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Just read up the last few pages of this thread and checked out the stage link. It is an excellent concise summary page. Thanks for the link. For me, way back on weaker herbs like FG, fennel, etc., I never got out of stage 1 despite having some general enlargement. I would say that within 2 months on PM (sorry just don't recall better detail) I was firmly in stage 2. I remember my nipples getting all puffy like the picture and staying that way for a long time. For quite a while, they were ridiculously expanded but the expansion was completely within the nipple. They were like that for at least 18 months, maybe more than two years. They still sometimes take that shape, but usually only when I am overly warm and never as rounded and enlarged as they once were. I have to say that during stage 2, I was less certain about what I was doing to myself, but everything I read when researching told me that stage was temporary so I toughed it out for the couple of years. My wife even told me she wasn't keen on them like that and she was glad when it changed. I am probably still in stage 3, since I don't seem to be having the pushing out of the nipples on top of the breasts as shown in the stage 4 illustration. But that's ok, because I'm fairly sure I don't want clothes-peg nipples anyway and never really did. I have no interest in lactation or nursing, and the appearance of protruding nipples on my own chest doesn't do anything for me sexually or emotionally. When they aren't puffy, I still have relatively masculine nipples which is how I like them. I know, I'm strange. Very very strange.