What Questions | Breast Pain Blog

Questions to ask might include:

If symptoms occur gradually or suddenly appear episode? Am I worried? Doing some activity or resting?

a health family history

If you have a family history of heart disease, stroke, high blood cholesterol or high blood pressure, you may be at risk for certain conditions. Tell your doctor if you have a history of any disease in your family.

If you are prescribed medication to treat this disorder, do not stop taking unless your doctor tells you. Take medications exactly as prescribed. Do not share your medicine with anyone.

If you miss a dose of your medicine, ask your doctor what to do.

Use relaxation techniques to reduce the volume ansiedad.fs If you feel anxious, go to a quiet room and close your eyes. Breathe deeply, slowly and steadily, and try to concentrate on things that have been laid in the past.

If you experience symptoms or side effects, especially if severe, be sure to discuss with your doctor or medical team members atiendiendo this. They can prescribe medications and / or other effective advised to address the problem.

Keep all appointments for treatment.

Medicine doctor may prescribe:

The doctor may prescribe certain medications to help the heart muscle work more effectively, or to control the symptoms. These medications can register your doctor may prescribe certain medications to help the heart muscle work more effectively, or to control the symptoms. These may include:

ACE inhibitors: These drugs work by opening or dilate the arteries. They lower blood pressure and increase blood flow to the kidneys and throughout the body. Your health care provider may also prescribe these medications if you have diabetes or protein in the urine, to protect the kidneys. Some examples of this medication may include: maleate enalapril (Vasotec), lisinopril (Zestril) and sodium fosinopril (Monopril)

Antacids: if you feel stomach pain, which can cause chest pain, the health care provider may prescribe antacids such as Mylanta.

Antianxiety drugs: If the chest pain caused by anxiety, the doctor may prescribe anti-anxiety medication, called an anxiolytic. These drugs help you relax. Among them are: lorazepam (Ativan) and alprazolam (Xanax®). It is important to take these medications only when you feel anxious. While taking this medication, do not operate heavy machinery or drive a car. If you do not control the symptoms, consult your doctor.

Aspirin: ssegún your overall health and the type and severity of your arrhythmia, your healthcare provider may prescribe aspirin as a "blood thinner". Aspirin works by preventing blood platelets from forming clots (antiplatelet effect).

Beta blockers: can be used to lower the heart rate and increases blood flow throughout the body. Can take if you have been diagnosed with an irregular heartbeat or blood pressure. Some examples of this medication may include: metoprolol (Lopressor), propranolol (Inderal) and atenolol (Tenormin).

Blockers, calcium channel blockers: These drugs can be given to treat chest pain, high blood pressure or irregular heartbeats. Some common drugs include verapamil hydrochloride (Calan®) and diltiazem (Dilacor XR).

Nitrates such as nitroglycerin, work to improve Sanguino flow to the heart. They also reduce the workload of the heart dilate (widen) the arteries. It may take nitrates for chest pain episode, if your doctor has determined that it is safe.

Anti-inflammatory agents (NSAIDs) such as naproxen sodium and ibuprofen, may provide relief of musculoskeletal pain. If NSAIDs should be avoided because of their type of cancer or chemotherapy you receive, acetaminophen (Tylenol ®) up to 400 mg per day (two tablets reinforced every 6 hours) may help. It is important not to exceed the recommended daily dose of Tylenol, as it may cause liver damage. Consult with your doctor.

Do not stop any medication abruptly, because it can cause serious side effects

When to call your doctor or health care provider:

Fever of 38 ° C (100.5 ° F), chills, sore throat (possible signs of infection).

If you sweat a lot with chest pain, or if you are taking medication to treat chest pain, seek emergency help if pain is not relieved by nitroglycerin despite taking 3 pills each time, every 5 minutes. Also, tell your doctor if:

Feel very fast heart beat (palpitations) and have not felt this before

Note any skin rash, especially if you have recently changed medications

Seeing no unusual swelling in the legs or feet

Weight gain of more than 1.5 kg to 2.5 kg in a week.

Note: We recommend that you talk with your doctor about your condition and treatment. The information presented here is only for practical and educational purposes, and does not replace the advice of your doctor.

What are the most common causes of pain? | Breast Pain Blog

Chest pain is a difficult chapter in two ways: first, for women as it affects the chest pain and worry, and on the other hand to the doctor because he usually does not lead to real and plausible explanation is always something of the fingers must suck. But the doctor, the patient can almost always help not to relieve the pain but with women taking the fear, the pain could be a sign of something that is malignant. Chest pain that nothing special. Almost all women have cyclical breast discomfort. In the second half of the breast tightening cycle may be sensitive to touch and can sometimes be very painful that "no one can close." 
Sometimes the pain attractive on the inside of the upper arm. This pain is usually better with the inclusion of the period or missing entirely. Complaints safe and harmless Deratige relatively easy to explain: the chest is a secondary sexual organs, under the influence of hormones, especially estrogen. Under their influence Flüssigeit inserted into the breast tissue, breast weight and size, you can even measure. Improve this volume causes pain Extension. Before entering a period of sharply declining estrogen levels, breast fluid loss and volume again and back complaints. Pain is not always on both sides and symmetrical and can occur even in the breast. Even if the pain is not clear due to the time cycle, hormones can play a decisive role. Estrogen production is subject to many factors, including psychological disorders such as stress.

Fibroadenoma | Breast Pain Blog

Fibroadenoma is a benign tumor that mainly consists of connective tissue and glands. Although they most often before menopause - strictly in young women aged between 15 and 35 years - indeed the case, they can be formed in the chest under the influence of hormone therapy also afterwards. Women who take birth control pills before the age of 20 to fibroadenomas tend to develop more often. If not, has nothing to do anymore with the pills seem to exist. During pregnancy and lactation, they can significantly increase. After menopause, they usually do not continue to grow or shrink even. In addition to the fact that their hormones are affected, the exact cause of their origin remains unclear.

Fibroadenoma histologically divided into simple and complex shapes. Complex means that the fabric a little "edgy" work for certain cell changes - it contains about cysts, enlarged gland cells (adenosis, see the chapter "Cause: Another tumor"), lime. The doctor speaks well proliferative changes, which originally only meant that grow at the appropriate point in comparison with the rest of the network of more cells.

Fibroadenoma Symptoms

Fibroadenoma may be less than one centimeter or significantly larger. If palpable, it is rather plump, round, demarcated from the surrounding tissue structure. They feel strong for rough for, such as marble, can move under the skin and is usually painless. Sm

all fibroadenoma can be separated from the sense of touch and then only found in tissue samples. In some breast fibroadenoma can be formed. In young women, fibroadenomas can sometimes grow very fast and quite large (juvenile or Riesenfibroadenom, special shape).

The diagnosis is usually made quickly

Therefore, in women under 30 years of the first and foremost ultrasound (sonography) breast because the breast tissue is very close to them and mammography less: Even if the obstetrician usually guess the correct diagnosis in the appropriate digital rectal examination, imaging examination procedures leading the way will be meaningful.

For women in the age group of doctors will quickly recognize that mammography may also have recourse to ultrasound. What precautions, biopsy with histological examination of the following depending on the findings in each case. When a suspicious change in the doctor will suggest a biopsy.

Most up Cycles | Breast Pain Blog

What exactly causes the programmed cycle in women from breast discomfort women, is still unclear. Of course, fluctuations in sex hormones and related changes in the role. While in the first half cycle estrogen dominates, both progesterone progesterone in the body, also called progesterone. In The rhythm hormonal changes occur before menstruation among others, increased water retention (edema) in the breast. Edema is one cause 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 feelreally 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 preparing the glandular cells in milk production. Thus, a better network supplied with blood, and gland cells start prepare for a possible pregnancy: putting growth and increase their production 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. The doctor, the appropriate changes, for example, with imaging modalities such as ultrasound examination of the breast (breast sonography) is well recognized (see also section "Diagnostics"). Dependent the doctor advised severity sometimes for further analysis, because each feature can fibrocystic breast disease increase the risk of breast cancer slightly.