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Hi everyone. I've been lurking here a little while now and thought it was about time I introduced myself! After 5 years of pregnancy and breastfeeding my small boobs have reduced to almost nothing so I wanted to do something. I found this site and was realy inspired by people's stories. I decided on Brava even though some of the accounts were a little scary! Tried buying it through the official site but never got any reply to my phone messages or emails. To be honest I thought maybe they'd gone bust or something. Anybody know how to get hold of them? I ended up buying it of ebay.

So, I started about 7 weeks ago as a 32AA, if that. Swelling so far has been awesome. Even in the first week I began retaining sweling. I'm hoping this is a good thing since the manual says more swelling = more growth, but I'm also scared about how much is temporary, I'll obviosly loose a lot once I stop :-(

Now I'm about a 32D in the morning and about 32B/C by evening. I'm half way through the time I have available so fingers crossed I'll make it to being a large 32B by the end of all this.

I've been wearing pretty intensely, mimimum of 13 hours a day, mostly about 14.5 hrs and about 16 hours fri-mon.

So, I have a few questions now that I've been using it a while.
1. The charging unit has numbers at the side. When I started it stayed on 1 but has been creeping up over time. Anyone know what it's for?
2. I've started sucking to get the initial presure. Much quicker and it feels a lot firmer. I was wondering though, if you use to much vacuum will it tear the gel off the domes?
3. At the moment I've about an inch left in my domes when I take them off. I'm obviously quite a fast responder so I'm wondering how long will it be before I need bigger domes? Is there much difference between a large and extra-large dome? When I put my current stats in the Brava dome size estimater it says I'm not a candidate!

Anyway, thanks to anyone that can answer some of these questions.

Hi EmmaB!

Your experience sounds a lot like me, only better! I also swelled a lot from the very beginning, but really I did not started retaining anything till like week 5. So I hope you will reach you large B! I did not, but I started a AAA, and ended up (hopefully!) an A. Will tell you in two weeks is it has stayed.

It is worrisome that the company may have gone belly up. It is very difficult to get new domes in the net. Possibly because they get so yucky really fast, so not many used ones. I was lucky and got a new pair from one of the girls in the forum when my old ones went kaput. If you feel you are still getting more inches every week when you take the domes off, you should start looking for new domes right away. I outgrew my old domes (medium) in about week 8, kept using them anyway for some three more weeks (my nipple was totally squished against the wall, I actually liked it because that made the nipple not swell as much even though the boob still got huge). then I got large ones and I did not increased my morning swelling for the the next 8 weeks. So I never outgrew those. So I guess if you think you are not increasing the morning swelling, you may not need to change them for the duration of your brava time.

About the vacuum, I sucked very hard and the gel stayed. However, there seem to be some difference in the quality of the domes. The first pair I got from ebay (US marketed, coming from Fl) got damaged quickly, even though I was way more gentle with them. Then the gal who sold me hers later on was from UK, and I believe they were from brava UK. The get on those was firmer and so far have withstand all kind of abuse. So I guess it depends.

There is a big difference between the medium and the large, about 1 1/2 to 2 inches in depth of the domes, but not circunfference. They felt huge when I got them! I do not know the difference between the large and X-L.

Why did brava says you are not a candidate? You seem to be doing just fine!

Best of luck and keep us posted!