Bra strap pads
#11
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Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Minnesota
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Bra Strap help
I've read the thread on "incontinence"pads and panties. Don't recall if there is one on the bra strap shoulder pads or not, but I looked through the threads I could find and came up empty. My straps dig a large indentation on top of my shoulders and hurt at times. Any suggestions? Thanks Anne
#12
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Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Texas, USA
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Just a thought . . . but can you find a "cross over" style, in your size, in which the straps cross each other ("X"), in the back? Back when I was much(!) younger, I carried my baby in a front-type sling. The straps went over the shoulders and crossed in back (then came forward and tied at waist). That distributed the weight of the baby, over the back instead of just the shoulders. Am wondering if the same principle could be applied to a bra . . . .
Also, if you can just widen the strap, the weight would be distributed more evenly across your shoulders . . . . You'd need something padded and preferably slightly rigid. What about that material, suggested for use inside laptop cases?
I know you don't want anything too bulky . . . but rather than suffer, I'd even be tempted to stick a pair of backpack straps, underneath my bra straps.
Also, if you can just widen the strap, the weight would be distributed more evenly across your shoulders . . . . You'd need something padded and preferably slightly rigid. What about that material, suggested for use inside laptop cases?
I know you don't want anything too bulky . . . but rather than suffer, I'd even be tempted to stick a pair of backpack straps, underneath my bra straps.
#15
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Join Date: Sep 2011
Posts: 683
Me too! I don't especially like sports bras but they are a bit more comfortable than under wires digging into me, or straps slipping, etc. With them I learned to buy a size much larger than my regular size. The clerk told me she had to help one woman who could not get out of hers when she tried it on; she was really stuck! Anyway I make slim "potholders" to put under the straps. Hope you find some help here and let us other "endowed" women know please.
#16
The best thing you can do for yourself is go to a specialty bra store - the ones that specialize in bras after a mastectomy - and have a bra fitting, you can get a bra that has most of the weight carried by the band around your ribs, and only like 10% on the straps. That's what I did when I wore a 34G. Best thing I did for me was a reduction down to a C...love it!!! Hated the craters on my shoulders from years of wearing bras that were the wrong size and had all the weight hanging on my shoulders!
#18
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Slidell, Louisiana
Posts: 6,951
Maybe shoulder pads like they have in some clothes/jackets? I don't know, thank God don't have that problem. But I had a step-grma years back that was like that- very large breasts, and her shoulders had about 1 inch deep indentions, looked like it must be painful! She couldn't even sleep without her bra. That would kill me! Good luck finding something that works for you!
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