Update:
Okay well I`m a week into my program now and I have good and bad news.
I`ll start with the good news first. I cut back my dosages of the herbs to hops x620mg per day and Fennel 960mg per day and have been adjusting to the herbs very well. I dont take the two togther-I take the hops and fennel at seperate times and have found inventive ways of sprinkling the capsules over my meals (I can`t swallow capsules). A week after my period and my boobs were still full and shapely and felt noticeably firmer, so I was well pleased.
Then last night-disaster struck.....
Had not been massaging so far so decided to try the Fengshui/Tigerlily method for the first time (it looked better than my original idea)......not for me. Because my right boob is noticeably smaller, I decided to just massage that one, to get it to "catch up" if you know what I mean. Was vigorous with my kneading and slapping and took about twently minutes doing the massage. I felt fine and used my lavender lotion. But afterwards, my breast looked a lot flatter.....yes flatter! I dont know why or how that happened, as it seems to do the opposite for most women but I lost a good bit of the fullness I had built up, after the massage. Given the fact that my right boob is a good bit smaller than my left anyway, it looked more prominent than ever now as the left one was still very full. So then decided, what the heck-may as well do the other one now too. So I massaged the larger right one. Again I was vigorous with the slapping /grabbing part as it states in the massage description-but I reckon I was *too* vigorous as I suddenly felt a stabbing pain in my breast in what felt like some of the glandular tissue (I can feel it under the skin) and the pain radiated underneath the centre of my breast nearly to the nipple wich makes me think I may have hit/damaged one of my milk ducts. I should have been more careful but guess I wasn`t thinking and just went too rough. So after all my hard efforts so far, I ended up with one smaller boob and one damaged one.......
The left breast still feels a little uncomfortable although the actualy stabbing pain I felt last night has mostly gone now, except when I press it.. I really really hope I didn`t do any serious damage to the breast/glandular tissue. I`ve been worrying all day.
So the long and short of it is-massage doesn`t work for me (maybe I`m a freak.....) so I`m cutting it out of my routine altogther.
I have been doing quite well with drinking my raspberry tea every day and milk and taking my vitamins, although I`ve missed a few things here and there.
But I`ll go back to the good stuff- I can definatly feel some hormonal action going on with my breasts. I`ve been getting tenderness and tingling which you would normally only expect at the time of the month so I`m sticking with the plan (minus the massage).
The next couple of elements I`ll be adding to my plan will be: Goat`s Rue, spearmint tea Collagen tablets and MSM.
Watch this space.
Rascherry
Okay well I`m a week into my program now and I have good and bad news.
I`ll start with the good news first. I cut back my dosages of the herbs to hops x620mg per day and Fennel 960mg per day and have been adjusting to the herbs very well. I dont take the two togther-I take the hops and fennel at seperate times and have found inventive ways of sprinkling the capsules over my meals (I can`t swallow capsules). A week after my period and my boobs were still full and shapely and felt noticeably firmer, so I was well pleased.
Then last night-disaster struck.....
Had not been massaging so far so decided to try the Fengshui/Tigerlily method for the first time (it looked better than my original idea)......not for me. Because my right boob is noticeably smaller, I decided to just massage that one, to get it to "catch up" if you know what I mean. Was vigorous with my kneading and slapping and took about twently minutes doing the massage. I felt fine and used my lavender lotion. But afterwards, my breast looked a lot flatter.....yes flatter! I dont know why or how that happened, as it seems to do the opposite for most women but I lost a good bit of the fullness I had built up, after the massage. Given the fact that my right boob is a good bit smaller than my left anyway, it looked more prominent than ever now as the left one was still very full. So then decided, what the heck-may as well do the other one now too. So I massaged the larger right one. Again I was vigorous with the slapping /grabbing part as it states in the massage description-but I reckon I was *too* vigorous as I suddenly felt a stabbing pain in my breast in what felt like some of the glandular tissue (I can feel it under the skin) and the pain radiated underneath the centre of my breast nearly to the nipple wich makes me think I may have hit/damaged one of my milk ducts. I should have been more careful but guess I wasn`t thinking and just went too rough. So after all my hard efforts so far, I ended up with one smaller boob and one damaged one.......
The left breast still feels a little uncomfortable although the actualy stabbing pain I felt last night has mostly gone now, except when I press it.. I really really hope I didn`t do any serious damage to the breast/glandular tissue. I`ve been worrying all day.
So the long and short of it is-massage doesn`t work for me (maybe I`m a freak.....) so I`m cutting it out of my routine altogther.
I have been doing quite well with drinking my raspberry tea every day and milk and taking my vitamins, although I`ve missed a few things here and there.
But I`ll go back to the good stuff- I can definatly feel some hormonal action going on with my breasts. I`ve been getting tenderness and tingling which you would normally only expect at the time of the month so I`m sticking with the plan (minus the massage).
The next couple of elements I`ll be adding to my plan will be: Goat`s Rue, spearmint tea Collagen tablets and MSM.
Watch this space.
Rascherry