{"id":55039,"date":"2025-04-03T10:52:55","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T17:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/?p=55039"},"modified":"2025-05-08T07:26:43","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T14:26:43","slug":"breast-pain-common-causes-whats-normal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/news\/breast-pain-common-causes-whats-normal\/","title":{"rendered":"Understand Breast Pain: Common Causes &amp; What\u2019s Normal"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"article\">\n\t<header class=\"header\">\n\t\t<span class=\"type\"><\/span>\t\t<h1>Understand Breast Pain: Common Causes &amp; What\u2019s Normal<\/h1>\t\t<time>April 3, 2025<\/time>\n\t<\/header>\n\t<div id=\"block_e6054fe263b485f0df55c0ce11032e0e\" class=\"shs-block block-news-article entry-content\">\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"acf-innerblocks-container\">\n\n<p>Breast pain is common for many women, with up to 70% experiencing it at some point in their lives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/patients-visitors\/find-a-doctor\/shirley-rachel-1174889703\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rachel Shirley, DO, FACS<\/a>, with <a href=\"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/find-a-location\/samaritan-breast-reconstruction-surgical-oncology\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Samaritan Breast, Reconstruction &amp; Surgical Oncology,<\/a> explains the common symptoms and the potential causes of discomfort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Often, breast pain can feel like soreness, throbbing, stabbing or a sense of heaviness. While breast pain can be uncomfortable and frustrating, there is not a direct link to an increased risk of breast cancer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The causes of breast pain are often hormonal and multifactorial, making treatment challenging. Certain factors can increase the likelihood of experiencing breast pain, including larger breast size, previous breast surgery or specific medications. Other contributors of breast pain can include a high fat diet, caffeine, chocolate, nuts, cheese, smoking or vaping, bra underwires, excessive or prolonged lifting activities and stress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While small lifestyle changes can help, it is important to understand what is normal for your breasts and to discuss any persistent pain with your doctor to explore management strategies. However, if your breast pain is accompanied by a new lump, bloody nipple discharge, skin changes or indentation of the breast, you should notify your doctor promptly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/find-a-location\/samaritan-breast-reconstruction-surgical-oncology\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Samaritan Breast, Reconstructive &amp; Surgical Oncology<\/a> to learn more about comprehensive breast care services.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<aside>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/woman-performing-self-exam-CO-305.jpg\" class=\"attachment-cta size-cta wp-post-image\" alt=\"Woman does self screening for breast cancer, with hand over shirt\" srcset=\"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/woman-performing-self-exam-CO-305.jpg 360w, https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/woman-performing-self-exam-CO-305-300x250.jpg 300w, https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/woman-performing-self-exam-CO-305-120x100.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/figure>\t\t<\/aside>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/article>\n\n\n\n<section id=\"block_0c20eb96f2cbc376bd9a5bce8880ac47\" class=\"shs-block block-slim-section grid-container has-blue-light-background-color\">\n\n\t<div class=\"entry-content\">\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-celebrate-cancer-survivors-day\">Celebrate Cancer Survivors Day<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Celebrate courage, healing and community at Samaritan\u2019s annual Cancer Survivors Day on Sunday, June 1, in Corvallis and Newport. Join us in honoring survivors and their journeys with a day of heartful connection and joy. We hope to see you there!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/health-services\/all-services\/cancer\/celebrating-cancer-survivors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Learn More &amp; Register<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\t<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breast pain is common for many women, with up to 70% experiencing it at some point in their lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":14496,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":"","_shs_workflow_notes":"","_shs_exclude_from_navigation":false,"_shs_promote_article_on_blogs":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"news-topics":[294],"news-types":[270],"services":[229,252],"specialty":[55,101,33,103,170,295],"class_list":["post-55039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","news-topics-womens-health","news-types-feature-article","services-cancer","services-obstetrics-gynecology","specialty-oncology","specialty-breast-surgery","specialty-gynecology","specialty-radiation-oncology","specialty-surgical-oncology","specialty-womens-health"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55039"},{"taxonomy":"news-topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-topics?post=55039"},{"taxonomy":"news-types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-types?post=55039"},{"taxonomy":"services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/services?post=55039"},{"taxonomy":"specialty","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/specialty?post=55039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}