I'm a 46-year-old male who had gynecomastia surgery 2 years ago and have been dealing with hypersensitive nipples ever since. It hurts when I touch them and during cold temperatures. Is this common or should I be worried? Anything I can do to improve it?
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Answer: Hypersensitive nipples 2 years after gynecomastia surgery
To make a gynecomastia assessment, we need to see quality pictures.
There are three tissue variables that determine someone’s candidacy for this procedure.
Each of these variables continue to chest appearance and understanding how much each is contributing helps determine the best treatment a...
Your surgery can easily be done with a light oral cocktail (1 mg Xanax, 25 mg phenergan and two pain pills . . . or nothing) and local tumescent anesthesia. The option used depends on the surgeon’s experience, some have never learned the local method and rely on MAC (IV sedation with an a...
Gynecomastia surgery is not always straightforward or simple.
The candidacy for quality outcomes, varies substantially from patient to patient and a careful assessment of all tissue variables is required to make an accurate assessment regarding someone’s for quality outcomes.
It’s important to ...