Question: I am having breast pain before period starts and breast will be hard before the menstruation. What are the causes and treatment option for this breast pain before menstruation?
Answer: Breast pain before period can be described as pain felt to the breast on simple touch or jar. Generally mild pain and fullness in the breast is felt in many women before the periods starts, it is bearable in some women, but in some circumstances the pain becomes unbearable and it causes distress and difficulty in performing regular daily activities before the period commences.
The symptoms peak up just before the period starts, and subsides soon after the flow begins or when the periods stop. The pain is felt more in the outer quadrant of the breast; it gives a hard and enlarged feeling of the breast with tenderness.
Causes Of Breast Pain Before Menstruation
The two hormones responsible for menstruation are estrogen and progesterone. When there is an imbalance in these two hormones many changes are seen in women’s cycle and breast pain before period is one of them.
If we take the regular cycle to be of 28 days, progesterone level increases around 21st day.
The risk increase more if the woman is fat, if she is having family history of breast pain before period, and if she is drinking more caffeine containing products such as colas.
Home Remedies For Breast Pain Before Period
- Eat low fat diet
- Reduce weight
- Eat food containing vitamin E, or you can take vitamin E supplement.
- Do not drink caffeinated colas
- Do vigorous exercise
- Avoid salt or decrease its consumption 1 week before the periods.
- Maintain good breast support by wearing well fitting bra.
- Birth control pills also help to reduce the symptoms.
- Cover the breast with raw cabbage leaf, it is known to reduce breast pain before menstruation starts.
- Soya food contain isoflavones which lessen’s breast pain before periods. Consume more soya foods such as soy burgers, soy milk.
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I am 25 years old having irregular periods with normal delay up to one week. But this time I experienced more delay than normal (Delay till today 15 days). But a also want to let you know that I had phone sex (for quite few days just days before my periods were about to start) with my boy friend and during that ova had come out in good amount. Is this causing a delay in my periods?
Only personal and intimate physical contact during sex will result in natural pregnancy, I assume there is no physical contact in phone sex, it is a verbal pleasure over phone. But if you are sexually active, you should get examined for urine pregnancy test, to rule out pregnancy.
Before the start of the period, pain starts in my breasts. The pain isn’t regular only when I touch my breasts I feel pain and breasts become hard. When period start the breast pain is over and sometime it remains for few days. Next month before period it starts again and the breasts become again hard. Please suggest me what can be the reason and its remedies.