Quit touching it and it may go away!

[bjk99]

Hello everyone,
      I had been touching and really pinching my right nipple hard for a couple of months straight. Kind of a nervous tick I developed. i thought i might break up some of the soft tissue under my nipple. well in retrospect, a terrible idea. within the last few weeks i have developed hard glandular tissue below the same nip i was always touching (pubertal hard tissue had gone away about four years ago, age 22 or so, but soft glandular tissue and puffy nips reamained).
      Anyway, I just was reading about the anatomy of the breast (mind you, this information only related to womens' breasts). It turns out that nipple stimulation produces a hormone known as oxytocin from the pituitary gland. This hormone triggers milk let down among other things. Now this seems to have been my problem. but i am not sure, but i bought some bandages to cover my nip to prevent all stimulation and hope it goes back to the way it was and the way the left still is. Any thoughts??

[jc71]

Pinching the nip reminds me of the guy who thought he could pound on his chest and "beat the gland" by repeated blows that would break-up the gland small enough to get absorbed by the body.  :-/

Are you sure that hard tissue is gland tissue?  Have you been to a doctor? My initial thought was that since you still had "soft gland" and "puffy nips" that this new hard gland was just a natural progression of gyne and not related to you pinching your nip.  I don't know.

The fact that you only have it on one side may be extra reason to see a doctor sooner than later.

[Paa_Paw]

ditto