What happens when you detransition?

[Jamie D]

You should be able to feel the glandular tissue.  It will be the lump under the areola.  Adipose tissue is a type of fat.

[Joanna Dark]

Well i have the that lump under my areola. It's about the size of a walnut. I think. I lose track of it because my boob gets too big about an inch away from the areola. I guess that is the adipose tissue. Does the areola grow as that lump grows. Will the lump grow more. I hope so.

[Michelle S.]

Well i have the that lump under my areola. It's about the size of a walnut. I think. I lose track of it because my boob gets too big about an inch away from the areola. I guess that is the adipose tissue. Does the areola grow as that lump grows. Will the lump grow more. I hope so.

There are stages of development called the tanner stages:



• Stage I (Preadolescent) - Only the papilla is elevated above
the level of the chest wall.
• Stage II - (Breast Budding) - Elevation of the breasts and
papillae may occur as small mounds along with some
increased diameter of the areolae.
• Stage III - The breasts and areolae continue to enlarge,
although they show no separation of contour.
• Stage IV - The areolae and papillae elevate above the level
of the breasts and form secondary mounds with further
development of the overall breast tissue.
• Stage V - Mature female breasts have developed. The
papillae may extend slightly above the contour of the
breasts as the result of the recession of the aerolae.

Sounds to me like you're at stage 2. I'm about 3, 9 months in now. It takes a bit.

[kelly_aus]

Life suddenly starts to suck again?

[Joanna Dark]

There are stages of development called the tanner stages:



• Stage I (Preadolescent) - Only the papilla is elevated above
the level of the chest wall.
• Stage II - (Breast Budding) - Elevation of the breasts and
papillae may occur as small mounds along with some
increased diameter of the areolae.
• Stage III - The breasts and areolae continue to enlarge,
although they show no separation of contour.
• Stage IV - The areolae and papillae elevate above the level
of the breasts and form secondary mounds with further
development of the overall breast tissue.
• Stage V - Mature female breasts have developed. The
papillae may extend slightly above the contour of the
breasts as the result of the recession of the aerolae.

Sounds to me like you're at stage 2. I'm about 3, 9 months in now. It takes a bit.

I think I'm 3 going on 4. But it is really hard to tell because I had rather severe gyno pre-HRT. It seems like the areola are starting to ascend away from the breats and create a secondary mound. But i'm really not sure. From the pics, I resemble stage 3. If my nipples were bigger, it would be 4. They are starting to point upwards. I'm a 34B but am technically a C cup. Unless you go by the 1920s system of breast measurement then I technically have negative breasts, which is ridiculous.

What I want to happen is to get more development on the inside. I have good side and bottom boob but they would be almost perfect if they had more inside. I have pretty okay cleavage when I wear a bra without using tape or anything. I'm pretty lucky in this instance.

[Mollie]

Joanna Dark, "I don't want to be stuck in some weird in-between stage forever."

That is my big fear. I, quite appropriately I think, compare it to trying to gamble your way out of a gambling debt. I will be starting the magic elastoplast soon (Dear god Mr Postman, have you forgotten where I live?) and here is my fear. After several weeks I start to get breast growth but no other changes. I continue for another couple of months, breast growth continues but nothing else. Now already I'm thinking, do I go on and hope my face starts to feminize knowing that breasts are rapidly approaching the "point" of no return. So I keep going and the breasts keep growing, but nothing else changes, and just like the gambler on and on I go; this time my luck will change, one more throw of the dice and another and another..................

Now let me be clear. Breast growth would not be problem, but just breast growth?I am now faced with two options. For ever be a man with boobs....or for ever be a man with big boobs.

[Joanna Dark]

Sentience: How long have you been on HRT? And yes that is my sentiment precisely. I don't want to have these big boobs and forever look andro but maybe i am being too dramatic. I do pass. I need too much reassurance. ugh.

[Mollie]

^ I have yet to start. A letter is scheduled to pop through the letterbox which I take to my doctor, she writes a prescription and I go next door to the pharmacist who gives me oestrogen patches and I slap one one my butt.....................I will keep you and everyone else updated.

My one regret is that I am writing a book (murder/humour) but I have only written one chapter and the rest is skeletal; plot character building etc. I wish I had written more to check whether the style and presentation changed as oestrogren started to weave it's magic in my neurons.

[Joanna Dark]

I'm a professional writer/journalist/magazine editor and I haven't found that my writing has changed in any way. Then again your writing fiction and my stuff is all rooted in the who, what, how, when and why.