Is it possible to pull a muscle under your boob? I made the extremely poor decision of jumping off a 10 meter diving platform, and my boobs did the thing where they were weightless for a bit but then came thunking down when gravity happened again (I know, extremely scientific terminology). The top of my breasts are really sore today and it feels like I pulled a muscle there. Is that even possible?
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I do know what type of bra most fits well on my body type and my fashion style. But why I still go upward adventure and lose money? Tho sometimes I find gold mine >_< can't stop stock old bra I love and explore new bra/brand of bra
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This is a question many of us could also ask. Sometimes I tell myself "I have plenty of great bras, but I need to try this... FOR SCIENCE." The quest for knowledge never ends ;-)
On the other hand if we did not take risks and try new things, we probably wouldn't have all our good bras because we would have been afraid to try them.
No such thing as "too many" or "plenty of" bras! If you don't have more than what will fit into a 40gallon plastic storage container or two, there's always room for a few more!
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So migration is happening. What I find interesting is that the pain is exactly the same as I felt when I was in my old bras with cups that had half the volume I needed. Not that surprising, but interesting.
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Yes, you'd always want to check your cycle (where you are and whether it's regular) and for signs of pregnancy and cancer, when the breasts change. I'm safe and the same thing has happened before. As you would expect after 20+ years in the wrong bras. I'm putting this here because it's often mentioned that migration is painful and I have searched but never found a detailed description of it so there's a need to discuss it.
Actually it's a little of both. The pain started when I've been in bras and they are all too small now, but I haven't I worn one in days and it comes and goes. There's some release when I push the tissue forward. I've done the opposite for science and that's very uncomfortable.
I think the last time migration happened was when I started getting a crease at the outer side of the breasts and that time the pain was quite far back under the armpit. This time it kind of looks like that crease is spilling over and the pain has moved forward and spreads from the outer edges of the breasts.
Pain is subjective, but to me this is not the same soreness as I get during PMS. It's not distributed within the whole breast, nor are there any lumps. It's an intense version of the soreness when the breasts haven't had good support in a while and feel "tired".
Ok, time to forget the pain and shift focus!
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Aaargh. My chest refuses to stop growing, and I'm 28! Over the past two years, it went up 2.5 inches and today I felt like my breasts were spilling a bit in my bras, so I measured, and sure enough, they grew another .5 inch sometime in the last week or so! (And before you ask, I finished my period ... four days ago, and am not bloated. My husband is convinced they're trying to take over the world. Heh.) Sigh: I also haven't gained any weight really, if anything, I may have lost a pound or two, since I've had the flu for half a week now. My ribcage is the same.
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It's unfortunate but true that some ladies experience boob growth into their 30s. It's related to hormones, so if you were pregnant, on any kind of hormone-related medication, or even consume a lot of dsury or tofu- they all affect your boobs.
I know a lot of ladies share your frustration. I hope they slow down for you soon so you don't have to keep buying new bras!
I'm also still going through this, and I'm 34. :( It all started as a side effect from a medication, but continued well after I stopped taking that. I sort of just pushed myself into too-small unseamed, unpadded molded Wacoal bras for years, but that started to take a toll and cause pain. When I first started growing (again) around 7 years ago, I morphed pretty quickly into a 34F, and now I'm... Well, I'm around a 34HH/J, at least according my measurements here.
I definitely understand the frustration. It's exhausting, time-consuming and expensive growing out of your bras over and over and ugh....
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Really need to break myself of pushup bras!!!!! Bought another B Wow'd bra today. Couldn't pass up a $40 bra for $10 on clearance. Now have 2 30D (to small currently but holding in case I need them) and 3 30DD... Have 1 only 32C that's lightly padded that I like other then the fact the band is to loss.... Not a bad to loss but it could be tighter. So after my ramble does anyone have suggestions for lightly padded bras that aren't pushup.... I'm somewhere around 30D-E perimeter is 9 inches....
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Hi, I had the exact same thing going on with me. I had the mentality that the only way fir me to look/feel sexy was to have my boobs pushed and squeezed under my chin. Then I tried on the Freya Ginny half-cup. It makes my boobs look better than any heavy-padded push-up bra ever has.
I want to see what they make out of this
http://twitter.com/KariByron/status/497552876156489729
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I recently began losing weight. It's a slow process, but the biggest loss so far is in my bust. My full bust measurement has dropped by 1.5 inches in a month, and my underbust measurement has also decreased by half an inch. In other words, I've gone from 44H/44FF to 44G/44F in a month! I need new bras! It also ... means I can't go buy a bazillion bras in my current size, because I don't know how quickly I'm going to change sizes. At this rate, I'll need a 42 band size by the beginning of the new year. My hips and thighs have not followed suit.
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Congrats on your weight loss! :)
Thanks, DarkMoonLily! I didn't expect to see results this soon, but it's really motivating.
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It is soooo hard to put a bra on in the summer heat! Yeesh! Ladies, I know you understand my pain! I want to bathe in baby powder (it helps with the boob sweat).
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Hah, yes, I get out of the shower in the morning and before I even have time to make my way to the closet to pick out and put on a bra, I feel like I need to have another shower because I'm already covered in sweat. It's like trying to put a harness on a pair of slippery oily water balloons. Damn heat.
dagobra and forget thinking about changing bras because the one you put on doesn't work for the outfit you want to wear. Now you get to plan your outfit around the bra you put on!
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Last Saturday I went to a theme park with a combined water park. I had worn my bikini under my shirt to make changing easier. After we were done in the water park, I went to get changed and I realized...MY BRA WAS IN THE CAR IN MY OTHER BAG! I am way too pendulous and nippy to go w/o ... a bra, especially under the thin tank I was wearing. I put my shirt on and threw my towel over me to protect my modesty, and went to explain my predicament to my boyfriend. The van was so far, we decided that it was better for me to just deal w/ the wetness of my bikini than wasting an hour walking through the parking lot. It was humid and I had terrible swamp boob the rest of night. Luckily, I didn't get a rash.
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Hahaaa, swamp boob, I love this description, so accurate :D
Ugh!
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Now I don't think I am 28H anymore... OMG. I mean I was full cup of 28H but now i am def 28HH
also I just tried 28J It fits!
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Is this the same model of bra? I can have variations of up to 3 cup sizes between different brands and models...
Oh Thanks GOD!! than I may be not!
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strapless bra !!! I'd love to hear your recommandation of strapless bra! My size is 28H/28HH now -more like HH- and What would you recom ?
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I love my 65E - Ewa Michalak ยป Mleczny Strapless (87) really comfy and stays put the whole day, also gives me nice cleavage.
The freya deco strapless wasn't a good fit for me because the wires were too wide and the cups came up too high.
Did ewa michalak comes with nude colour??
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This probably should go under bra ups and downs as well as body issues.
I am so frustrated! I feel like I could spend thousands of dollars looking for the right bra fit and STILL not find it. When I recently ordered most of the bras I've put up here, I really really thought they were close to the right ... fit, and it turns out they're 4 or more cup sizes too small in some cases! Honestly, it seems like a reduction would be less expensive at this point. I cannot afford to keep doing this. I keep getting cup size recommendations far beyond what I'd thought my size could possibly be.
I feel more self-conscious about my boobs looking huge than ever before. Even when I lost a bit of weight earlier this year (it was due to oral surgery, I avoid dieting), my breast size did not shrink AT ALL. My mother complains about that being the first place she starts to lose weight when she loses any. I feel like mine keep growing, which... Perhaps I should have a mammogram, MRI, blood tests? Could it be a serious problem if mine are growing in my thirties? I don't feel a mass or anything, but I wonder if something hormonal could be causing this? I'm not pregnant and have never been. My sister got up to a C cup when she was pregnant last year -- when she complained about that causing pain, I sort of wanted to strangle her. I mean, not really, but you know.
The other thing, with my lupus... I have a bad kidney, and I may in fact have to diet in order to become eligible for a transplant. It's not something that makes me happy to think about, and I really hate the idea of dieting. I'd need to lose just about 10 pounds to get out of the "obese" category. But like... I can't figure out a way to exercise because my boobs hurt too much. I bought a 36H Berlei sports bra this year, and it is WAY too small in the cups. I bounce more in that bra that most any other that I own. I am so tired of hurting all the time. I wish I could just get a reduction down to a DDD or something and be done with it. That would solve a lot of this, and it would almost certainly take me out of the obese weight bracket so I wouldn't have to diet.
This just seems impossible! I'm beginning to doubt that bras are actually made in my size.
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I know that Imogen from inside out style blog just got a breast reduction. Depending in where you're from health insurance might cover it.
Where I live now, it would probably not be covered. But I'm considering moving to Connecticut, where it probably would be. I'll check out her blog.
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I'm sure someone has thought of this before, but how awesome would it be to have a bra library, that you pay like... $25 a year to be a member, and then you can check out bras for up to three weeks or whatever to see how well they fit and if they're worth the investment.
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I posted something like this a few weeks ago! It would seriously be my dream come true. Not sure if it would make enough money to actually work, though.
That would be so cool!
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I generally dislike going to Walmart; the place is pretty much always crowded with people who refuse to acknowledge being asked if they will please let someone through while they stand with carts blocking every aisle imaginable, they never have enough people working the registers, and simply navigating the parking lot in and out of ... the car is nothing short of dangerous and would be safer if everyone was in bumper cars or I drove a monster truck. But tonight's experience takes things to a whole new level. A man that I did not and do not ever plan to know put his hands on my ass. When I turned around and looked at him he just smiled in a weirdo perv way and looked directly at me like he expected me to just accept being touched by a strange man. I told him "Don't touch me again" and glared at him before I turned back around and continued on my way through the store. Apparently he didn't get the message because he thought it would be ok to follow me around, to the register where he mumbled something about wanting my phone number, then and all the way out to my car - which is when I used my taser on him. The sheriff's deputies hanging out by their patrol cars maybe 3 parking spaces away saw that part of what happened and as they're supposed to be keeping the public safe it was understandable that they would come over to find out what the issue was (first they asked for me to give them the taser while we spoke, for everyone's safety) so the cliff notes version went something like..- I told them "he touched me" - "did you touch her sir?" - "mumbled...maybe ok yeah..."; "he followed me around the store to the register and then out here" - "sir, did you follow her around and then out here to her vehicle?" - "mumbled so? I wanted her number" - and; "then I tasered him".
I got my taser handed back at the end of the conversation with law enforcement right about the time that the guy ended up in the back of the patrol car because by that point someone in store security came out and told the deputies that he'd been exposing himself in the store while walking around and then while following me. They gave me a card with the report number/contact info and I may be contacted by a detective and someone in the D.a.'S office depending on what they charge the perv with. Lovely. Walmart, the store where you can be groped by a guy who wanders the aisles with his junk out and has to be tasered to leave you alone, just hope yours has some law enforcement hanging out in the parking lot and maybe get a taser. Apparently the one I have is the highest voltage allowed for civilians to possess/utilize and carry in public - that's only because my brother wouldn't let me give him the money to buy one that's only sold to persons employed in law enforcement (he's a corrections guard) - we aren't even living in the same state, they don't have serial numbers like guns, but noooooooo. Deputies didn't even know about the pepper spray that was at the bottom of my purse. They probably would have confiscated that because it's a high concentration gel that is no longer sold to the civilian public.
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wow! i'm glad ur okay, i've been watching way too much Law & Order SVU lately, so this sounds straight up like an episode!
...maybe i should get a taser??
walmart is notorious for having unsafe parking lots, sadly for the women who get harassed
And the store staff didn't call the police when they saw this guy exposing himself and following a woman? :O
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I've been seeing a guy who is raising two daughters after his wife/their mom passed due to breast cancer. He asked me fairly recently if I would take his older daughter to shop for bras, since she had said that she'd be more comfortable doing that with me. Even though she's not all that developed, I 'get' why she ... wants a bra, because it's the same reason I wanted one around the same age - to fit in. Of course, the selection that she has available to her at Target is way beyond the white, black, S-M-L choices I recall, and whatever the material used in them always made me itchy. I was happy to have been able to make the whole process a positive experience for his daughter, who now has options in basic colors as well as a hot pink lace-trimmed and padded bra. The younger one thinks bras are silly and plans on never wearing them. I was worried that I might be asked questions to which there aren't any easy answers (My mom had breast cancer, will I get it? etc etc) but the most challenging inquiry was "do I have this on the right way?" (the answer: umm...almost....). I got her a lingerie wash bag for everything *but* the hot pink one, at least not for the first couple of washes so that there's less worry about any dye transferring, and instructions to hang dry (even though it's more likely that all of the bras will go into the dryer because that's easier and faster...).
The entire experience brought back memories of my first trip that my mom and I took shopping for bras. I was a little embarrassed but I managed to bring the subject up with my mom, who responded to the whole thing only marginally better than how she reacted to the permission slip from school to allow me to go with the other girls in my class to learn about all the ways our bodies were about to change and freak us out with. Evidently she'd assumed that sort of thing wouldn't come up for another couple of years. I have to say, I'd have never been able to bring the subject of wanting/needing a bra up with my dad, regardless of who would be taking me to the store.
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It's awesome to hear that her first experience with bras was such a good one! We should all be so lucky to have someone like you early in our bra-wearing lives.
I wish someone like you had taken me bra shopping when I was young. It was a big shameful awful ordeal.
(don't tween bras come so cute now? way better than the pink or white superthick nonsense)
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I am not sure if bratabase has suggestions for this purpose, but if anywhere does it's here. (actually this is going to be a 2 part question)
I teach a sport that involves a lot of jumping and moving and being upside down and such, mostly to elementary through high school aged girls. Some of these girls have the stereotypical body ... type associated with such endeavors (at least for now). Some are well served by the S M L XL generic sports bras.
And then there are the few who clearly should be wearing 'full bust' bras. So I know their chests are hurting after practice. MINE did & I took my sweet time developing.
So
a) is there magic wording for bringing this up with Jr high/high school girls that isn't going to make them feel bad about their bodies? In certain sports boobs are, like, the worst thing evar. They're all very in shape, it's just the shape they are in happens to be curvier than expected! Also for bringing it up with their parents without it being super creepy? I'm not good at magic words & I know that if someone had said anything that sounded at all like "Kallisti's boobs are too big" I would have died on the spot.
b) Actual recommendations for sports bras? This gets tricky because, like, panache & enell? WAY TOO HIGH IN THE NECK to go under our competition uniforms. I have an Anita Active one that works for the activity & probably fits under the uniform (or at least doesn't come up so high) but there might be better options or options that other people like (bc bodies are different). Pros & cons as well would be super appreciated. Most/all of the athletes I am thinking of would be small band/'large' cup.
Thank you so much, knowledge-havers.
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Wait, is this the question that was just asked a few days ago? Maybe it was on reddit! LOL
the first part I vaguely asked on someone elses thread but didnt wanna take it over so I went into more detail & made a new thread asking exactly what I wanna compile.
I'm not even on reddit, that place scares me.
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Anyone experience chest pains due to large breast? I've always experienced a slight chest pain but it's only getting worse. Trips to the doctor has shown that nothing is wrong but something has to be going on right? My mom thinks it's my chest size (even though she's even larger chested than I am and experiences no weird pains).
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Where is the pain located? Do you mean within the chest wall (inside rib cage), or in the breast tissue?
That's really abnormal. Have they done all tests (both ones that can be caused by cancer or by a heart condition)?
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It pains me to see "before" and "after" photos of breast implant patients with the description saying "...now a full C cup" or "from 36B to 36D," and to see the bra lines that clearly show that their "new" bras are WAY to big in the band... maybe if these women found out their true size before hand they might not have gotten the surgery.... just bums me out...
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At least implants are usually lighter than natural breast tissue! They're also more self-supporting (at first). Between an augmented woman with 30GG breasts and one who is that way without enhancement, the first can probably get away with crappier bras. Until gravity starts to do its thing, that is.
What drives ME up the wall is the completely, utterly, appallingly off base bra sizes that plastic surgeons use to refer to a given breast volume. YOU HAVE AN MD FIGURE IT OUT!!!
The same thing pains me more with reduction stories. Like, maybe if they'd had a bra that was actually supportive, they wouldn't have been so unhappy with their natural body.
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Just re-did my measurements, and of course there's not a calculator anywhere that gets it right thanks to my barrel chest. 30H/HH or 28HH/J? lol. 30GG is slightly too big.
So, I am apparently now...wait for it...
a 29 G 1/2. If only such a size existed.
Oddly enough, being a between sizer seems to mean ... I'm roughly the same size in UK and Polish brands (that run in UK-esque sizing). (30G-GG/28GG-H UK, 65GG ish Ewa Michalak and Kris Line). So on the one hand, it makes things easier. My starting size is the same across the board.
On the other hand, it makes them infinitely more complicated. Kind of glad I didn't sell ALL of my 30GGs. I still have a Freya and a Fantasie. They're a wee bit big. Ok. the bands on both are absolutely too big, but can wear them on the tighter hooks or alter them down, and cups - well, the Fantasie is at least an inch too wide, maybe more, and the Freya is a little too big across the board, but both are wearable, and my 30G/28GGs are just a wee bit small. Just enough to be kind of uncomfortable before the work day is over.
Apparently, I don't get to have a bra that just fits at the moment. My options are slightly too big, or slightly too small.
The bra insanity continues...body o' mine, seriously, wasn't fingers and feet at quarter sizes bad enough? Wasn't my XXS ass bad enough? Now my boobs are between sizes, too? Not cool, and not funny. Body, enough with the practical jokes!
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We may have similar bodies... I have a tiny butt (panties always fall off or bunch in the back, and I wore a kid's large back when I weighed a bit less) and calculators always guess me a few cup sizes too large, probably due to my ribcage being pretty large at the top and then tapering to my waist. I'm currently around a 30H/HH, but most calculators think I should be in a 30J/JJ. Sigh.
Anyway, when I'm between sizes, I usually go for the slightly larger one and use cookies OR buy the smaller one and pray (fruitlessly) that my boobs shrink.
I have the kind of butt that makes going to the movies hard. 2 hours of sitting? Ow! :). I buy my pants in the juniors section.
So, sounds like! I have a very prominent upper torso. Projected sternum, tapered, barrel shaped, gigantic shoulders for my frame, tiny wrists and legs, no hips or butt at all. Can't shake the upper tummy flab and love handles, but not much going on below the belt.
The bigger size isn't so big I would need an insert, but it's just big enough to lose some support. And of course the wider wires are tough to cope with, but I'll just have to deal.
I was just so happy to ha e cracked the G barrier, being back in a GG is disappointing! My Gs are still very wearable, just not ideal for a long day.
Right now I'm praying that the Kris Line and Ewa bras I ordered fit when they finally arrive! (not as much as I'm praying whatever is wrong with my a/c is covered under the service contract though...maybe I'll melt back down to a G by Thursday when the tech gets here...)
What's crazy is my weight hasn't changed at all, just my boobs. How do my measurements change and my weight not change? Does not compute.
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So since I've started wearing more correct sizes, my (class 2) inverted nipples having become less inverted (that is to say they protrude more easily). Reading the wikipedia article on inverted nipples made me wonder what factors are contributing to my own and how wearing a correctly fitted bra may have helped that. Has anyone else experienced this?
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I have "class 1" nipples, which are usually referred to as "flat nipples" or "shy nipples" rather than fully inverted. This was a HUGE problem for me regarding breastfeeding, so I saw a lot of lactation consultants and doctors who had a lot of things to say about it.
Basically, inside your nipple there are fibrous bands of tissue that are pulling the nipple inside. The only way to make the nipples really not inverted is to stretch/break/tear these bits of tissue. This does happen when you have inverted nipples and you breastfeed and it's not comfortable. Given that the inversion is due to bits of tissue literally pulling your nipples back inwards, I can't see how a bra would make that much difference.
Do you know if hormones can influence it then (sorry, you're way more knowledgeabe on this subject than I am so I'm a bit curious)? I went on progestin only birth control around the same time I started wearing correctly sized bras. I suppose it could be random, but yeah.
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I don't know what happened to your poor boobs, but, OW!
Well, you have pectoral muscles on your chest so you may have done something to one of those muscles, or it could be your breast tissue itself that did not appreciate the vertical whiplash! If it lasts more than a couple days you might want to have it checked out, especially if you think you can feel some swelling under there. My dad actually tore his pectoral muscles on one side when weightlifting--they detached completely from the bone. That was an extreme case obviously and you would know if you'd done something that bad, but you can also have lesser tears to those muscles.
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