(11-08-2024, 01:35 AM)huckleberrywine Wrote: A few others I've added: Flax, both oil and ground seed, fennel seeds, green and spearmint teas, soy milk, organic Reishi and red clover. I'm impressed how much they've grown!
Thanks- Things to add to my list. In stages. I'm still trying to do as much reading as I can get in, and make sense of what seems more and more complicated, the more I read.
While I'd love to just order some estrogen and progesterone creams, that's not something I can cover with any sort of excuse, and my partner would on the one hand, be very amused if I got titties, but also very unamused if she thought I was intentionally growing titties. I have to do this with supplements with other health benefits.
So I'm already taking my Saw Palmetto, Hops and Melatonin (does as good as Trazodone for sleep). I'm using the heck out of Tea Tree and Lavender essential oils- a lot of spare moments massaging them into the potential girls- and I'm planning to add Fenugreek and White Peony. Those both have a plethora of health benefits that I can use, quite apart from the slight chance I could actually trigger gynecomastia.
And then whole milk products, all the soy I can get hold of without attracting attention (we've spent too many years making fun of soy milk for me to bring it in the house now!), things like that. The only medicine I take regularly is omeprazole- I'm going to try switching to cimetidine for a while, simply because while both have a vanishingly low risk of male breast growth as a side-effect, H2 antagonists have a much better chance than PPIs and I could probably do with a break on the PPI anyway. That's one reason the doc in a box likes doing regular blood work on me, is long term PPI use. So we'll go tagamet for a while.
Just a lot of little things, not taken to excess, in the hopes of triggering something. Probably won't, but you never know. I don't intend to add any more to this regimen for a while:
SP (at the supplement recommended dosage)
WP (ditto)
Fenugreek (ditto)
Hops (definitely ditto I have sleep issues and I need room to take a higher dose if insomnia returns)
Tea Tree and Lavender oils
If there are any contraindications that anyone knows of that combo, I'd like to hear them.
And I already know not to expect much- just this is my comfort level for now. Just gentle nudging is all I'm able to do at this time. I'll also add some of that list you put down- I've been thinking about switching to green tea, the spearmint has caught my eye before now although spearmint
tea wasn't something that'd occurred to me. The fennel and flax seem doable- as my budget allows, I can't do a whole lot of spending on stuff but I intend to do what I feel I can justify for other health benefits.
Soy milk- Lord help me, bringing soy milk in the house would be nearly as embarrassing as being caught with estrogen cream. We don't even use margarine- we're a real butter, if it doesn't come from a tittie it's not milk household. I'll have to stick with whole milk and hope for some of them fat-soluble moo-cow estrogens. I may as well not come home if I were to bring soy milk past the doorway.
If I had my way about it, I'd be using the hormone creams, but I don't, so this is what I'm doing for now. I think with my weight and belly, I can easily get away with a B-cup, and that's my goal. I can hide those in plain sight and folks will just assume that it happened and not that it's intentional. For years I've had fatty deposits up top, even when I was weighing a good deal less. Measuring tape test says I'm already close to an A-cup, though you wouldn't think so to look at them- I don't trust myself with that method and think I'm really still very much in the AA range which doesn't say much. Depending on how I take the measurements, I get anywhere from a half-inch to almost an inch difference on band/bust. But that's mostly, if not all, pseudogynecomastia, and I badly want to start budding to the point of I know for sure it's actual breast tissue. I really want them B cups. I used to have my titties pieced, and my nipples are large and eternally perky- but it's time to get some firm meat behind them.