Distended Nipples

Not sure if this is the right forum to post this. I’ve had distended and puffy nipples since puberty. I’ve got a fatty chest but not gynomacostia. My nipples have always made me self conscious cause often times even when i layer up with two shirts my nipples poke out. I know there is really nothing I can do about it short of surgery. I usually end up putting band-aids on them, which flattens them out, when i go out of the house. Is there anyway I’m exacerbating the condition, having them taped back all day makes them jut further out? (kind of like turtling after overdoing it on a PE workout). It is hard to tell if they have become more distended, sometimes it seems like they have but it could be my mind playing tricks on me. But I was just wondering if anyone thought the taping back with band aids would exacerbate the condition.

Yes I do believe that taping back with band aids exaerbates the condition. Why not try a tighter A shirt under your regular shirt that has more lycra to the fabric that may help in pushing your nipples back. Also have you thought that maybe your nipples could be one of your calling cards? that make you unique just a question. but you have already stated that this is a very sensetative issue for you.

Yeah I’m just way self-conscious about it, just makes me feel completely uncomfortable in most situations

Hey me too , Been having soft and puffy nipples since puberty, Haven’t tried band aid, used to wear tanks/vests under my shirt always.Never been an issue till now.

Hey yeah I have had these since puberty and have thought of different ways to hide the “issue”. Best thing that I found was what pinger suggested and wear a t-shirt under a t-shirt, or any undershirt for that matter. Also shirts with even a slight plastic logo across the chest works for me too. Not too expensive either, just some Nike t-shirts or any other brand.

Hey Marc, I’m right there with you.

I used to be very physically active in High School; had to stay in pretty good shape for marching band, wanted to get noticed by the girls but didn’t want to lose a public affinity for the nerdier side of things, etc., etc. I had gotten to the point where I could do ten reps of one hundred crunches, one the center, upper, and obliques. Even while smoking, I could flat out sprint one hundred yards, and would run 5 miles everyday. I curled sixty pounds on each arm, and pressed my body weight on the bench. All of this while staying under 190 lbs. At 6’3”.

I was in pretty good shape.

But then, I got married and had children, and now, LESS than ten years later, I am soft, flabby, pushing 210 lbs, haven’t done a serious stable workout for more than two weeks in over two years.I just don’t have the time anymore [which is probably why I haven’t EVER had any clear gains, even after five years of PE]. Of course, the ONE thing I am more conscious of than any other part of my body are my new nipples. These little bastard warhead cones poke out of anything and just totally destroy my own self-image, especially when I catch people looking at them. I don’t care as much about my love-handles, near-double-chin, flabby ass, or stretch marks nearly as much as my nips. On top of the new appearance, when they started going coney they invited new visitors to come and play: hair. Nasty little pube-like curlies coming out of my areola.but only the top half. I understand that nip hair is totally normal for men, but it’s just something I never had before, and I didn’t [and don’t] like it.

I’ve been trying to work out my chest to get rid of the nips, but it hasn’t been working yet.

If it bothers you as much as it bothers me, then do what I do, which is a slight modification of the “wear tighter undershirts” bit:
I go out and get a cheap sleeveless muscle shirt or running shirt, such as Target’s Champion brand or something. I always buy at least one size too small. This will compress your chest enough to flatten those nips out for public engagements like church or the strip-club. This shirt will probably not be long enough to tuck into your pants [because it is 1~2 sizes too small], and that can feel really weird after a while. So cut the bottom half of it off. This is the same concept as a football half-shirt for practice or exercise, but real tight instead of loose and free. You have essentially made yourself a man-bra or a man-girdle. If the shirt is made of an artificial, stretchy material, you may have to get an elastic thread and sow a small finishing cuff on the bottom of where you cut [if this is the case, be sure to allow about an extra inch for fold-under before you cut].

And yes, bitches, I can sew. By hand or with a machine. It’s a skill that every man should learn, if only so they can save about $1000/year per child on clothes or just so they can make their own leather musketeer frock a la Sulu in Search for Spock and Voyage Home. Plus, if you lose a button and a bitch ain’t there to fix it for you, who looks like the dum-dum?

Anyway, this all seems like a lot of work, but it is an effective, if temporary solution.one that I have employed successfully. The best thing, for both of us, would be to have an effective workout solution that simultaneously filled out the chest while stretching all the flesh back towards the scapula or clavicle, but as the venerable Jagger said, “You can’t always get what you want.” And don’t worry about any jerks or weirdos trying to tell you you’re a jerk or a weirdo for any of this.those without pointy/puffy nips cannot understand.

As a final note, I’m going to try a new treatment.Coconut Butter and Vitamin E Oil has worked well for the reduction of stretch marks elsewhere on my bod, and the basic mechanic of these is to normalize blood flow and melanin distribution to the skin to inhibit discoloration. So I am going to combine one or both to the nippies and get a little sunbath to toughen the skin slightly and stimulate said melanin production.that is, if I can ever find time for a sunbath!

I’ll let you know if it works, but may take a few weeks.

Shasta - nice of you to try and encourage, but at least for me, I don’t want my calling card to be akin to having a vestigial tail or a clawfoot. The modern-day image of men and women are very largely influenced by the appearance of their chests, so it tends to be a little more complicated than “well, it makes you unique or special.” Don’t mean to sound angry or offended or anything, don’t get it twisted. But would you tell a woman with one B breast and one DD breast that it makes her unique or special? She probably wouldn’t appreciate it.

Yeah definatly let me know how it works out for you with the coconut butter and vitamin E oil, i used that stuff for my stretch marks when I was bulking up for powerlifting. My nips are a bit better now because I am on a mass gaining routine for strongman next year so the skin is beginning to tighted around the trunk of my body as my chest/back gets thicker. I’m anxious to here if it works!