What to do if breast pain occurs after menstruation?

When women have their period, vaginal bleeding is the most obvious phenomenon. In fact, women's bodies will undergo many changes during menstruation, including changes in hormones. Hormonal changes will affect the breasts. For example, women's breasts will develop after pregnancy, which is caused by hormonal changes. Some women also experience breast pain after menstruation, which is usually normal. The following methods can be used to help relieve the pain.

What to do if breast pain occurs after menstruation?

Most women experience breast tenderness a few days before or in the early stages of their period. This is a normal body reaction and a normal manifestation of menstruation. So why does breast pain still occur if the menstruation has passed? Let’s learn more about it.

Breast tenderness after menstruation may be a symptom of breast hyperplasia. Breast hyperplasia is mainly characterized by cyclical breast pain, which initially presents as a diffuse distending pain, with tenderness being more pronounced on the outer upper side and upper middle part of the breast. The pain intensifies before each month's menstruation and subsides or disappears after menstruation. In severe cases, there is persistent pain before and after menstruation. Sometimes the pain radiates to the armpits, shoulders, back, upper limbs, etc. Patients often report that they have a lump in their breast, but clinical examination only reveals thickened mammary glands. In very rare cases of simple lobular breast hyperplasia in adolescence, the disease can heal itself in about 2 years, but most patients need treatment. Don't endure it.

Fibrocystic breast disease is the most common breast disease in women, and its incidence ranks first among breast diseases. In recent years, the incidence of this disease has been increasing year by year, and the age of patients has been getting younger and younger. According to a survey, about 70%-80% of women have varying degrees of breast hyperplasia, which is more common in women aged 25-45. Breast hyperplasia is a structural degenerative lesion of breast tissue ducts and lobules and progressive growth of connective tissue. The main cause of the disease is endocrine hormone imbalance. Modern medicine believes that marriage, childbirth, diet, external environment of human survival and genetic factors are the main causes of breast disease.

As the pace of modern life continues to accelerate, female friends are under great pressure. If you are not careful, you may develop breast diseases. Female friends should conduct self-examinations. Once any abnormality of the breast is found, you must go to the hospital for treatment in time. It’s okay if you are healthy, but if you have breast disease, you must detect and treat it early to avoid delaying the disease.