[PoisonIvy]

I really hope mine are as 'easy' to repair with NBE as they were with surgery. Well not as easy of course, but at least almost as 'easy' as it is for someone with normal breasts. 

My breasts are asymmetrical and side-set, too, but they are also conical, the small one at least. But I can create cleavage by pushing mine together.

I don't know if you have taken a lot at the normal breasts gallery? It made me feel better about myself: normal breasts

I wish I could feel productive when using my laptop, I always feel so lazy sitting here, like I'm not doing anything.

Even with an airlock I still don't feel like moving around when I am pumping.

I will definitely check out your other thread to find out more about your experience with the aquarium valve!

Sorry to hear you gained 2 pounds. I've lost 3 without trying, but I don't trust this just yet. Sometimes you retain water and other times you are dehydrated.

I took measurements not too long ago, but I don't think there is a point in doing so for me as I plan on losing weight (which makes my big breast smaller) and want my small breast to grow. And I'll lose weight faster than I can get my small breast to grow, so if anything, the number is going to decrease. I haven't taken pictures in a while because I always feel it's just another confirmation for how deformed I look (and if I don't take them, it's not so 'real' maybe? Stupid I know). I will definitely take pics before I start going to the gym again (still haven't gone).

Have you thought about a professional taking your measurements? If you explain your problem to them, they might be able to help you out.

I haven't seen your pictures, but I think most people really don't notice unless you tell them. It's not like you stand straight in front of people in a bikini in which case they might be able to tell, but other than that, it's in our heads that the first thing people notice about us are the things we don't want them to notice. 
My left eye is much worse than my right eye, I always think that this is related to my left breast being much smaller than my right one, too. My left side must be pretty weak, very bad vision and it can't even grow a boob lol.

It's ok if you don't massage if you don't feel like it's doing anything for you. I use massages mainly to prepare my breast for the pumping and to firm the skin on the other one a bit.

Congrats on your areola growth! I'm glad that it makes you feel so much better about yourself already!

I'll keep my fingers crossed for 24 hours straight this upcoming Friday 

Thanks for the gallery link. It made me feel a bit better about myself as well.

For the most part I feel like I can be pretty productive while on a computer, but the super long morning sessions do feel like they are making me feel less productive because while most of the stuff I need to do is on the computer I feel chained to laying down. I have yet to fit in a single workout since I transitioned to doing 7 hours a day. I'll have to rearrange my schedule and be super on top of not getting distracted early in the day to try to fix this. The night sessions aren't really a problem because it's not like I'm necessarily being that productive late at night anyways. The main things that are annoying me is that I have struggled to fit in a workout and I haven't really cleaned. Everything else the productivity is about the same. There are some things that I'll fit in the gaps between the morning and night session too, but I've noticed I don't really like to do physical activity in the afternoon (like cleaning or working out) which is where the gap between my morning and nighttime session is. Which means if I want to workout or clean I'd have to do it before my morning session which would mean getting up earlier, and so yeah it just hasn't really happened. When I'd normally workout or clean is during the hours I do my morning session is and my motivation or energy to do those things tends to drop off in the afternoon.

I'm happy for you that you lose 3lbs. I'm the same way when it comes to weight and not wanting to call it early. I'm doing the same thing with my growth where I'm not really calling any of it permanent. It's such a big let down when you think you really lost weight or got growth only for it to change later, so I always prefer to wait to call it real too. I'm the same with the measurements. While I'm not expecting it to change much, it would still be a let down to see the number on the tape measure go down. I'll probably get a professional bra fitting when I'm my goal size. I'm super paranoid about photos. I think that's why I haven't taken them. It's not like I'm famous or anything where someone will want to hack me but I always think about all of those famous people who had their phone or computer hacked and it freaks me out even though I'm a nobody and there's no reason someone would want to do that lol. I put a photo on here once when I first started but later on down the line I wanted to take the photo down and it wouldn't let me take the photo out when I edited it. I do notice that after a certain amount of time a lot of the old photos on threads here have disappeared including mine which made me happy. I've gotten a lot more paranoid since that time though haha. 

I think I've actually figured out how to tell the permanence with the areola thing. At first I didn't get how it could get swelling because it didn't make sense to me. I finally figured out what I was noticing when it would grow and then shrink some w/pumping. You know how areolas are generally pretty wrinkly? Well after pumping they stretch out so they look bigger because the wrinkles flatten out  completely almost like if you were to iron something. After not pumping for several hours they get wrinkly again and therefore retract. So when I wake up in the morning and they are wrinkly again I feel like that is a pretty good indicator that that is the size they really are. When I wake up and they are wrinkly they are still a bit bigger than my starting size, so I'm fairly certain that they have grown a little bit permanently. Even though the actual new size in the morning doesn't really make me feel much better they do seem to really be growing and I didn't realize how much the areolas getting bigger improved the appearance of it. Hopefully what I wake up with most days as far as my breasts go is permanent as well, but I'm not very confident in that like I am with the areola thing. I guess I'll find out on Friday though if they continue to shrink during the day after missing my morning session.