What are the causes of breast pain in women?

It is a very common phenomenon for women to experience breast pain. This can occur to varying degrees before and after menstruation, and even in the early stages of pregnancy. Women’s chest pain may also be the result of other female gynecological diseases. Below I will share with you the possible causes of women’s breast pain, and I hope it will be helpful to you.

Warning 1: Breast hyperplasia

The pain intensity of breast hyperplasia changes regularly with the menstrual cycle: it gets worse before menstruation and gets better after menstruation. Other symptoms include breast lumps, and the size of the lumps may change cyclically with menstruation. The lumps of breast hyperplasia are distributed in flakes, blocks or granules, of different sizes, with good mobility and no adhesion to surrounding tissues. In contrast, malignant breast tumors often show progressive growth, unclear boundaries, poor mobility, and obvious adhesion to surrounding tissues.

Warning 2: Mastitis

Mastitis is common after childbirth, and is especially likely to occur during the postpartum period. Severe breast pain, accompanied by breast redness, swelling, obvious tenderness, fever and other inflammatory symptoms.

Special reminder: If you have armpit pain, you should consider the possibility of breast cancer

In the early stages of breast cancer, its symptoms are often not obvious. However, due to the distribution of blood and lymph in the breast, the breast and axillary tissue are closely connected. The axillary area often becomes the first target of breast cancer metastasis. Therefore, if you have armpit pain, you should consider the possibility of breast cancer. In addition, there are characteristic changes in the early stages of breast cancer, such as discharge from the nipple, inverted nipple, and breast tumors. The surface of the tumor is uneven, with unclear boundaries with surrounding tissues, and there are changes in the breast skin (such as orange peel) and pigmentation.

Therefore, when you have irregular or periodic breast pain, you need to be cautious and try to go to a regular hospital as soon as possible to check the cause of the breast pain. Women's breast pain is a phenomenon that cannot be ignored, so as to avoid the deterioration of hidden breast diseases. The above is my summary of the possible causes of women's breast pain. I hope it will be helpful to you.