Nipple question

[okamikaze.livejournal.com]

Hello everyone,

Here's an interesting question that my boyfriend had last weekend. He is very fond of my nipples, well, he's fond of everything, really. But last weekend he was sucking on them and paying with them quite a bit. At one point, however he drew back and told me they were salty. I thought he was just imagining things, but eventually he proved it to me by playing with them some more and suceeding in drawing a tiny droplet of clear liquid. Apparently this persisted the entire weekend. He said it was slightly less salty than sweat, and I doubt sweat actually comes out of the nipple itself. So, what is that stuff? Is he actually, like I've been joking, causing me to lactate by playing with the girls too much?

Just curious.

Thank you in advance!

Comments

[jagnightwalker.livejournal.com]

Well for one thing, breast milk is sweet, not salty :D

Clear fluid depending on time of the month is ok..if it's copious amounts or an off color, I'd ask your doc about it. I was once oozing a little milky fluid yrs after I stopped nursing, and my doc made sure to do a test to check my pituitary gland....sometimes a tumor or abnormality there can cause this to happen.

But my gland was fine and she chalked it up to hormone changes.

[okamikaze.livejournal.com]

It might be the hormone changes, like you said. I'm on birth control, and I've been taking antibiotics, so that could've changed something.

It's happened before, and I always laughed it off. It's just that this time he actually proved to me that there's stuff coming out of my nipples. Lol

Thank you for the comment!

[10acgirl.livejournal.com]

Are you taking any medications? One medication is was taking made me lactate quite frequently, but it was more than just a drop..my shirt would be soaked through.

[okamikaze.livejournal.com]

I'm on birth control and antibiotics. It's very possible that I'm just experiencing hormone changes, as this has happened before. Only this time he proved to me that there's stuff coming out of there. Lol

[paraxeni.livejournal.com]

It's happened to me and my gf too. The first time it happened I got a bit of a shock, boobs aren't supposed to taste of stuff! Then as I was getting used to that, and getting on with generally being me, we were shagging one night and she went "UGH! What's THAT? Your boobs are SALTY!". Haha revenge is mine! So now we both lactate, which is beyond funny. In my case I take domperidone, a medication to control my vomiting. It's also well known for causing leaky boobs to the point that some women use it if they have difficulty establishing a milk supply. So all I have to do is look at a picture of something cute and I leak!

[okamikaze.livejournal.com]

Haha, yay salty revenge! I guess now if he plays with them too much I can threaten him with leakage. Not that he really minds it.

[archangelbeth]

Playing with the nipples and breasts cause prolactin hormones to be elevated. Prolactin is, well, "pro-lactation" -- it causes milk to be produced! So, yes, it's entirely possible that he managed to play with them enough to stimulate the milk glands (which are modified sweat glands!) into producing a little fluid.

This is pretty normal!

Now, how do I know about this prolactin stuff? I can, any old time, express green fluid from my breasts. (This happened before I was pregnant, not during, and after.) When sent to the endo, I demonstrated my Martian heritage and she got me a slip to get a blood test to check my prolactin levels. "But", she said, "don't do it right away -- you've been stimulating your breasts, and that will cause your prolactin levels to be elevated. Give it a few days."

(As it happens, "green" is normally abnormal, no one knows quite why (she pronounced me half-Martian and I went YAY!), but it's harmless.)

[caligogreywings.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I get a clear yellowish fluid, and we've just chalked it up to thyroid making weird prolactin levels.

[lolabobs.livejournal.com]

I wish I (and the nurses at the clinic I went to) had known this. When I started expressing green gunk from my boobies I went into full on panic mode - exacerbated when, on going to the walk in clinic, the two nurses who saw me let their eyes meet, heads shaking woefully at each other, before telling me to get to a GP *immediately*. Many tests (and weeks of stress) later I was assured it was okay.

This was before I knew of VP - another reason why this comm is so wonderful.

OP - sorry to hijack your thread, wish I had something useful to say for you :)

Martian lactaters unite (slightly off-topic)

[archangelbeth]

First time it got noticed, I got a mammogram and an ultrasound. This time around, smears on slides just to check that it was not some Martian form of cancer -- the endo said, "You realize, the chances of this lasting so long, going away when you were nursing, involving both breasts..." And I finished, "If it's cancer, I'm going in the medical books, yup!"

Needless to say, it is just being half-Martian. (That endo was really, really cool.)

I'm sorry that you had such a stressy time of it! O:(

Re: Martian lactaters unite (slightly off-topic)

[okamikaze.livejournal.com]

Beth, you amaze me. Hahaha you have a vast amount a knowledge on so many woman-body related things. Are you by any chance a doctor or nurse of some sort?

And like I've replied to other people, it's very clear, very liquidy, and it seems that he can only get maybe a drop at a time out (although I'm sure actually sucking helps more than pinching, and that's why he can taste it that much)

It sounds like all is well, and I should continue making baby/lactation jokes and generally tease the bf. :3

Re: Martian lactaters unite (slightly off-topic)

[archangelbeth]

I used to be pre-veterinary, but pre-calculus kicked my butt. (I later found out that the teacher hated the university-mandated book, and only assigned problems out of it. So every time I'd been reading the book and not understanding and thinking I was stupid? It was the book being totally obscure. O:p ) However, I basically retained an interest in biological stuff, somehow wound up having pretty good Google Fu (ha, I remember when Altavista was the search engine to go to! And the translator, too!)... So, um, well... *beth waves her hands around and shrugs*

But technically medical stuff is just a hobby for me.

Anyway! Yeah, keep making the lactation jokes. O;D (And if he actually starts getting white stuff out? Don't freak! Adoptive mothers can sometimes wind up breastfeeding their babies, despite never being pregnant, from letting the baby try to nurse before giving it a bottle each time.[1])

[Footnote 1: Naturally, this should only be tried for a reasonably brief amount of time, that will not tire the adopted baby so much that it won't be able to drink enough from the bottle! And, of course, appropriate bottle-delivered food should not be restricted! I may be pro-breastfeeding, but I'm not crazy-fanatic levels of pro-breastfeeding. The goal is, after all, to have a healthy baby, whatever it eats to get that way.

Unless, y'know, we're talking a baby t-rex. I'm not feeding a baby t-rex my cats, however much it might want them and however good cats might be for one.]

Re: Martian lactaters unite (slightly off-topic)

[hairballsplat.livejournal.com]

hmmm, ever since 1st pregnancy, i've considered myself pro-breastfeeding, but never really gave other species a thought. :D

Re: Martian lactaters unite (slightly off-topic)

[archangelbeth]

On careful pondering and consideration... I don't think I'd breastfeed a t-rex baby, either. >_>

(I blame Daylight Savings Time. That's my story and I'm stickin' to it.)

Re: Martian lactaters unite (slightly off-topic)

[hairballsplat.livejournal.com]

yeah, that was my first thought. probably too toothy. (I breastfed til 11 months and 15 months repectively, but i'm guessing t-rex teeth would be sharper?)

Re: Martian lactaters unite (slightly off-topic)

[paraxeni.livejournal.com]

Beth, I am disappoint. You would see a ickle baby t-rex go without just because of his razor sharp teefs? I don't even know who you ARE anymore!

*nurses her raptor*

Re: Martian lactaters unite (slightly off-topic)

[archangelbeth]

Alas, alas, I fear that once we get out of Mammalian Territory, I become this terrible person!

Well, I suppose if there were tooth-caps or something...

Re: Martian lactaters unite (slightly off-topic)

[okamikaze.livejournal.com]

The lolz this image evokes are endless. Thank you.

[okamikaze.livejournal.com]

Haha it's fine. It wasn't one of those "OMG AM I GOING TO DIE?!?" Questions. I figure it's something fairly normal as it's happened before, and I just made fun of my bf for suggesting stuff is coming out of my nipples/made baby jokes and went on with life. This time he was just very motivated to prove me wrong and I'm generally interested in the weird things my body does. (I also like to pay attention to the weird things, because I've just had a grand old time this year with medical issues popping up one after another.) So I figured a post here is a lot easier and cheaper than a trip to the doc, and I get both the curiosity and the health monitoring satisfied.

[lai-lai-ranma.livejournal.com]

I've had this happen too, when I was having a lot of sex and having my nipples played with on a very regular basis. I panicked the first time and thought I was pregnant, but I know more now. lol