As you all know I've been having trouble with my nipples ever since I started puberty. Around age 13 two fairly large lumps began growing under each nipple and caused them to stick out. This problem caused me great embarrassment especially during the summer and the locker room for sports. After becoming fed up with it I began online researching and I discovered that I wasn't alone and that actually 1/3 of teenagers have suffered from it at sometime during puberty. The disorder is called "gynecomastia" and since I don't feel like explaining the whole condition I'll give you some basics. It has 3 main causes: puberty, drugs/medication, and tumors. The lumps are very painful to touch and sometimes will feel tingly and burns a little to the sufferer. Most often the nipples will have no discharge, and if they it is not gynecomastia. Since the lumps were never present before I started puberty it automatically singled out the cause. If you'd like to know more just simply search "gynecomastia" on Google. Anyway, I recently found a treatment for it that doesn't involve surgery, it's an androgen called Andractim and it's a testosterone gel you apply to your nipples. The hormone seeps through your skin pores and into your bloodstream and within a few weeks supposedly the problem disappears. Very exciting indeed, I almost jumped out of my chair when I read about it. You see the reason gynecomastia occurs in puberty is due to hormones specifically estrogen that cause slight changes in your body. This hormones run uncontrolled and attack certain parts of your body. Sometimes the problem resolves itself in a few years and sometimes surgery is required. I'd rather not risk scarring or the cost of surgery so I'm almost certain I'd like to use the gel.I was wondering if anyone has used this gel before and what the results were. I'm fairly confident nothing bad can come of it and if anything bad things appear you can simply stop taking it.
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Andractim for gynecomastia
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it seems I already told you about this, but in case it was someone else here goes again.its called rock tit.thats slang of course, but thats what my dad called it and I had it, so did he, and all 3 of my brothers and both of my sons when they hit puberty.Never tried anything to make it better, just suffered through it. too long ago to recall exactly but it seems like it was one for about to 5 months and then the other with a over lap of a month or so between them.Your not the only one who suffered through the shit, and many are yet to come after you.
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Why don't you just deal with it?
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You can't exactly deal with it. It's really annoying, painful, and embarrassing. They stick out through your shirt. You can't take your shirt off in public because people will stare and make comments. In Grvtykllr's situation everyone in his family went through the same thing so it was understood. I'm the only one in my family who has it. Also I like wearing tight shirts and I dont even wear t shirts anymore because they stick out through.
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actually you can deal with it. I still had school to deal with and I stil had a life.I dont recall ti being real bad, tender and sore, damned right, and flashing the head lights wasnt exactly prime time for a good time. But I got through it.IF this was available to me when I had it, Id at least look into it.I had2 older brothers, think they dint make my life hell? I got more than my fair share of titty twisters and beat downs. Fuck one is 10 years older than me and the other is 7. the younger one is 3 years younger than me, ya think that wasnt his first target when we got into fights and that was almost daily?You can get through it, but if you can afford not to have to and it poses little health risks, than why?Id look into it, but not decide till I had more information. it is possible to go with out, and a few million people have dealt with it and a few million more will as well with no help.
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I've had this as well. Actually, it went away on the one nipple (I think the right) quite a while ago (maybe a year) but got it on the left now. Doesn't bother me too much, though.
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how long did it take to go away grvtykllr?
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check into the health risks of the cream, like allergic reactions, increased possibilities of other dysfunctions. Hell, make sure it doesn't give you an increased chance of breast cancer :P
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it was atleast a year, first one nip than the other with some overlap of both of them hurting. atleast hats what I think, but its been like 24 years or so since I had to deal with it.
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try 3 years. and i messed up on the age it started. It started a month after i turned 12.
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I had gynaecomastia on my left nipple from age 17 to age 21. It's cleared up now but for those few years it hurt to wear clothes that were too tight as the abrasion on my left breast was too much to take sometimes.I just dealt with it. I always got the mickey taken out of me for having "moobs" but for every time someone had a laugh, I'd stop and explain that it was a medical condition. For most of the people I explained it to they actually felt guilty for insulting a condition.What can you do about it?- Sit around like a little bitch and moan- Ignore it, know that it will go away and leave it at that- Take steps to hide it, like working out your pectorals, which will have an overall benefit on your health as wellSorry for the tough love, but I'm under the impression that if this treatment was any good, gynecomastia wouldn't be as common as it is now.
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I can remember feeling uncomfortable about my nipples since sometime during high school. It was in the changing room of course..Now I'm 22, and I still have gyno. It's enough for me to want to do something about it:Personally, I'm going to give andractim a try, and plan B will be the knife (surgery). No big deal. My mind is made up.
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I had gynecomastia,male breasts and micro penis,when I was 12.My sixth grade teacher admonished me one day for wearing a see thru knit shirt,calling me up to had desk and saying"wear a tee shirt under your knit shirt from now on,I can see your Breasts!Needless to say,I didn't appreciate her comments back in Chicago.Here in Mormon Utah a friend was asked to leave a public swimming pool due to gynecomastia,true story but in Utah,they don't allow Speedos on the boys at Brigham Young University so that doesn't surprise me a bit,lol (www.puberty101.com)I learned to live with breasts,actually became proud of them,became a naturist and swam nude at the YMCA as a boy and nude at my high school boys swim classes,later on joined the ASA as a teen and the Naturist Society(www.naturistsociety.com)and spent the rest of my life as a naturist as did my wife kids later on,still love skinny dipping sauna,hot tubbing,sports,boating au natural at the nudist resorts and found long ago many males have breasts and micro penis's.In fact about 18% of breast cancer patients are males in America!The male announcer on The Price Is Right a few years back died from breast cancer,so enjoy be proud of what you got,don't hide them,lots of guys are like you me,enjoy your body,it's yours,be safe,smell the Roses,Chubbiboi[b][/b]
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Hello DearYou can't exactly deal with it. It's really annoying, painful, and embarrassing. They stick out through your shirt. You can't take your shirt off in public because people will stare and make comments. In Grvtykllr's situation everyone in his family went through the same thing so it was understood. I'm the only one in my family who has it. Also I like wearing tight shirts and I dont even wear t shirts anymore because they stick out through.[Edited to remove spam]