Breast swelling and bodily bloating
Swelling is an indication of a balance of high amounts of corticosteroids in the body. Bodily bloating, face puffiness, feet puffiness, breast puffiness, breast swelling and breast swelling shape are also types of swelling. Swelling isn't breast growth, while it's easily to be mistaken for it. What's described as breast fullness is usually growth, but may not always be. Here are images to help determine breast swelling, swelling shape and other swelling/bloating.
Veins may show up more during breast swelling.
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Lowering swelling
Breast swelling and bodily bloating must be lowered gradually, because the body can only process a limited amount of hormones and hormone metabolites at a time.
Menses
For menses, the focus is to slowly lower brown spotting, and to reduce menstruation intensity. It's easy to cause a hormone imbalance here. When there's swelling for this phase, it's better to wait for proliferative phase. 1 sunflower seed can be used at a time, no sooner than every hour, to help reduce swelling. Cramping and headache may easily occur from sunflower seed use.
Nonmenses phase
The recommendation to lower breast swelling and bodily bloating for proliferative phase, luteal phase and BCP-like phase is similar. When there's breast swelling or breast swelling shape, take between 6 to 12 sunflower seeds no sooner than every hour, until hip growth or breast fullness occurs. More sunflower seed than that can interrupt the menstrual cycle. By using 6 sunflower seed at a time, all you need to know is whether it's nonmenses phase, regardless of whether it's proliferative, ovulation or luteal.
The intermediatary time around menses and early proliferative phase may want to be treated like menses, to use less sunflower seeds at a time for swelling.
During, the time of late premenstrual, there are often combined swelling/bloating with estrogenic symptoms. Continue with the recommendations for lowering swelling during nonmenses, but use minimal primarily phytoprogestin when excessive estrogenic symptoms occur.
Using proliferative phase to find reference point of no to negligble swelling
At the beginning of proliferative phase, phytoprogestin reserve must first be established, either through taking primarily progestins, or by possible existence of swelling already present. After that, to chart future indication of swelling: 12 (6 if for any time of nonmenses) sunflower seeds no sooner than every 5 minutes will be taken until the first estrogenic symptoms occur for this phase. The first signs of estrogenic symptoms is breast elongation and body temperature cooling. This is to improve the reference point to indicate the absence of swelling. So once this is done, it doesn't have to be done again, unless you become unsure in the future. Even when there are no obvious signs of swelling, proliferative phase could be used to occasionally check to see if there's minimal swelling which could be further minimized.
Then, progestin reserve by taking primarily phytoprogestins must be used. For each proliferative phase, estrogenic respose should not be started more than once. Once it starts, eat primarily phytoprogestins. While growth from correcting hormone imbalances is common for proliferative, the focus of this phase is balance. Whenever estrogenic symptoms occur, when it is suspected they might occur or any other time periodically when there's no swelling nor acne, take primarily phyto-progestin for proliferative. Signs of estrogenic symptoms include: headache, cramps, breast elongation, negative mood, vertigo. Recommendations for acne remain the same for this phase.
More images and description of breast swelling
Here's more images of breast swelling, swelling shape, and breast puffiness. In some of these images, swelling shape isn't obvious, but it's indicated by a pear, lightbulb or parenthesis (round bracket) shape.
Cleavage is an indication. When cleavage is shaped like a V on the very top, or when the inner sides of the breasts are shaped like )(, there may be swelling or swelling shape. It's also important to check for swelling or bloating anywhere else on the body, as the effect of corticosteroids can be lowered. Growth may occur more slowly than the temporary expansion from swelling. Sensations may happen for both, but sensations also occur for other occurrences.
Contributed description of breast swelling
I’ve experienced A LOT OF SWELLING which is HEAVY AND DENSE. Swelling feels like boobs are getting weighed down. The expansion feels heavy, and they can be felt inflating. It may be like a lightly filled water balloon. Temporary expansion from swelling may be more quick or noticeable than expansion from growth.
Indications of breast growth are when they're soft, squishy, full and fluffy. Growth that occurs is lighter in weight, closer to the weight of feathers in a pillow. The feeling may be fuller as opposed to heavy in the chest.
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References:
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