Why does my chest hurt?

Chest pain is breast pain in women. This phenomenon is very common in daily life. It is caused by both physiological factors and diseases. It is not easy to judge simple pain. It also depends on whether there is a lump. If both exist at the same time, it is likely to be a breast disease. However, we can first understand the causes of breast pain. So, what causes chest pain? Let’s take a closer look at it.

The earliest breast pain in girls usually occurs between the ages of 9 and 13. At this time, girls' breasts begin to develop, their nipples bulge, and they feel a slight swelling and pain.

2. Premenstrual period.

Many women experience symptoms such as breast fullness, hardness, and tenderness before menstruation. These two conditions generally do not require treatment and will resolve on their own.

3. Ovulation period.

Many women experience breast swelling or nipple pain during ovulation, and sometimes the nipples are simply unable to be touched. The breast pain may also continue until the eve of the next menstrual period.

If a woman is pregnant, it may be because the placenta and villi secrete a large amount of estrogen, progesterone and prolactin, which causes breast hyperplasia and breast enlargement. This is a kind of physiological pain and generally there is no need to worry too much.

5. After 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. In addition, excessive movements during sexual intercourse can also damage the nipples and cause pain.

6. The underwear is too tight.

If the underwear is not suitable, doing a lot of exercise will cause local pain due to friction.

Breast pain should be careful of breast hyperplasia

The breast is the target organ of endocrine hormones, which means that under normal circumstances, that is, during endocrine changes in the menstrual cycle, breast tissue will be affected by endocrine hormones and undergo physiological changes. The breast will undergo cyclical proliferation and involution during the menstrual cycle, which manifests as fullness and mild pain in the breast before menstruation. The breast pain will be reduced or disappear after menstruation. This physiological change is a normal phenomenon for women of childbearing age, but the degree of breast pain varies from person to person.

It is generally believed that breast hyperplasia is caused by endocrine hormone imbalance and sex hormone metabolism disorder, which causes excessive estrogen secretion in the body, leading to physiological breast hyperplasia and incomplete involution. In addition, the liver's estrogen inactivation function is abnormal, so that excessive estrogen causes adverse stimulation to breast tissue and causes breast tissue proliferative lesions. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that breast hyperplasia is caused by emotional discomfort, liver qi stagnation, weak vital energy, and poor circulation of qi and blood, which lead to qi stagnation, phlegm coagulation, and blood stasis, which stagnate in the breasts and accumulate over time.