As the title says.  When did you find that you needed a bra?  I have been on low dose medication (spiro and E) for the best part of 2 years and measure a 38 A+/B, and it is becoming increasingly uncomfortable when running/stairs etc. 

Think you might have answered your own question there :-)

Ellie xx

I suppose I have xx

Quote from: Jan on November 27, 2017, 03:29:47 AM
As the title says.  When did you find that you needed a bra?

When I needed the support. Bras are not as comfortable as going bare chested or with just a t-shirt. I started wearing a bra when my breasts became more than a handful. I started with a 42C to be exact. Now I wear a 40D.

I started wearing one when I was an "a" cup because well even then when I walked, jogged, or ran they bounced and it was painful. So like you said when it is painful is probably when you should. Being that you have been on e for 2 years, you could invest in some nicer bras too. I have been on e less a year and will still be developing. I don't want to invest a lot in bras due to growth I may see. Good luck!!!!

I'd wear a bra when i transition and get some breasts. Even if my breasts will be small, i'd use a bra just because i find bras and most lingerie sexy.

Quote from: Jailyn on November 27, 2017, 06:14:48 AM
I started wearing one when I was an "a" cup because well even then when I walked, jogged, or ran they bounced and it was painful. So like you said when it is painful is probably when you should. Being that you have been on e for 2 years, you could invest in some nicer bras too. I have been on e less a year and will still be developing. I don't want to invest a lot in bras due to growth I may see. Good luck!!!!

Jailyn, a great idea.  Still growing though, and still tender....may have to hold off for a while. 

Started a while ago because of pain while exercising.  A nice inexpensive jog bra did the trick.  Now @ a full 36B and still growing I wear one nearly all the time.  I've gotten used to the tenderness pretty much but since I'm "pointy" without one, especially with only a T, I don't want to look piggy.  I'm not that kind of a girl .  Toni

I have been on HRT for 10 months and I am not even an AA yet.  But I started wearing a bra a month in to protect my tender nipples.  I was just using a shapeless sports bra, which also allowed me to hide the girls when in male mode.  Though they are small, they are shapely, and were obvious with the wrong shirt without some concealment.

Once I went full-time, I switched to a padded sports bra for vanity.  I can't yet wear a sized bra, so it's mostly sports bras for me.  I do occasionally, when I am trying to be fashionable, wear a "proper" bra, size "medium" (based on band size, not boob size!) which I can almost fill.  Padded, of course.

The stairs at work told me when it was time. Gotta love the jiggles. 

Hugs, Devlyn

Quote from: Devlyn Marie on November 27, 2017, 10:42:32 AM
The stairs at work told me when it was time. Gotta love the jiggles. 

Hugs, Devlyn

Every time I run now I jiggle.  Without support, my boobs hurt within a 1/4 mile.  Gotta strap those girls in!

Quote from: Jessica on November 27, 2017, 10:46:01 AM
Every time I run now I jiggle.  Without support, my boobs hurt within a 1/4 mile.  Gotta strap those girls in!

This.

without one... Ouch!

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+1 for stairs, also every time I had anything in my breast pocket of my coveralls at work and it was agony..

ALL the above -

I love to wear lingerie - unfortunately I am a big lady and so my handful of boobs is still not in a cup range so I wear a Bali unlined bra - it has hooks in in back, but is a 3x - and it fits sometimes the cups stretch a bit too much and I have to adjust them - but I love that too - it is just a reminder that I get to wear a bra! And the girls  do jiggle too much and are sore anyway and more sore when they jiggle - so I wear it! This is a fun post!

Love and hugs Marcie

Oh my girls!  After my last comment about running, I went running and realized I need a bra for my butt now! 
Jiggle all the way, Jessica

I hate cold days as my nipples get very sensitive and brushing against my blouse is very painful. So, yes it's time to buckle up. I just got a front loader because it is impossible to snap the back.

Mama got me started ages ago. I just wear them for fun nowdays, never was a real necessity. AT 38C and still perky, I like to let them breathe! And move and love the jiggle. And I love to watch rubber-neckers walk into things!
Driving the Jeep on a rough road is about the worst for making me strap them in.
Taming my pokies when dressed for Church.
Looking good for my wife puts me in lace.
I have been asked to put my bikini top back on at the hotel pool.

Quote from: DawnOday on November 27, 2017, 12:11:35 PMI just got a front loader because it is impossible to snap the back.

I've been able to hook the back since I was 13.   

I think it's the running more than the stairs that will force the issue.  If I'm not wearing a tight undershirt I have to run with an arm over my chest, and seeing as I dress male mode in public that gets second glances.

Quote from: DawnOday on November 27, 2017, 12:11:35 PM
I hate cold days as my nipples get very sensitive and brushing against my blouse is very painful. So, yes it's time to buckle up. I just got a front loader because it is impossible to snap the back.

Put it on backwards and then pull it around or that is what I do when I wear a bra.
I don't though. Wear a bra that is. I know, horrible of me right?
I think it was 8 months on hrt when I could not possibly hide them anymore but I could not find a bra that fit. Too big around with too small a cup size. Even sports bras fit miserably. I could get them made but I had very little money and it was more comfortable to go without.
Cut to 2 plus years later I am smaller around have a bigger cup size and I have more than one bra that fits. I still do not wear them though.
So I am a comfortable b cup maybe closer to c by now, not too big and they are firm. No pain going up or down stairs and I don't run. They are well shaped with a largish and puffy areola. Here is the thing, even if I really wanted to wear a bra I still might not. I don't at all so I won't. Well, not entirely true, something a little more official, like when I went to court to get my name changed, I will wear one.
It began to irritate me more and more how much crap my friends gave me. Even my best friend who shows more than an acre of cleavage every day. More than 99% of the women who have ever lived did NOT wear a bra. In the 1970s none of my aunts did and in the early 1990s in Germany very few of my friends did. What happened? When I ask they say,"I don't want my man checking out your boobs." Your man is looking, not a guess a fact, if not at me then at someone else. Like my man is checking out your bongos right now. SO WHAT?!?!
I do not look or dress trashy unlike my one friend who loves to wear leopard print yoga pants when she goes to the store and literally climbed her son's best friend and wrapped her arms and legs around him at the end of her grandson's birthday party. I know that sounds judgemental, maybe is a little, but I love her to death and we have soooo much fun. Just, how is it she is calling me slutty because I don't wear a bra?

All of my friends are girls, great that really works for me, but to me it seems to that they are so much more judgemental than men. It gets tiring.
The girl that does my nails rounds them instead of making them square or pointy. Really? That bothers you?
I can't believe you came out without putting on makeup.
White skirt in January? You are brave. It's full length and layered, it sure as hell wasn't made for July!
It's okay that you bought food instead of making for our picnic, you are busy I guess. 3 jobs and a boyman for a boyfriend? Yeah, you could say that I am a little busy.

I love my life and my friends. I just never thought that I would miss the laid back and straightforward approach men have to their friendships.

Anyway, I don't wear a bra and most of the time no one notices. Sometimes men drool, and more rarely a woman. Nowhere near as much as at my friend who does wear a bra and shows most of her giant boobs though. But don't go by me. My nieces could not wait to wear a bra, it is a cherished passage into womanhood. When you want to is the only answer that I can give.