Inverted nipple surgery

[togetherlikeglue]

I had this in Health but didn't get any responses.

I'm considering having this done. My nipples have been inverted since pregnancy years ago. Nipplettes only work very temporarily. Can anyone who has had this done themselves recommend a surgeon in Cambridgeshire / Hertfordshire / Essex / N London? Thanks

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Could you maybe explain your reasons for thinking of something so extreme as surgery? It does seem a bit much to me, just to have outty nipples

I agree with Orcadian.

Seems drastic?

fwiw, mine are innies. I temporarily have outies during my breastfeeding years.

I can understand you asking why I'm considering it but I don't want to get into it on this thread.

I think it can be a confidence thing especially when getting into a new relationship. Guessing the % of innies is quite low and so most blokes have never cone across them.

There are also some health issues that can occur from innies...though can't remember what they are.

Sorry I can't help with surgery but interested to know if you do find somewhere.

Hi Op-I had it done around 8 years ago. I can recommend my surgeon but it's in West Midlands area!

Thanks Figroll16 - probably a bit far! Although actually I have family there...maybe you can give me the name anyway, I might be able to arrange it.

It's Dr Kat-think her website is Kat & Co. She was recommended to me by someone else.

Have you tried or even would you try nipple piercings for 3 months? I read 3 months trainss the ducts to elongate thus not pulling the nipple in.

Hi Op. I looked into it and it sounded expensive and painful. Only one of mine was inverted and I had it pierced instead . Cost me £40 , looks fab and the piercer said there's no way it will go back in if I took the bar out. I've had it for years now.

You can always take it out if you don't like it, but I found it was an instant solution to something that had been bugging me for eternity!

Yikes @yodaandmedication the thought of a piercing freaks me out more than surgery! Ha. I don't have any other piercings at all, not even my ears!

I did try niplettes a few times, once for about three months, and they went back in pretty quickly when I reduced use.

About 10% of women have inverted nipples so not particularly rare but it's easily possible that people have never seen one.

Hi @togetherlikeglue ! I had mine surgically corrected about 6 or 7 years ago and it was absolutely well worth it.

I had the most sever (Grade 3) inverted nipples you can get. Totally in, like slits and they barely ever came out and when they did they were tiny. When i ws cold and had goose-pimples they went in even more. One boyfriend in my teens called me Volcano Tits which stuck with me forever.

I wasn't able to breastfeed, which was really upsetting for me as i wanted to badly. The midwives all tried for me and after a while just handed me a bottle in the hospital. There was literally no hope in hell of being able to.

I did LOADS of research and found the best guy in the country by all accounts. Mr Adrian Richards. I had it done at The Private Clinic in North London, but if you google him he works at loads of diff hospitals around the country. My nearest station is Peterborough and so i went down on the train on my own, had lunch, then went there had it done, went shopping for a couple of hours and then home on the train on my own again. Hardly any pain, a couple of Nurofen took it away anyway.

So, its local anaesthetic and you're awake. You lie on the op table, they inject your nipple, (which hurt, not gonna lie) But then you feel nothing at all. A tiny incision is made at the base of where your nipple will be and he sticks a scalpel in there and does a sweeping motion to cut all your milk-ducts which are basically way too short and hence tethering your nipple inwards. As soon as they are all cut, it pops out! A tiny stitch and a bit of tape for a few days and ta da! I was so excited to see them. Its great! I was 42 when i had it done and for the first time in my life i feel normal. Because for me that's what it was about, feeling normal and unembarrassed. I now walk about showing my boobs off to my husband, i still stare at them in wonder in the shower etc! I no longer wear a bra during sex!

Have it done if my story resonates with you. You won't regret it.

The Private Clinic

I don;t work for him or them btw, i just did a lot of research and am sharing that with you as a starting point. x

@JellyComb but if they sever all the milk ducts then presumably no breastfeeding possible

Aren't there procedures that maintain the possibility of breastfeeding?

The Video that's showing as Age Restricted is a Youtube of him actually doing the procedure.

If you go to Youtube yourself and search for 'Bilateral inverted nipple correction surgery - Aurora Clinics' you can watch it if you're not too squeamish. I watched it and it was the thing that made my mind up to have it done.

@tutttutt With mine, which were Grade 3 level, there was no possibility of breastfeeding ANYWAY. There might be if you are Grade 1 or 2, but not for me.

I guess you can go down the Nipplette route which works for less invertsions, but i kind of assume that if the OP says she's done that already and it didn't work then she might be a Grade 3.

As a side note, although i couldn't breastfeed i did produce an absolute tonne of milk! Babies have to latch onto your nipple but pumps don't.

@JellyComb thank you this is really interesting. Future breastfeeding not a problem (that's all behind me now) - like you, my babies couldn't latch. It was heartbreaking.

Oh wow so you could pump??? Where did the milk come out of if not the nipple? The milk ducts were no longer connected to the nipple where did the milk flow through to get to the pump?

@tutttutt No I mean I could pump BEFORE surgery, but not breastfeed. After surgery you can't.

Before surgery you still have a milk ducts and a nipple it's just that the nipple is kind of inside out. Milk still come out of the inverted nipple though.

Sorry if I wasn't clear!

I understand. My dd has one inverted so I'm interested in the process. I'm not sure what grade. It doesn't pop out ever but it's not completely inset