What causes nipple pain during menopause?

Women must pay attention to breast health at all stages. Menopause is a special period that every woman must go through at a certain stage. As estrogen secretion decreases, women's bodies will have some menopausal syndrome symptoms. Some women experience breast pain during menopause and are worried that they have breast diseases. So, what is the cause of nipple pain during menopause?

What causes nipple pain in women during menopause?

Under normal circumstances, if a woman has regular breast pain before menopause, it will change with the change of menstrual period. After a period of menopause, due to the lack of estrogen stimulation, regular breast pain and other symptoms should disappear. If breast pain recurs after menopause, it is usually caused by the following conditions:

(1) Breast pain during the period after menopause: This type of pain is generally not a cause for concern.

This is because during the menopause period of premenopausal women, the metabolism of endogenous estrogen decreases rapidly, and the breast tissue is not able to adapt to this change, which may cause some relative changes, such as local pain, lumps, or thickening of the glandular ducts.

This reaction may stop and disappear after menopause, or it may persist for a long time after menopause. There is no need to worry at this time. Generally, you only need to follow the doctor's advice for regular maintenance, and take some medicines for treating menopausal syndrome when necessary to reduce the pain.

(2) Breast pain reappears many years after menopause: Estrogen metabolism decreases, and breast pain usually does not occur. However, breast pain that occurs at this time must not be ignored.

Because middle-aged women after menopause have entered the high-risk group for breast cancer, they should pay attention and go to the hospital for examination and diagnosis as soon as possible to see if they have early symptoms of breast cancer so that they can be discovered and treated as early as possible, which will give them a better prognosis.