Poltergeist
11-20-2011, 12:39 AM
Maybe this is a silly question, but this is for those of you who bind.
My chest is too large to bind "for real", but I am always wearing very tight (much too small) sports bras, and I wear them 24/7 to be comfortable with myself. Honestly... they're so tight they cut into my skin sometimes.
For the past few months, I've had a bit of an issue with strange sensations in my chest, like there's suddenly some sort of pressure moving up through the chest, knocking the air out of me for a few seconds. I now experience that countless times every day.
Of course I went to see my doctor, who has assured me that there are no signs of heart disease, which was my first worry.
She thought it might be bad acid reflux, and gave me some pills for it which didn't really solve the problem, but on the other hand, it didn't take away the heartburn that I suffer from regularly either.
She now thinks it could be a hernia in my upper stomach.
But the thing is... I've realised that when I take my bra off, it gets sort of better. It doesn't go away, but it helps.
And now I'm wondering... if I do have a hernia or something similar... could I have caused it by binding? Do any of you guys have any kind of experience with this?
My chest is too large to bind "for real", but I am always wearing very tight (much too small) sports bras, and I wear them 24/7 to be comfortable with myself. Honestly... they're so tight they cut into my skin sometimes.
For the past few months, I've had a bit of an issue with strange sensations in my chest, like there's suddenly some sort of pressure moving up through the chest, knocking the air out of me for a few seconds. I now experience that countless times every day.
Of course I went to see my doctor, who has assured me that there are no signs of heart disease, which was my first worry.
She thought it might be bad acid reflux, and gave me some pills for it which didn't really solve the problem, but on the other hand, it didn't take away the heartburn that I suffer from regularly either.
She now thinks it could be a hernia in my upper stomach.
But the thing is... I've realised that when I take my bra off, it gets sort of better. It doesn't go away, but it helps.
And now I'm wondering... if I do have a hernia or something similar... could I have caused it by binding? Do any of you guys have any kind of experience with this?