have any of you had a situation like this. me and my girlfriend were kissing, and she moved her hand up and across my chest, across where i may someday have breats. i instantly got this really weird feeling and had to move her hand away.

i felt like there was something there, but it wasnt. i felt like there should be breasts there and for there not to be, but her to be touching that just felt wrong. i could feel breats i didnt have, but was really upset that they were not there.

was a really strong feeling, and i think its whats sometimes talked about as phantom limb syndrome, just wondering if anyones experianced anything similar pre-transition?

I haven't felt that myself, but I think I've read about others having similar experiences. I would think having that phantom limb feeling would be neat, but kind of depressing when it goes away...

i would have thought it would be good, and possibly in another situation it would have been. problem is the situation i was in, from where her hands where, it was just this depressing knowledge that even though i could feel them, they werent there.

since then ive become alot more aware of my lack of breats, i mean i always knew, but it just kind of hit home that i can feel them, but they just arent there.

Have you ever tried falsies or breast forms? I know they aren't real but even having something there might help the distress you feel over not having breasts. I know they aren't for everyone but I enjoy mine.

have looked into them, just a financial issue atm XD and have tried stuffed bras too but until im full time its not a permanant fix haha.

thanks for the advice guys, its quite distressing but ill do what i can 

  Yes, I did have feelings of phantom breasts.  It started when I was in Jr. High in the late 60's when I observed the girls when they were developing theirs.  I would wake up thinking I had them, but they were not there!  Not even pecs!  Wanting breasts was the main thing but now that I am actually developing them, I have the sensations that are much different than when I was imagining them on me.  They are small, but it is a relief now to wake-up in the morning and see them actually develop after all of these years!  Riding on a bumpy road actually feels good on the chest!
  Joelene

There was an article from 2008 I read recently that discussed this.  The paper was titled "Gender Identity and Phantom Genitalia" and went on to hypothesize about brain/body mappings which are laid down prenatally.   Of course there are/were dissenters on the theory as well, but it made for some interesting reading. 

I know that since I'm new I can't link directly to the article, and since I'm not sure about the rules about putting a plain text URL that could be manually copied/pasted into a browser, I'm going to err on the side of caution on that and not do it.  If I hear it's okay, I'll edit and put it in, otherwise I guess I can pass it along in private messages for whoever might want it.

This is not exactly the same but thought I'd share anyway. Through most if my life I've been completely flat chested. A few years ago I took some low dose HRT (my wife's left overs after changing prescriptions) for several months. It may be my imagination but I think I've grown some small, "A" cup breasts. When I look down at my at my chest the swell is clearly there and they feel so nice. When I look at my profile the don't show much though. I've started therapy and hope to be on a proper tg HRT dose in the next few months. Im excited that if a low dose could produce these results I'm hoping that a real dose of mtf HRT could lead to "C" cups. I'm not greedy, I just want to look like a female. I hope all of you are well and are experiencing this journey with the same excitement that I am.

Racael

I ussed to get phantom breasts all the time. Then I started taking estrogene and they started growing, now I don't hget that sensation anymore.

I'm really happy to see this topic. When I mentioned it in another thread, no one said anything so I thought that I must be losing my mind.

This is one of the things that strongly stands out to me as a really clear sign of my gender issues of which there are more than a few. I can look in the mirror and I can see that they should be there and of course another object that shouldn't be there. There are many times when even though my breasts aren't there in the fullest sense I could certainly feel as if they sort of are. It is as if there is a weird extedned feeling in body shape and form. I could tell you exactly where they extend to. I wonder if there is something in the brain that actually has an innate sense of what it should look like. I would be curious whether on hrt whether they actually take that shape and size of where the mind is thinking the phantom breasts are.

It may be that my body is just wired for it. I know that even pre-hrt my chest is easily the most sensitive part on my body. Who knows, that may be the way it is for everyone... But I figure it is a good sign. 

I had that feeling the first few weeks of taking AA's, felt like I had big D cups, then it went away