Phantom breasts?

[transtastic]

I'm (I think) a trans MtF. Since many years back I've had this sense of "heaviness" from time to time in my chest.
Like if there "was" something there that clearly is not there. Googled phantom breasts and it turned out a few MtF:s
and many FtM:s experience phantom limbs (for FtM:s phantom penises). I've never heard of that. That is fascinating to
me. I still think this feeling may be some kind of obsession for me b/c of a perception that females are supposed to have
breasts. Have you people heard about this? Have you experienced "phantom breasts"? How would you descibe that feeling?
Is it ongoing? For me the feeling is only when purposely "feeling" what I feel in that area of the body.

[Cin]

Honestly never had 'phantom breasts', but I did hear it from another MTF transgender on another forum. I can't relate because I don't have that kind of dysphoria.

[Ms Grace]

What does a phantom breast say? .......BOOOOb!!!

But seriously, if you are feeling obsessed about this it is probably not good. Please speak a counsellor. If you are experiencing actual physical heaviness in your chest that is probably even worse. Please go see a doctor about it for a check up.

[kittylover]

I feel a phantom penis ....a lot of the time it's just there and doesn't really bother me. sometimes that area hurts though. I'm sure your not alone.

[Sandy74]

I don't imagine I have phantom breasts but I do imagine that I do have breasts and imagine how they feel and how they would feel in some of the bras that I own and how much I would enjoy playing with them on a regular daily basis.

[transtastic]

But seriously, if you are feeling obsessed about this it is probably not good. Please speak a counsellor.

I don't feel obsessed about it. What I mean is my thoughts about being transgender or not, may be of an obsessive kind and somehow from this constant thinking "I'm probably female", I get this phantom feeling of breasts.

If you are experiencing actual physical heaviness in your chest that is probably even worse. Please go see a doctor about it for a check up.

The actual feeling of physical heaviness in my chest is outside of my body, a few cm in front of my own chest.
If I look down to where I have the feeling, I am looking straight into the air.
So unless I want to spend my time in a psychiatric ward, I think I should not check it up with a doctor.

I'm completely sane otherwise, never had psychosis or anything like it, so for me it is strange stuff.
I've read about neuro stuff, and I was thinking that perhaps the body image of transgender people could be of opposite sex,
that would somehow make sense. Or I am just thinking too much. Oh, well..

[Stephanie2]

Way before I had breasts, I had the most realistic dream about having breasts EVER!! They felt and looked so very real. Just like it wasn't a dream at all. That is the closest to a phantom breast scenario that I can think of. They now have the very look and feel that was in my dream back then. Could that have, in a way, been a premonition of what was to happen?

[Clhoe G]

It's probably just your fantasy playing tricks with your mind or hormonal issues, like phantom pregnancy, which is still an unexplained event,

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_pregnancy

but I can sort of relate, like sometimes I wonder what having a vagina would feel like n I sort of get a imagining ("phantom feeling") of what my mind thinks it would feel like, but it's purely my minds imagination of a long time fantasy and the same thing with breasts too, but that part of my mind has settled down, since they started growing.

so I can believe that you maybe experiencing such a thing.

[Lynn42]

I have an awkward self conscious thing I carch myself doing. That I feel like my my breasts are too big for a guy of my stature like I'm over weight or something (I'm 5'7" 130 lbs not big at all for a guy). Ill look at my reflection and double check that I look alright or I'll tug on the front of my shirt. Especially when I'm wearing a tighter shirt. I recently read an article about phantom limbs, in the article the phantom penis sensation for FTM was mentioned. Fast forward to now, and I caught myself looking in the mirror wondering if maybe this shirt shrank in the wash. It hit me like a ton of bricks, so I immediately had to look it up. I'm wondering if maybe I'm experiencing something similar to this?