. Any advice on that? Voice is a big thing to me. Thanks in advance!!


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My therapist advised me about four sessions in (last March) that the voice is the hardest thing.  START NOW.  It's like saving for retirement - no one has ever said they wish they started later.  There is only one silver bullet and that's risky surgery.

As for speeding up the effects of Hormones - good luck with that. Again no one here has found that silver bullet either.  Time is the best thing.

Good luck and if you find anything let us know, please.

Hi Pinderxx, I'm in the same boat with the voice, I have been on and off hrt for a few years and my tone has definitely heightened, I tried some video lessons and gave up on it for a while and wish I didn't. I can tend to sound like I'm really trying too hard especially when I'm dehydrated, so for me if I am staying hydrated and always try to keep my throat clear it is much easier to find my more female voice, I think eating before I go out or have a visitor helps to clear my throat also. the less I talk the harder it will get for it to re-adjust for me anyways. Those things usually help my voice sound much more bearable, unless it's a blistering hot day and my throat feels like sand haha, then I'll try and not talk much at all

I found that I lost a fair amount of wieght in my first year or so on hrt, then was slowly gaining more back in places. I think it does vary from person to person but I just wanted to share what I could in my experiences. Good luck with your voice 

Definitely start working out and eating right as of yesterday.  It will help your HRT to be more effective to be at a healthy weight, if only because being at a healthy weight makes everything about your body more effective.  And naturally when it's time for surgery, it will definitely help with that too.

Voice work takes time -- sustained practice, and the right sort of practice.  It's probably the most difficult thing we have to do.  You won't get it down overnight.  I worked on my voice for an hour a day, five days a week -- breathing exercises, pitch slides, diaphragm control, funny cartoon voices, intonation variance, "yoda" techniques, recording and listening, recording and listening, over and over again, and it's the worst because you can still hear how wrong it all is -- and it took about six months before the "aha!" moment when everything clicked into place.  That was almost two decades ago, and I haven't been clocked on the phone since.