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Woman refused surgery despite breasts so big she has to wear two bras She says the pain leaves her hunched over, in tears and considering cutting them off herself A woman with 38JJ breasts says she has spent years waiting for a reduction on the NHS despite them leaving her 'hunched over like a shrimp' Lacey-Love Kent suffers from back pain so severe that she has to sit hunched over so that her breasts can rest on her knees, in an attempt to alleviate the pain. The 28-year-old says her breasts have such a detrimental impact on her physical and mental health they leave her 'crying in the shower wanting to chop them off'. Lacey, who weighs 17st 4lbs, says she experiences heat rashes on her chest due to the size of her breasts, which also lose circulation and turn 'black and look necrotic' in cold weather. At 5ft 11 Lacey says the £90 medical grade bras she has to wear leave her with friction burns - and she still has to wear a sports bra on top in a desperate attempt to keep her boobs supported. Currently unable to work due to her health, Lacey says she first went to her GP to be referred for a breast reduction in 2021. She claims she was told the waitlist would be two years, however almost five years later, Lacey claims she's yet to be approved for the procedure. Lacey is now fundraising to cover the cost of having a breast reduction done privately, after spending four years on the NHS waitlist. NHS Hampshire and Isle of Wight ICB confirmed that breast reduction surgery is not routinely funded on the NHS. Lacey, from Gosport, Hampshire, said: "I'm affectionately called a 'shrimp' by my friends. I have to sit slightly hunched over. It's really embarrassing and not at all attractive but if I hunch slightly then my breasts can rest on my thighs. "It's so unattractive, it feels like I'm a caricature and the pain of it is horrible." Lacey said: "When the weather is cold my breasts lose circulation - they go purple and black and they look necrotic. When it's hot, I get a heat rash where everything goes spotty or incredibly itchy. I get friction burns [too]. I wear a bra but my boobs are so big that the bra can't hold them up and I get a friction burn on my belly. It's unavoidable and horrible. "I either don't wear a bra to stop my ribs from bruising and my shoulders from getting blisters, or I do wear a bra and I'll get friction burns, and bruising on my ribs and the blisters." Such is the detrimental effect her breasts have on her mental health, Lacey says she's left 'clawing at her skin' and even said she'd 'cut them off'. Lacey said: "I kept on having breakdowns in the shower where I would be screaming and crying and clawing at my skin. I was saying I was going to cut off my own breasts because I was just sick of them." Lacey, who struggles to complete everyday tasks due to the pain her breasts leave her in, has to wear medical grade bras in order to hold up the weight of her breasts. Lacey said: "I have to wear £90 Swedish medical grade bras to hold them in place. Even then, I have to put a sports bra on top of it because they're just so big and so heavy that they don't stay there. "It's not glamorous, it's a really horrible ugly way to live but I've got no other option. My mobility has got so much worse. I walk a little bit and then I'm thinking my spine and my hips are going to give out. I've had hip injuries, I've had knee injuries - all just from the weight of supporting and carrying myself around. I've lost 25kg but it's hard to do when even walking to the corner shop feels impossible. "I'm trying to move and be active to lose weight but I can't do that when I'm in agony and pain 24/7. If I spend a day doing chores around my house my hips will give out, it's limiting. I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place.I used to be a very, bright, vibrant active person. Now I'm just very much like I don't want people to see me - I'm a very cynical, very in pain individual." Now, Lacey has set up a GoFundMe page in order to help raise the money needed to cover the cost of private breast reduction surgery, after being on the NHS waitlist for four years. Lacey said: "I went to the NHS and said 'I would like a reduction' and they said it was a cosmetic surgery and that there's a two-year waitlist. "It got to four years and I said 'I really need this' and they told me I just need to lose weight, which is something I'm trying to do but I've also got PMOS (Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome), which means I'm constantly gaining weight. I've got massive breasts. That means if I'm trying to work out, I'm getting blisters on my shoulders from the sports bras I'm having to wear. Even then they don't stay still - I can wear two high impact sports bras and even then, they're still going everywhere. "It's a nightmare, the NHS just haven't been particularly helpful." Looking to the future, Lacey says the surgery would be life-changing for her. Lacey said: "It would be everything. I always joke with my friends that all of my problems would be fixed when I get my reduction. "We joke that I would have been too powerful if I had normal-sized boobs so the universe had to give me massive boobs, so that I had some flaw so that it would hold me back. There's so much that I want to do, there's so many places that I want to go. I want to travel, I want to go back to the gym, I want to be able to run. "Me and my partner want to get married and I want to look at the photos and not think that I look horrific. I want to be able to have a kid and hold my kid and not fear that I'm going to suffocate them.There's so much I want to do and so much I keep putting back in life because I think it's just not reasonable, I just can't do it." You can donate to Lacey's GoFundMe here. A spokesperson for NHS Hampshire and Isle of Wight ICB said: "We are sorry to hear of Ms Kent's circumstances and previous experience. Due to patient confidentiality, NHS Hampshire and Isle of Wight is unable to discuss individual cases. However, information on our policies relating to breast reduction surgery is publicly available and can be accessed in full within HIOW-Policy-15-Breast-surgery-v3.0.pdf. "Breast reduction surgery is not routinely funded on the NHS, as mentioned within the policy."