Why do my nipples hurt so much?

There are many cases of breast pain in women in daily life, including pain before and after menstruation, pain during puberty, and pain due to illness. The cause of each nipple pain is different. If you want to solve breast pain, you must first find out the cause and then carry out symptomatic treatment. Some women don’t know why their nipples are so painful. Below are some causes of nipple pain. You can learn about them and understand your own condition first.

1. Causes of Nipple Pain

There are several possible causes of breast pain:

1. Nipple pain caused by menstruation: This pain is obviously related to menstruation. It usually occurs two or three days before menstruation due to increased blood supply, causing breast swelling and pain, which gradually disappears after menstruation. Due to its obvious relationship with menstruation, it usually does not cause trouble to the person concerned.

2. Unsuitable bras cause nipple pain: An unsuitable bra can easily cause oppression. When women feel uncomfortable wearing it, their bodies will also react, which is nipple pain. However, this situation can be alleviated by changing the bra.

3. Nipple pain caused by large breasts in women: Excessive breast size causes drooping and causes discomfort.

4. Breast trauma leading to nipple pain: If women do not take good care of their breasts, it is easy to cause nipple pain when they are injured.

5. Nipple pain caused by breast inflammation in women: Redness, swelling, heat and pain caused by breast inflammation and infection. Mastitis is particularly prone to occur during lactation. Proper treatment (such as antibiotics and appropriate massage) can quickly relieve the symptoms.

6. Female breast cancer causes nipple pain: Generally speaking, breast cancer itself rarely causes pain to patients. However, if breast cancer worsens and invades adjacent tissues such as the skin or chest wall, it can also cause breast pain in women.

Warm reminder: If women experience nipple pain, they may try to find the cause themselves based on the above points. If there is no obvious cause and the pain persists, it is necessary to seek the help of a professional doctor immediately.

2. Harm of Nipple Pain

There are many reasons why female nipple pain may occur, and there are many different types of female nipple pain. These different types of nipple pain have different hazards to the human body.

1. Nipple pain: Nipple pain is characterized by dull pain, distension or stabbing pain. The pain may radiate to the armpits, shoulders and upper limbs, but there is no breast lump.

2. Nipple pain due to breast hyperplasia: Breast pain due to breast hyperplasia can radiate to the armpits, shoulders and back. When touching the breasts, you can feel movable lumps of varying sizes with unclear edges. It can also be affected by menstruation and emotions. If not treated promptly, it may become malignant.

3. Nipple pain during pregnancy: Breast pain after pregnancy is caused by the placenta and villi secreting large amounts of estrogen, progesterone and prolactin, which cause breast hyperplasia and breast enlargement. This is a kind of physiological pain, which is in preparation for postpartum breastfeeding. Just change to a wider bra in time to support the growing breasts.

4. Nipple pain after childbirth: Postpartum breast pain is mostly caused by mastitis. In addition to breast pain, there will also be fever and local lumps in the breast, which is mainly caused by blocked milk ducts and milk accumulation.

5. Premenstrual nipple pain: Premenstrual breast pain is caused by increased estrogen levels in the body, breast hyperplasia, cell enlargement, and breast cell edema.

Apart from nipple pain caused by pregnancy, other situations are basically caused by breast diseases. Since most breast diseases have no symptoms in the early stages, once discovered the best treatment period has often been missed, which causes great harm to women. Breast diseases destroy women's beauty. To protect breasts, we should start with examination.