I started T 9 days ago and I didn't expect to feel/hear any vocal changes already but yesterday my throat started hurting. It still hurts and at one point my roommate said my voice sounded lower but I'm not sure if I'm just getting sick or if my voice is already dropping. Is my throat supposed to feel sore?

Some guys get a sore throat, some don't.

Your voice tends to get weaker before it drops from what I've noticed. Never gotten a sore throat, but I know others who do.

I had a sore-ish throat... Not typical cough cold sore throat - a little different.

Then it felt like I was continuously trying to talk around something in my throat and constantly clearing it.

Eventually it got to feel like it had this 'boom' or a more resonating feeling and now its pitchy - annoying at times but very cool and interesting to see how it changes!! Can't sing though which annoys me...

But yeah no one really knows what it's 'supposed' to feel like - thats how mine felt

yeah some days I have too keep clearing my throat, some days it feels slightly sore, some days it feels fine. Just go with it, there's no set time for when your voice will start changing so it could already be happening.

When I was at 10 days I completely lost my voice for a few days.  I think mine changed faster than most.  It kind of starts to sound like youre sick, only to yourself though.  And you can feel vibration when you talk - that part's pretty noticable even if it's just a little bit.

My throat gets a little sore every now and then. I think it's within the parameters of normal. It also happened to me when my voice changed the first time at 14-ish (though that was a definite crack I was unprepared for - it got weak and squeaky and such).

Before T, I've always felt like there's been something tight in my throat stopping my voice from going as low as it should. Almost as if I'm being choked some days.

Since being on T, it's been like that tightness is subsiding. My voice hasn't had a dramatic crack, it's just been a smooth slide down. It hasn't really gotten rough or weak.

I've always spoken from the chest, it's just now (with the tightness going) I seem to have a lot more resonance - there's a vibration there now.

I thought any significant voice change in the first 4 weeks was BS - until I was on my cell in a bad reception area and got my own voice echoed back at me. It wasn't perfect, it's not "done" yet, but there was a definite change for the better .

Mine started getting sore at about the same time. My voice dropped at 3 weeks and 2 days. Now it doesn't really get sore it just cracks a lot before it gets lower.

Yep the same thing happened to me.  After a week or two I felt like I had a sore throat all the time and had to clear my throat often.  My voice didn't drop for a good 2 months tho, so it might have been placebo for me haha.  But yea it's normal, some people's voices drop really quick so it could already be happening

I made a youtube and put a few videos up showing what my voice was doing up to 5 mo.  And I thought of this thread, so you might be interested?

my youtube is Mr5Graham

My throat started feeling kind of tight around a week in, and my voice dropped a bit.  It was like having "morning voice" all day long.  It never did really crack, or break (other than when trying to sing);  It just took a long, slooow, ride down, finally hitting definitively male (most of the time) at around 9 months. 

Quote from: Graham on April 20, 2010, 05:39:31 AM
I made a youtube and put a few videos up showing what my voice was doing up to 5 mo.  And I thought of this thread, so you might be interested?

my youtube is Mr5Graham

Damn that's so long! lol this is my 15th day on testosterone and thinking about 5 months seems like forever. I've gotta do it though. Your voice sounded low at 5 months and you definitely looked very male in that video which makes me feel better because my birthday is in 5 months and I'd really like o pass by then.

my youtube is carsonpostcassandra my videos do a pretty good job at showing how my voice dropped. It isn't edited together but watch like the first one and the one I just put up(15 and 1/2 weeks) if you are interested.

Quote from: Carson on April 21, 2010, 06:54:06 AM
my youtube is carsonpostcassandra my videos do a pretty good job at showing how my voice dropped. It isn't edited together but watch like the first one and the one I just put up(15 and 1/2 weeks) if you are interested.

yeah lol I'm the one who commented on your last video to let you know I like keeping up with your changes.

Quote from: TheOtherSide on April 20, 2010, 08:52:30 AM
Damn that's so long! lol this is my 15th day on testosterone and thinking about 5 months seems like forever. I've gotta do it though. Your voice sounded low at 5 months and you definitely looked very male in that video which makes me feel better because my birthday is in 5 months and I'd really like o pass by then.

When you look back on it it goes by fast.

I started T 5 weeks ago, and I've noticed drops and peaks here and there, but for the last week or so, my voice has gotten really weak, and I've noticed that it feels like it's constantly dry, no matter how much water I drink. I feel the weakness peaking today especially, as I work at a call center and have to use it all day. Is this normal, and does this mean a drop is coming?

I get really depressed every time I hear how quickly guys' voices drop once starting on T. I'm at 2 1/2 months and haven't had a single sign of vocal changes at all. I've got some recordings and they all sound about the same. :/ Meanwhile, my mustache is coming in pretty decent and I've got long, thin black hairs coming out of my chin already. I'm so anxious I'm going to have hella facial hair before I develop a voice that could even be mistaken for somewhat male. No matter how aware I am as to how I project my voice, I NEVER get called 'he' for it. I'd much rather have a male voice than all this facial hair this early in the game.

Hey Matt, I am at 3 months and my voice only just started to drop.  I sound like Pink right now--a definite feminine alto.  So don't feel bad.  Most guys I know in RL didn't start having the voice drop significantly until 3 months or more.  I did have a little change early on, but nothing notable until now. 

Also, if you have facial hair then I wouldn't worry about not passing due to your voice once that finishes growing in!  Have you ever heard the country band Rascal Flatts?  Lead singer Gary LeVox has a voice you would SWEAR is a deep lady's voice if he weren't singing about how much he loves women on a conservative country station, and no one ever thinks he's female when they look at him!  Maybe on the phone, lol, but if you have all the looks then there ARE men with higher voice ranges. 

Update: I've been off T in preparation for my top surgery, and I can definitely tell I can't reach my voice into the lower ranges that I could before. For some reason the T allows me to speak more deeply in my natural voice. So maybe this means once I start again next month I'll hear some changes soon after?

It was like clockwork for me, sore throat then the next day my voice would be different.  Usually but not always a drop. 

And it was on a pretty regular weekly schedule for several months, like six days after my weekly shot, I'd be hoarse and then the next day on shot day I'd open my mouth and be surprised by the sound coming out of it.  One week it'd be super low and stable, so I could sing, and the next week more creaky and I couldn't sing, and then it'd change again.   

Lately changes are less frequent. Now at nine or ten months in it's more like once a month. 

So I have been on T for almost three weeks. I have the sore throat from HELL! How long does this last?


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