What Causes Breast Tenderness During Menstruation?

Breast tenderness is common breast symptom a woman should have. It is not usually a assign of breast cancer but pain or discomfort in the breast that comes due to menstruation or pregnancy.

Breast tenderness during menstruation is normal in every woman. It is been caused by various factors, as unbalanced level of estrogen hormones is the main cause of breast tenderness during menstruation in the sense that during the cycle, progesterone and estrogen levels vary in different ways.

In a normal situation, if the estrogen is down, the progesterone will be up and the breast increases in size but hormone imbalance alters this cycle making the breast to increase the more and to cause more pains too. This means that breast tenderness and pains occurs when the estrogen levels increases more than that of progesterone.

In some women the pain may not be there and may be mild in others, no matter how it comes, no very well that body differs from others, you will not use what you are feeling to compare with what others are feeling just bear in mind that as a woman’s breast gets swell and becomes tender and painful during menstruation, another woman’s breast becomes mild and no pain or discomfort.

Conclusively, to avoid this symptom, maintaining a healthy hormone level is very important since the most common cause of breast tenderness during menstruation is unbalanced amount of estrogen hormone. The question that will arise in your mind now is how on earth should I maintain this hormone. Check out our next article to actually know how this should be maintained.