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Title: Dialysis making your boobs smaller?
Post by: Lillupie on June 04, 2012, 06:40:45 AM
ok,
 I know this is really petty. But i cant help but wonder. I think my boobs have shrank since starting D. My testorone (sp?) levels are higher then normal. When I was 90lbs in school I always wore a 34B bra, and now at 111 im like an A. I know Im skinny, but my whole life, i've been a B, and now they are almost non-existent at pretty much an A.

I just feel like a little kid at 4'11" with no boobs.

Anyone else notice this??

Lisa
Title: Re: Dialysis making your boobs smaller?
Post by: Grumpy-1 on June 04, 2012, 07:20:48 AM
Lillupie   I think I have more boobs than you.  Sorry - had to put that in....   Grumpy   :rofl;
Title: Re: Dialysis making your boobs smaller?
Post by: Cordelia on June 04, 2012, 07:23:28 AM
Yeah, I have too, but I've lost a lot of weight since I started dialysis.
Title: Re: Dialysis making your boobs smaller?
Post by: Lillupie on June 04, 2012, 08:02:20 AM
Lillupie   I think I have more boobs than you.  Sorry - had to put that in....   Grumpy   :rofl;

yeah thank for rubbing it in/ i hate with the passion of feeling like a little kid and not a woman
Title: Re: Dialysis making your boobs smaller?
Post by: Whamo on June 04, 2012, 08:47:58 AM
You're a beautiful woman.  Boob size doesn't matter.  It's what in your heart that matters.   Love is so much deeper than mere looks.
Title: Re: Dialysis making your boobs smaller?
Post by: bleija on June 04, 2012, 09:34:42 AM
i know my boobs got smaller, i was once a C, but then lost weight on the hospital renal diet, lol <instant lose 10 lbs lol> then shrank to a B when i lost all that weight, did 6 months of hemo, lost another 30 lbs and shrank to im pretty sure an A now, but im in denial and still wearing my B cups lol. idk u said u were 98lb s did u ever lose weight, u know karma is we lose boobies first. i know that how i losty mine... need to go bak to puberty and grow these suckers back lol
Title: Re: Dialysis making your boobs smaller?
Post by: Grumpy-1 on June 04, 2012, 11:35:33 AM
I think my wife's boobs have gotten smaller and that is with age not D.  But maybe they just hang lower and that makes them look smaller.   :rofl;
Title: Re: Dialysis making your boobs smaller?
Post by: smokinbeaver on June 04, 2012, 12:01:25 PM
I was a 34B most of my life. I know the boobs got smaller when I would lose weight exercising and I hated it. After I got past 50, went through menopause, they got bigger. I am like a 34 C or D. I am short, a little under  ft now. I am not on dialysis, my husband is, so its not that. I sure can understand your despair with your breasts getting smaller though. I am wondering if the tittie fairy will come back after you girls go through menopause? She did for me. In fact when she came around for my daughters, she hung around longer then she ever did for me. I guess boobs getting smaller or often another one of those awfull things about dialysis. Maybe boobs are only inflated by water and in the body, and all since they are mostly all fat. So sorry you have to go through this. Do guys lose inches in their junk with dialysis?

Sharon
Title: Re: Dialysis making your boobs smaller?
Post by: Cordelia on June 04, 2012, 12:04:25 PM
Pfffffft! LOL! LMAO!

Tittie Fairy, guys losing inches in their junk.....     :rofl;        :rofl;

Too funny, I'm bustin' a gut laughin' here on the phrases.       :rofl;        :rofl;
Title: Re: Dialysis making your boobs smaller?
Post by: cookie2008 on June 04, 2012, 12:47:06 PM
grumpy-1   :rofl; :rofl;    Cordelia   :rofl; :rofl;
Title: Re: Dialysis making your boobs smaller?
Post by: bleija on June 04, 2012, 02:19:40 PM
tittie fairy :rofl; :2thumbsup;
Title: Re: Dialysis making your boobs smaller?
Post by: bleija on June 04, 2012, 02:20:25 PM
so wait if a tooth gets the tooth fairy to come, what and where do u leave for the tittie fairy?
Title: Re: Dialysis making your boobs smaller?
Post by: Cordelia on June 04, 2012, 03:35:22 PM
 :sarcasm;     I    LOVE it!        :rofl;      :rofl;      :rofl;      :rofl;      :rofl;

I'm laughin' so hard I got tears comin' outta my eyes now! LOL

Hubby is noting that something is funny as he watches me laughin' my a$$ off.  I just looked at him and said uh, nuttin        :shy;        :rofl;      :rofl;
Title: Re: Dialysis making your boobs smaller?
Post by: Annig83 on June 04, 2012, 08:15:46 PM
It's funny how D does strange stuff to our bodies.  Lilli- I haven't much noticed smaller breasts, as much as the stretch marks, so I'm sure they are getting bigger and smaller simultaneously!  With fluid retention, and then losing that fluid, there are days when I'm thinking "man, this bra feels tight, or too loose", same with my pants, shirts, and even my sandals!  If the size of your breasts, really bothers you that much, I'm sure you can contact your local American Red Cross, or even the American Cancer Society, and ask if they have some donations available...they offer "falsies" bras with "breasts" built in.  You can also try a padded or water bra as well.  These are just ideas off the top of my head... I've honestly never had an issue with my breasts... I'm a bigger girl, and my breasts have also been big too.  When I played sports in high school, I hated them because they always got in the way.  If it had been up to me I probably would have bow and arrowed that "tittie fairy"! :rofl;
Don't lose hope!  If nothing else, love yourself for who you are, inside and out.
Title: Re: Dialysis making your boobs smaller?
Post by: Desert Dancer on June 04, 2012, 08:36:57 PM
I was a 34D when I started and I still am. Of course, they're beginning their long struggle toward my navel; that began with my first pregnancy. 

Now I have to keep this cartoon in mind when I want to sunbath:
Title: Re: Dialysis making your boobs smaller?
Post by: iketchum on June 05, 2012, 04:00:08 AM
I was asked to talk to a new man in our clinic about doing dialysis, they like what I have learned here in IHD. I wanted to make him less nervous so I thought telling him a joke would be good. I told him they do not want him to know, but dialysis makes your testicles shrink. You should of seen his face.
Title: Re: Dialysis making your boobs smaller?
Post by: Grumpy-1 on June 05, 2012, 04:34:26 AM
For me the balls didn't shrink, BUT the junk did.   I have to cough to find it now.   Grumpy   :yahoo;
Title: Re: Dialysis making your boobs smaller?
Post by: monrein on June 05, 2012, 05:22:39 AM
Not all men prefer large breasts, some live by the motto that more than a handful is a waste and smaller ones have an easier time defying gravity.  They are also easier to examine by whomever chooses to do the examination and are not a liability when exercising.  The main thing with breasts, like ALL body parts really, is that they work, as in function as they ought to, that they become aroused when necessary and provide nutrition when necessary.  The obsession with ginarmous headlights appears to be mainly a North American one and in the whole breast size discussion the more subtle issue of nipples seems to be generally ignored. 

I think the world is mad.
Title: Re: Dialysis making your boobs smaller?
Post by: Cordelia on June 05, 2012, 10:31:56 AM
LMAO! Iketchum and Grumpy!        :rofl;       :rofl;      :rofl;     :rofl;
Title: Re: Dialysis making your boobs smaller?
Post by: Desert Dancer on June 05, 2012, 10:47:13 AM
I think the world is mad.

But dear, dear Monrein, didn't you know? "When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained." - Mark Twain
Title: Re: Dialysis making your boobs smaller?
Post by: WishIKnew on June 05, 2012, 11:18:39 AM
My boobs didn't shrink while on dialysis.  But the breast cancer took them.  A would be better than concave...  Sorry to be a downer.
Title: Re: Dialysis making your boobs smaller?
Post by: deniferfer on June 05, 2012, 01:24:33 PM
LMAO you guys are so funny!!!

Did anyone else picture the the titie fairy as this cute little fairy with big boobs that has to use all its wing power to get off the ground.  :laugh:

I'm just going this out there for any guys that lost inches in their junk...just tie a couple of weights to it and take them back!! Don't let this disease win!!!  :rofl;

As for me I have never had a problem I have stayed at a 36 C and even when i lost weight I stayed that size.
Title: Re: Dialysis making your boobs smaller?
Post by: smokinbeaver on June 05, 2012, 02:56:48 PM
Oh man, I am so glad I gave you all a laugh! I agree with deniferfer, the tittie fairy is this little tiny thing with big boobs that can hardly get off the ground flapping her wings, falling over on her face several times before she could get lift off. Oh and I am dying laughing at iketchum telling the guy his balls would shrink with dialysis. I can only imagine the expression on his face! There are so many funny comments here I can't reply to them all. Love you grumpy!

sharon
Title: Re: Dialysis making your boobs smaller?
Post by: willowtreewren on June 05, 2012, 04:30:57 PM
Here is some further humor for you....

I actually saw him perform this in March.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmnxF_WTOgg

Aleta
Title: Re: Dialysis making your boobs smaller?
Post by: Hazmat35 on June 08, 2012, 06:42:28 AM
I was a 34B most of my life. I know the boobs got smaller when I would lose weight exercising and I hated it. After I got past 50, went through menopause, they got bigger. I am like a 34 C or D. I am short, a little under  ft now. I am not on dialysis, my husband is, so its not that. I sure can understand your despair with your breasts getting smaller though. I am wondering if the tittie fairy will come back after you girls go through menopause? She did for me. In fact when she came around for my daughters, she hung around longer then she ever did for me. I guess boobs getting smaller or often another one of those awfull things about dialysis. Maybe boobs are only inflated by water and in the body, and all since they are mostly all fat. So sorry you have to go through this. Do guys lose inches in their junk with dialysis?

Sharon

That is the excuse that I am using!!!!!!  The Dialyzer is sucking the excess fluids from my body, that it's making everything shrink, including my "JUNK"!!!!  (but my g/f says it is not true . . . my waist hasn't gotten any smaller, HUMMMMMM??) :Kit n Stik;
Title: Re: Dialysis making your boobs smaller?
Post by: Lillupie on June 08, 2012, 11:01:46 AM
Well Im glad I was able to give everyone reading this thread a good laugh. ...

 On that I was asking because of the hormone balance. I have higher levels of testosterone in my blood and lower estrogen levels and that is because of dialysis. I complained sooo much to my OB/GYN that he was willing to try to put me on a low dose of birth control pills.
 I was asking becaue I notice with the lower levels of estrogen/high levels of testosterone, I get a few strans of facial hair, acne, and slightly shrinkage in the chest. So, wondering about anyone else too...

Lisa
Title: Re: Dialysis making your boobs smaller?
Post by: smokinbeaver on June 08, 2012, 02:14:58 PM
LOL Hazmat! Junk probably not smaller or shorter, but don't get your waist not getting smaller. Glad your girlfriend finds it ok down there
Title: Re: Dialysis making your boobs smaller?
Post by: KAF454 on June 14, 2012, 05:18:43 PM
Not that I've noticed. My wife might say otherwise.
Title: Re: Dialysis making your boobs smaller?
Post by: Grumpy-1 on June 15, 2012, 08:33:44 AM
wish PD would increase my testosterone level.  Could use some help in that area.  :2thumbsup;
Title: Re: Dialysis making your boobs smaller?
Post by: smokinbeaver on June 16, 2012, 06:27:12 AM
LOL Grumpy, be something if dialysis made guys get bigger...and ladies get shaplier....

Sharon
Title: Re: Dialysis making your boobs smaller?
Post by: bleija on June 16, 2012, 09:38:40 AM
yeah pd dialysis gave me curves, lol just from the wrong angle lol, and te wrong area, everyone thinks im prego :bump;
Title: Re: Dialysis making your boobs smaller?
Post by: Gerald Lively on June 16, 2012, 11:47:21 AM
I spent years in the gym getting those pecs big and wide.  I managed to get my chest measurement up to 52”.  After a couple of years of trying to stay alive and no gym sessions, I am up to a “B” cup.  Wanna feel?
Title: Re: Dialysis making your boobs smaller?
Post by: smokinbeaver on June 16, 2012, 04:20:04 PM
LMAO Gerald!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sharon
Title: Re: Dialysis making your boobs smaller?
Post by: RichardMEL on June 17, 2012, 02:15:45 AM
Oh my lovlies you didn't possibly think you could get a thread like this going and somehow avoid me finding it?! I mean.. REALLY!?!?  :rofl; :rofl; :rofl; :rofl;

I may not be the tittie fairy (I'm not gay ;) ) but I have the following observations to make - some sersious, some not so much.

- I now know more about a few of our fairer members' boobs than I ever dreamed I would. This could come in handy someday  >:D

- As Monrein said - I am one of those men that isn't so much about the size, but what happens with them, what you (as a couple) do with them and what the owner enjoys. There are plenty of arguments/reasons as to why larger breasts are NOT good for women - eg: heavy/uncomfy bras, strain on the back, "gravity" etc...)
- I do get it's a personal thing that if you feel you've lost something like that you're not quite "you" and perhaps you feel a bit less sexy or desireable (much like some men and losing hair, etc). I don't think that many of us care that much.
- My junk never got smaller on D and post-tx, I swear it may haeve even increased a bit !!!!! damn you, steroids!!!!  :rofl;
- I've had some ladies tell me in the past that when it comes to losing and putting on weight, some have noticed that the first place to lose it has been the bust, and the last to get it back is there too... and I knew one lady on a extreme weight loss reigeme but it was one of her personal downsides to the great effort she was making "My cleavage just won't be as awesome now!" - I don't think she liked it when I laughed  >:D

And for all those who want another angle... I'm not sure which tx drug it is, it's either pred or maybe cyclosporin, but one of the suckers I am on has a noted side effect of "male breast growth"  !!!!! And Im thinking - wtf?! sexist bloody drug.. why can't the girls get melons? I think I may have that a bit - or I'm just getting old and gross!!!

I could say more, but I fear it would get more and more inappropriate, so I shall finish here (for now!)  >:D
Title: Re: Dialysis making your boobs smaller?
Post by: billybags on June 17, 2012, 12:13:19 PM
Richard, I knew you would be in on this one.
Title: Re: Dialysis making your boobs smaller?
Post by: smokinbeaver on June 17, 2012, 03:28:59 PM
So glad you showed up Richard, and thanks for your comments! You give us laughs and we enjoy it. Girls have a never ending love hate with their breasts and their weight. I am past menopause so my breasts are fuller and I like it, but do not like the spread and all. I am no longer thin like I used to be sigh...but I have gray hair and wrinkles and thankfully I am married and have a husband who still thinks I am pretty. Like I said the tittie fairy comes back for most girls, and maybe she drops a little angel dust on the guy sleeping next to her. Man boobs don't bother me anyway.

Sharon