Chest Pain (Mastalgia): Causes | Breast Pain Blog

For chest pain causes are varied and can be divided into the cause of cycle dependent and non-cyclical.

Cycle-related chest pain

In breast pain depending on the cycle of hormone fluctuation is the cause of discomfort during the menstrual cycle. It often has a change of each breast tissue, which can cause pain. Thus, chest pain depending on the cycle or both breasts often occur in the context of premenstrual syndrome. During the second half of the cycle, slightly larger breasts - so that the breasts tighten in many women. Most breast pain depending on the cycle begins about a week before menstruation.

Cyclical breast pain (mastalgia) also occurs in one in mastopathy (benign breast changes) that primarily affects women at or after menopause. It seems that the lack of certain female sex hormones, corpus luteum hormone (progestin) plays an important role. On the other hand, water retention caused by estrogen in breast tissue for voltage and heavy breasts.

In addition, there is chest pain are also some other causes, such as increased secretion of the authorities responsible for lactation in the brain hormone prolactin (hyperprolactinemia). Cycle-dependent breast pain can also occur when maturation of oocytes in the ovary disturbed because certain hormones that are not sufficiently formed. In this case, the doctor talked about the corpus luteum insufficiency.

Cycle-independent breast pain

There's a chest pain that does not judge after the cycle (mastalgia), some special cause. These include spinal problems or inflammation of the pleura (pleurisy). Also, external violence or pain caused by heart disease can manifest as chest pain.

Breast cancer (breast cancer) can also be the cause of chest pain. Additionally, irritation of the nerves located between the ribs (intercostal), causing chest pain. In addition there are two main causes neuritis other than chest pain: Tietze syndrome and Mondor's syndrome.

Tietze's syndrome is a painful, inflammatory thickening of costal cartilage with the sternum approach. Particularly affected are the projection of the second and third ribs. The pain spread to the breast area. The reason for this remains unclear.