have any of you experienced this?

[phillyside]

Hi, first I'd like to say that I've been reading forum posts for a few months now and have found the information here to be particularly helpful. This is my first post.

Before I get to my question, I think it would be wise to share a bit of my history as it may help you to understand where I'm at. Since puberty I've had a pronounced case of gynecomastia, with somewhat enlarged areolas and significant breast tissue. The amount of breast tissue is around the size of a peach pit and around the same texture (well it's soft and squishy rather than hard) This was due to a hormone imbalance rather than weight issues.

I've been on soy isoflavones for about two months and in that time have noticed some small changes (nothing to write home about) and just three days ago started real hrt. First hormone injection was estradiol valerate, then started spironolactone 24 hours later. In only three days time I've noticed significant breast enlargment (went from an a cup to an a+) as well nipple enlargment and darkening of the areolas.

I was expecting at least a few months before seeing any noticable changes, and a year or more before those changes were noticeable to anyone else, however, even my wife agrees. I need a bra when I go out in public from here on out.

Have any of you had such rapid changes? I'm thinking that the combination of gynecomastia and hormone imbalances gave me a natural head start but I'm not sure.

[blueconstancy]

My wife (who is not a member here) was convinced she was imagining it until she tried to run down a flight of stairs at 5 days. She went from slightly visible "male" breasts to an A cup within a week, and was fitting a 40B by the end of the month. She was very lucky she had plans in place with her employer to transition within a couple months, because by then she was actually having to bind with a compression bra to go to work. When she tells this story, occasionally another woman says she thought she was the only one... So some people do see what seem like impossibly quick changes, at least in some respects.  Incidentally, the one common thread I've noticed in all of those stories is that the women did have a bit of breast development even before HRT, and their bodies seemed ready to "jump-start" as soon as they took estrogen.

(Now, at almost three years on estrogen [only], she's a 42DDD. Growth is still continuing, too, albeit obviously not as dramatically as in the beginning.)

[JoanneB]

Results all fall under YMMV. I have always been a bit "flabby" up top no matter what my weight was. When my wife first saw me naked her first thought was Klinefelter's Syndrome, one of those alphabit soup XY things. When I looked it up I have to agree 100% that I fit the profile w/o a DNA test to confirm.

When I was on HRT in my 20's I have very little growth after 6 months. Now in my 50's and 3 years into HRT I have a full A to a B.