Happy with natural large breasts?

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I'm wondering if it's possible to be large breasted and pain free. I'm seriously considering breast reduction because I can't get properly fitted for a bra by either R&B or Bravissimo. The pain caused by wearing a bra is seriously impacting on my quality of life. Are there any positive similar experiences out. I'm a 36J.

I'm a 32 GG and I'm slim!

I've recently bought some really lovely balcony bras from debenhams own range. I also like Freya.

I'm 32g, no pain but now a devotee of local independent bra shop. My first Empreinte bra was £80 but still going strong a year on, keeps my boobs in the most flattering place and looks so delicate. Best £80 I ever spent.

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My mum wears Empreinte and they look great.

Whilst crushing your ribs is a little excessive, for most people with larger breasts it is necessary for the band to be snug. There are exceptions - generally the smallest band sizes who might not have much padding on their ribs so need a size up for comfort. But, someone who measures 32" and needs say a K cup, instead wearing maybe a 36J would almost certainly get back problems as a result as too much of the weight would be on the shoulders, causing the wearer to hunch slightly. That's not a case of needing a better constructed bra but a natural result of the weight of the breasts. No matter how good the cups are if the band is too loose then the back will suffer in the long run.

Because bras stretch quite fast, I normally find my first wear of a new bra a bit niggly but after that it's firm, but not tight IYSWIM.

The difference between a G and a J is vast. I used to be a G pre-kids. The range of styles and general fit is way better for a G. Lots of "bigger" bras stop at G

I get loads of in-between shoulder pain with JJ

I am starting to think about asking for a reduction- and before anyone says "lose some weight" - if I lose 1.5stone I go to a 28K which is an impossible size.

WTAF???!! I am careering towards the menopause! I am 5'3 with JJ. If they get any larger.......

I'm a 36H, no pain, happy with my boobs.

omg at the menopause news i thought i was at 'peak breast'

op, i would definitely try a tighter bra and see if it helps. hope the botox can help too.

i read somewhere today that fat composition of breasts ranges from under 10% to over 50% so i guess that accounts for the range of weightloss experiences on here. as you age it changes to more fat as well apparently . i like to think of mine as my famine survival kit bit like a camel mine must be almost pure lard as with a bmi of 18 i think i was only a c or d cup. bmi 24 was a g cup. now bmi maybe 26 and a hh. i am preparing for the end of days

I'm a 34 G, developed at age of 13. Have had chronic back problems since age of 19 which I'm sure is due to carrying so much weight on my chest.

However feel very reluctant to have breast reduction surgery so am just living with it. It's a pain to find clothes that fit but bras are much better than they were ten years ago!

Statistically YY to firm but not digging. My bony 28/30 bruises at "too tight" but I have permanent dents in my shoulders from my days of thinking I was 32/34 DD.

And don't get me started on "sister sizes" when you're a narrow chested big busted woman ... The cup on a 34dd might look like my current G cup, but I'd sag like a sack of wet sand with that band.

I am pain free, 34G. I get bras from Rigby and Peller and Bravissimo.

If I wore my chest measurement I'd be a 28G, but I'm not prepared to wear something that tight. Discomfort round my ribs to ease my shoulders is just exchanging one problem for another.

But mine aren't huge, just largish.

I've found that where the strap sits on your shoulders makes a big difference to support: too many bras the straps sit quite far towards the edges of your shoulders, and I find the ones with the best support sit midway between neck and shoulders and come down towards the middle of the cups - straps that come down the very sides of the breasts hold them the least well. But it depends on the shape of your breasts. The construction of the front makes a big difference too how the weight of the breasts are held.

Those issues don't exist in isolation unfortunately - often straps slipping off the shoulders is because the band is too loose. Way back when I used to wear a 34 I was plagued with slidey strap syndrome but when I went down in the band it vanished.

There are people who need a bigger band than they measure, or a smaller band - but on average wearing your measurement is right.

I was 34G pre-pregnancy and now my nursing bras are 34J! I'm hoping once I stop BF-ing they'll go back to normal & not look like spaniel ears! I've no hope, have I?

I'm a 34G.

The best, most comfortable bra I own is a Rigby+Peller one, bought new from ebay. Best. Buy. Every. I am going to wear this bra to death - shame that black does not go under everything.

I am hankering after a Primadonna Deauville

I'm a 36j too but don't get pain.

It sounds like you had really poorly fitting bras because I have a 34 and the straps simply cannot fall off the shoulders despite the fact the band is a bit loose, because they come nowhere near the edges. But some people's shoulders slope more than others.

Shoulder straps falling down are a classic sign of the band being too wide and the cups too small.

And afaik the 'large breasts = back pain' theory is controversial too, isn't it??

OP, have you ever been fitted in a good specialist lingerie shop?

www.healthline.com/health/fitness-exercise/breasts-causing-upper-back-pain-myth

42f. Abandoned underwires years ago. My advice is to go and have a proper fitting.larger department stores. I find the ugly sounding 'doreen' stucturally and comfort wise ..but very ugly. Not sexy at all.but creates no pain or backaches chaffi g or shoulder cutting.

Does anyone remember those bras that didn't have underwire but instead half the cup itself was rigid moulded plastic? Amazingly comfortable but rather alarming to be able to knock on your knockers.

Sorry but my back pain isn't a myth. I had chronic sciatica at the age of 19. Had to leave college as I couldn't sit down, I was in so much pain, had to walk with a stick and had to have traction in hospital for 3 weeks. Sure it's different for everyone but I can't think of any other reason I was so disabled at such a young age apart from the weight I was carrying on my chest. Please don't discount my experience. I doubt it would have happened to a young man my own age.

Oh gosh, nobody is saying that anybody's back pain is a myth, just that big breasts are not necessarily to blame. Statistics don't support it, but that says nothing for an individual.
Don't want to derail the thread, but a lot is to do with the fact that humans are not really designed to walk on 2 legs (yet we all do), often have poor core strength and therefore poor posture - all of which is even more difficult when one also carries the weight of large breasts.

I grew up in fabulous non-underwired cotton bras - Triumph don't make them any more and they were fabulous: so comfortable AND so supportive. I really don't like underwires but don't seem to find anything I like without home now.

I wasn't talking about straps falling off the shoulders, I simply said that straps that come further in give better support, which is not the same thing.

The Doreen is bloody amazing.. and very ugly.. I only have one, but my husband says it has a kind of MadMen 50s chic.