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Title: Growing boobs that hurt (tenderness)?
Post by: AbracaDebra on October 08, 2011, 11:53:44 AM
Hello all

I wonder if you can advise or even maybe reassure me.
It seems that when bio girls breasts grow, they don't hurt.

So, why do ours hurt?  I mean mine do, and I have been told by some that this is normal.
After about 6 months I am a genuine A now and they are growing fine, but they are still hurting (well...very tender).
So, how long will they keep hurting ?  ( I don't mean hurt all the time, just when they get anything but gentle contact.....even lying down).

Debbie  :)
Title: Re: Growing boobs that hurt (tenderness)?
Post by: Tamaki on October 08, 2011, 12:01:02 PM
Most women I've talked to went through the same thing we're going through. Although my wife doesn't remember it happening to her.

I can't say how long the tenderness will last, I'm at a year and they still hurt and I'm quite happy about.
Title: Re: Growing boobs that hurt (tenderness)?
Post by: pebbles on October 08, 2011, 12:07:32 PM
most cis females report it hurting.
Title: Re: Growing boobs that hurt (tenderness)?
Post by: mimpi on October 08, 2011, 12:29:06 PM
It's normal, they hurt for a good few months from what I remember. Wait till someone elbows you by mistake, that really takes one's breath away. Mine used to hurt when running down escalators.
Title: Re: Growing boobs that hurt (tenderness)?
Post by: LordKAT on October 08, 2011, 02:52:30 PM
Having been through fem puberty, no pain from it. I have NEVER heard of a bio female having pain from growing breasts. As to why you do, because your body never had the gradual build up of hormones that a bio girl does and age.
Title: Re: Growing boobs that hurt (tenderness)?
Post by: azSam on October 08, 2011, 03:16:26 PM
At nearly 2 years, my boobs have just about stopped hurting. One year was just about the peak though, that's when it hurt the most.
Title: Re: Growing boobs that hurt (tenderness)?
Post by: mimpi on October 08, 2011, 06:12:24 PM
Quote from: AbracaDebra on October 08, 2011, 02:30:50 PM
Actually you are spot on there.  I have been elbowed by mistake, and also caught one on a door frame turning around not being used to them there.  OUCH !

It's good to know all is well though.  Thanks !  :)

The door frame, happened to me as well initially, takes a while for one's brain to realise one just isn't going to get through that space! The pain does go away, think it took about two years in all, maybe less. To be honest it's a long time ago and I don't remember much apart being elbowed by mistake.
Title: Re: Growing boobs that hurt (tenderness)?
Post by: Bird on October 08, 2011, 06:38:59 PM
Cis girls boobies do hurt.

Some of them don't, but many of them do. They also are sensitive to pain, just like ours.

Transgirls boobs tend to hurt a bit more because we have faster growth.
Title: Re: Growing boobs that hurt (tenderness)?
Post by: BillieTex on October 08, 2011, 07:12:06 PM
sensitive to pressure is normal....
Title: Re: Growing boobs that hurt (tenderness)?
Post by: JoanneB on October 09, 2011, 01:07:09 AM
Oh how I hate the car door at times! I am tall enough that it generally isn't the frame, but the sharp corner that gets me!
Title: Re: Growing boobs that hurt (tenderness)?
Post by: Cindy on October 09, 2011, 01:39:53 AM
I've had mixed comments from my cis friends, some say they hurt and others didn't. One did say when she was pregnant and when she was breast feeding her boobs hurt like crazy. All of my trans girl friends have  stated that their boobs hurt, especially if knocked against something ( I was going to say banged but it seems inappropriate :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:).

Cindy
Title: Re: Growing boobs that hurt (tenderness)?
Post by: V M on October 09, 2011, 03:35:13 AM
LOL... Most Cis women's boobs hurt during development and/or pregnancy which has a part in breast development  :)  No I'm not an expert, but I have been around allot of women most of my life

I have two elder sisters who were rather popular, they and their friends were constantly on about their female development woes and would also consult with my mom... They would totally ignore me and seem to believe I had no idea what they were talking about  :laugh:

In my personal experience my breasts have hurt and/or been sensitive most of the time

The good news is, the pain and sensitivity is a sign of development and there are a few months of reprieve in between were they aren't quite so sensitive... Also, you naturally learn to not smack them against various things  :laugh:  A kind of booby defense mechanism that develops along with the boobs

Anyway, yeah, they are going to hurt
Title: Re: Growing boobs that hurt (tenderness)?
Post by: noleen111 on October 09, 2011, 03:47:22 AM

One of my genetic girl friends daughter who is 12 now, and starting with breast develpment complained to my friend that her nipples were tender and hurt at times.. so it does happen to g-girls as well.

For me, breast growth has been painful, but my body has reacted very well to the hormones and I my breasts are growing very well, a B cup at 10 months in. I have learnt not to knock them and padded bra's help cushion them a bit.

Title: Re: Growing boobs that hurt (tenderness)?
Post by: jainie marlena on October 09, 2011, 05:34:51 AM
My oldest daughter said hers did not hurt but my 2 younger girls can't stop talking about the soreness. Mine started hurting last month. that little knot started out the size of BBs now it is about the size of peas.
Title: Re: Growing boobs that hurt (tenderness)?
Post by: Cadence Jean on October 09, 2011, 06:37:20 PM
I was on anti-androgens for over a year before I started on E.  That was when my boobs were the most tender.  My daughter headbutted me in one by accident, and it was like, Ho.  Ly.  Crap!  Tenderness and pain was right behind the nipple.  Now that I'm on E though, I have very little pain under the nipple, and only when I press on it.  Otherwise, they don't hurt at all.  I can tell they're growing, so I'm not too concerned.  Maybe I went through the pain stage when I was taking anti-angrogens?
Title: Re: Growing boobs that hurt (tenderness)?
Post by: Constance on October 10, 2011, 11:10:20 AM
Both my wife and daughter said their breasts were tender while they were growing.

I didn't realize just how often I bumped things into my chest until after I started HRT. I'm about 4 months in and they're still tender, though not as much as when I was 2 months in.
Title: Re: Growing boobs that hurt (tenderness)?
Post by: LilKittyCatZoey on October 10, 2011, 11:25:32 AM
guess what they do :) i would know i kinda hit my friends their a few times they used to do play wrestling with me and well i have always had feeble and seeable buds so i also got hurt but yea my to friends sad it mad more sense i am a tomboy then a boy and not only because i was the first to cry :) but yea its like we grow so much faster that we just get exaggerated pain but we not the only ones even cis girls with fast growth feel our pain :)
Title: Re: Growing boobs that hurt (tenderness)?
Post by: Constance on October 10, 2011, 12:44:28 PM
I wear my breastforms pretty much all the time, so they protect the growing breastlings. At first, there was a day at work that they were so sore I having trouble staying focused.

These days, they're tender but usually only to sudden firm contact.
Title: Re: Growing boobs that hurt (tenderness)?
Post by: Joelene9 on October 10, 2011, 01:14:06 PM
  Nearly 11 months, boobs still a bit tender. 
  Joelene
Title: Re: Growing boobs that hurt (tenderness)?
Post by: LilKittyCatZoey on October 10, 2011, 01:16:05 PM
Quote from: Shades O'Grey on October 10, 2011, 12:44:28 PM
I wear my breastforms pretty much all the time, so they protect the growing breastlings. At first, there was a day at work that they were so sore I having trouble staying focused.

These days, they're tender but usually only to sudden firm contact.

true they get to a point where only firm contact really gives pain so don't worry just try not be a weird as me and let ppl punch your boobs :)
Title: Re: Growing boobs that hurt (tenderness)?
Post by: Padma on October 10, 2011, 01:46:12 PM
It's worth getting some Vitamin E capsules, breaking one open and rubbing its contents on the breasts once a day - it really helps with skin elasticity, which helps ease off some of the breast growth pain from the skin stretching, and also minimises the cracking that some people get around the nipples when they're growing.
Title: Re: Growing boobs that hurt (tenderness)?
Post by: Bird on October 10, 2011, 02:28:59 PM
Girls

Protect the girls so they grow up nice. Lots of hurting while they are young must not be good news for breast growth.
Title: Re: Growing boobs that hurt (tenderness)?
Post by: Bird on October 10, 2011, 08:35:00 PM
 ::)

Don't let your breasts get hurt !
Title: Re: Growing boobs that hurt (tenderness)?
Post by: Sam- on October 11, 2011, 12:53:08 AM
I went through female puberty and my boobs DEFINITELY were very sore while developing. I'd like to say it was for a year or so. I thought it would never end. It goes away though as your chest stops growing, thankfully  :)
Title: Re: Growing boobs that hurt (tenderness)?
Post by: Eve87 on October 11, 2011, 02:36:54 AM
I was told you shouldn't coddle your breasteses too much. Since they are held in place by a ligament, that will become slack and weaker if they are constantly held. My bra usually goes flying when I get home, lol. Supposedly that will keep them perkier for longer. I dunno. There are so many myths about breasteses. I'm now 6 months on estrogen and they've been moderately sore for 5 of those. Its quite normal.
Title: Re: Growing boobs that hurt (tenderness)?
Post by: Joelene9 on October 11, 2011, 02:41:19 AM
Quote from: AbracaDebra on October 11, 2011, 02:31:32 AM
Ah, so at the moment I must pray that they do not stop hurting for a long time !   ;D
They will stop hurting in the time of the development then resume in spurts.  I had a few weeks of not hurting and resumed and showed the changing size and shape.  Mine started with broad sub-A hemispheres to the narrower nearly B conics now that fit the cup without stuffing.  The nipples are now just changing.  Your development will more likely vary as with the others here on Susan's. 
  Joelene
Title: Re: Growing boobs that hurt (tenderness)?
Post by: Joelene9 on October 11, 2011, 03:05:04 AM
Quote from: AbracaDebra on October 11, 2011, 02:44:38 AM
Well yes I guess they are all different.  A friend of mines nipples started first so that was what I expected, but they didn't (and havn't) happened yet, but that's great for the time being.  I was also warned about (forgot the term) tube shaped ones due to overdosing I think.  :-\
The tuberous breasts are usually a congenital deformity caused by a loose lower fold in cis women and some gynocomastic males.  In some due to the lack of progesterone in their systems is hinted.  Overdosing estrogen will more likely cause a slowdown or halt your development.  The high testosterone levels in my system as an adult actually stymied the development of my skeletal muscles.  Human T does not work as well in the gym with the steroid abusers as the synthetic or the monkey 'roids do, they found.   Your endocrine system is a strict place.  Only a certain range in amounts of any hormone in your endocrine system will work for the needed effect whether it be estrogen or more importantly, insulin!
  You see, the endocrine system is something that you must take care of. 
  Joelene
Title: Re: Growing boobs that hurt (tenderness)?
Post by: Korlee on October 11, 2011, 03:47:40 PM
I get no pain at all there and honestly they really are not sensitive even after all this time.  It makes me wonder if they will be anything more then a change to my center of gravity.
Title: Re: Growing boobs that hurt (tenderness)?
Post by: Padma on October 11, 2011, 04:26:25 PM
I started HRT just 2 weeks ago, and my nipples have suddenly begun to pooch out in the last couple of days. They're not sore, but they definitely feel "tender" :). I keep thinking about a throwaway line from Steve Martin in LA Story:

I could never be a woman... 'cause I'd just stay home and play with my breasts all day. ;D
Title: Re: Growing boobs that hurt (tenderness)?
Post by: Joelene9 on October 11, 2011, 05:42:18 PM
  You beat me by a few days, Padma.  Mine was 2 1/2 weeks with the overactive libedo disappearing as well.  Pea sized knots. 
  Joelene
Title: Re: Growing boobs that hurt (tenderness)?
Post by: JungianZoe on October 11, 2011, 05:56:49 PM
I'm at about 13 months now and I didn't grow anything my first six (my T was still out of control, doc says not to even count those months).  So development started in mid-March, I had full-breast pain from the start of April to the start of June that was accompanied by development, and haven't had any pain or development in the last 4 months.  So I've had a whopping two months of pain/development in the 13 months I've been on HRT.

Not impressed...
Title: Re: Growing boobs that hurt (tenderness)?
Post by: Cindy on October 12, 2011, 02:35:58 AM
Quote from: Padma on October 11, 2011, 04:26:25 PM
I started HRT just 2 weeks ago, and my nipples have suddenly begun to pooch out in the last couple of days. They're not sore, but they definitely feel "tender" :). I keep thinking about a throwaway line from Steve Martin in LA Story:

I could never be a woman... 'cause I'd just stay home and play with my breasts all day. ;D

And when I could stay at home all day playing with my D it wasn't very appealing ::)
Title: Re: Growing boobs that hurt (tenderness)?
Post by: Cindy on October 12, 2011, 03:42:07 AM
I think that is what therapy is all about from the medical side of things.

I have read some 'TG' fantasy Lit (?) which was so sick (for me) that I couldn't stomach it but the general themes appears to be a guy is transformed into girl against his/her will, is totally gorgeous, is completely submissive to a male, who has a male appendage that requires half the blood volume of a normal human to obtain an erection (sorry my calculations, once a scientist ::)) and once 'her' breasts are touched she has non-stop  orgasms. Until she is of course penetrated by this monster thingy. When she orgasms uncontrollably for several hours, days or weeks. She then is totally satisfied by her life. Not sure what that meant. Satisfied with what life?

Sounds pretty true to life really.

I'll walk a big walk away from this in case it breaks ToS; but is fantasy sex a way of distinguishing people with different gender perspectives? 

BTW  I respect all of them. And I have no probs, but yes, I don't get any pleasure from playing with it. I do like to fondle, or at least touch the girls, fondle would be an extreme verb in my case. But maybe because they are new?

Oh well so little boob, so much cup to fill.  :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: ::) ::)

Cindy

Title: Re: Growing boobs that hurt (tenderness)?
Post by: Padma on October 12, 2011, 03:48:03 AM
I was just quoting Steve Martin as a joke there :) - because I was struck by how when the body changes, it's kind of fascinating, and I can't help fiddling a bit with my nipples because they feel different. Steve was making the point (I think) that men are fascinated with boobs because they don't have them. Women on the whole don't spend a lot of the day looking at themselves going "Gosh, boobs!" but teenage girls are pretty obsessed with them, because they're still new and changing.

So I think short-term obsession with change doesn't qualify as "extreme fantasy", but that's not to say that some trans women aren't over-obsessed with their boobs. As are some cis women, let's face it.
Title: Re: Growing boobs that hurt (tenderness)?
Post by: Cindy on October 12, 2011, 03:51:48 AM
Sorry Sis I was not in anyway disparaging your comment I understood it. I remember the joke in Rowan and Martin's laugh In.

It just led me to another thought and I cannot stop that heap of  neurons between my ears doing what she does.

And yes Debbie  I wasn't trying to place myself or my opinions anywhere in a hierarchy. My opinions are worth no more than anyone else's. I just got caught in a thought and expressed it.
I know I have to be careful about that. I'm used to open discussion in my work place, and I provoke them. I sometimes I forget I'm even doing it. Bad habit. Sorry.

Anyones Fantasy is fine. I apologise if my thoughts were badly stated.

It wasn't my intention. :embarrassed: :embarrassed: :embarrassed: :embarrassed:

Cindy

Cindy
Title: Re: Growing boobs that hurt (tenderness)?
Post by: Cindy on October 12, 2011, 04:07:30 AM
My Spelling

Rowan and Martin.

They were a USA comedy team that made Rowan and Martin's Laugh In in the 70-80's?

Way beyond most USA humour at the time(sorry USA).
It was good.

Hugs

Cindy
Title: Re: Growing boobs that hurt (tenderness)?
Post by: V M on October 12, 2011, 04:09:19 AM
This may come as a surprise, but guess what? Cis women touch and fondle themselves as well  :laugh:

But yeah, who can avoid being fascinated when they begin to develop... For me it isn't so much a sexual fascination, but more just the pure joy of looking and feeling feminine

Rowan and Martin:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowan_%26_Martin%27s_Laugh-In (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowan_%26_Martin%27s_Laugh-In)

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In is an American sketch comedy television program which ran for 140 episodes from January 22, 1968, to May 14, 1973. It was hosted by comedians Dan Rowan and Dick Martin and was broadcast over NBC. It originally aired as a one-time special on September 9, 1967 and was such a success that it was brought back as a series, replacing The Man from U.N.C.L.E. on Mondays at 8 pm (EST). The title of the show was a play on the "love-ins" or "be-ins" of the 1960s hippie culture, terms that were, in turn, derived from "sit-ins", common in protests associated with civil rights and anti-war demonstrations of the time.
Title: Re: Growing boobs that hurt (tenderness)?
Post by: Padma on October 12, 2011, 04:10:45 AM
I used to love Arte Johnson as the little German peering through the indoor plants, saying "Veeeeerrry interesting... but stupid!"

Sorry Cindy, I corrected your spelling of Martin there before seeing you'd mentioned it yourself below (proof-reader with too much power...::))
Title: Re: Growing boobs that hurt (tenderness)?
Post by: Cindy on October 12, 2011, 04:56:40 AM
I think I may end my comments.
  Verrryy Inteeeeersting, but verrrrry  stupid.

Artie was one of kind
Title: Re: Growing boobs that hurt (tenderness)?
Post by: Cadence Jean on October 13, 2011, 09:57:40 PM
I think it's fascinating how sensitive mine have become!  Some times, just slightly brushing a nipple is like, "Woah!" ::happyshivers::  Due to that, I don't see anything wrong in fondling them and I totally empathize with cisgen women who do!

Quote from: AbracaDebra on October 12, 2011, 04:32:25 AM
Ah yes, they do of course.  No surprise.  I had just forgotten about that, and to add it into the mix.  :)
Title: Re: Growing boobs that hurt (tenderness)?
Post by: badkitty on October 13, 2011, 10:12:52 PM
Quote from: AbracaDebra on October 08, 2011, 11:53:44 AM
Hello all

I wonder if you can advise or even maybe reassure me.
It seems that when bio girls breasts grow, they don't hurt.

So, why do ours hurt?  I mean mine do, and I have been told by some that this is normal.
After about 6 months I am a genuine A now and they are growing fine, but they are still hurting (well...very tender).
So, how long will they keep hurting ?  ( I don't mean hurt all the time, just when they get anything but gentle contact.....even lying down).

Debbie  :)

after the "little bud" that develops behind the nipple starts growing and developing more, they'll stop hurting.  A common deficiency in MTF breasts is that they dont round out fully and remain tubular in shape