Every woman and girl should regularly conduct an independent examination of her breast , in order to detect signs of possible diseases at the earliest stage. Often, with this method of diagnosis, a fair-sex woman finds that when she presses on one or both mammary glands she begins to experience pain.
Painful sensations in such a situation may be different, however, they always frighten women and make them suspect such a terrible disease as breast cancer. Indeed, in some cases this symptom actually indicates a malignant neoplasm, but there are other reasons that can cause pain in the chest gland, which we will consider in this article.
Why does the chest hurt with pressure?
As noted earlier, this sign can indicate oncological diseases. In addition, regardless of which chest you have pain while pressing, left or right, the reasons for this may be as follows:
- fibrocystic mastopathy , or benign lesions in the mammary gland;
- various diseases of the thyroid gland;
- some violations of the liver;
- disorders of the hormonal background due to any diseases from the female reproductive system and the body as a whole, as well as constant nervous stresses and experiences.
Also, the cause of pain in the chest when pressing it may be intercostal neuralgia or osteochondrosis and other degenerative-dystrophic changes in the spine. With such
What should I do if I have chest pain while pressing?
Undoubtedly, the first detection of such a symptom should be addressed as soon as possible to the doctor-mammologist for an internal examination by a qualified specialist and the necessary diagnostic methods. In this case, procrastination can be very dangerous, since many diseases respond well to treatment only at the earliest stage.