appt with GP re breast reduction tomorrow. Have so much hope stored up. What should I emphasise? Physical or psychological issues?

[Piffle]

basically
size 8-10
30HH boobs
no more kids as have 3 supremely good specimens in situ
Good bmi etc
have shoulder neck pain constantly, dents in shoulders, fungal rashes. Plus v self conscious as on my frame (boyish) they look quite frankly, comedic.
So am falling on nhs to save me...
zero vanity involved in this tbh
am anxious and fear tears may flow as want this soooookooo badly

and you ran misdee?
Respect!!!!
Mine are agony if they bounce!

i dust under my mine afetr a shower.

i didnt run this year piffle, i walked as am now coming up 20 weeks pregnant. but was running earlier this year. i have a superdooper scaffolding bra which basically pins them completely in place. but they still jiggle.

to run I bandage mine down hard. Takes ages so gave up running now have shit muscle tone and flabby tummy grrrr
so many benefits to this reduction I cannot explain!

will cross everything for you including my norks!

Piffle I do hope you get this. Your discomfort sounds awful. I have just goen down in size to an F cup and that feel massive to me. Can I ask, why do you use a/fungal creams?

constant fungal rashes for years...
I crave a C cup most

i was a c cup once. wheni slimmed down to under12 stone and was a size 14, so am hoping i can do that again without surgery.

but they seem to get bigger and bigger each year.

Oh well done Piffle.
I am booking GP appt for exactly this in the summer hols (30J) here. We ahev met on normous nork convos before (Slouchy under name change).
Hope it is quick and straightforward for you.

oh me too.

If they turn you down, do as Lou here

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Piffle, I have insider knowledge of one of the PCT panels that makes these decisions - physical was def the way to go, and you should have no problems meeting those criteria. Hope your referral is swift!

Well done Piffle. Am quite 36GG with terrible backache too ... going to do this one day when I work up the courage ...

Remember to ask the consultant for a lift as well as a reduction if you need to. Have a friend who had the op a year or so ago and she went from a 34 J to a C cup but she was unhappy because they still did the "sweet chariots"

Meant to add, good luck with your consultation app

oh good point although must admit mine are not at all saggy... Yet...I reckon for bigguns they are in good shape really.
so hopefully they are a bit perky afterwards. Will be nice to have nipples pointing in the same direction... Can take me 20 mins some days to align mine, I usually just wear chunky jacket/cardy...

mine are cross eyed too

what the hell are sweet chariots?

This is a minefield

swinging low Minky ;)

lol my mum calls it the three button smiley
two nips over a bellybutton ;)

Piffle, reduction is a bit of a postcode lottery, many areas will weigh the breasts and they have to be a certain percentage over an "avaerage" weight for you to qualify. My best friend did not qualify within her Health Authority, but would have in the next one! However it is your right to ask to be refered, be blunt and to the point:

You are experiencing pain, your osteo/physio suspects it is caused by the weight of your brests. The pain is causing you to miss out on...... You would appreciate it if he/she wrote a referal to the local hospital. Thanks you for your time etc etc

Good luck

Oh they did a lift automatically on mine, perky as a perky thing they are, My gran was asking me the other day how I felt now, I said I no longer think about my breast and they used to be n my mind 24/7.

what is an average weight
mine are v heavy. When I had mammogram few yrs ago radiographer said they were tissue heavy not fatty heavy?
if these are not 60% above average I give up!!

Get a prescription for the canestan oral tablet or else get it over the counter (about a tenner). They work wonders. I am big of bust but not mahoosive and I used to suffer from thrush/fungal rash under my boobs. One treatment of the canestan oral tablet (and one for dh just to be safe) cleared up my thrush everywhere

Piffle, that's the thing about it being a lottery, many HAs use different deffantions of what is "average" weight! As a midwife I have helped thousands of women breastfeed so have a pretty good idea of what above average would look like, I would have put my friend in this catagory, however her HA didn't! She paid for the reduction herself as, with you, she had debilitating back and neck pain from the weight. She is delighted with the results, no longer has the pain and can now buy a bra on the high street (a huge bonus in her books)

Your GP should know the local criteria for exceptional treatment requests, so if she is very confident (and has used the procedure before) then you should be fine. My experience (a bit out of date now) of sitting on these panels is that if the GP makes a good case and provides good supporting evidence then you should be OK.

The reason why there is variation is because for legal reasons the NHS is not allowed to put a blanket ban on any treatment, so for treatment (like plastic surgery) that is not routinely available, covered through existing contracts between the PCT and a healthcare provider, a special procedure has to be put into place. This is the route your GPs request is going down. The PCT will be trying to keep these requests to a minimum, because they are an extra cost, which is difficult to manage (PCTs are under huge pressure to keep their costs down), but they will also need to be fair so as to avoid challenge. It is a bit of a balancing act, and I suspect some panels are much better at it than others (and some PCTs are much more financially challenged).

I hope it all goes well for you. I remember when I worked in breast screening seeing the pathology report where someone had been given a mammoplasty (reduction) as part of reconstructive surgery and the tissue removed weighed a kilogram! Made me very glad to have my tiny norks

oh our pct is under pressure cost wise. We shall see I guess....