Hello DogstaticMy name is
Sarah B and I would also like to formally, Welcome you to Susan's Place!
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Quote from: Dogstatic on Yesterday at 06:34:12 PMOk I'll try to keep this organized, but I've been going crazy over this. I'm almost 3 years into my transition, and this month I started seeing breast growth for the first time in over a year at least. I was very excited to see this, but it didn't work out how I wanted.
I tried very hard to encourage the growth, I quit smoking, even coffee, and tried to eat at a surplus every day. Of course this ended up being one of the hardest months ever, and I relapsed several times into depression and self starvation. For context I have and ED called ARFID, which impacts my motivation to eat, especially when I'm mentally unwell.
My left breast has always lacked tissue below the areola, and I was getting pains there, signalling it was finally beginning to fill in. I'm sad to say at a low point I was ignoring this feeling, and then got that awful sensation of your body giving up on developing tissue, like kind of a burny feeling. Now my boobs are sore, especially my right, and it seems to be filling out, but my left one is no longer developing tissue where it was going to. I'm honestly very worried I blew my last chance to have a rounded out left breast.
The other factor is I've been on cyproterone for about 4 months, and I think this is what triggered the growth. But now I'm experiencing a progesterone-like filling out, and I'm worried I'll never have another growth spurt for breast duct tissue.
Has anyone else had this kind of experience, starving during a growth spurt, losing potential growth, has anyone come back from it? What are the chances stunted tissue can resume growth? Is that even possible?
There are several things you need to know about breasts and the growth in general. It can take up to 5 years at least for breasts to grow and this is not a hard and fast rule. Every women's breast development is different, breasts are not perfectly symmetrical and breasts are different from women to women, in fact the body is not perfectly symmetrical.
There are many causes for uneven breasts including hormonal changes, genetics, and underlying medical or skeletal conditions. Weight gain or loss issues can also contribute to the look of the breasts.
The questions that you pose in your post can only be answered by medical professionals and you should consult your GP, or endocrinologist or 'therapist' (who specialize in transgender issues) to help you along in your journey and achieve your dreams.
Once you feel comfortable here, it would be appreciated if you add a little bit more about yourself in the Introductions Forum of course. I would appreciate it very much as, I'm always interested in learning something new.
In addition members of Susan's will more than likely will come along and discuss problems or issues that are similar to yours as most of us have experienced these as well.
We are here to help you as much as possible, you only have to ask and we will do our best to do so.
Once again, Welcome to Susan's Place!Sarah BOffical Greeter@LoriDee @Northern Star Girl @Dogstatic@Devlyn
