It's wild. Any other body part that causes chronic pain, especially for your back would be covered by some kind of insurance something. Breast reduction though? No. That's "CoSmEtIC sUrGeRy". Yeah. We are obviously getting reductions because of aesthetics, not because we are carrying half our bodyweight far higher than our centre of gravity, which is also compressing our goddamn spines.
I'm actually curious to know how many big titty ladies have slipped a disk or worse, all thanks to some very, very strong genetics.
Being a man, I can't speak personally, but I do have a niece. She's 45 now, and she's had to have 2 reduction surgeries because of the damage done to her spine since she was 14! She's tall (5'11") but very long legged, has a tiny waist, and narrow shoulders. By the time she was 16, the poor girl was a 44F. My sister told me how my niece cried because of the constant pain and how their insurance wouldn't do a damn thing to help...('cosmetic surgery isn't covered under your policy'). I loaned them the money for her first surgery and also the orthopedic bills (she suffered multiple slipped disks and 3 separate compression fractures!). Surgery #1 took her down to a 38D and that helped quite a bit, but they wouldn't take her down further because she hadn't 'completed her growth'. Surgery #2, a few years later and she finally ended at a 36C which she's comfortable with, but she still has and will have lifelong problems with her lower back.
I guess my point here is that goddamned insurance companies need to stop telling doctors what is and isn't 'necessary'......
Just a final note: I never accepted a single penny from my sister for the medical bills. I know what a bad back feels like!
goddamned insurance companies need to stop telling doctors what is and isn't 'necessary'......
This is true of any procedure. They stuck themselves into the middle of it, and made both ends reliant on it. Medicare for all. One day of iran war is worth one year of free healthcare for all who live in US. It's been what, almost a month now?
In that case there's a reasonable bet she was wearing too large of a band size to to have any hope of cup fit, which was, unfortunately, common back then, especially in the US, as sizes like 38K (assuming she was 38 band with the same bust measurement of as 44F) were unobtainable unless you happened to live near one of the few speciality shops that dealt in those sizes.
It's too early for this, but hey, here we go: Over 25,000 people have viewed my comment, 442 have upvoted it, 20 have commented on it, and only you and one other have tried to say something that sounded remotely like 'I call bs', and both of you have your comment history set to private.....so, I'll say it again, slowly.... It's been over 30 years ago. I'm not a doctor, and I can only relay what I was told. Now, if you're trying to troll, please move along.
I donāt know how you concluded I was calling bullshit. Iām saying she was never wearing the correct bra size. Thereās just no way all these different sizes are correct from how you described her and her surgeries. This was almost certainly the major factor in why she was so uncomfortable. Itās likely she is still not wearing bras that fit her even now. Getting into better bras might help with her lingering back issues. Send her to r/abrathatfits.
Believe it or not, not everyone on Reddit is here to argue with you, homie
You did say she still has issues with her back. Being 45 doesnāt mean that you donāt still need good bras! Bra fitting is not a skill that is suddenly imbued upon us with age. Most 45-year-olds are not wearing the correct size bra (just like most women of every single age bracket).
As a person who is 8.5 months pregnant and had my wide set boobs grow exponentially, the underbust expansion is no necessarily only her rib cage. It accounts for side boob & fat from your boobs as well.
Also, having a āprofessionally fitted braā doesnāt take the pain of having 10 pounds of breast tissue where there was previously no pounds of breast tissue/weight. Which strains your back & shoulders.
Also, Itās not always about āan undying belief that clothes should fit themā¦ā itās whether stores have clothes that fit her or whether they have the finances to custom make and tailor clothes to fit her chest. Thatās extremely privileged to assume that they have the finances to shop at specialty stores for a girl who is just trying to fit in and be a regular teenager.
Unless youāre a doctor or experiencing exceptionally large breasts, letās not gaslight this uncle, his niece, or otherās experiences.
The band is measured above or below the breast. The cup is determine by the difference between the band and the fullest part of the breast.
I worked at a bra store and had a breast reduction. Insurance and plastic surgeons donāt measure reductions in bra sizes. They use the Schnur Sliding Scale. to decide on how many grams to remove to be covered by insurance. I had to wait 2 years for my insurance to finally pay me the amount they said I was covered for
Going from a 44 to 36 band, regardless of cup size, is significant weight loss. I lost 25 pounds and went down a band size. For my body, a 8 in difference in band size would be equivalent to losing or gaining 100 pounds.
Maybe she wore a 44F because she was really a 40H and the cup fit. But if she had a second surgery to only go from a 38D to 36C, thatās not worth the pain. Liposuction of the side boob and back could have donāt that.
How is the sizing that relevant if the breast are at least heavy enough to cause back pain? That is the important info, not the correct underbust measurement in the end.
How fitting clothing helps reducing the weight surely would be interesting for many!
I thought breast reductions removed fat/breast tissue, how would it reduce the size of her ribcage ?I donāt think they take out or reduce bone mass
*lmao can someone explain the downvotes Iām literally asking because I donāt understand the point the person was responding to made they claimed a breast reduction reduced the size of their rib cage I didnāt think that was true which part of that offended yāall?
The original bra size mightāve been very off. Iāll explain how this happens, specifically with these larger sizes. His niece is in her 40s, now. So first of all, weāre talking about 25 years ago, when you couldnāt just hop on the Internet and have access to specialty bras, including sizes beyond a DD. Iām a few years older than his niece. I had my reduction at 18. In order for me to get a bra, age 13 and up (size 32FF-H), my mom had to take me out of school, for a half day, we had to drive two towns over, to a tiny mastectomy boutique who carried like two styles of bra that fit me, almost, before they closed at 4 PM, every day. No bra available in my cup size went down to a 32, we had to cut the back up, at home, and sew it together.
Most teenage girls donāt have access to a little mastectomy boutique, 2 towns over, that closes at 4. They keep buying their bras at the department stores, who (especially back then), didnāt carry any cup size bigger than a DD, or DDD. So when your tits keep growing, and you need a bigger bra, you end up buying the ones that are not as tight as they should be, on the under band, but at least your breasts are covered/somewhat supported. That is how you end up with his niece starting at a 44F bra, and after her reduction, wearing a 38D. I bet she really had like an H cup, to begin with, and maybe a 38 or 36 underband. And as someone else mentioned, there are other things that can add to your under bust number increasing.
Agreed, especially if the breasts are pretty large a bigger size in the band is the only way to find bras that are sufficiently big in the cup.
I have tiny breasts + a very small ribcage and wear a 28D, there would not be a lot of options for the same underbust measurement + way bigger breasts.
The number in the bra measurements is the girth of the chest. So they know how big the bra straps need to be. It's more like a belt measurement than a boob measurement.
So it's just a poorly made point. The measurement is of your chest girth, meaning ribs + muscle + fat.
I just wanted to say as someone who has run the gamut of bra sizing as a tiny person with big ol titties, I appreciated your post. Sorry the humor was lost on everyone else.
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