Hormone changes - more emotional?

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Hi, can I ask any of you, if any of you experience more or less emotional during hormone changes?

I've had to stop taking my hormones (including testosterone blocker) in preparation for a surgery on friday, and the last several days I've been a lot more teary and emotional, and some times I feel like I can cry at the drop of a hat. Like it takes very little to make me cry.

When I first began hormone replacement therapy, it had a very calming effect on me, but I never felt more emotional per say (I've always been pretty in-tune with myself and comfortable with my emotions). I've never been an overtly emotional person.
Do any of you experience that, like feel more emotional or less emotional during hormonal changes? This is kind of new for me.

[rikkiandjulie]

Um I know every time I'm PMSing bc I will cry at anything, and I mean ANYTHING. So, when my hormones fluctuate I do get more sensitive.


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Oh ok. Thanks.
It's since leveled off quite a bit, I think maybe my body just needed a little time to acclimate to the changes. But I would have thought an increase in testosterone and a decrease in estrogen would have had the opposite effect. But since I've never had a monthly cycle I don't have a frame of reference, I guess would be the right way to describe it.