Hello, and welcome- I'm new also, and only recently started with herbals (for now- I already know I don't intend to restrict myself to herbals unless I'm scared away from E).
Whatever you have going on, looks good to me. Unlike you, I (much to my disappointment at the time) never had puffy nipples as an adolescent. Now I'm, well, older than you, on the large side (I was a very skinny kid but oh not now) and I go through this with myself every damn day since joining this site. 'Are they fat? Are they more? OMG yes they're more I just know it'... (ten minutes later) 'Fat! Fat! It's all just damn fat dammit!' Which I then moderate by reminding myself that fat doesn't always have to deposit itself where mine has, and an A-cup (my own measurements) is still an A-cup and I should be thankful, fatty tissue or not.
It comes down to I am never quite sure if I'm examining myself correctly, or not. Doing the textbook palpation test, moving my fingers inward from each side (with the arm on that side I'm testing raised over my head, and lotion/oil helps IMO to help the fingers glide), I do kinda feel some sort of firmness. Not as firm as I imagine it ought to be maybe, but some kind of firmness nevertheless. Regardless of how we think our breasts-to-be look, or our own self-doubts,. that's the only objective DIY metric that I know of. And I want more- and I want some tenderness to let me know something's going on. By your own description (sometimes ache) it sounds as if you've got something going on.
I wonder how much an adolescent past history of gyne plays in developing it in later years?
Whatever you have going on, looks good to me. Unlike you, I (much to my disappointment at the time) never had puffy nipples as an adolescent. Now I'm, well, older than you, on the large side (I was a very skinny kid but oh not now) and I go through this with myself every damn day since joining this site. 'Are they fat? Are they more? OMG yes they're more I just know it'... (ten minutes later) 'Fat! Fat! It's all just damn fat dammit!' Which I then moderate by reminding myself that fat doesn't always have to deposit itself where mine has, and an A-cup (my own measurements) is still an A-cup and I should be thankful, fatty tissue or not.
It comes down to I am never quite sure if I'm examining myself correctly, or not. Doing the textbook palpation test, moving my fingers inward from each side (with the arm on that side I'm testing raised over my head, and lotion/oil helps IMO to help the fingers glide), I do kinda feel some sort of firmness. Not as firm as I imagine it ought to be maybe, but some kind of firmness nevertheless. Regardless of how we think our breasts-to-be look, or our own self-doubts,. that's the only objective DIY metric that I know of. And I want more- and I want some tenderness to let me know something's going on. By your own description (sometimes ache) it sounds as if you've got something going on.
I wonder how much an adolescent past history of gyne plays in developing it in later years?