breasts getting bigger

I'm still chuckling about having musky boobs...

Plimsolls, anyone?

granny knot : much appreciate link. I've tried the search facility on Gran's net and it links me to Mumsnet

indigo the search facility on GN is flipping useless. Maybe someone will remember who it was ... I'll have a scout around about the time I joined.

Jane

Ana you've lost me!

I found it by searching on Google! (I'm so good!)

www.gransnet.com/forums/health/1196535-Cosmetic-surgery-in-later-life

totally impressed and that you

Should be - thank you

Sorry for being off-hand earlier. Thought you might have been a naughty troll.

Hmmm. Might be wrong, often am.

Not sure about all this, but ok.

I am definitely menopausal.
I have big boobs [not quite as large as yours], but they are too big for my frame at the best of times. A chiropractor did suggest that I might want to look into breast reduction at some stage.
My boobs have not gone larger due to the menopause, but I am not quite through it all yet.
If they do go bigger, I will have to look into it. I am not in pain, but my neck and shoulders are quite weak.

indigo and I'm impressed with my memory!

If margrete is still registered on GN, you would be able to send her a PM if you wanted to, for an update.

Thanks soon to be : so I'm not being unrealistic about a breast reduction.

granny not : read the thread - 77 when breast reduction done - so never too old to improve the quality of life. The thought of mine getting even bigger and more painful as the weight tugs at the nerves around the chest - well into my 8o's and possibly 90's, too much.

Having always had small breasts, 34F, let alone 34K sounds horrendous. I can understand Indigo wanting to consider breast reduction. As we get older and our muscles become less strong, all of us sag a bit and I understand that the bigger you are the further you sag.

I can offer no helpful advice here, no-one I know has had this problem, but I do offer the OP my sympathy with a problem, which is not the joke some posters seem to think.

That's a very superior post Flickety. Perhaps unnecessarily so? We have had the odd possible troll recently.

If you wear a really well fitting, and supportive bra, indigo, the weight shouldn't pull at the nerves around your chest.

I'm not sure if you can get breast reduction on the NHS these days; I know a friend of mine had to go private...she was quite young but her breasts were really giving her back problems. Must need to stress things like back pain as that would give a greater chance of having it done on the NHS. However, if you are very overweight you'd have to show a willingness to lose weight as a first option.

But Jings the weight on the strap can affect the muscles / tendons? On your shoulder. Told that by my osteopath and had to wear a ghastly sports bra for a while. If I was braver I'd have the op.I know someone who had it done when she was 60 ten years ago and Thinks it's one of the best decisions she has made for herself.

With sports bras, where does the strain go instead? It still has to go somewhere?

Sports bras just stop you wobbling about soon and make a big difference even if you're only 36C.
I think the weight is still felt in your shoulder and back though, but the load is higher up.
Rather like a good rucksack transferring weight higher up your body - you're still carrying 20kg, but the weight is distributed in a way that makes it easier to bear.
But I don't think any bra is going to make much difference to 34K boobs, really.

I am working my way through a wonderful old 1950s copy of Odhams Sewing Encyclopaedia.....there are patterns for dresses and 'gowns'. They have been sized, the book informs me, for the average figure with a 35 inch bust and a 27 inch waist !!!!

Not the slightest bit superior, and I know we have trolls, but if the OP was genuine, and I see no reason why it wasn't, I think having it treated as a joke cannot have helped someone who posted on Gransnet, as many others have, about a problem that is clearly causing her real distress.

perhaps something like this

Re sports bras ... The straps are further in towards your neck and don't rest on a particular part closer to your shoulder( at least those with a 'racer back'. It does actually feel different ( I had a shoulder / upper arm problem), apart from straps not slipping off.

Thanks to all. I'm signing out of this now. worth posting for the reassurance.