Quitting hormonal birth control - boobies?
Haha, basically, have any of you ever experienced any changes to your breasts after you quit birth control pills? Or patch, Nuvaring, injection, anything containing hormones...
I took my last active pill the 6th of April (I quit abruptly, didn't want to continue on and quit right after the sugar pills because I was freaking out about still taking them) so the 7th of April and six days forward were in effect the sugar pill week. So technically... I wasn't off birth control pills until the 14th of April (talking about this year). It is too early for me to see any changes, if any changes will take place at all.
If any of you reply to me, here's some data that can be interesting, just for comparison's sakeI started taking birth control pills in February 2012, never had a break, never skipped a single "period" (they're artificially produced and not the same as regular ones since you're suppressing ovulation the whole time you're on hormonal birth control)... I've experienced several side effects from it but I won't go into that unless someone's interested because it's unnecessary to go off-topic (after all, this is a bra/boob forum, not something else) unless someone's interested.
Have any of you stayed the same size (visually) on hormonal birth control and had only your boobs grow? In my case, I've found that hormonal birth control pills have made me gain all over and about 10-12 pounds (whether that's just water retention or a mix of that and fat, I don't know) so I cannot confidently say that only my boobs have grown bigger because of birth control pills...
The reason I'm asking you guys is because I'm simply curious, I know everyone's different but hearing different people's experiences of this is comforting in the sense that I won't be caught off-guard if my breasts rapidly decrease in volume
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My breasts/weight never seemed to change one way or the other when going on/off the pill, so it doesn't happen to everyone.
When I'm off hormonal BC, they don't seem to change size according to my menstrual cycle either, although I do have some soreness before my period. So I just seem to lack that tendency in general.
Thank you for contributing! That might be true for me as well, I'm not quite sure. Because... The first 1.5 years I kept my pre-BCP weight and then suddenly I gained 4 kilograms in 3-4 days (inexplicable considering the circumstances, I did nothing different from before, my guess is that my body was at that point so pumped with artificial hormones that something "finally" happened to it).
I'm not quite sure if I could say "my boobs grew from birth control pills" since my general body shape got bigger as well, it's not like my boobs were the only things that grew. I guess it's more appropriate just saying that I gained weight? Hmm...
If you don't mind, which kind of birth control did you use? I've used Prionelle 28 the whole time (exactly the same formulation as Neovletta 28, just sold under a different brand). Also, did you use the same hormonal birth control brand/method throughout the on- and off's? If I know what you've used I can look at the ingredients list and check to see if our contraceptives are similar :)
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