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 ❤️

  • TGhost@lemmy.mlEnglish
    10·
    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 🙃🙃

    • kora@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      9·
      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.mlEnglish
        8·
        8 months ago

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

        Thanks :-)

        • kora@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          6·
          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. 🤞🏻🤞🏻

    • interrobang@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      6·
      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.mlEnglish
        5·
        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 😅