When your breast hurts in one spot it can be a result of hormonal fluctuations, breast cysts, trauma, fibrocystic breast changes, breast infections, costochondritis, arthritis pain, shingles and rarely breast cancer.
Most cases of breast pain are not serious and go away on their own but if the breast pain doesn't go away or gets worse you should see a doctor.
Hormonal fluctuations are the number one reason women have breast pain.
Breast cysts often feel like soft lumps and are more common in premenopausal women and can be tender or enlarged before a period or when pushed.
Fibrocystic breast changes are benign non cancerous breast changes in the breast tissue which can cause breast pain.
Breast infections like mastitis can cause shooting pain, redness and swelling in the breast.
While breast pain in one spot is not always breast cancer it is more likely to be a sign of breast cancer than having pain in both breasts.
Fibrocystic breast pain will feel like a dull ache or soreness or even heaviness feeling in your breasts.
Some women describe fibrocystic breast pain as feeling like a general discomfort or pain in both breasts which can come and go with their period or last throughout the month.
The cyst with fibrocystic breast pain can make your breasts feel ropy, lumpy or tender as fibrocystic breasts are composed of tissue which feels ropelike or lumpy in texture.
Fibrocystic breast changes are a common and non cancerous condition which affects your breast tissue.
The symptoms of fibrocystic breast changes are lumps or cysts, breast swelling or discomfort and tender or sensitive nipples and itching.
The symptoms can change throughout your menstrual cycle and are often worse right before or during your period.
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.