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transgendered (TG) persons. Follow the journey of Amber,
a post-transition MTF TS.
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I was told it'll be months, and truthfully it probably will. I'm
hoping that it'll be months. Then why does it seem so soon?
Ow.
It is Day 14 since estradiol was added to my meager regiment and I'm
in pain. Actually the pain really began sometime around Day 6 or so,
but it has really started to get annoying in the past 72 hours. You
guessed it: the chest region is developing. Hundreds of cells being
generated each day forming that thick core which will later become
breast tissue. Glands forming. And annoying nerves coming
alive.
*itch* *itch*
Ow...
Lots of people talk about breasts and how wonderful they are to get.
I don't belong to that camp. I find them less significant and they
get in the way of, say, squeezing through tight spaces and
working under your car---though I've never worked on mine. I say
that if I get anything then I'll be happy. Like I've said
other places, I'm Asian and I'm likely not to be larger than an A
and that's just fine with me. But they are low priority.
What I really want is some hips and help in thinning my waist which
has begun building that "tire" just above the navel. I want this
because then it will balance out my overall shape and body weight
distribution. Clothes look better with hips; you look really
unbalanced if you have large breasts with no hips. I know the
"hourglass" shape is going to be hard to achieve but that's what I
want. And yet these things on my chest are now going off
like alarms.
From the looks of it the cores are forming and the areolas are
getting more swollen by the day. I have quite a bit of pectoral
muscle which used to give me a more dome-like chest shape. Well,
that's now starting to
give way to more cone-like shapes. Even when flexing
the muscles you can see the underlying structures moving but
the cone-like additions don't really move or change. They just
sort of stick out as if saying to me "nyah, nyah, you can't hide
me!" Well, maybe it's not that bad but it's only a matter of
time.
*sigh*
Ugh.
I was and am still hoping the order of events will make sure I
don't develop much before the end of the year. I really wasn't
planning on transitioning fully until next year due to financial
and housing arrangements. Plus, there's still some issues to
work out with parents, friends, and employment. I don't want
to have this to be too noticable even when my chest is bound.
If I had the choice, I'd schedule the order of physical development
as:
waist
hips
muscles
face
breasts
I've been told that progesterones really promote mammary ductal
growth; maybe by not taking them we can stave off that portion of
breast development for a while? Maybe the growth will slow down
in a bit so I can still get away with no binding.
I guess we'll see where things go...