The rest of my body is slim and athletic but for some reason I have flabby boob-like tissue on my chest! I also seem to have larger than average nipples.
What the HELL is causing this? How do i get rid of it?? Are there any excercises that would help me reduce the affected areas??? Would changing my diet help in any way???
there is a medical term for this condition but i can’t remember what it is. i worked with a guy who had the same situation and read up on it, but that was ten years ago.
i would check google search engine, type in “male breasts,” or something similar.
I believe the medical term is “gynomastia”. Some bodybuilders on steroids get this condition, when the excess testosterone in their system converts to estogen, and gives them what they call “bitch tits”.
Glilly is correct. One of our morning trivia services posed the question “What plastic surgery is performed the most on U.S. men?”
The correct answer was breast reduction.
Well, hey, you’re in a big crowd.
Well there are cases of gender misidenitity. Depending on hormone levels during fetus development you could have the sex organs of one gender (male) but actually have the genes of the other (female - XX). Unlikely but it does happen. I would think that you would be having err, umm other problems if that were the case too.
tsunamisurfer- “*Ever think that a cruel, smart-ass, response to someone’s obvious pain isn’t appropriate and violates SDMB Rule #1: “don’t be a jerk”? *”
I’m gonna give DPWhite the benefit of the doubt and assume he must have interpretted “man-boobs” to refer to a woman with a man-like chest, rather than a man with a woman-like chest.
For the record, I am 100%- err, um 98% MALE.
But I definately DO have gynecomastia, although it’s not as bad as some of the guys in OneChance’s link.
My apologies fellow dopers, I thought the original post was yanking our chain. And I have to agree about humor: all of humor is at someone’s expense, usually a misunderstanding. So, don’t laugh or find any humor amusing, because you are being a vampire off of someone’s pain. (Not my original theory, Robert Heinlein’s). Remember, guys, no laughter.
And as a 235 pound 6 foot fellow, I’m enough in the club, so there. It’s not like we lose sleep over fatty deposits or male pattern baldness.
Well, I remembered it from hight school health classes so I looked it up and found support in medline’s medical encyclopedia. Here’s my first ever attempt at a link.