What are the symptoms of cystic breast hyperplasia?

Cystic breast hyperplasia is a type of breast disease. Common symptoms include breast tenderness and breast lumps. In addition, it can also cause women to experience menstrual irregularities, irritability, and easy to get angry.

(1) Breast tenderness: Common symptoms include unilateral or bilateral breast tenderness 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.

(2) Breast lumps: They are often multiple, unilateral or bilateral, and are more common in the upper quadrant. Their size and texture often change cyclically with menstruation. Before menstruation, the lumps become larger and harder, while after menstruation, the lumps become smaller and tougher. 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.

In addition, the disease may also last a long time, develop slowly, and sometimes cause 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.

(3) Menstrual disorders: Patients with this disease may also experience irregular menstruation, scanty or light-colored menstruation, and may be accompanied by dysmenorrhea.

(4) Emotional changes: Patients often feel depressed or irritable, which worsens when they are angry, stressed or tired.