Hello my name is Sara, my situation is somewhat unusual on these boards - I am a 28 year old natal female, I don’t wish to change gender or cross-dress and I don’t have any friends or family who do. But I do have a condition called tubular breast hypoplasia. I have read about some transgender women having similar 'tubular hypoplastic' results when their hormone regime was not correct. It is extremely difficult to find any information about treatment for my condition - indeed there seems not to be a set treatment so far. There is also no online or otherwise community to help me with information or anything else. I have started some hormone treatment but unfortunately my doctors are rather narrow minded and not keen to continue treatment without immediate results - not so much for any risk but for NHS budget considerations. Whilst I obviously realise that being a natal female I am not the same as a MTF transsexual, I believe there are enough parallels that hearing about your experiences could be helpful to me. I also realise that you are not doctors and am not going to behave in a reckless way!

I checked with Katie before joining the forum as I wanted to be honest and not intrude - I imagine you have all experienced prejudice or persecution of some kind so that last thing I wanted to do was to make you feel uncomfortable! She said I might wind up giving advice - well I don’t claim to be an expert on being a womanbut I would certainly be happy to try to answer questions if anyone wanted to ask anything!

Hi and welcome Sara. I have been on HRT for nearly 5 years now and fortunately my breast development has been very good. I remember early on, discussions about tubular breast hypoplasia. What I recall is there seemed to be a lot of discussion that progesterone could be helpful in preventing tubular breast hypoplasia. So that might be something for you to discuss with your doctor. I will be honest that because I have not had to deal with this myself, I can't say whether this can prevent or cure tubular breast hypoplasia to any extent. I wish you the very best in dealing with this and whatever else life throws your way.
Hugs,
Marsha

Hello Sara, and welcome!
I am not sure if this will help. But my wife had that condition. ( tubular breast hypoplasia) She also had a high testosterone levels for a natal female.The tubular breast condition was corrected when she had breast implants, they cut the tubular threads to make room. She was very small breasted with the associated shape, and this always bothered her. She did not even know about this until the surgeon examined her. He never said what caused this condition, but I always felt the high testosterone was the problem as she went through development. It might be something to have checked, but at 28 it is a little to late. But implants could be an option, it worked for my wife.
Good luck, Tammy

Thanks everyone for the welcome and thoughts

Hi Sara.
Though hormone treatment may produce some results, this will certainly take time to show and your doctor should already be aware of this. I would expect we are talking months before changes are noticeable. You really need to get a specialist consultant involved if you haven't already. Once you have their go-ahead and prescriptions, most doctors will accept that and continue treatment.

To be honest, I think implants are your best option. They are now relatively safe and long-lasting. The consultant will again be best placed to advise.
The NHS will cover both the above options, if you can show that the condition is causing you distress. It is using that condition that many MTF TS' (such as myself) get the implants, once any growth obtained though hormones has reached it's maximum.

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