Puffy nipples / Not man boobs

[Ihatesummer]

Hi i am 22, 5ft"7 and weigh around 10stone. during normal conditions my nipples are puffy although when they get erect, from the cold etc they look normal. What condition is this and is there anyway to treat it without surgery? I have heard that reducing your body fat percentage can help? Is there any other treatments i should know about? I never take my t-shirt off unless its to swim as when im in the water they are erect and look normal.

Thanks in advance

[Bolognianips]

Its gynecomastia.  I bet 70% of the people on this site would be happy if their nipples would just stay hard.

[Ihatesummer]

And i'm right in assuming then that the only way to solve this problem is through surgery  and not losing body fat etc? 

[weareinittogether]

to get a flat chest you will have to have the glands behind your nipples removed via surgery i'm affraid nothing else to date works, trust me i've tried.

[DrBermant]

Hi i am 22, 5ft"7 and weigh around 10stone. during normal conditions my nipples are puffy although when they get erect, from the cold etc they look normal. What condition is this and is there anyway to treat it without surgery? I have heard that reducing your body fat percentage can help? Is there any other treatments i should know about? I never take my t-shirt off unless its to swim as when im in the water they are erect and look normal.

Thanks in advance

"Puffy Nipples" is a common public term for gynecomastia. 

The problem is the the term puffy nipples is a phrase that mean so many different things to so many different people.  Words just do not convey the actual problem very well - images do a little better, but still are not the same as an actual in office evaluation with your doctor.  This Gynecomastia Picture Gallery of Puffy Nipples begins to show some of the various problems patients have called "puffy."

Putting up pictures (using standard views before and after surgery) is one way to discuss what the problem was before surgery and what has happened.   Options depend on what is really going on.

Let us try to look what I mean by the problem of the words only descriptions.  "Large nips", "puffy nipples," "puffed nipples,"  and "puffy nips" are a common terms many give to a problem that extends to the region about the areola.   The nipple is actually the central raised structure inside the pigmented areola.

"Puffed nipples" can be a problem for some that involves long nipples above the areola where nipple reduction alone helps.

"Puffy Nipps" can be a problem behind the areola that can take many forms.  The deformity is usually a varying combination of fat and gland.  The gland can be firm or soft, spread through fat, or be a condensed mass.  There is a thin muscle under the areola skin that can flatten tissue when stimulated. Unfortunately it is impractical to keep stimulating these muscles.

In many of these patients with "puffy nipples," there was no firm tissue under the areola, just fat and soft gland.  Here is one example of puffy nipples in a muscular male.  Here is another example of   puffed nipples.  Here is another patient with puffy nipple gynecomastia.

"Puffy Nipples" can also be a combination of gynecomastia and big nipples.

I prefer my Dynamic Technique that adapts to the problem found during surgery to minimize such issues as residual deformity after surgery.

Hope this helps,

Michael Bermant, MD
Learn More About Gynecomastia and Chest Sculpture

[inorbit]

Hi ihatethesummer

I'm exactly the same, i put a description in the general thread.  It's fine when it's really cold.  I'm 5ft 8" and around 10st 9lbs, lean and trim by playing squash and running but i have this puffy chest which looks like i'm a little fat on the chest - no matter how much exercise, weights low fat diet you do it doesn't make any difference.  It seems extremely unfair to me, as my friends and the non-exercising type and they just don'y look 'odd' like i do (or at least feel as though i do) and they can take their top off and go swimming without much thought - if i ever go i have to hide it till i get to the shower and hope they look more normal - just totally destroys confidence.  And is annoying especially when you try to stay in shape and you get this problem which seems like you just don't get the rewards of your effort.

JC

[taydude88]

wow, this is my first time on this site, and i never knew what my problem was...i guess it's nice to know im not alone. Same thing happens to me...in fact i can even push them down, and if i do that they get hard again, i just don't know how to rid of it. I have a hard lump behind the nipple, but i dont know if i need surgery or if i can exercise this one off...i run and do push ups every day and it still remains, so if there is anything i can do besides surgery please let me know.

[Ihatesummer]

Hey inorbit and taydude88, its nice to know we are not in this alone.

Have any of you considered surgery yet? I myself am starting to sway but there are a few questions i would like answered if anyone out there knows;

Can you please re-assure me that there are absolutely no other options except surgery?

How much would surgery cost roughly in the uk?

Could you advise any specific doctors to avoid or could you reccommend any in the UK?

Thank you very much for your help everyone!

And good luck inorbit and taydude88 pm me if you would like my email address or if you are on msn etc

[gyn_patient]

Hi ihatethesummer

I'm exactly the same, i put a description in the general thread.  It's fine when it's really cold.  I'm 5ft 8" and around 10st 9lbs, lean and trim by playing squash and running but i have this puffy chest which looks like i'm a little fat on the chest - no matter how much exercise, weights low fat diet you do it doesn't make any difference.  It seems extremely unfair to me, as my friends and the non-exercising type and they just don'y look 'odd' like i do (or at least feel as though i do) and they can take their top off and go swimming without much thought - if i ever go i have to hide it till i get to the shower and hope they look more normal - just totally destroys confidence.  And is annoying especially when you try to stay in shape and you get this problem which seems like you just don't get the rewards of your effort.

JC

couldnt have said it better