Hey everyone,

Male in my early 30s. I had gynecomastia reduction surgery about 7-8 years ago. It totally transformed my chest AND my nipples. I finally felt like I had a masculine, flat chest. This has been especially true when I’m consistent with my diet and weight lifting. Totally transformed my self confidence and the clothes I can wear, my sex life, self esteem… all of that.

However, my nipples after surgery, absolutely prettier than before, and they look “normal”, the actual nipple - not the areola - projects out more than I’d like and is bigger than I’d like. Also, my right side is a little bit bigger than the left which is not really noticeable at first glance but I notice it.

Also, my right nipple basically gets rock hard with any slight touch or anything so it’s always hard where the right takes longer to get hard which makes them look more uneven.

While I don’t usually get comments on it, once or twice I have and it makes me more insecure than I already am about it.

Because of my nipples, even after surgery, I don’t feel comfortable wearing a white shirt (which, my men with gynecomastia know is the dream after surgery), I don’t feel comfortable wearing thin shirts of any color out in public, and even when I’m really muscular and built, I’m insecure wearing tight shirts to show off my muscles because my nipples always look hard and big (think Pamela Anderson or Jennifer Aniston). While yes my chest is “flat” meaning it doesn’t look like female breasts, (I do have pec muscle so it’s not like a flat wall) my nipples still make me feel like I look like I have a feminine leaning chest - or - it’s just embarrassing tbh to have such large nipples.

The areola isn’t visible in that it’s puffy, but the nipple is.

So this brings me to today, I’m increasingly insecure about it and frankly I’m tired of still avoiding lots of shirts and colors because of my nipples. I don’t want to wear any tight tank tops or compression garments because I freed myself from that with gynecomastia surgery.

I think I want to do this now and have surgery for my nipples. I’ve been researching and it seems to be minimally invasive, done under local anesthesia, finished in about an hour, about a week or two downtime for exercise, and minimal scarring.

I’m starting nursing school pre reqs next week and will have about a month and a half before my actual program starts after that, so I feel like that would be a great time to do it.

I made a consultation with a surgeon with the most before and after pics of this particular surgery that I found in my area in 3 weeks.

So this brings me to you guys, have any of you had this surgery? What was it like? Were your results worth it? Are you happy? Are you able to wear anything you want now? Are there any downsides?

Thanks everyone