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Community Conversation => Transitioning => Hormone replacement therapy => Topic started by: ana1111 on July 10, 2014, 07:55:52 PM

Title: Describe what breast soreness feels like
Post by: ana1111 on July 10, 2014, 07:55:52 PM
Ive asked a few different people and gotten very different answers so im trying to find a consenses... is iit more like a sore feeling? More like a burning tenderness?
Title: Re: Describe what breast soreness feels like
Post by: Cindy on July 10, 2014, 10:45:02 PM
For me it was tenderness, until you hit them against something and then it's *&^(%$# sore :laugh:
Title: Re: Describe what breast soreness feels like
Post by: mrs izzy on July 10, 2014, 11:00:51 PM
Purple Nurple   ::)

OMG

Izzy
Title: Re: Describe what breast soreness feels like
Post by: Jenna Marie on July 12, 2014, 12:30:36 AM
Basically like a bruise aching, for me. Except when it doesn't hurt at all but YOW! if I bang them on something...
Title: Re: Describe what breast soreness feels like
Post by: Jessica Merriman on July 12, 2014, 12:38:01 AM
Just run into something then you will know if it is all in your head or really there!  ;D
Title: Describe what breast soreness feels like
Post by: HeatherR on July 14, 2014, 07:35:15 PM
Like a fresh painful bruise, only with a sharp pain associated with bumping them...  Sometimes a soft ache, sometimes not much of anything.  It depends on the time of day for me
Title: Re: Describe what breast soreness feels like
Post by: luna nyan on July 15, 2014, 05:37:07 AM
It's not too bad till I...
Roll over on my tummy... Ow...
Accidentally bump into something with my chest... OW...
Get head butted in the chest by one of my kids.... OUCH g3rd@mmit THAT hurt!

(And of course I have to pretend that it didn't...)
Title: Re: Describe what breast soreness feels like
Post by: ana1111 on July 15, 2014, 06:04:30 PM
15 days and still no pain  ???
Title: Re: Describe what breast soreness feels like
Post by: HeatherR on July 15, 2014, 09:40:23 PM
15 days is nothing.  at 3 months, if you aren't noticing anything, then I'd consult your doctor on their thoughts...  15 days is realllyyy early for most.
Title: Re: Describe what breast soreness feels like
Post by: Lady_Oracle on July 15, 2014, 09:58:04 PM
Yeah 15 days isn't much at all. My left boob is aching as I type right now lol. It feels like someone is pinching the areola, its a bit itchy too. The ache is gradual doesn't intensify and then sometimes it does where it's like a sharp pain pulsating through that lasts for a few seconds and stops. It comes in waves throughout the day.
Title: Re: Describe what breast soreness feels like
Post by: xponentialshift on July 15, 2014, 11:48:01 PM
It took me a whole month to get any soreness at all. And until just the other day (at 6 weeks) before I noticed any sort of budding. Granted I was expecting it to bud on the rib side and not literally attached to the back side of the nipple. (Silly of me in retrospect, of course that's where it would be)
Title: Re: Describe what breast soreness feels like
Post by: KayXo on July 16, 2014, 10:57:14 AM
I agree. 15 days is very little time. My boobs got sore within 1-2 months. And growth takes several years and might fluctuate.
Title: Re: Describe what breast soreness feels like
Post by: Emjay on July 16, 2014, 12:24:59 PM
It took me almost exactly three months for anything to even start to develop in the breast department.  Give it time, it'll happen.  :)

As far as pain, it's more of a soreness for me so far.  I wondered what it was like before it happened too, all I can say is that when it does happen you won't wonder if that's what it was.  You'll definitely know!
Title: Re: Describe what breast soreness feels like
Post by: Stephanie2 on July 16, 2014, 12:52:03 PM
If I would have gotten any amount of pain, moderate or more at all, I think I would have remembered it. However, I do remember a bit of soreness  or being a little achy for a short time, I believe, at the beginning. (I did have the "acorn" effect behind each areola). I guess I have really been lucky. And yet I sort of would like to have had some great growing pains to indicate that the boobs were coming in big time. It was a very slow process, but they are finally there. Whether they get bigger than a small C cup in the future with any sort of growing pains is yet to be determined.
Title: Re: Describe what breast soreness feels like
Post by: Alaia on July 18, 2014, 02:56:33 PM
A little over 4 months and I haven't noticed any soreness. I can't tell if there are changes or not, still looks like the same smallish man-boobs I had before I started. Kinda wish I measured from the get go.
Title: Re: Describe what breast soreness feels like
Post by: Carrie Liz on July 18, 2014, 03:08:18 PM
For me, it's just sensitivity. Like it almost feels like a bruise or something. It doesn't really actively hurt, but it's very sensitive to touch, and when you touch it in the wrong way there's a bit of ouch.

That's most of the time. Admittedly, though, during my last growth spurt, all of a sudden I got this shooting pain in my right nipple where it felt like it was ripping apart from the inside. That's only happened a couple of times, though, and it only lasts for a few seconds before it calms down again.
Title: Re: Describe what breast soreness feels like
Post by: xponentialshift on July 18, 2014, 03:37:08 PM
Mine seem to (usually) only be sore if I touch them. If I let them be they don't complain. I do get that occasional deep throbbing sensation (not pain though)

However, if I brush my hand or anything across my nipple sideways, it feels like its going to tear off. Ouch!
Title: Re: Describe what breast soreness feels like
Post by: immortal gypsy on July 18, 2014, 03:49:20 PM
As much as you are eager for them to grow and worry that there not so early, don't complain about having no soreness after 15 days it can be still to early. Rolling over from my side onto my back then waking up with an OWE 2 1/2hrs early was not a pleasant wake up call.

Enjoy these pain free days and let the E do its magic unseen
Title: Re: Describe what breast soreness feels like
Post by: Alaia on July 18, 2014, 03:51:42 PM
Yeah, no soreness at all for me. I can hit my nipple area pretty hard with my fist, or flick it hard with my finger and it doesn't hurt at all.

*sigh* I guess this probably means there's still nothing going on there.
Title: Re: Describe what breast soreness feels like
Post by: HeatherR on July 18, 2014, 05:35:41 PM
You have to keep in mind that your T has to drop A LOT and that takes time.  Levels don't change right when you take your girly pills. . .  They take time to build up.  THEN the magic happens.
Title: Re: Describe what breast soreness feels like
Post by: Jenna Marie on July 18, 2014, 05:36:52 PM
Soreness does not equate with how much growth, either; it's possible to get visible development with no soreness at all (at times I have) or to be very, very sore and not see much change. So while the two tend to correlate, don't assume not sore = not growing. :)
Title: Re: Describe what breast soreness feels like
Post by: AnnaCannibal on July 18, 2014, 05:45:30 PM
No soreness for me just over a month in.  It takes time, or so I've heard.  Of course I'd like a sign something is happening, even if it is pain.
Title: Re: Describe what breast soreness feels like
Post by: Hikari on July 18, 2014, 06:36:50 PM
I really wonder what accounts for the massive variations on when pain is felt and how much it is felt. I have heard stories of people with fairly big breasts having no real pain at all from them growing.
Title: Re: Describe what breast soreness feels like
Post by: Jenna Marie on July 18, 2014, 09:11:48 PM
Hikari, I might well be one of those... 42DDD and still growing, and while it's not always nothing, it's been only a fraction of the pain I see people report. I guess I'm lucky.

(There's sometimes a fiendish and embarrassing itching that bothers me more!)