So I have pretty limited sensation in my chest. Basically, I have normal sensation on my ribs, sternum, collarbone area, etc, but everywhere on the boobs themselves doesn't have much, especially on and around my nipples. I can feel firm pressure, and I can also feel something if I'm intensely cold, but light touches are pretty impossible to feel.

It's been this way for years now, at a minimum since I was about 15. I'm guessing it has something to do with the fact that I effectively started binding as soon as there was anything on my chest that moved (wearing the tightest sports bras that I could find basically all the time that I wasn't in the shower, and then more recently with standard binders but not for as many hours).

Has anyone else experienced anything like this? Is it something I should talk to my doctor about? I figure I'll probably mention it to a top surgeon, but I've never brought it up with any doctors before.

It's been the same for me since they grew, honestly. I can feel my nipples fully but all the rest of the skin is pretty insensitive, especially below the nipple. I never really noticed until they got itchy one day and I realized I couldn't feel it when I scratched.

I'm not sure what caused it, since I didn't start wearing a binder until much later, and I'm not sure if feeling will return after top surgery. Perhaps you should mention it to your doctor just to see what they say, but definitely mention it to your surgeon.

Same here. My upper chest was fine but on the fatty part of the chest where the boobs started there wasn't much feeling at all as well as my areolas and nipples. I also binded with various different types of tape for a few years when I first started off so maybe that had something to do with it?

It's odd, now that I've had top surgery my chest is SUPER sensitive. Even my tanktop brushing against my nipples feels much rougher and intense than I imagined it would.

Thanks for replying! It's oddly reassuring to know that other folks have had this going on too. I always just kind of thought of it as another way in which that part of my body was bizarre.

timbuck2, that's fascinating that you actually have more sensation since top surgery. If you don't mind my asking, what kind of surgery did you have? Were your nipples grafted or did they stay attached?

M->-bleeped-<-ie: double mastectomy with nipple grafts. I assumed since they were grafted on I wouldn't have much feeling at all but they're so sensitive I was initially worried something was wrong. Someone pinched my nipple as a joke a few weeks ago and it literally hurt for days. I miss not having any sensation

As far as I can tell, many women don't have strong sensations in the upper layer of their breast skin. Like you said, firm pressure is felt, but even before I started binding if I scratched my chest with one hand and scratched immediately under it on my belly with the other the sensations were definitely different.

timbuck2: wow, that's intense. I don't know whether I'd be worried or curious if that happened to me. How long has it been since surgery? Has the sensation changed at all as you've healed?

randomroads: Huh, I wonder why that is and how common that might be. In my small sample size of female bodied folks whose chests I've had significant interactions with, they all seemed to have far more sensation than I did, especially on their nipples. Then again, it isn't something I ask people about very often.

M->-bleeped-<-ie: Tomorrow makes 4 full months and they've felt like this ever since the scabbing first came off. Im starting to think that maybe male nipples just feel this way and I just never knew because I was used to feeling close to nothing at all

I love feeling my manly pecs below my collar bones.

yeah i don't think it's a case of binding. i've never bound but i have no sensation either. i googled the issue just out of curiousity and it came up with a load of girls complaining about the same thing and people reassuring them that it's a common issue along with many other triggering statements. so i couldn't read much but what i collected is that it's normal.

Am I the only one who has perfectly normal feeling in his chest area? Lol

Quote from: Erik Ezrin on March 21, 2014, 06:19:16 AM
Am I the only one who has perfectly normal feeling in his chest area? Lol

I did/do!  when it felt good (rare) it felt really good but when it felt bad (often) it felt really bad.  Just to put in a note - I bound for maybe 1 year (or a little more).

Post surgery I've yet to have anyone attempt to make that area feel good, but I certainly can feel it (and it never feels bad anymore =p)  I'm about 5 years post op.