What are the symptoms of breast nodules?

Women's breasts may have various diseases, and sometimes breast nodules may appear. It is important to remind everyone that breast nodules do not refer to a specific disease. In fact, this is a symptom. For example, breast hyperplasia or breast tumors can cause the symptom of breast nodules. In addition to breast nodules, different breast diseases may be accompanied by other symptoms.

What are the symptoms of breast nodules?

Breast nodules are quite common in daily life, which also causes trouble for many female friends. Some patients think that breast nodules are not a big deal. Although they will not endanger the health of the body for the time being, they will still cause harm to the body if not treated for a long time. So, let’s take a look at some typical symptoms of breast nodules?

1. Breast lumps: often multiple, unilateral or bilateral, mostly seen in the upper quadrant; and the size and texture often change cyclically with menstruation. The lumps increase in size and become harder before menstruation, and decrease in size and become tough but not hard after menstruation. During palpation, the mass can be felt to have a nodular structure, of varying sizes, with unclear boundaries from surrounding tissues, often tender, with no adhesion to the skin and deep tissues, and can be pushed. The axillary lymph nodes are not enlarged.

2. Breast pain: Common symptoms include unilateral or bilateral breast pain or tenderness. The course of the disease varies from 2 months to several years. Most patients have the characteristic of cyclical pain, which occurs or worsens before menstruation and eases or disappears after menstruation. It must be noted that although the periodicity of mastalgia is a typical manifestation of this disease, the absence of this feature does not negate the existence of the disease. The main clinical manifestations of lobular breast hyperplasia are: breast fullness and pain 5-7 days before menstruation, relief of breast pain during menstruation, or even disappearance, and cyclical changes occur again before the next menstruation.

Breast nodules are the most common non-tumor, non-inflammatory nodular lesions and the most common breast disease in women. It may occur at any age after puberty. The lesion is a pathological process characterized by dilation, hyperplasia and cystic changes of glandular lobules and breast duct terminals.

The main manifestations of breast nodules are breast lumps and breast pain. Breast lumps are an important basis for diagnosing breast hyperplasia. Generally, there are multiple lumps of varying sizes.

Most patients have symptoms of pain, which occurs or worsens before menstruation and eases or disappears after menstruation, showing a cyclical nature. If lobular hyperplasia of the breast is not treated, it is very serious and may turn into breast cancer in the later stage.

The symptoms of breast nodules are mostly breast pain and breast lumps. The degree of pain and pain varies. Patients do not mind mild breast nodules, while severe breast nodules affect their study and work. The characteristic of breast nodule swelling and pain is that it is often cyclical and often occurs or worsens before menstruation. Although the periodicity of bloating and pain is a typical symptom of this disease, it can also manifest as non-periodic and irregular bloating and pain.

In addition, breast nodules have a long course, slow development, and sometimes nipple discharge. The nodules of varying sizes in the breast are essentially some large and small milk ducts that are cystically dilated. Nipple discharge comes from these cysts and is yellow-green, brown or bloody, and occasionally colorless serous.