Should I worry that my nipple inverts occasionally when taking off bra and sometimes when lying down flat on my stomach?

Hi annie146

Inverted nipples can be corrected with a minor surgical procedure performed under local anesthesia. Nipple inversion correction surgery aims to preserve the nipple’s usual sensation, avoid visible scarring, and maintain the functioning of the breast duct to enable breastfeeding. For more information about this procedure, please visit our website.

Inverted nipples are quite common and are seen very often in the course of a plastic surgeons practice. It may just involve one dimple or could involve both. Changes may be dynamic or static. Dynamic means that it retracts sometimes but is able to protrude. A static inverted nipple is a nipple that is always pulled in. The vast majority of these times this is a benign condition. Rarely but very seriously, a nipple could invert by the presence of a malignant tumor just under the nipple. One would not expect the nipple to be able to protrude in this scenario. If one has a new finding of an inverted nipple which it never had done before, whether one is young or old or male or female, it is worth investigation to rule out an underlying tumor. But if it has been a long-standing issue, the chances are extraordinarily slim that it could represent an underlying cancer.

Based on your history it looks that you have mild inverted nipple deformity. it can be corrected with surgery in local anesthesia preserving milk ducts to allow for breast feeding in the future. Only on the basis of in person evaluation one can rule out possible mass (malignancy) although it is very unlikely. good luck.