to find it disturbing that

[biddysmama]

this was posted on a breastfeeding forum i'm a member of

" I am a man who has a medical condition which has caused me to lactate, this started over a year ago and I've been seeing doctors for this ever since... but they haven't yet found a way to stop it. I was in quite a lot of discomfort so my doctor advised that I should use a breastpump... both for comfort and to avoid mastitis. It seems that the amount of prolactin in my blood is always astronomically high whether I pump or not, so that kinda helps. Since it started the amount of milk I've been producing has increased quite steadilly, so at the moment I'm pumping about 7 times a day and producing roughly 1300ml per day. I go to university so I often have to skip a pumping session or two for my lessons and just leak through it."

he goes on to say he now donates the milk to a milk bank.....

(i understand its a genuine medical condition, but on a breastfeeding forum???)

[runnybottom]

he said he doesn't have a prolactinoma though, he said the cause is unexplained.

[Magaly]

i'd give him a double mastectomy.

[Magaly]

and if that didn't work I'd scoop out his pituitary gland with an icecream scooper.

[thumbwitch]

ah, didn't go and find the original post, just read what was on here.
Unexplained cause hey. I can't see the actual point of this trollery, if it is a troll - except to maybe freak out any poor woman using milk from the milk bank.

[dorisbonkers]

My parents friends used to work in the pron mag industry and I've heard from my mother about the many weird and bizarre predilictions (smoking, plushies etc) and lactation is a fairly common one. Well fairly common at the weird end of the sexual spectrum.

Yes men can lactate, but the disengenous wording of this, coupled with lactation being a thing among certain men makes me certain this is an elaborate fantasy.

[pingviner]

its possible for a man to lactate but is usually a drug side effect or neuroendocrine issue - could be a paraneoplastic thing i suppose if no pituitary tumour. I cant think of many types of non pituitary tumuor that would produce prolactin but im not an expert in this area

but i cant imagine any endocrinologist worth their salt shrugging - hey its medically unexplained have a breast pump and get on with it... maybe start your own ice cream business...?

it also seems pretty unlikely that UK milk banks would accept it