A few months ago I starting getting breast pain (just left side) that starts around a week before my period and then goes when my period starts. It feels like a stabbing/burning across the top of the breast and on the outer side, and at it's worse can be excruciating. Ibuprofen/paracetamol help a little, some of the time. There's no lumps or anything, not that I can feel anyway.
I'm waiting on a GP appointment at the moment. Just wanted to see if anyone had experienced this and it was 'just' hormonal? The rational side of me thinks it must be this because of the timing and my age - I'm 44 so hormones likely all over the place . But because it's only on one side and because the pain can be SO bad, there's a niggling worry that it's something more sinister.