Do pregnancy, breast-feeding, and menopause affect fibrocystic breast changes?
Thanks to changes caused by various hormones in a women’s body, fibrocystic breast change tends to improve during pregnancy and breast-feeding. The changes also tend to resolve a year or two after menopause because the body begins to lose estrogen. Some women who take hormones to treat problems related to menopause may develop breast lumps. Other women after menopause may develop another benign breast changes called “ductal estasia,” with symptoms of redness, pain, and swelling. Again, any woman, no matter what age, should seek her physician’s advice for any change or irregularity in her breast. How is fibrocystic breast changes treated? There are many ways to treated fibrocystic breast changes depending on the character of the lumps, amount of discomfort, and your family history. A few, small painless lumps that come and go with your menstrual cycle may not require treatment although your physician will probably ask you to continue to examine your breast once a month and come in for a
