Breast pain | Most up cycles

What exactly causes the programmed cycle in women from breast discomfort women, is still unclear. Of course, the sex hormone fluctuations and changes related to the role.

While in the first half cycle estrogen dominates, both progesterone progesterone in the body, also called progesterone. In the rhythm of the hormonal changes occur before menstruation among others, increased water retention (edema) in the breast. Edema is one of the causes of chest discomfort.

While many women experience a feeling of increased tension in fact, go with it but it is quite obvious. However, some have a real problem, as the month of breast pain is very unpleasant. Not only that, can swell eyelids, hands, feet, and legs but for a while. As a result, the balance appears while. Not only, but also why many women feel completely comfortable before menstruation.

There are also sometimes other symptoms, such as on a psychological level. The transition to the so-called premenstrual syndrome (PMS) is often blurred. For many women, the mood changed with an increase in irritability, nervousness or sluggishness "in the days before the days" until a certain point is normal. PMS but they will be felt and experienced as extremely detrimental.

Also, rising for the second phase of the cycle of the hormone prolactin from the pituitary gland affects breast tissue: Finally, it is to prepare the glandular cells in milk production. Thus, a better network supplied with blood, and gland cells begin to prepare for the possibility of pregnancy: putting growth and increase their production of secretion.

A special sensitivity of breast tissue to prolactin could potentially increase cyclic breast pain. Prolactin is incidentally also in men. Increased breast form with them (gynecomastia, see below) may be associated with prolactin.

Very often occurs in women of childbearing years, called fibrocystic breast disease develops (see chapter "-siklus dependent"). It is accompanied by often emphasized cyclical, marked tenderness of the breasts. Physician, the appropriate changes, for example, by imaging modalities such as ultrasound breast (breast sonography) is well recognized (see also section "Diagnostics"). Depending on the severity of the doctor advised sometimes for further analysis, because every feature fibrocystic breast disease can increase the risk of breast cancer slightly.