Is Breast Tenderness Before Menstruation Normal?

If you have breast tenderness before your period, it’s a sign that you have a lot of inflammation in your body. If you get breast tenderness after your period starts, it’s still a sign that you have inflammation in your body. Breast tenderness is a symptom of inflammation – and inflammation causes congestion in the surrounding tissues because the body is trying to heal the inflamed area.

The body orchestrates cells to come in to clean up the inflammation. Thus, if you’re wondering how long does it last and when does it stop (and rightfully so since it’s painful!), the answer would be this: until the inflammation is cleared out.

The real question to ask is how to stop inflammation in the body – and once you know the answer to this, you will know how to stop breast tenderness before your period.

What Causes Inflammation in the First Place?

Inflammation is caused by infection in the body. You don’t need to have a breast infection in your body to have breast tenderness. You could have gum infections in your mouth that have spread to other parts of your body, and have headed on to the breast. You could have a Candida yeast overgrowth infection that will also overwhelm your body and can end up heading on over to your breast. Or you might have a urinary tract infection along with gum infections and a Candida infection. Whatever type of infection you will have, you will end up getting inflammation in the body.

When the inflammation subsides, there will be an absence of breast tenderness. The key is to know what to do via natural remedies – vitamins and minerals, herbals and other methods to stop the inflammation.

Here are 5 ways to relieve breast tenderness and prevent it from happening in the first place:

1. Magnesium Oil

Magnesium oil is magnesium the mineral added to oil in an absorbable form. When you rub it onto the skin, the magnesium is carried directly into the skin and thus makes it into the body.

There’s a big advantage to this: magnesium causes a decrease of inflammation in the body. In fact, a deficiency of this nutrient will cause an increase in inflammation in the body.

2. Magnesium Baths

Another way to get magnesium into the body is via a bath where you add Epsom salts. These salts are magnesium based. Thus, the hot bath and the magnesium in the water relaxes you instantly plus the magnesium acts to decrease the inflammation in the body. Twenty minutes of soaking is enough to soak up the good benefits.

3. Herbals

Herbals are extremely beneficial for you to decrease inflammation. You’ve heard of turmeric, which is the herb that contains a medicinal ingredient called curcumin, right? Curcumin decreases inflammation quite well, according to research studies. If you’re taking capsules of it, take 3 capsules three times daily.

4. Change of Diet

If you want to eat an anti-inflammatory diet, eat more vegetables. Eat vegetables like they are going out of style. Even 15 vegetable servings a day is not too many. You’ll never die from an overdose, although you should know that science has never proved that! Vegetables mop up inflammation.

5. Vitamins and Minerals

Nutrients work together in the body. Thus, if you can take a multivitamin multimineral tablet that contains all the vitamins and minerals your body needs to support a healthy period, you are going to slowly start to reduce the inflammation in your body. You can go beyond a general multivitamin multimineral if you get a period vitamin. This multivitamin/mineral includes herbs and other helpful ingredients specifically that can reduce PMS symptoms. So it’s a winning situation.