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Re: keeping ABREAST of how weird my body is :)
From: AdoptASAP (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Wed, 30 May 2001 06:00:54 -0500 (CDT)
WOW thx for the link. Glad to see Im not the only one with this
problem. The thing thats different, is I am overweight and mine are
plumper then all those photos but do curve down like that. Nipples the
same. I hate my breasts especially the size difference. So noticable
in my clothes too. Sometimes when I go out, I have to plump one up with
a pusher cushion undernieth just to match.
At Tue, 29 May 2001, mary wrote:
>
>hahahah. i felt exactly the same way looking through those pictures!
>those bastards! (kidding) half of their breasts were perfect and
>actually
>looked better before!
>anyways, you probably don't have tuberous breasts, but i do for sure and
>i know that they look good when i'm cold too. basically cause you can
>actually see the underside of them and they look round. it wouldn't be a
>problem for breast feeding though, its just that the skin is too tight
>under you breasts, making them grow down.
>
>At Tue, 29 May 2001, anonymous@obgyn.net wrote:
>>
>>Eeek! I'm not sure! I looked it up, nd I found this site:
>>
>>http://www.implantinfo.com/beforeandafter/pechterpix.htm
>>
>>witth lots of pictures. I think I look more like
>>exmples 3 and 11 than the tuberous pics... but I don't know!
>>I'm in a public computer cluster so I can't very well pull my shirt up
>>and look. :)
>>
>>Maybe mine are somewhere between tuberous and normal? It doesn't say if
>>tuberous ones can look normal when cold. Can they? Do you know anything
>>else bout this condition? Does it make it hard to breast feed or
>>anything?
>>
>>I have never had a doc describe my breasts as tuberous, so I relly don't
>>know if this applies to me or not. Good to see so many shapes of women
>>on that site... bad to see so many who I though looked perfectly fine -
>>in fact who i'd love to look like - going under the knife to look flat
>>out ridiculous!
>>
>>- Jodi
>>
>>At Tue, 29 May 2001, mary wrote:
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>>>hey jodi,
>>> i just read this now and i thought i should respond.
>>>i don't know if this has anything to do with pcos at all
>>>but if your boobs look anything like mine, then you
>>>may have something called tuberous breasts.....you may not though. you
>>>can find pictures of what they look like if you look up breast
>>>augmentation, because women who have had it surgically corrected have
>>>pictures posted of before and after. it'd be interesting to know if it
>>>was connected though.
>>>
>>>At Fri, 25 May 2001, jodi wrote:
>>>>
>>>>in the "real" world (the non internet non-PCOS world) , i feel i'd have
>>>>to say this might be more info about
>>>>my body parts than anyone needs... but since it's generally safe to
>>>>bare all here...
>>>>
>>>>i am lastingly unnerved by a post someone made a while back (in the deep
>>>>voice thread, i think?)
>>>>about there being two types of PCOS - classic, with irreg periods &
>>>>obesity, and virilizing, with excess hair,
>>>>enlarged clitoris, and breast atrophy.
>>>>
>>>>wellllll... first of all, i seem to recall reading that PCOS is NOT the
>>>>same as virilization. and i remember my doc
>>>>saying to her assistant, now note that this is NOT the same as
>>>>virilization... (i have the body hair part...)
>>>>
>>>>does anyone know... is this true??? is PCOS the same as virilization or
>>>>is it not?
>>>>
>>>>so my other question is, ok, what does "breast atrophy" mean???
>>>>
>>>>i have always hated the shape of my boobs, or at least i have hated them
>>>>since i began thinking of my boobs as
>>>>a potential sexual, attractive feature rather than a petty annoyance
>>>>that made me different than the other girls in
>>>>my class. they are not ... well, they don't have that nice, round,
>>>>well-centered nipple look that most other
>>>>girls i've seen naked have. they're more like ... well, you know how
>>>>the pointy look was in in the 50's?
>>>>take that look, put the nipples in the points, and let 'em sag a bit.
>>>>(though they do perk up nicely and look
>>>>quite good if i am cold or, ahem, aroused...)
>>>>
>>>>so i remember reading somewhere that breasts come in different shapes,
>>>>and can be round or conical, firm
>>>>or pendulous... and that yours will probably be the same shape as your
>>>>mothers. i remember seeing my mother
>>>>naked in the bathtub as a child, and wondering we her breasts were kind
>>>>of low and pointy, rather than having
>>>>the shape of girls i saw in R rated movies my parents didn't know i was
>>>>watching. :)
>>>>
>>>>but... well, my mother carried and breast fed two kids... hers could
>>>>be that way because of that, right?
>>>>
>>>>i have tried those exercises where you lay on your back with your arms
>>>>out to the side and lift weights upward
>>>>to above your chest... i have tried pushups... i have tried nivea
>>>>firming lotion... but they just don't change shape!!!
>>>>i fear the sagginess might be from doing jumping jacks without a bra for
>>>>a few months when i was in 7th grade
>>>>(i hoped then for some reason that shaking around braless would make my
>>>>boobs go away!!! how dumb of
>>>>me...)... but what if the roundess comes from some hormonal thing, and
>>>>that is what i have messed up? they don't
>>>>change in shape if i am on the Pill... so i don't know if that's the
>>>>reason or not.
>>>>
>>>>any input anyone?? am i normal in the breast region, or do i have this
>>>>virilizing atrophy thing going on?
>>>>does such a thing even exist???
>>>>
>>>>like i said, they do look good when i am cold... only problem is, when
>>>>i am cold, my breasts look good but
>>>>my legs look even more purple-spotted... my body just won't let me
>>>>win!!! :)
>>>>
>>>>- jodi
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