When my nipples are hard I'm fine with my breasts but when they are not hard, my areolas become puffy! Is this puffiness something I can fix without surgery? Is there something wrong with me? could I be taking a medication? There is never any type of pain in my breasts. Thank you.
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Matt Erdmann, MBChB, FRCS(Eng), FRCS (Plast) says:
Nipples are not meant to be permanently erect - they would only become very sore (as in athletes who run a marathon and get very sore nipples from chafing). You could look to have HA fillers injected into the nipples which would stiffen them, fillers last about two years and may give...
Your condition is not common -- it is a developmental abnormality. One of the sides has two rudimentary nipples. Surgery can be done to remove the intervening tissue and parts of each nipple that face each other, thereby resulting in a single nipple. The other side has three rudimentary ni...
There are no non-invasive solutions as far as I know. Piercing or fillers are considered non-surgical and can offer a temporary solution ( even with piercings nipples can get used to them). I use cartilage when I do nipple reconstruction after breast cancer treatment,...
