<p>This could be the next spanx! If you figure out the solution to the problem you can name it… Hell&Back !</p>
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<p>Continue to wear the bras that do not put pressure on the spot and do nothing. It will probably eventually go away.</p>
<p>I haven’t had affordable access to healthcare for years. (First, I had “insurance” with a 15K deductible, now I have none.) Over that time, I have had several painful conditions, all of which resolved without any medical attention.</p>
<p>I had significant hand pain due to scraping paint from our house. I sometimes could not turn the key in the ignition of the car, and couldn’t carry anything heavy in that hand. Now it is fine. No medical attention. I just stopped doing what caused the problem and waited.</p>
<p>I had what a physical therapist I know told me was probably an inflamed tail bone due to sitting on a chair that put pressure on it while working on the computer. It was acutely painful to rise from a sitting position, and I found it difficult to sit through a movie in some theaters. Now it’s fine. I got rid of the chair, and made an effort to sit up straight in a way that reduced pressure on the location. No medical attention.</p>
<p>In each case it took something like a year or more for the condition to fully disappear. But I have friends who have consulted doctors for various problems and they haven’t gotten relief, although they have spent plenty of $$.</p>
<p>I damaged nerves in my shoulder carrying a heavy purse. Now the first thing I look for in a handbag is it’s weight. I do not buy anything with hardware as it just adds to the burden of carrying the bag. I look at these young women carrying huge bags and think that someday they will be crippled by both their shoes, and huge purses.</p>
<p>I’m going back and forth between being envious of everyone’s “problems” and feeling lucky to be (much) less endowed. I guess we always want what we don’t have.</p>
<p>my first thought is if your bra straps hurt you- you have too much weight for them to support.
I got a breast reduction 10 years or so ago & I wish I had done it before. I didn’t even have pain, but my Dr suggested it ( she had, had it done). My insurance paid for it and although I still have to wear a bra ( I had told the surgeon I didn’t want to anymore), it is much easier to find bras and clothes that fit right.</p>
<p>I often wear camis with only a shelf bra, much more comfortable than underwire, which isn’t really good for us to wear too much because it blocks the lymph glands and can cause all kinds of problems.</p>
<p>Have you taken an over the counter anti-inflammatory like ibuprofin? 4x/day every day for some days</p>
<p>I did the dept. store prof. bra fitting several years ago and was amazed that I had been wearing the wrong size for years. The woman who fitted me also said that the straps of the bra should never be responsible (tight enough) for holding your bra up in place. That should be entirely taken care of by having the proper fit. She also told me that if you could pull the elastic in the back more than two inches away from your body that it was too loose and not supporting you correctly leading to more stress on the shoulders.</p>
<p>helenback…
I had a shoulder injury years ago from lugging around a heavy briefcase in NYC. Doc taught me an exercise that involved laying on a couch and stretching a dumbbell over my head. Worked like a charm. See your doc to find out if there’s something like that you could do. Ibuprofen and ice are also good ideas.
I am lucky enough to be small (lol…i really do consider this lucky), and I’ve taken to wearing camisoles with shelf bra. So comfy I can sleep in them. I have about ten. Love them!
Regarding yoga, I am a regular attendee at a local class, twice per week. Did wonders for a bad knee…better than weeks of physical therapy. But you do need to take it slow cause it’s possible to make things worse. We had a women who would snore during corpse pose too…lol…I always thought that would be embarrassing. For me, doing a long yoga class feels like a massage…and it’s cheaper.
Speaking of massage…that’s another very good alternative. Did wonders for a stiff neck I had years ago.
And throw those bras out!</p>
<p>Oh, helenback, poor you!
We had a discussion at work recently about how most women, when properly measured, realize that they are wearing bras SEVERAL sizes too small. I am not at all well-endowed but my proper size was two number sizes and one cup size larger than what I was wearing.<br>
I get nice smooth, seamless-looking bras with light underwire at Target, for 14.99 (10.99 on sale) – Gillian O’Malley or something like that? Never put them in the dryer, and replace before they get too raggedy (which you can when they are cheap).
Also – see if your doctor can give you a scrip for a physical therapist. I had ongoing neck pain, and a chiropractor did squat, but the PT cleared it up in a couple of months. You just have to commit to doing some easy exercises and stretches at home between sessions.<br>
Good luck!!</p>
<p>Oh, to be able to wear a camisole with a shelf bra without looking like a hooker…</p>
<p>I really can’t fathom women getting breast implants to make them bigger–unless they’re filled with helium. Why would you want to haul those around? </p>
<p>I think the problem with a regular bra is that the strap sits in a little groove where the trapezius muscle thins out before it hits the shoulder joint. The new racer back bra strap sits more across the muscle, and the straps are much wider so it’s infinitely more comfortable. </p>
<p>Also I was definitely wearing the wrong size. I measured myself a bunch of times and then ordered the racerback bras online from Land’s end because they were in the overstock section so they were really cheap–which is what kills me about those other bras–close to $80 each. Maybe that’s why I was so slow to realize the bra was the problem–I was in bra denial. They did look great under a t-shirt–but you have to weigh that against the cost of having a functional right arm. </p>
<p>I am going to get the doctor to send me to a physical therapist, because I think that muscle has shortened itself in response to the constant pressure. I have a groove I can still feel after not wearing the evil bra for four days.</p>
<p>And it is very embarassing to be snoring in yoga, but not as embarassing as passing gas, which I also did once. Completely mortifying. We did have a woman in her seventies who would just fart relentlessly and it didn’t seem to bother her at all. Perhaps this is one of the joys of aging, so we’ve got that to look forward to in our later years. </p>
<p>And I would love to be taking ibuprofen but I’m not supposed to take it with my other medicine I take for polycystic ovary syndrome.</p>
<p>While we’re at it…any good suggestions for snoring? So unladylike but definitely a legacy for women in my family once we reach a certain age. I learned to sleep through my husband’s but he is not having such an easy time with mine…and it is not like you can do much once you’re asleep…because you are asleep!</p>
<p>Helenback, get better soon! Shoulder injuries are really a pain in the rear! Lugging around a heavy purse did it for me. Upon my doctor’s advice, as soon as pain went away, I started doing rubber tubing stretches (I had plenty of tubing from D’s swimming days), then switched to free weights. I hope I get enough muscle tissue to replace some of the fat tissue in the breast area to support the rest of it. And I really don’t get breast implants either, unless they are needed for reconstructive surgery.</p>
<p>mmaah–do you sleep on your side? If you can train yourself to sleep on your side, then the snoring should lessen considerably. I’m regularly shoving my husband to get him on his side because then his snoring is very light or absent. I have heard that you can sew a tennis ball into the middle of the back of a t-shirt to train yourself–or dh–to sleep on your side. I haven’t tried it because my husband doesn’t sleep in a t-shirt, and he sleeps so soundly that he could probably sleep with a tennis ball in his back without even noticing. </p>
<p>BunsenBurner, keep me posted on your weight lifting results. I’d love to get rid of some of the fat in my breasts, but then I wonder if I’d be tucking my breasts into my knee socks. :)</p>
<p>There are a couple of bras that have built in “petals” They would solve the nip problem,
and the staps are not so wide that they would hurt you. </p>
<p>You might be able to find a racer back bra with petals.</p>
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<p>LOL. My husband is asking, “what’s so funny?” Thanks for that. Laughing is good.</p>
<p>we have a gas passer in our yoga class too. Funny…no one says a word when it happens.<br>
Hey, it might be me in a few years…
Oh…and I laugh when other women worry about showing cleavage (at the office for example). Cleavage? The closest I ever got was with one of those funny “push up” bras that squeeze the “girls” together. Looked weird though…so I only wore it once!</p>
<p>Many years ago I went on a diet. I was to eat foods high in fiber; I was really excited about this diet and I started off with a bang (pun intended).</p>
<p>Little did I know high fiber foods should be added slowly to give the body time to adjust.</p>
<p>I was a professional CPA and I was (loudly) passing gas at the most inopportune times all through the day. I was mortified :eek: to say the least.</p>
<p>I believe Liz Lemon on 30 Rock said something about eating handfuls of raisin bran to stay awake during writing marathons and she said,“and that’s why I get to ride the fart train to work every morning.”</p>
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I wouldn’t look like a hooker; I’d look like Aunt Jemima. I had my first ever real bra fitting last week (and I’m over 50). It turns out that I wear a cup size I had never even heard of before (I thought DDD was as high as they went and that you just had to buy bigger band sizes if you needed more than that). My mom was always telling me I needed to buy “good” bras and I assured her that I bought the most heavy-duty ones that Wal-mart sells (and sadly, that’s the absolutely truth). When the woman hooked me up (haha!) with this new bra, I seriously wanted to cry. It felt so good and right, and I had no idea a bra could actually feel comfortable and hold everything up. Both of my sisters have had breast reductions, but I doubt I’ll ever break down and do it, though my dr. did recommend it.</p>
<p>On a related note, I have a pajama dilemma. Because of the size issue, I can’t come strolling out of my bedroom in my pj’s. We live in the south and it’s mostly always too hot to wear long-sleeved robes (and almost all robes are long sleeved). The only short sleeve zip up robes I’ve found are designed for old ladies in nursing homes. What do you guys do about looking decent in your jammies?</p>
<p>I wear 100% cotton “jogging” bras under jammies when I am visiting family or I am going to “appear” in my kitchen in my sleep clothes. They pull on. They are comfortable. they do not have lycra (altho you CAN buy them with lycra). They also come in nylon, but that gives me more hot flashes. They come in plus sizes if you know where to shop and need a larger size. I like two piece pajamas with a cotton top (T-shirt material) and a drawstring pant (almost like a scrub pant, but not those low wasted ones the kids wear) in a capri length when I am in jammies “in public.” They also come in plus sizes. Liz makes them, Nautica makes them, and I frequently find both brands at TJ Maxx or Marshalls or during outlet shopping. I wear an L/XL, but I have found them for my sister in as big as 3X.</p>
<p>And helen, you can but these “daisy” inserts and put them in the bra and they cover the nipples. They do come in a variety of sizes, including plus sizes.</p>