Is breast swelling during ovulation normal?

During the ovulation period, women's bodies will have various manifestations. At this time, they need to make good improvements on themselves, especially breast swelling during ovulation is very common. When this happens, women can also choose some simple massage methods to alleviate this situation. Is breast swelling during ovulation normal? Many women are not clear about this. The following is a detailed introduction.

Is breast swelling during ovulation normal?

Nipple pain is completely normal. The pain is most severe around ovulation, and it hurts when you touch it with your hand. The luteal phase is slightly less intense until menstruation occurs. The pain is the worst before and after ovulation. I don’t know if it’s the effect of estrogen. Estrogen levels are highest before and on the day of ovulation. After the corpus luteum is formed, due to the effect of progesterone, estrogen is not as high as before ovulation, so nipple pain is slightly relieved, but it will exist until menstruation comes.

Many women experience breast swelling or nipple pain during ovulation, and sometimes the nipples are simply unable to be touched. The breast pain may also continue until the eve of the next menstrual period.

If the underwear is too tight or ill-fitting, or you do a lot of exercise, friction may cause local pain.

Excessive movements during sexual intercourse can damage the nipples and cause pain.

The breast is the target organ of endocrine hormones, which means that under normal circumstances, that is, during endocrine changes in the menstrual cycle, breast tissue will be affected by endocrine hormones and undergo physiological changes. The breast will undergo cyclical proliferation and involution during the menstrual cycle, which manifests as fullness and mild pain in the breast before menstruation. The breast pain will be reduced or disappear after menstruation. This physiological change is a normal phenomenon for women of childbearing age, but the degree of breast pain varies from person to person.

If this physiological proliferation exceeds a certain range or is incomplete, it will cause breast tissue hyperplasia over time, which is generally referred to as breast hyperplasia. It can be seen from this that breast hyperplasia is a benign proliferation and degeneration of breast tissue. In essence, it is neither inflammation nor a tumor. But clinically speaking, it is one of the common causes of breast pain in women. It is more common in young and middle-aged women. There is thickening of breast tissue in the upper outer part of the breast, which is soft and tough. Sometimes a lump with unclear boundaries is formed, but it rarely adheres to the surface skin and there is no enlarged axillary lymph nodes. Most of the time, it is bilateral. The pain can radiate to the armpits, shoulders, etc. The pain often eases after menstruation.

It is generally believed that breast hyperplasia is caused by endocrine hormone imbalance and sex hormone metabolism disorder, which causes excessive estrogen secretion in the body, leading to physiological breast hyperplasia and incomplete involution. In addition, the liver's estrogen inactivation function is abnormal, so that excessive estrogen causes adverse stimulation to breast tissue and causes breast tissue proliferative lesions. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that breast hyperplasia is caused by emotional discomfort, liver qi stagnation, weak vital energy, and poor circulation of qi and blood, which lead to qi stagnation, phlegm coagulation, and blood stasis, which stagnate in the breasts and accumulate over time.

Regarding the understanding of whether breast swelling during ovulation is normal, women do not need to worry when this happens. During the ovulation period, the body temperature of women is relatively high. At this time, women should also pay attention to taking contraceptive measures during sexual life to prevent pregnancy. Of course, for women who want to get pregnant, this is also the best time.