Nipple hypersensitivity - help!

This describes me too. Not pain but just an awful irritating feeling.

15 years old, hopeful to try out anything I can when I graduate. I've also felt incredibly irritable when I was around 7. I remember how I'd complain all the time about how my underwear was always uncomfortable, but my mom would just leave it alone. I wish I could try tighter, padded bras or compression shirts instead. I don't know, just something else. I've heard some people use compression vests too, which sounds like a really good idea. Sometimes I just tape my nipples down so they don't rub on my bra, but I always get very irritable because my bra always moves around. Tape works for the nipples, but it burns after several times. I would tell my mom, but I'd rather figure it out myself instead of dealing with her misunderstanding. I just want to have them removed. This was the only site I was able to find other people with the same exact problem I was having!! The only thing that works right now is wearing two bras at once. I'm so glad I'm not the only one! Good luck to everyone!

If its a hormonal problem for most women, i know this might sound random, but go vegan? Im sure by now everyone knows what meat and dairy does to the body but if you dont watch Earthlings, Forks over knives, Before the flood, and Food Inc. If you all truly want to try something that might work i would give this a try. And i dont mean processed food vegan. I know some might be bias towards veganism but i have been vegan for 4 years and ALL of my hormonal problems have gone away. Just speaking from someone living it. I hope you all the best of luck. :)

YES. You are not alone.

My issue is similar in some degree to what everyone is describing, though in some ways different. It has been so many years, I have finally gotten to the point of such anger and frustration over this that I beat and scrape them severely with a wire brush to get relief from the "zingy" and very itchy sensations. It sometimes look like I've been nursing a mongoose. I keep hoping it will help desensitize them eventually, but it has been an endless battle from hour to hour for years. It will even wake me from a dead sleep. I'm beyond pissed off, and it makes my seasonal depression way worse. I'm working to save money so I can find a professional willing to try injecting them with Botox...

So no one seems to have an answer, and I'm not sure I do either but I definitely think it has to do with some nerve issues or damage, perhaps fibromyalgia or something similar. the only reason I say that is because every once in a blue moon, the slightest brush against one of my nipples, I feel it in my mouth. No, I'm not crazy, and I've never actually shared that with anyone before. But, that along with the fact that I do have nerve problems causes me to believe that nipple hypersensitivity is linked to other nerve problems. See if you have any other symptoms, who knows.

I am 57. had this since .. forever. I tried to breast feed my last child. I did it but was very uncomfortable!. I just learned to live with.. partner.. they are off limits unless ok with me like 3x a year. I find those nipple covers that are soft and he'll like work great . I wear them at night so I can take my bra off or else I sleep in my bra too.

Hi yes I have this, I also have Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, I always had heightened hearing, had a problem with people eating since I was a kid but the nipple sensitivity only started about 3 years ago and my skin broke out everywhere too, I’ve had so many hormone tests done and they all come back normal. I have to wear a bra all the time and as a result I have developed dermatitis on the nipple because they don’t get a break from fabric ( even cotton wool causes it). I end up in tears with the frustration of this and doctors are lost, I’m a 34 FF too so PMS is absolutely torturous. I NEED a solution to this I’m going insane!

Did you end up trying the lyrica? I can’t take it I had massive side effects ( hallucinations where I thought my hand was a piece of bread and put it in the toaster) so was taken off it ASAP. I suffer from Complex Regional Pain Syndrome and I am terrified that is what is causing this hypersensitivity

I have CRPS and I’m terrified that it is causing this in my nipples.

Did you ever find any relief? I’m also a guy in my 40’s and have had hyspersensitive nipples most of my life but it’s really been awful the last couple years. I had gynecomastia surgery just in the hopes that it would deaden some of the nerves and got a little relief. I’d be willing to try just about anything at this point.

Did you ever find a solution to this problem. I’m a guy with the same issue and hypersensitive nipples basically ruin my quality of life. I had gynecomastia surgery hoping that was fix and it has diminished but still terribly uncomfortable. I’m contrmplating nipple reduction at this point

I'm a little frustrated because some of the responders to this post describe feeling pain. Hyperesthesia (hypersensitivity) to touch or grazing is NOT PAIN in this particular condition. It is an extremely strange and horrible sensation. I find it troubling that the only MD that has responded thus far seems to perceive this as a problem with PAIN. Wrong doc!!! Also, I too suffer from what is perhaps a spectrum degree of misophonia. Eating sounds, certain voices, and keyboard typing drives me up the wall. I also have no clitoral sensation - which makes me wonder if it has something to do with the milk line in natal development. It seems to me that this intensely unpleasant sensation when grazed might feel completely different, even pleasing, in a distal and focal (instead of bifurcated) enervated part of the body. It seems like this should be studied by neurology. However, the nut job faction of psychiatrists that have infiltrated neurology will chalk this up as psychogenic...and having something to do with repressed sexual abuse. I wish they could strip those nuts of the credentials to keep peddling their Freudian nonsense. They are holding back neuroscientific inquiry into our problem.

OMFG

I have a theory y’all

I’m almost 35

I have a question for everyone who read the original post and it resonated - as with me - I too had no trauma in adolensence and have healthy sex but this nipple phobia is something I intend to reckon with. At first when I googled this I only found tons of posts about “pain” relating to my “sensitive” google language .... it’s not painful tho - necessarily - I’m learning if maybe the other person takes a certain approach if we are indeed about to feel the nipple pleasure we have heard so much about

FYI my brother has the same unexplainable hypersensitivity !!!!

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Hi everyone, I am a 19 year old male and I have the same impossibly irritating problem. I'm so happy I'm not the only one, and as someone has already stated, IT IS NOT PAIN WE ARE TALKING ABOUT. The main reason I sent a message as well is that, at least in my case, I think this awful sensation is at least partly related to my caffeine intake. I say this because, although my nipples had already started to be quite sensitive at the time (due to sexual stimulation), the first time they (suddenly) became as bad as anybody here has described is when I was on a coffee binge and was downing my second full cup. Since then, everytime I drink coffee the sensation comes back, sometimes even a couple days after having drunk it. So now I really don't wanna risk it as I'm 99% sure caffeine (so tea as well) plays a big part in this condition. Hope this information helps.