I'm only just over two weeks on T, and my voice is somewhat cracky and my throat keeps getting randomly sore, not like a sick kind of sore, and I have no other "symptoms" so I don't think I'm sick, but is that even possible this early on? I was thinking voice effects only started happening a few months down the line. Anyone else had this?

The first couple of weeks my voice was sore too. I had a drop around 2 months. It's normal to me.

Definitely normal man. My voice was sore on and off until my first big drop, which was around 3 months. It was kinda sore in the sense that it was dry and I felt a little dehydrated. Nothing to worry about.

It happens a lot, even very early.

My voice started changing around 6-ish weeks though today marks month 7& never experienced any dryness or soreness w/my throat.

I hear lots of guys experience it though..so it just varies it seems.

My voice didn't really change at all, but I definitely felt I was coming down with something — it wasn't sore, exactly, but you know when you start to get a cold your throat feels a bit... constricted? Kinda like that.

It's perfectly normal, as other guys have testified. Congrats BTW! :]

my throat got tight when it started dropping maybe a bit sore like i have a lump in my throat.

Thanks guys, basically everything you said combined is how I feel. I definitely don't feel sick, it's just like a dry, constricted feeling in the roof/back of my throat (best I can explain it). Not so worried now

My throat was sore very early as well (within the 1st week) and started dropping slightly within the 1st couple of weeks.  I've been told mine actually dropped earlier than a lot of guys, but nonetheless it is not uncommon.

My throat wasn't sore, but it felt like it needed clearing. I felt as if I had some phlegm that wouldn't go away.

It still happens right before a vocal shift, even a small one. In fact, it started again today, and I'm praying that I'm not just dehydrated. Also, my voice suddenly cracked on a song that I've been singing fine for months, so I have my fingers crossed.

Never satisfied...

Quote from: Arch on July 11, 2012, 02:56:12 AM
My throat wasn't sore, but it felt like it needed clearing. I felt as if I had some phlegm that wouldn't go away.

It still happens right before a vocal shift, even a small one. In fact, it started again today, and I'm praying that I'm not just dehydrated. Also, my voice suddenly cracked on a song that I've been singing fine for months, so I have my fingers crossed.

Never satisfied...

Speaking of which, singing is a huge deal to me, I've been training my singing for a looong time. Does T usually screw that all up?

Quote from: AJarrah on July 11, 2012, 08:11:35 PM
Speaking of which, singing is a huge deal to me, I've been training my singing for a looong time. Does T usually screw that all up?

Depends on what you mean. I've read that most singers can continue singing after T, but (obviously) your voice will be different, and there's a lot of paranoia about not being able to continue singing. You might start a singing thread, or search for one--it's been talked about before.

I'm no singer, but I have to relearn how to sing every time my voice shifts. For example, my voice changed only a little a few months ago, but it was enough to dork everything up until I got used to it. Now I'm fine; I just want a deeper voice.

I have been on T 3 months, my voice has dropped some.  It has dropped and then it stays the same for a few weeks then it drops again.  When it is dropping it does feel like I have something in it so I am continually trying to clear my throat which in turn does sometimes make it a bit sore.  Singing is getting challenging, I find that I am laughing at myself trying to sing lately, it just stops, then it goes up or down like I sometimes don't have a lot of control over it.

There are a couple guys I am following on youtube who are singers. They still sing, but there have been adjustments.

--Jay Jay

Quote from: aleon515 on July 12, 2012, 11:50:10 PM
There are a couple guys I am following on youtube who are singers. They still sing, but there have been adjustments.

--Jay Jay

Who do you follow? I'm always looking for more people to watch when I get bored at work.

Quote from: eVan24 on July 13, 2012, 12:07:54 PM

Who do you follow? I'm always looking for more people to watch when I get bored at work.

Tsk, tsk watching youtube videos at work (sadly it's blocked where I work). I follow a lot of gq people and so on, but I do follow a couple transguys:
Skylarkeleven:
http://www.youtube.com/user/skylarkeleven/videos

Owen Middleton:
http://www.youtube.com/user/owenthegenderboy/videos

Both of them are musicians (at least on the side) and very articulate.

ftm kickstart is a great channel, which I don't subscribe due to how many videos there are, but it's very good. I don't know re: singing.

don't get caught.


This isn't a youtube channel, but rather a blog and contains some good info on singing and T.
http://transguys.com/features/testosterone-ftm-singing

--Jay Jay

Quote from: aleon515 on July 14, 2012, 12:57:54 AM
Tsk, tsk watching youtube videos at work (sadly it's blocked where I work).

In my defense, the program we use at work is extremely slow and everything I do is through that so I have to do something while I wait.  It's blocked on our computers too but I watch it on my phone with my office door closed or with my headphones on.  I'm sure people know better but I just tell them I'm listening to music.

I watch skylar but I will check out the others.

Thanks!!

Evan

Quote from: eVan24 on July 15, 2012, 01:56:59 AM
In my defense, the program we use at work is extremely slow and everything I do is through that so I have to do something while I wait.  It's blocked on our computers too but I watch it on my phone with my office door closed or with my headphones on.  I'm sure people know better but I just tell them I'm listening to music.

I watch skylar but I will check out the others.

Thanks!!

Evan

Just messing wiht you man. Yep Skylar is great.
Owen talks about his singing voice in a few of his videos.

--Jay Jay