For those that have started HRT, what was the most surprising change you noticed that you weren't expecting? (self.trans)

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I'm still pretty early on in my HRT journey at just under 5 weeks of estradiol IM injections and Spironolactone.

One thing that I kind of was expecting but still took me by surprise was the depth of my emotions increasing.

I kept reading about "a larger range of emotional responses" but feeling it is a whole new world! I feel like my emotions have so much more texture and nuance that I pick up on. I can feel them shift from sadness to anger to determination to whatever so quickly and so intuitively.

Before I started E, the best way I can describe how my emotional state behaved was like these blurry blobs of feelings that were difficult to distinguish or identify. Everything swirled around me without me being able to fully experience them. Now they are a part of me and I would never go back ❤️

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[-] neuracnu 43 points 8 months ago

HOLY SHIT THE DROPSIES

One of the side effects of feminizing HRT is smoother skin, which is terrific. HOWEVER, be prepared for your fingertips to lose basically all their spidey-esque gripping power. Prepare for the butteriest of butter fingers. You will be dropping shit ALL THE TIME. Boxes that you used to be able to just grab the sides of to carry around? That life is OVER HONEY.

I've gotten used to having work gloves to wear when I'm doing anything physical.

[-] onevia 24 points 8 months ago

Oh my god... That explains so much! Did you possibly notice it around the 1 month to 6 week mark? The past couple days I have been CONSTANTLY dropping things that I thought I had a good grip on but never did. Just slips right out and I look down like "what the hell just happened there" 😖

Worth it for the gorgeous skin though

[-] ThatFembyWho 16 points 8 months ago

Wooow I never made that connection!!

Indeed I have been frustrated for years over my sudden propensity for dropping things. I think there has also been a change in coordination/spatial awareness for me.

I wonder if this also factors into the increased difficulty of opening lids? No matter how much force I apply, I can't move them without adding a grippy texture.

[-] interrobang 9 points 8 months ago

I think it's also skin moisture. Since E, my wife feels totally different - her skin is cool, soft and velvety now, it used to feel warm and almost radiate humidity.

That humidity feel definitely helps grip, that's supposedly the reason our skin prunes up in water; better grip!

[-] TGhost@lemmy.ml 10 points 8 months ago

Thats sound very terrific said like this 😅😅,

I have unfortunately to consider that 😥😭😭

My work is manual, and passions of the moment too 🙃🙃

[-] KillingAndKindess 9 points 8 months ago

Oh,if you're anything like me, you neednt worry. The amount of times I've cut, sliced, or knicked my already large-ish hands (both from manual labor as a teen, and my hobbies now).... I wish my hands were changing at all... They're more like lumps of charcoal than buttered noodles.

[-] TGhost@lemmy.ml 8 points 8 months ago

Skin softer, you got more scares if you are not carrefull ? Or exactly the same as before ?

Thanks :-)

[-] KillingAndKindess 6 points 8 months ago

I've only been on E for a month, so changes are still young, but my hands have always been and still are quite masculine. Since I have some callouses and scars from work and injuries, I'm not sure that my hands will ever look feminine in the traditional sense. It used to be a large source of dysphoria for me, but I've come to realize that my hobbies (woodworking basically) mean that I just have butch hands on will hopefully be an otherwise femme-body. 🤞🏻🤞🏻

[-] TGhost@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 months ago

I see,

thanks and you will 😘😘

[-] interrobang 6 points 8 months ago

Have you tried lots of moisturizer? Estrogen makes skin more soft and papery from what I've seen, it sure helps me sew and whatnot

[-] TGhost@lemmy.ml 5 points 8 months ago

Im not yet on hrt. Still thinking about it.

But what I can say, is that I need to learn to take care of my skins 😅

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