Finding the Right "Alternative"

Hi Sher,

I did get them and I like them, plus you can't beat the price! But I actually find I prefer my Still You Illusions, which are a bit heavier, just enough to stay in place well. But I can wear the Fiber Filled Pads really comfortably in my Still You Tank Top (camisole), so I'm sure I'll get plenty of use out of them.

Barbara

I think the Illusions would be quite a bit lighter, if your Contact Lights are size 3 or larger.

I bought size A in both the Illusions and Fiber Filled Pads. It's interesting. When I compare them off me, they are almost exactly the same in size, width, shape, and projection (maybe the Fiber Filled is a very slight amount less projection), but when I wear them, the Illusions look quite a bit bigger. I think the filling in the Illusions pushes forward when they're on my chest. On me, they look like a small B, while the Fiber Filled look like an A. Hope this helps!

Barbara

Well as many of you know I wear my knitted form.. filled by me to the right size and weighted with inspirationsal stones to just the roght weight.. this
I wear in a regular bra.. or stay stitched right into my dressy cami... its airy and washable, refillable and shapes nicely... just my thought on alternatives..

I know some of the bras have room for side pads, these help with the bra cutting into your sides.. I used these when I had my prothesis.. it relieved the pain ..

good luck..

MB

I'm trying to find weighted forms so they don't ride up. My current bra starts the day in the right place but unless I tug at it all day, my breasts look like they're several inches higher than they should be.

I read somewhere that a woman was so disgusted with her forms that she made her own forms with millet because they stayed weighted down. has anybody heard of that?

molly4, what type of breast forms are you wearing. I have silicone forms and they are heavy enough to keep my bra from riding up. 

 Franie 

molly4, yes you can buy them over the internet. From your post I assume you are a bilateral?

Franie 

Molly, I am very flat, like a pancake I guess, but not concave. My problem was most forms are very light and I was use to more weight and bounce with my DDD breasts, and my bra wanted to ride up with light forms. Are you concave on both sides? I know forms are made with a pad on the back to fill a void left from a radical mast. I bought my last forms from Nancy at breastformshopping.com. I believe I paid between $400 and $500 for the pair. They are very heavy and that is what I wanted. I know you can spend more and less. You can google breast prothesis and see a variety of options. If you want to email me let know and I will give you my email address.

 Franie 

A bit late on responding to the sports bra issue.  I wear a sports bra every day (not all day but I dance or do yoga in one every day).  I absolutely love the Janac sports bra.  It's a mastectomy sports bra so it has pockets for forms.  No moving around of forms in a shelf bra.  I bought five of them.  Regarding the smoosh factor, I wear a slightly smaller form in my sports bra.  It just happens that the first form I bought is a size too small.  I wear a contact form with a regular bra for normal use.  Beside the Janac sports bra, I never wear mastectomy bras.

Yesterday I was changing for dance class and didn't realize until later that I had dropped my contact form on the floor in the bathroom stall.  The bathroom was very crowded and everyone could see it lying there so it was a bit embarrasing when I had to ask the person in the stall to "please hand me my prosthesis".  Most people have never seen a breast prosthesis before so they were probably wondering what it was!