Question for guys who´ve had top surgery

[November Fox]

Hi,

So lately I´ve been struggling a lot with chest dysphoria, even though I have a binder and I use kt tape on it, those lumps just freak me out.

The problem is I can be very obsessive/controlling and I hate it when I feel that the "mass" of fatty breast tissue is moving around. I´ve tried to counter my own behavior by telling myself that male chests also have some motion of the chest, but then the obsessive/controlling part of me says that it isn´t the same, because in males it´s muscle and in my case it definitely isn´t muscle but breast tissue.

So for those of you who have had top surgery. Can you help me with my chest paranoia? I would like to know if you still experience movement in the chest (both sides) for example when you walk around or bike... and whether you think it´s due to fatty tissue or muscle... I don´t have a lot going on actually (my surgeon suggested periaureolar), but to me it feels like way too much.

Might be a weird question, but the ways in which I experience dysphoria can be irrational, so knowing the other perspective might help.

[CMD042414]

I don't have any movement of my pecs at all. I am always trying to build them up which is funny because I wanted to get rid of my breasts so bad! But there are tons of cis dudes out there that have chest tissue that has movement. Plenty of them.

[green27]

I'm a slightly bigger guy. My BMI hangs out in the mid 20s for the most part and I lift weights a lot. I feel some movement in my chest but it feels totally different than it did before top surgery. It feels more like muscle than fat if that makes any sense. Feeling my chest move before surgery really used to freak me out too so you are not alone.

I usually only feel movement when I am running or cycling really hard but I haven't felt it all all when I'm just walking. Hope that helps some...

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[November Fox]

Thanks guys. I´m skinny so it doesn´t make a whole lot of sense for me to have things move around. Guess I´ll have to somehow deal with it...

[TransAm]

I feel pretty much zero movement in my chest now. Pre-top, I had C's (blech) and it didn't matter how tightly they were bound because I could feel every little bump in the road when I was driving (or doing anything else, really).
My pecs are very muscular with almost no fat from a year and a half of hitting the gym hard, so it wasn't just surgery that did the trick.

[SeptagonScars]

I'm a fairly thin guy (bmi around 22-23 but most of my body fat is on my lower body, so my upper body appears more thin than what my bmi says) and had top surgery 3 years ago. Since then, I don't notice any such movement in my chest, except from when I jump on a hard surface and slightly when I run as fast as I can. Meaning, I only notice it a bit when I move around in ways that shakes that area of my body a lot. When biking, regular running, jogging and such I don't feel that kind of movement. I had a B-cup in size before my top surgery, but my surgeon insisted I had a C, but I'm sure that was incorrect. Also I don't have any defined muscle mass, it's just very slightly visible pecs and biceps, but nowhere else on my body. I'm not really working out a lot, but it happens on rare occasions.

[NothingHere]

I definitely didn't have any movement post-top; so flat I was practically concave! I've been working out lately trying to build up muscle and I'm finally getting there and with it I'm getting some jiggle but it is definitely different. It's kind of hard to explain how but I guess because it is muscle it is not as mobile as fat and I really only feel if I'm running hard and even then it is so slight its more like a reminder that I have pecs now than feeling anything like what I had before.

[November Fox]

Yeah I think I´m going to stop reading this post

Thanks for your input guys.
I´ll come back to the post after top surgery to describe how good it feels