What is your worst gynecomastia memory :'(

[theresearcher]

i can't really remember when i got puffy nipples, but i never realized that something was different from me than the larger kids at school.

why are my nipples so light colored?
why are they so big?

eventually i found out about this condition.

i can't lie and say it don't affect me much. i'm a nice guy, lots of friends, pretty sexy ( ). I'm not that skinny, but i'm fairly athletic, active, and tall.

of course i get the manboob jokes once in a while, and shockingly, from friends i've known the longest. but if you show it doesn't affect you, they stop after a while. helps with convincing yourelf too.

sometimes some friends like to flick them too. they, being misinformed, think that my puffy nipples are actually big breasts. maybe, in a way, but whatever i just laugh it off, and get back to playing ball.

stay positive, everyone.

[Death to Man Boobs]

worst gyne memory? there are sooooo many! in no particular order...

1. in 5th grade when my gyne first emerged my fellow classmates love to tell me that i needed a bra

2. was at club a few years ago dancing with this hot latin girl and when she brushed up against my gyne she slapped each of my moobs in a very unflattering manner and then went back to her friends where they all proceeded to laugh at me

3. a friend pointing out to my coworkers that i had moobs during a summer job back in high school. even better is how they all would always ask me to show them. awful.

4. the countless times i've caught people staring at my gyne.

5. during hockey practice one of my teammates felt the need to point out that "you have the beefiest t!ts i've ever seen"

6. leaving the shirt on during sex

7. turning girls down for sex because of how embarrassed i was of my gyne

8. a girl that i'm friends with LOVES to playfully grab my moobs and thinks shes being cute. this is probably the worst thing ever now that i really think about it.


wow, i could go on all night (i'm sure everyone could). soooo pumped i'm getting these freaking things carved out of me next week.

[depressed_otaku]

Just a few months before having my operation, there was this beautiful 22 year old russian girl that I worked with. (I work as a bartender is a fancy restaurant, among other things).  We were kidding around when she suddenly poked me in the chest, and said with a giggle: "You have boobies!"

I was totally destroyed. Totally innocent on her part, but it didn't matter. Any pre-surgery doubts went away in that moment.

that made me cry I no longer feel bad everyone has went through some rough stuff here

[depressed_otaku]

About 3 years ago i was playing football for my school. Well one day we went outside for some fun. Well, it was SHIRTS vs SKINS. Uh oh. Well guess what team i got? Skins  Well i wasn't embarrassed about it at the time so it was no big deal. But all the guys on the team laughed at me and were grabbing me constantly. I actually got into a fight between another kid about a week later for making fun of me. But ever since then i haven't played sports, but i do enjoy what i do now. Stock Car Racing!

you have BALLZ the snes game and you are very courageous

[damonsta]

when my first daughter was born, i was putting her to sleep in my arms and she found my nipple and started suckling on one of them. the funniest thing to ever happen but this is one of those things you just cant let go.

[landesman92]

Quite a few,one was when a friend of mine joked that i have "cleavage" and I couldnt wear a vneck or I would look like a girl.

I even asked him what it was like to NOT have boobs,and he laughed at me and said "Idk,never had em!"Soo damn lucky

[gynedowner]

Worst Memory- 13 yrs old with gynecomastia. I was in the gym getting a scoliosis test done. We were all shirtless and guys were pinching my breast as we waited in line. I had to bend over with my breast sagging down, in a hot locker room, in front of the coach and everyone else in a big circle. The coach just stared at me while the others laughed. One of the muscular, flat chested guys (who was real popular) pulled my shirt over my face as I was trying to put it back on and was punching my breast. I went home and cried.

Afterwords, I swore no one would ever humiliate me like that again. When people asked me to take my shirt off, I would refuse. When asked to go swimming, I would refuse. I stopped providing excuses. Everyone just assumes that I'm an a-hole. I'm really not. I hate what gynecomastia has made me into. I've always wanted to be kinder and more sociable, but like so many others here I've felt that this is an impossibility. It's so hard not to be cynical and withdrawn when you lose so much because of your man breasts: potential friends, girlfriends, even careers because you feel like a freak. It hurts even more when the people closest to you say "it's not that bad." That is the defining moment when anyone would feel isolated.

Now i'm going in for surgery within a few weeks. I can't even begin to imagine what it is going to feel like. I picture the scene from Shawshank Redemption (except I crawled through a river of gynecomastia crap).

[LookingForward]

First of all - HI!

I started noticing I had a bit bigger than normal chest when I was in school. I wasn't really worried about it, since noone ever told me anything about that and I was a bit overweight at that time, so I had a big belly which somehow made my boobs look justified.
Some friends at school would sometimes poke my boobs and smile and would be like "boooobs!". I never felt any offence and just laughed it off. I thought it was just the way I was and nothing was wrong about that.

When I started attending university classes, I became even more obese, I am 20, 6'1 and 230 lbs now, thought I was like 260 lbs, but I started bicycling and stopped eating junk food and drinking soft drinks and then I learned of gynecomastia and finally felt how bad it is.

I used to remove my shirt without any hesitation, of course in front of my parents, in front of my sister and my female cousin and they never told me something was wrong with me, and no girl told me I had it wrong.

But after having read lots of resources (including this one) in the internet, I really lost a brutal share of my self-esteem. I am seriously thinking about undergoing a surgery, although I don't even know if I have gynecomastia or pseudogynecomastia, and the two thumbs method just won't work for me - I still can't understand how you do it right. Surgery will cost me a few monthly salaries, but it's still worth it I think.

Tomorrow I will have to remove my tee in front of my new girlfriend and now when my self-esteem is so low it could touch the core of the earth I feel completely ruined. I do love her and what if she decided she didn't want to have anything with a moob like me?
Damn that's frustrating.

I just had to vent it. I have read almost all the stories in this thread and just threw in my two cents.

Pics of my case: http://www.gynecomastia.org/smf/index.php?topic=21004.msg142740#msg142740

P.S. English is not my mother language.

[SL-83]

Not that big of a deal but being on the wrestling team and having to weigh in before every match. Nude sometimes. No one on the team ever said anything to me out of mutual respect. ( I was actually a fairly competent wrestler.) But it was shameful to me.

[Floyd]

my worst memory was when everyone including my biggest crush found out that i wore a man bra in the 7th grade, which was just one of those knee bandages tied tightly around my chest i was so emmbarrased and just lost my entire social life because of it

[Tay]

My worst experience was having to go through school with it. Strange though that none of the other kids said anything about it, but yet I still felt out of place. The other worst experience was in the hospital having to show different doctors my chest. After a while it felt like I was giving them a free preview, Hah!

There were a lot of female nurses always in attendance which made me fell even worst as I felt as if I was in competition with them and I was winning hands down.

I wrote an article on my condition and the fear of surgery.  I'm glad I got it done now - I feel so much lighter. Believe me they felt like weights and one was slightly larger than the other. Grab whatever inspiration you can from my article.

http://healthmad.com/medicine/how-surgery-inspired-fitness/

Thanks, Tay

[rds54]

Well, I noticed my gyne back in 7th or 8th grade and since then have always avoided situations in which I need to take off my shirt. Sometimes the urge to swim would overcome me and I'd just go for it (sometimes I'd wear a shirt while swimming heh). One day when I didn't, I'd see friends looking at my puffy nipples, I'd shrug it off. When we got out my buddy had a towel wrappen around his body, from upper check to legs. My other friend made a remark about him covering his boobs (he had pecs), so he responded "I'm not the one that needs to cover my breasts." He stared right at me and everyone laughed.

That was probably the worst, because it was close friends. That hurt. But I'd say the collection of bad memories including selecting clothes, gusts of wind hitting my chest straight on, missing out on good memories on the lake, pools, the river in my town. Upon graduating college, I WILL get this surgery. I'm done dealing with this. Some can accept it by I can't. it was good to get that out. I thank God for this website and all if you on here sharing experiences. Makes my whole situation a little more bearable knowing I'm not alone.

[samkilty]

I am currently a wrestler in high school. Having to weigh in everyday after practice, with everyone watching me. Weighing in before a meet, where you have to spin around slowly as the ref inspects you for ringworm and such. EVeryone that was going to wrestle would be standing in line watching me spin around. Incredibly embarrising. Also, as you all know, the wind hitting you the wrong way, and when you run you have to hold your shirt out if someones coming.

[ThatOneGuy]

Every time somebody notices and makes a comment about my moobs (which, during school is a pretty daily occurrence), I subconsciously add it to a sort of "collected aggravation" place in my mind.

Probably not healthy; but that's why I'm searching so desperately for a way to convince my parents and potential doctors that surgery is necessary.

[texastoast88]

Basically what everyone has listed before, I've experienced. I guess the worst memory if I had to select one would be a few years ago when I was living in the dorms. I graduated from Texas State University and there is an awesome river that flows through the city, fed by a natural spring the water stays a constant 79 degrees year round - it's a popular place for any and all who live in San Marcos to go and sun bathe, play frisbee, swim, just have a good time. Naturally I avoided it at all costs as not to reveal my chest. Anywho, one day my roommates were in the room getting all their river shit together (ie. tubes, bathing suits, beer etc.) There were also a couple very cute girls in the room whom I was talking to about a paper I was working on at the time on this Friday afternoon. My roommates friend, whom I'll call Carter, walked in and started to play guitar hero and wait for everyone to get ready. Then out of nowhere, he asked me "Hey man, why don't you ever come to the river with us? Is it because of your boobs?" and then he started laughing. I could feel my face turn red and quickly I cooked up a story about how I nearly drowned when I was a kid (I know it's dumb but I was on the spot). Literally everyone looked at me like I was a jackass and started laughing, even the ladies. Needless to say, I was crushed.

For someone with gynecomastia who is truly embarrassed by it, the dorm life spawned tons of horror stories about people calling me out for always being covered up. I'm just glad it's over and the surgery is coming.