How do you wise women prevent hormone induced sore boobs?

[BrightonMum36]

I get horribly sore boobages twice a month for nearly a week each time. Premenstrually and whilst ovulating.
I can't do this for the rest of my life can I have your recommended lotions and potions please. I will literally try anything. GO!

The combined pill works for me. That plus a decent bra.

High dose of Evening Primrose Oil.

I used to have sore boobs constantly, and yes the combined pill works wonders

I'm on no contraception at all (other than my contraception pyjamas that I sometimes wear) and I feel like I've been beaten up twice a month I'm in so much pain. Will be following thread for any non-contraception based methods!

I asked my Dr about this and he recommended evening primrose oil and it's really helped!

I’m perimenopausal and this symptom is my worst symptom. I can have is for 3 weeks out of 4. My doctor prescribes vitamin b6. I have also found reducing my dairy intake (bugger coz my favourite food is cheese) also helps.

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A good bra.
Improve your fitness levels. You'll need a high impact sports bra for anything that involves a bit of movement. Not all sports bras are equal.

I like it. Makes me teeny boobs a little bigger and lets me know I'm due on. Am I weird? Probably.

I don't think there is much you can do about it

There’s nothing that comes close to evening primrose. It makes such a difference and relatively quickly too.

reducing coffee helped me.

So the primrose oil, do you just rub it in?

Boots starflower and evening primrose oil.

Demo injection. Migraines and murderous rages have lessened also.

*depo! stupid autocorrect!

No, capsules taken orally. I take 1000mg daily

I found cutting out caffeine helped, that means tea, coffee and chocolate as apparently that has a similar compound. Works for my daughter too. Find I could tolerate a little but if I had too much the symptoms returned. Was a pain to cut them out but better than the breast pain!

Vit B complex. I take it a week or so in the lead up.

I'm like ansumpasty I have small boobs and the hormonal boob gives my small chest a nice perty bigness for a week . My sympathies though as it is uncomfortable.

I don't actually get periods due to mirena coil ,hormonal boob seems to be my only symptom these days.

I took evening primrose oil for a few months but while it helped with pmt and sore tits it unfortunately made my periods totally erratic! I was barely getting 10 days between periods. It took me a while to realise the irregularity had started at the same time as the evening primrose oil. As soon as I stopped taking it my periods went back to normal. So I’m just putting up with the sore boobs and pmt at the moment!

I just came off the pill to try to have a baby and had totally forgotten about the sore boob thing as I never got it in the pill!

Haven't had this since taking high dose starflower oil. One capsule taken once a day. I was sceptical but it really does work. Same idea as evening primrose oil but more of the active ingredient (GLA Omega 6 fatty acid, I believe) in the starflower oil.

Thank you ladies! I bought starflower and primrose oil today so will give it a go. Don't want to go on the pill but not ruling anything out. Xxx

Good move. Take it regularly - it made a difference to me the very next month

These that say discomfort have no idea how agonising mastalgia is for some women!!!

I'm perimenopausal too and this has got worse for me. I find that a sports bra for anything more active than slow walking helps. If your breasts are swollen, having a bra with a slightly bigger cup size than you'd normally wear, for especially bad days, is also handy.