Mastalgia in one breast is breast pain that can occur in one breast or both breasts.
Mastalgia is the medical term for breast pain.
Mastalgia in the breast can feel like tightness, burning, dull ache or heaviness in your breast tissue and it can also feel like tenderness, stabbing pain or throbbing pain.
The mastalgia breast pain can be felt in either one breast or both of your breasts and can sometimes even radiate to your arm.
It is also often located in the upper quadrant of your breast.
Mastalgia breast pain may be constant or intermittent and can occur cyclically or noncyclically.
Cyclical pain is linked to your menstrual cycle and noncyclic pain can be caused by trauma, prior breast surgery and other factors.
The breast pain can range from mild to severe and can sometimes be disabling.
Mastalgia breast pain is very common and more common in women that are of child bearing age.
Mastalgia breast pain is rarely linked with breast cancer and the source of the mastalgia breast pain is often benign and non cancerous and often clears up on it's own.
Breast pain can even sometimes occur in men as well as transgender people.