Symptoms of breast cancer are an essential awareness that every woman needs to know. Your breast health depends on your knowledge of how your breasts usually feel and look. Generally, every human body shows various warning signs if there is any change in the regular body function. Let’s see why breast pain happens and whether every breast pain can lead you to breast cancer in detail in this blog.
Breast pain:
Breast pain is one of the most common problems in many women. At most 70% of women would have experienced breast pain once in their lifetime. Most women would panic that breast pain may lead to breast cancer. Breast pain can be caused due to many reasons. In some cases, breast pain can be due to breast lumps only. Breast pain is of two types as follows
Cyclic Breast pain:
Cyclic breast pain is common in women between 20 and 50 years of age. This pain is just caused by hormonal imbalance. This pain starts 1 week before menstruation and subsides after periods. Sometimes, breast pain may be due to an imbalance of hormones. Simple lifestyle measures are needed to get relief from this pain. These lifestyle measures can give relief to 70% to 90% of women. The lifestyle measures to be followed are
*Have a habit of consuming foods that are low in fat and vitamin supplements can also be taken.
*Further have a habit of taking lots of fruits and vegetables.
*Do simple exercises regularly
*Avoid intake of caffeine like tea, coffee, and caffeinated drinks.
*Wear well-supporting bras
Non-cyclic breast pain:
This pain is little uncommon among women. The reason for this pain include
*Problem in the chest wall muscles, bones, and ligaments (costochondritis)
*Due to side effects of the medicine you take
*Lump in the breast like fibro adenoma, breast cyst, breast abscess, or even breast cancer
Symptoms of breast cancer:
If you are unable to categorize the pain in the breast or the pain is severe or if it cannot be relieved with simple measures and further when you have breast pain associated with the following symptoms then you have a chance of
*Painful lumps in the breast
*Skin discoloration
*Discharge from the nipple
* Any alteration to the breast’s size or shape.
* Breast skin irritation
* Redness or dimpling in the skin around the breast or nipple.
*Nipple turning inward
If you find any of the symptoms then just contact your Gynecologist and get their suggestions on further treatment.
To conclude:
Screening your breast through mammography can often help you to find breast cancer early before any symptoms appear. Successful treatment can be achieved through early detection of breast cancer. If you find having breast cancer symptoms contact your Gynecologist and just fight it with strong mental health and hence, lead a happy life.
