What are the symptoms of lobular hyperplasia?

Female breast lobular hyperplasia can have a great impact on breast health. Common symptoms are breast pain or a feeling of distension, tingling, and lumps in the breast. Some patients may also have breast discharge and menstrual disorders.

1. Breast pain: It is often distending pain or stabbing pain, which may affect one or both breasts, with one side being more severe. Those with severe pain cannot touch the breast, and may even affect their daily life and work. The pain is mainly in the breast lump, and may also radiate to the affected armpit, chest, ribs, shoulders and back. Some people experience nipple pain or itching. Breast pain often occurs or worsens a few days before menstruation, and the pain is significantly reduced or disappears after menstruation. The pain may also fluctuate with mood changes. This pain related to the menstrual cycle and mood changes is the main feature of the clinical manifestations of fibrocystic fibrosis.

2. Breast lumps: The lumps can occur in one or both breasts, single or multiple, and are more common in the upper outer quadrant of the breast, but can also be seen in other quadrants. The lumps can be in the form of flakes, nodules, cords, or granules, among which flakes are the most common. The lumps have unclear boundaries, are of medium or slightly hard texture, are mobile, have no adhesions to surrounding tissues, and are often tender. The lumps vary in size, ranging from as small as millet grains to larger than 3 to 4 cm. Breast lumps also change with the menstrual cycle, increasing in size and becoming harder before menstruation and shrinking and softening after menstruation.

3. Nipple discharge: A small number of patients may experience nipple discharge, which is spontaneous, straw-yellow or brown serous discharge.

4. Menstrual disorders: Patients with this disease may also experience irregular menstruation, small amount of menstruation or light color, and may be accompanied by dysmenorrhea.

5. Emotional changes: Patients often feel depressed or irritable, which worsens when they are angry, stressed or tired.