PCOS Messages for May, 2001: Re: keeping ABREAST of how weird my body is

Re: keeping ABREAST of how weird my body is - breast atrophy :)

From: jodi (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Thu, 31 May 2001 08:09:28 -0500 (CDT)

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I have wondered this myself. I haven't grown a WHOLE lot in the breast area since 6th grade or so, but I did start developing at the age of 8-9. So... maybe it was just time for me to stop then? OTOH, I am not as large as my mother, even though I seem to have inherited my less than pleasing boob shape from her. (Anyone else feel like they got shafted with each of their parent's worst traits? I got the IR from my dad... my boob shape and jutting out chin from my mother... etc...)

I always thought that if breast shape was hormonal, being on BCPs would alter them to make them more developed or larger or whatever. But mine don't change on the pill. (When I am having normal cycles, however, they get bigger/rounder before my period... I call them softball boobs then, cuz I feel like I have two swollen, painful softballs on my chest when I walk...)

Sometimes I wonder if my not wanting breasts when I first started developing has to do with this! I used to wear tight tshirts under my clothes, or tape my boobs flat... and when i took a bath, I would lay back and lay the hottest washcloth I could stand on my chest in the hopes of melting them away.

I also hated my period when it first showed up, and wished I didn't have to get one. So great, now I have smallish slightly tuberish boobs with underdeveloped nipples, and rare periods from PCOS. I feel like my whole life has been a lesson in "Be careful what you wish for. You might get it!"

- Jodi

At Wed, 30 May 2001, Alta wrote: >I hear that! I know this isn't true for all PCOSers, but this is true
>for me, too. Over the years, I've had some increase in size as I added
>some other body fat, but I'm still just a good A on one side and an
>almost-A on the other.
>
>Does wearing a sports bra make you look like a 10-yr-old?
>
>A theory: If we get zapped with extra testosterone at just the time our
>bodies were going to stimulate breast development, does that keep our
>development in standstill?
>
>Fortunately, my husband is a dear. He knows the problems his mom had
>with large breasts (back problems and later reduction surgery), so he
>doesn't tease me at all.
>
>~Alta
>PS: I love you guys. I've talked to you all more about this than my
>mother or my sister or anyone.

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