AIBU to be fed up carrying blasted 34G around

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This weekend I have spent laid on the sofa with painful back ache. My shoulders are in a permanent hunch with poor posture because of my 34G size and I'm having physio to help with it. I look ridiculous in any tops and get embarrassed by the size of them and am fed up lugging them around.

HappyGoLucky, as I said upthread, though I ended up having my reduction privately, I was on the NHS waiting list. I had no back pain, but went to my GP because it was getting painful to walk, never mind jog or run. He took one look and said "Well they are just too big, the only thing to do is have them reduced" and that was that. It is probably harder these days to interest the NHS, and even then there was a very long waiting list. I got a call from the NHS consultant's secretary asking if I wanted to proceed, about eighteen months after I had actually had the operation.

MichealFinnegan, you can get little kits to sort out popping bra wires on Amazon. Saves a lot of money.

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Sorry! Has anyone had success with seeing a physiotherapist to strengthen neck and back muscles?

I had a reduction (on the NHS but it was 11 years ago!). I went from 34G to 34D/E (it was meant to be a c cup but never was). I've actually lost weight in the mean time and am now a 28H as yes, they've grown back. After I'm done having children I'm tempted to get it done again, I hate having these boobs.

But Squid , Treacle , et al. , don't you think that they would have kept on growing anyway as you got older/ weightier? I imagine mine would have been gi-normous freak-show material if they had not been been captured and tamed.

Quite possibly, and I certainly wouldn't feel inclined to have just left them be to see what would happen!

BTW mine was not a 'don't do it!' post, I just felt like I needed to make other people aware of the fact that its unlikely to be a permanent cure.

I found my surgery to be life changing.

Possibly winklewoman! Doesn't bear thinking about. I was just refuting that they'd grown because I'd put on weight as a previous poster posited!

yes, me too, Squid, I'm certain its not weight gain.

38F here, i fucking hate them so much, i really need to lose weight to get them down, i was 34D before pregnancy.

I'm a size 14 and my bra is a 34F (measured from here and not m&s, didn't find bravissimo that great tbh either). I think you are def in the wrong size. I don't get any pain at all. Not from my boobs anyway. I'm almost 37 btw to see if age has anything to do with it

32G here.
You need proper fitting which means NOT M&S, who do it very poorly (I like Rigby & Peller. Worth the train journey if you are outside London). Weight loss helps, and most of all, so does weight training to strengthen your back, chest and core muscles.

I was 34H, but that was too small and I didn't have the heart to get a bigger size bra.
I looked into an NHS reduction, jumped through all their hoops, made sure I was in the correct BMI range etc and then decided that I couldn't handle hanging on and arguing for a decision. I paid over £6600 nearly four years ago and have never looked back. I remember every time something didn't fit right, or somebody made a "funny" comment, a little bit of me would die inside. You can't put a price on that.

The surgeon didn't do them small enough really and my weight isn't any greater than when I had it done, so I am about 34 E/F and I now have a waistline. I spent 5 hours on the table, lost a pound and a half from each breast and the pain was fine because it isn't a particularly nervy part of the body: It's just fat and milk ducts.Pregnancy seemed to stretch mine, so after I was done having offspring, I spent the best money I ever have in my life and got size 12 dresses to fit instead of not wearing dresses because the size 16+ I would have needed hung off my rack like a tent.

OP get yourself measured properly. I am a 34G and a size 14/16 clothes. Don't go to M&S, they are rubbish and use tape measuring to get size. BravissimAo or Rigby and Peller are much better.

There's a Rigby & Peller in York, Harrogate, Cambridge, Guildford, Bluewater, and several in London.

They are good, about £60-£70 a bra though. But once you know what's good you can shop for better prices online

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Found these good for larger sizes - they often have sales so I think they have proven cheaper than brassiomo for me.

I've lost 2.5 stone before now and gone down one cup size - which promptly went back up when I put the first bit back on.

I have much less back pain since I got the right size bra - still get neck pain occasionally which I do think is a combination of weight and stress.

I should work on my posture - however if I had the money I get them reduced to a D or DD - so not smaller but definitely much smaller and less weighty. Apparently the NHS don't do the operation at all here - or some women are told.

I usually go to Bravissimo and am really happy with how their bras fit, but I find they need replacing regularly - I usually buy 3 at a time and rotate them, but find they all need chucking after 4-5 months. Is it worth trying Rigby and Peller instead?

I think if you only have three that's probably not far off normal. How do you wash them?

Handwash and drip dry.

Rigby and Peller sell some of the same brands as Bravissimo, but they sell a lot more pricey ones as well, i.e. £70+.

Which brand do you buy?

Handwash and drip dry.

Usually Bravissimo own brand, sometimes Panache. I'm really happy with the fit, just find I have to adjust the straps fairly regularly and they get stretched to the maximum pretty quickly, and they start pulling on my neck and upper back after about 4-5 months.

I go into the store every time and get properly fitted and get the new bras adjusted properly.

Sorry it's a long thread-what size are you?

Just realised my reduction was ten years ago and they never grew back. If anything they've shrunk more since children, but then I am a couple of stone lighter than I was at the time of my surgery.

I'm 32HH