Question: When I was a teenager I used to squeeze my breast buds in an attempt to stimulate them to develop larger breasts, but I am now mature and my breasts are very small. Did I harm my breast buds by squeezing them?
Absolutely not! What you did is something many girls do as they start to develop, but there is nothing that will alter the size of the breasts during or after puberty other than manipulation of the sex hormones, a procedure that is not performed because of serious adverse effects on the other sex organs. Many women notice a small increase in breast size when taking the oral contraceptive pill, and pregnancy may result in a permanent enlargement.
Breast size is determined by your choice in parents, by the amount of estrogen produced by your ovaries, and the individual response of your breast tissue to the estrogen. No amount of physical stimulation is going to alter the breast size.
If you are particularly concerned by the small size of your breasts, plastic surgery techniques are available to increase your bust line. In years past, these procedures were bought into disrepute by silicon leakage from the prostheses used to increase the breast size, but better prostheses and improved operations have overcome these problems, so that the risks are now minimal.

Question: I have had a mastectomy (breast removal) for cancer, and found that I avoided many complications of restricted arm movement and swelling ol my arm by keeping the arm above my head on a pillow, and moving it as much as possible, starting immediately after the operation.
Arm movement restrictions and lymphoedema (swelling) of the arm are common complications of breast surgery when the glands in the armpit are removed to prevent the further spread of breast cancer.
Lymph is the waste products of the cells, and lymph returns from every cell through a complex network of fine tubes, rather like thin veins. These lymph ducts pass through the lymph glands that concentrate in the armpit, groin, neck and along the inside of your backbone. Tne glands act to remove any germs that may be attempting to penetrate deeper into the body. Eventually the lymph, having being cleaned by the glands, drains into a major vein near the heart.
The complication of lymphoedema (lymph accumulation) alter breast cancer surgery varies dramatically from one patient to another, with only partial relationship to the severity of the surgery. Those who suffer severely may have an arm that is rock hard and three times its normal size. Elevation and pressure bandages are the normal treatments, but a plastic sleeve that envelopes the arm and is rhythmically inflated by a machine is the most successful treatment.
Patients requiring further help with this problem should contact the Lymphoedema Association in their state.