Man with Breasts At The Emergency Room

One Man's Experience with Male Breast Enlargement

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August 18th, 2011 by Aleya

A couple of weeks ago, I developed a high fever of 103 degrees, which is a tad high for an adult. At my wife’s insistence, she is a nurse, I called my health care provider and the nurse on call – said I should get checked out. This was around midnight on a Saturday which meant I was going to have to go the emergency room…

Knowing I was going to be examined I did not wear a bra and wore a loose shirt. Eventually though I would end up wearing a hospital gown.

The timing was good upon our arrival, and my wife and I were quickly shown to an examination room,, where I lay down on a typical examination table. As part of my care, a female nurse placed several monitoring electrodes on the front of my body. It should be noted that when I am flat on my back my breasts flatten out and are not so noticeable, if you are not expecting to see them – so I doubt that the female nurse thought I was anything unusual.

So now I was being monitored for my heart rate, blood oxygen level and blood pressure. I was also hooked up to an IV for dehydration. Blood was drawn as well for tests and a urine sample was taken, to see if they could identify an infection.

As we were waiting for the doctor to arrive, a male nurse or technician came in to scan my heart and take a EEG (heart system check-up). This meant more electrodes being attached to my upper chest.

As the male nurse placed an electrode on or near my right breast, something strange happened. As he began to move his hand to place another electrode elsewhere – his hand did a kind of double take and went back and squeezed my right breast. Then he got over his lapse and continued with the procedure.

Intellectually, I am certain that the male nurse thought he was dealing with a normal male patient – not with a man with breasts. So that his momentary groping, was an involuntary reaction to finding a breast where he did not expect it. There was no intent to take advantage of me…

Emotionally though, I felt violated, that I had been touched or groped inappropriately.

This was a completely visceral or bodily reaction. I have not been trained from my youth to protect my body as many women are. I do not think I had any cultural reason to have this reaction. Instead my emotional response to this man’s touching my breast, took me completely by surprise, I have never felt this kind of sense of violation before.

I think this bodily reaction is programmed into my breasts – to know when they are being touched correctly and when they are not. And this feeling of violation, of being fondled incorrectly, was not a momentary one, it stayed with me for a couple of days.

This is one of many incidents where I have experienced new sensations or new reactions that never happened before I grew breasts. I truly believe that my breasts have given my another way to feel or experience the world. What a gift…

By the way, I was alright – nothing medically troubling was found. My fever went away and I returned to my normal blood pressure and temperature, etc.

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3 Responses

Andie writes:
August 21st, 201111:45 pmat

Hi Aleya.

First off. I am glad to hear that you are ok physically. Did you figure out what was wrong?

I am sorry to hear that you were treated in less than a professional manner. It does not matter if you are male or female. This medical professional would not have made such a move on a female patient. He would have risked a lawsuit or getting fired.

It was not acceptable for this person to do this to you. Whether you are male or female. Have breasts or not. What will this tech do if he comes across a male with gynecomastia.

While mentally you may feel that it was understandable, and you may not want to make waves. Emotionally, you feel you were physically violated due to what happened. There may need to be something done to help you feel better. I hope you have talked to someone (your wife maybe) about this.

It is amazing how, though we are male. As we take on female physical characteristics. Our physical and emotional responses become more female. After all, if someone was to walk in on us while topless. How many of us developing breasts would move our arms to cover our breasts. Rather than stand there.

I guess that is one argument to always wear your bra. It definitely acts as a physical barrier to such inadvertent groping.

I hope I was clear in what I was trying to say. As a male, like yourself, growing breasts. It is assumed that medicals professionals are going to be professional. It is disturbing to hear that some are not.

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Aleya writes:
August 22nd, 20111:44 pmat

Thanks for your concern – nothing in the tests were found , it was probably just a random “bug” that my body had a hard time dealing with for a few days…

I did talk to my wife about this – psychologically I am fine, too.

While I don’t think that the tech acted too unprofessionally, I do think you have underscored an important issue.

As more men with breasts show up in medical offices and hospitals – medical staff will need to recognize our particular needs in terms of privacy issues and physical attributes.

Additionally, this topic leads to the question of: Do we have any particular medical needs or concerns? For example, when should I think about getting a mammogram… Is our changed hormonal balance a concern?

I really like the point about wearing a bra – as an identifier – that is a good idea.

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Andie writes:
August 22nd, 20119:31 pmat

Well, I bet that was a conversation she never thought she would have with you. 🙂

I am glad to hear that you are ok with what happened. Yes it was probably just an accident. Thanks for sharing what happened and how you felt when it did. I don’t think that we give a lot of thought to how we are going to react and feel about out new body parts. Thus we are caught off guard when a new situation, outside of and relegated in our minds to women, arises because of our change in physicality. New emotional frontiers.

As for hormonal balances. I know that estrogen can affect the bones. Making them brittle due to a loss in calcium. I don’t know if phytoestrogens cause the same thing to happen. I was wondering if you knew?

As far as a mammogram, I think we feel about that, the same way we do about a prostate exam. It is uncomfortable and embarrassing, but something we will need to get done to protect our health. I would say that if you are at the stage that you need to wear a bra. You should have one done.

I would think that you would be in a good position on this issue. Your wife can check with her Gyno to see if he or she would do it for you. And set up some privacy for you at the clinic. Hey! You could go in for his and hers mammograms. The other ladies would think you were there to support your wife. Us single guys would be on our own.

A bra definitely sets a defined barrier to prying eyes and hands and leaves no doubts that what is behind it is private.

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