[PoisonIvy]

Is not getting your period ok for your body while you are on that specific kind of BC? I heard that not getting your period can cause osteoporosis or even infertility, but that's the case when you are not getting your period because something is wrong, I have no idea whether it's different when you are on BC?

Were the first few months a lot worse than before in terms of the duration of the pain and everything or was it not longer and just stronger on one or two days? Do you have to get your IUD replaced regularly? I should look into that, not having periods while still being healthy if that's the case, sounds good! :-) 

Sorry to hear about your sports bra (R.I.P.), at least now you know how it shouldn't be done. I was wondering if maybe a bra that is huge on you would work, just big enough to fit the dome inside. You could just wear that or wear your sports bra with the hole in it underneath (for your bigger breast) and then put on the xl bra to hold the dome in place.

Areolas should grow, but I've read about people being worried their areolas were gonna grow from pumping and most of them stated that they didn't after all. But since one of our areolas, the one on the bigger breast, is bigger, too, the same should happen once our smaller breast catches up, no? Sounds logical to me.

Pumping while you are awake definitely sounds like the safer option. I kept waking up when trying to sleep with the dome anyway as I was moving in my sleep.

The one I was using was actually pretty cheap. It was Eveline mezo push-up 4D, something like that. But you're right, I haven't heard from anyone who has grown from it alone, either.

I have no idea how I managed to sit there with the dome on for 7 or 8 hours straight. I was on my laptop and for some reason time just flew by that day. If I had to do that every day, I'd definitely start hating it in no time. I attached the pump from time to time either because I had lost suction or because I felt my breast could deal with it. By the time I was done, my breast was really swollen, but it wasn't significantly more swelling than I had achieved with 2 hour sessions before. It did feel heavy which I liked of course. The dome had left an obvious mark around my breast, but that was gone the next day. I wouldn't say that the swelling lasted that much longer than it does after a regular session, either.

The osteroporosis thing is when women have hysterectomies or their ovaries removed and not because of not getting their period but because their body doesn't produce the necessary hormones anymore. Which would have happened when they went into menopause anyways. So that is basically because of any early menopause causing them to not produce the necessary hormones and things like estrogen (in the right amounts of course because if hormonal problems ever taught me anything it's that balance is key and too far in either direction is bad). I have endometriosis though so not having my period is really good for me. It needs to be replaced every 5 years. I think I had a slightly worse time though because they struggled to fit it in and actually had to dilate my cervix. Some people don't have nearly that rough of a time though and it's not that much more painful than a pap smear for them and so it seems like there is a huge variation the adjustment period is like for people. 
See, I think that's why I was concerned about the areolas but you are right in that it might just be that their areolas wouldn't have been bigger regardless of how they grew. Some people have huge areolas and some people have areolas that are barely even there. It might just be the case where those people just naturally have smaller areolas. 
I feel like I'm already getting impatient and it's only been three weeks. It's actually kind of depressing me but I think that's because since I started noogling I check my breasts like 40 times a day to see the difference between them and because of that the difference seems much larger than normal. I think I just need to start taking pictures once a month instead of relying on my eyes and checking constantly. I didn't think initially it was necessary at the moment to take pictures because I'm only doing my small breast so I felt like it would be obvious if it started to look more like my bigger breast or not, but now I disagree. I actually think my breast difference is much larger than I thought. It's hard to measure my small one  though but my theory now is that it's an AA, and with my big one being a B even if it's a smaller B the difference is pretty obvious. The depressing part about that is that if it's an AA that means I'd have to gain 2 cup sizes just to be even. I think part of my impatience doesn't have to do with wanting them to grow quickly to a different size bra as much as that by looking at the difference so frequently it depresses me how asymmetrical they are so I just want them to quickly be symmetrical or something.