What causes breast pain during menstruation?

Menstruation is a common phenomenon in pre-menopausal women. Many people know that some female friends experience breast pain during premenstrual syndrome. Some female friends think this phenomenon is abnormal and they worry that it is a sign of disease. In order to better protect the health of female friends, we need to understand the specific analysis of breast pain during menstruation.

Clinically, we can simply summarize it into the following points:

1. Premenstrual breast pain: Many women experience breast fullness, hardness, and tenderness before menstruation. In severe cases, the breasts will become swollen and painful with the slightest vibration or collision. This is caused by increased estrogen levels in the body before menstruation, breast hyperplasia, and edema of breast tissue. The above changes may disappear after menstruation.

2. Breast tenderness during pregnancy: Some women experience breast tenderness when they are about 40 days pregnant due to the placenta and villi secreting large amounts of estrogen, progesterone and prolactin, which causes the breasts to enlarge and cause breast tenderness. In severe cases, the pain may last throughout the pregnancy and does not require treatment.

3. Postpartum breast pain: Breast fullness, hardness and pain often occur 3 to 7 days after delivery. This is mainly due to breast lymph retention, venous congestion, interstitial edema and obstructed mammary ducts.

4. Breast pain after abortion: This is because the pregnancy is suddenly interrupted, and the hormone level in the body drops suddenly, causing the newly developed breasts to suddenly stop growing, resulting in breast lumps and breast pain.

5. Breast pain after sexual intercourse: This is related to the physiological changes in the breasts during sexual intercourse. People with low libido or disharmonious sex life cannot achieve sexual satisfaction, so breast congestion and swelling are not easy to subside, or they subside incompletely. Continuous congestion will cause breast pain.

6. Generally speaking, breast pain three days before menstruation may be a sign that menstruation is about to come or that there is early pregnancy, which is a normal phenomenon. However, some people experience breast pain too early, such as breast pain after menstruation ends or after ovulation, and it hurts when they put on underwear or touch it. This phenomenon is pathological and must be treated as soon as possible, otherwise it is easy to develop gynecological diseases such as infertility and breast tumors.

7. Many infertile women have long-term breast pain. Their estrogen and progesterone are often unbalanced, and prolactin is also abnormally secreted. There are also many breast tumor patients who had breast pain 2 to 3 years before they developed the tumor but did not pay attention to it. Therefore, women who have abnormal breast pain should be alert and avoid seeking medical attention in order to avoid delaying the disease.

8. Premenstrual breast pain mostly occurs 3 to 5 days before menstruation. Severe patients may experience symptoms two weeks after menstruation, around the time of ovulation. Some people experience pain in the armpits or even in the nipples. Systemic symptoms include mild edema, headache, insomnia, irritability, emotional instability, back pain, lower abdominal pain, and difficulty in defecation. The symptoms disappear after the menstrual period, and this happens repeatedly, once a month. If not properly treated, they will become more and more serious. Over time, they can easily lead to other diseases, the most common of which are breast hyperplasia, breast fibroid tumors or cysts. As a result, menstruation gradually becomes irregular, with scanty menstrual flow and subsequent infertility.

After understanding the above knowledge, female friends who experience breast pain during menstruation must carefully analyze what is going on. We can also use some methods to relieve women's breast pain. Female friends can relieve their symptoms through diet, massage and other methods. Finally, I hope all female friends can have a healthy and happy life!