Jan 09
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What is Polymastia
Some of us love our breasts, some of us hate them. Although our breasts may be a heavy burden that gives us back pain for those of us who are naturally large breasted, or give us insecurities and feelings of diminished femininity for those with what they think are “too small” of breasts, it’s usually the norm for us to like the fact that we have two breasts. That’s the norm, and that’s what we of course see in all the magazines, but there is a fairly common disorder called polymastia where women get a third breast that grows somewhere on the body.
You might be picturing something like I was when I read about this physical abnormality, like the movies that have aliens with three breasts or something along those lines. I think once I even saw a comedy with a woman that had a third breast growing out of the center of her chest, firmly nestled in between her two breasts, so it’s a concept that’s sort of a laughable oddity that no one thinks really exists. Even though it doesn’t exist like that very often, the physical attribute of having more than two breasts does occur fairly often, it’s just not as obvious as you’d think.
Apparently polymastia is often thought to simply be something called a lipoma, which is a harmless mass of fat that grows in a lump-like shape somewhere else on the body besides the breast area. For example, maybe what I had was actually polymastia and not a lipoma on my back. i had a slow growing growth on my back, nestled under my shoulder blade on the left side of my body that I had to have surgically removed a few years ago.
It just appeared to be a big lump that started off small and gradually kept growing bigger and bigger until it had to be removed or cut out. It depends on the situation of course, but polymastia can take on many forms, as most other physical oddities can, so they can take different shapes, and some can even have nipples, although most don’t.Â
