Nov 16, 2012 01:48PM Kimmysu wrote:

Hi all!  Just browsing this forum because I have been in the process of ordering some new Silicone forms.  My first set was too big, so i went down. (A 6 to a 5) which I later decided were also too big.  So I started wearing just the cups that fit inside genie bras and bathing suits and sport dresses, etc.  Occasionally I switch to wear a Nearly Me sport inset, size 3 (a B cup) but the squatty triangle shape makes me feel like I have saggy boobs. (sigh) anyway, going to try an oval from trulife, size 4.  this is supposed to be a B cup.  I'll let you know how it works if anyone is wondering, ie trying to find the right fit for them.

But I am mainly writing today to say that I found some pretty, pocketed camis from Classique, which I ordered through liberator medical and which will be billed to my insurance through liberator as bras. 

While I'm here, does anyone have a set of silicone forms they just love?  how about leisure foams they can run in in work out rooms that do not pop out of their sports bras?  how about favorite mastectomy sports bras?  I am going back to work in January and will need (for my own self-confidence) to look the same at work as i do in the hotel gym.  (I travel alot, and my collegues and i often find ourselves in the gym at the same time.  I just want to look consistent, so i'll need gym boobs.)

the joys of cancer never fade!

Thanks all, and God bless!

Kimberly

Nov 16, 2012 04:28PM FernMF wrote:

After a week of UNCOMFORTABLE at work, so much so that it was to a "pain" level by the time I got home, TODAY, I WENT INTO THE RESTROOM AT WORK AND REMOVED MY FOOBS, and CAMISOLE. . . . NO ONE HAS NOTICED - of course, there are not many people on this floor on a friday afternoon (I work at a law firm, ha ha) and the ones that are here are male and wouldn't say anything (I work in a labor & employment law litigation defense department, ha ha ha ha) . . . FLAT might work with some outfits . . . AHHHHHHH if feels better, that is for sure.  I think I'm going to try and find micro beads and soft fabric and make my old softy foobs - the ones on line that I have found cost $50 each . . . come on, it can't be THAT expensive to make!!!!

Nov 16, 2012 05:56PM - edited Nov 16, 2012 05:59PM by erica

Barbara (Starak),

There are several online sites which carry the Still You camisole: the Still You website (http://stillyou.com -- they call the cami the Still You Post-Surgery Top); Make Me Heal (http://www.makemeheal.com/mmh/product.do?id=13672 --they call the cami the Hope Tank Top); and the Women's Personal Health Resource (http://www.womanspersonalhealth.com/still-you-mastectomy-camisoletank-top -- they call it the Still You Mastectomy Camisole Tank Top). So, the same top known by a variety of names. I first saw it at the Dana Farber Friends Boutique, so it is carried in some stores, too.

As you can see, it is expensive (around $68), but I truly have my original Still You camis, purchased in 2006. I machine wash them but always dry them flat. Once I accidentally left one in the drier and it came out okay, just a tad smaller and with a little bit of pilling. If you don't make that mistake, they can last in excellent condition for a really long time.

Nov 16, 2012 06:14PM - edited Nov 16, 2012 06:18PM by erica

Barbara (Starak),

Regarding the nipples, I tried out silicone nipples and I have to say they just looked weird and wrong on my flat chest. And they definitely didn't do anything for my DH, though he thought it was an interesting experiment. But what does work for him is when I wear breast forms with fairly prominent nipples. As he puts it, male brains are programmed to be aroused by the shape of a woman's breast, doesn't matter if it's a silicone foob or the real thing. And he definitely gets turned on by touching the nipples of the foobs. Sorry if this is TMI, but I think it's good to share this stuff. While I'm sharing, I must admit that I get turned on when he touches my foob nipple, even though I can't feel it--just knowing he's doing it triggers those old nerve pathways in the brain, which was a very pleasant surprise to me after my mastectomy, as my breasts had always been such an important part of my sex life. To be honest, if I touch my foob nipple myself, that arouses me, too,

I should add that my wonderful DH doesn't need me to wear breast forms in order to get aroused. He does just fine with my body as it currently is and, in fact, likes touching my flat chest. That's the one thing I feel a bit shy about, even though I have no shyness about him seeing my flat chest. So, sometimes, for my sake as much as for his, I wear breast forms in a nice bra when I want to be intimate. 

Barbara

Nov 16, 2012 11:14PM Outfield wrote:

I would have loved a flat-fest, but I'm just so far away from most of you.  Well, not as far as greenfrog and Momine.  

Starak, I experimented with temporary nipple tattoos.  

The ones that are available are I think more meant to be used on reconstructed breasts because they're big - areola and nipple about the same diameter as my real ones were.  Male areolas just aren't that size.  The location is also different.  A very flat woman who just happened to be very flat would have nipples higher than a man's are in relation to the crease at the bottom of the breast.   This I know because in frustration, not wanting to get nothing out of my visit, I asked bad PS #1 where my nipples should go if I were to do something to create pseudo-nipples.  She measured upward from the crease, marked a location, and told me she thought it would look strange.  I wasn't actually considering nipples then, I was considering piercings (still think about that, but would feel very stupid having put a hole in my body if I developed an infection, because my neutrophil count never recovered after chemo).  Anyway, male nipples are much closer to the crease, further down on the breast.

Maybe I'll find the tattoos, play with them again, and take a picture.  They were not too terribly expensive and they were applied exactly the same as all the animals, race cars, ghosts, etc that I have put on my kids.

Have to add this, because of what Alexandria said.  I'm in healthcare.  Not only do I have patient after patient tell me about some loved one's breast cancer without any apparent hint of awareness that they are speaking to a woman with no boobs, I have had medical professionals with whom I work fail to notice.  I believe them, because it generally comes up when they say something that prompts me to mention that I had cancer, which I don't hide, and they are genuinely surprised.  I really think very few people are very observant.   

I also think I look just fine, but that's kind of a different issue.