[PoisonIvy]

I almost forgot that I had to stop using the tape the other day because I keep breaking out in a rash from it. I tend to react like that to tape if I get blood drawn or anything too so I should have expected it. I'll have to come up with a new method as right now I'm not doing anything to it. I'm not overly concerned right now though because I do want it to proportionally catch up to it's big sister, but it will be a bigger deal to me as I get closer.

Anyways, I'm practically destroying the look of my skin at this point, but I'm still going to do my pushing through it experiment because the swelling is too good to pass up. It doesn't hurt or anything and I'm not even doing a lot gauge wise so I feel like my skin is just being annoying. I got 1/2 of an inch of swelling right after my first session today. 1/2 an inch when I'm only doing 1 breast and it's already so small so it looks noticeably different. It's obviously not growth as it was completely gone when I woke up and measured this morning and it's only been 1 1/2 ish weeks anyways so I'm not expecting growth, but I do feel like the swelling is a good sign that it should eventually turn into growth if I can keep it up for a long time.  I'm still trying to push through it since it doesn't hurt to try to get myself up to that magical -5 eventually. Lots of heat. And I'm putting on Arnica at night as of last night which I do think gets rid of more of my swelling overnight (but I could just be imagining it as swelling would probably disappear overnight regardless) but I also think the discoloration went away faster. So I guess I'll be the guinea pig for girls in the future who have this problem to see if the pushing through it (because I know I'm not actually overpumping and it doesn't hurt during or after and  my skin is just overreacting) w/ lots of extra TLC works to get them up to the gauge and swelling they need for growth. Either my pushing through it theory will work or my breast skin will look terrible.