Painful left breast/side boob menopause

Yes I understand entirely , the irrational thoughts of doom just come from nowhere , I could be thinking about what to cook for dinner and suddenly I'm overwhelmed with fear and thoughts of something awful about to happen . I have to really tell myself off and refocus my mind . Also it's getting embarrassing the amount of times I think I'm listening and then wonder what the hell has just been said to me . I'm thinking of asking for hrt , I'm going to research it a little more first as I've heard it comes with risks however , living like a zombie is not good ! 

Oh my goodness Gilly...I know exactly what you mean!  I mute commercials now..( just to be safe). If it's on the radio, I make my husband change stations. 🙄He thinks I'm looney.  Lol

Lol...I do the same.

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That's good to hear that it is common in one breast.  I am on the left breast club too

I seem to be the odd one out with the right one being the difficult child. Hah!

Hi gailannie.  When my left breast pain started, my feeling was that the breast, shoulder, clavicle, and under arm region were all congested.  In my research it seems that I read somewhere that our lymph nodes branch off in the center of the chest and more of them branch  to the left.  I would try to do arm circles and different exercises just to get the area moving.  I also had a lymphatic massage twice.  I can't honestly say any of it helped though.  I do not know if that has anything to do with it, but just thought it was interesting.

Interesting 2chr.  I also had frozen shoulder on my left side.  

Nope I’m left handed.  Pain in my left back! 

Although I did get frozen shoulder in my right but it usually happens in your non dominant shoulder.

Alas, pain in both breasts. My cysts were so huge the radiologist looked at me and said ‘there’s really something wrong with you, you should see a doctor’.

Ummm no Sh** Sherlock. So annoying.

It’s amazing how a body can totally break down because of hormones. 

Does it get better?, does it really???

Not sure about it being on your non dominant side, i get cold shoulder on my right side all the time and what's worse is that I'm right handed!

Yes, it gets better. I, too, suffered with cyst pain but once I went on hrt every symptom of pain and emotional crying went away including my ovarian cysts and fibroids.

Curious Sochima, are you also using  progesterone?  I've read this helps with fibroids.  Do you mind mentioning what you're using?  I'd love to see my fibroids shrink.  

Usually they say frozen shoulder during meno is non-dominant shoulder. No explanation as to why, they don't know. Hopefully you don't have a rotator cuff problem!

No, Gailannie on the progesterone. Currently, I'm not on anything but when I was it was levonorgestrel. After trying more than a dozen other hrt remedies, bcp's and medicines this one took everything away. But like you said, every body is different. For fibroids I sort of recall being told to eat chai seeds, beets and yams. Since I eat these all the time I haven't felt any pain, but then I try to eat as close to organic as l can and lastly, I fast. Fasting causes the fibroids to shrink because it deprives them of fat cells which what feeds them, along with refined sugar and caffeine. Hope this helps.

Ok Sochima, this is getting even more interesting by the minute,  since Lovonorgestrel is a progestin!   So basically you were taking a synthetic progesterone.  I'm assuming you were in perimenopause and still producing enough estrogen.  Correct?  

And now you are in menopause?  (Sorry, I know I should remember this)  

 

Yes, of course i took synthetic medicine and i wouldn't hesitate to take it again if i had too. I tried homeopathic bio-identicals, and spent hundreds on maybe this'll work junk, that didn't do lick. No, I'm not in menopause. Not happening any time soon, i dont suspect i will either as the women in my family have moon cycles well into their late 70's, i suspect i am too. But at least it's not as unbalanced as it was before, i still get emotional but it's not as often, only around that time.

It wasn’t the “synthetic” part I found interesting. It was that it was a progesterone “hormone”  that helped you feel better. 

We’re constantly told that’s it’s all about the estrogen. That isn’t my experience. 

Yes, i was estrogen dominant yet, in my experience, when you're estrogen dominant progesterone is the antidote. When I was estradiol, estrace, and a other es types of pills, my hormones were worse. As a last resort, my doctor suggested we try this, and it was the magic pill i needed.

What symptoms were you having at that the me?  

My breast hurt and were swollen all the time. No sex drive, always bloated, crying all the time, my cysts and fibroids hurt a lot, hot spots on my body, fuzzy feeling of my skin, and fuzzy brain.

Forgot to add horrible acne, which I still get but not as bad.

Were you bleeding a lot and did you have some clotting?  I remember some of  those same feeling in peri.

Just really curious here, but did you do a 2 week round of Lovonorgestorol?  Or was it more?  

Hi sochima.  That is great information.  Thanks for sharing😊    How long were you on the bcp?  My doc has recommended it if I want to try it.  It would be great to get rid of the breast pain and possibly the ovarian cysts?  They are very painful too.

No, I wasn't to your first question and I took it for a little over a year and then I stopped when all my symptoms went away.

Hi 2chr, yes, it was great for taking away the breast, cyst and fibroid pain, the only thing I recommend is that if you take it, do the full 3 years, stopping early caused my hot flushes to come back with a vengeance 2 years later. My gyne said that if I would've continue I could have avoided any other symptoms. But a lot of women put the fear factor in me for which I shouldn't have listened. Because they had no knowledge of my progesterone dominance and the pill i was taking made me a less likely risk candidate for breast cancer.

Thanks sochima.  I was thinking that my breast pain and gallbladder issues were related to being estrogen dominant.  Do I have it wrong?

Many women think there gallbladder is somehow an issue. Most of the time it's acid or a sour atomach on the right side under the rib cage. Gallbladder pain is quite painful, symptoms include feeling as if you re having a heart attack, high fever, vomiting or diahrrea, pain on the right side but it moves to the chest and back of your gallbladder. I thought I was having gallbladder pain but a ct scan showed it was my cysts and fibroids causing me pain. My doctor thought it could also be acid reflux, thus I was given a mylanta cocktail, with an rx for a ppi. Were you diagnosed with gallbladder disease?

Last year they saw sludge and gravel stones on the US.  I recently went through several weeks of pain with it.  Wraps around to my back, nausea etc.  I quit eating meat and it is about 90% better now