The Newsweek article

[merle]

http://www.newsweek.com/id/69002

[A. Cherimoya]

Reading the comments on that article, it amazes me how many people respond with "lose weight!" It just shows how utterly DIFFICULT it is for most people to understand gynecomastia. I always get very sad and angry when I see or hear responses like that. I wish there was some way to make these people -- men and women alike -- experience what it's like to live with something like gynecomastia.

God, it makes me mad. At least there are more people taking a serious look at the condition these days.

[mizuno]

That's how our world is today and will always be.
When, you have a case of gyno (big or small) I have a greater respect for people
with any non- normal physical fault.
I.E women who have a large hips. That's where all their fat goes.

[Rayban]

It sincerely UPSETS me that most people think that this condition will go away if one simply loses weight!!
I do not suffer from the glandular form of gyne, but no matter how thin I become, I still have man-breasts. At one point in my early college days I weighed 150lbs (and I'm tall: 6-ft, 2-in!!). You could plainly see my ribs, but not one ounce of breast fat or tissue disappeared! I was starving myself in hopes that my chest would flatten and I would look more like the young men around me.
I think it is fantastic that this issue is getting some press.

[mizuno]

Rayban,
I understand your frustation regarding trying to lose weight thinking that would make the gyne disappear.
Surgery is the only option. This site is the savor of many and that newsweek article is the start of bringing
this to national level.