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I'm Dr. Aviva Rong. painful breasts, ouch, they can really hurt.

You may be someone who experiences them just occasionally maybe for a few days a month

before your period or like some women in fact about 20% of women you may be feeling pretty

tortured by aching breasts and for some women it can be weeks at a time.

Some of my patients have told me that their breasts are so achy and swollen that sometimes

they're too painful to get those ladies into a bra. and

sometimes they're too painful to get those ladies into a bra and for some women that pain can interfere with sex

and even going to a job or school if you're taking classes.

The thing is that even though painful breasts are super common,

breast tenderness is not just a normal part of being a girl.

Your breasts are telling you, it's time to do something for your health

to do a little bit of fine-tuning and that's what we're going to talk about

today. Today I'm going to teach you seven natural treatments that you can count on to kiss breast

tenderness goodbye.

First I want to give you some definitions so you know what we're talking about.

One is types of breast tenderness. In the medical world we break these down into cyclic and non-cyclic so most of us are going to

experience cyclical breast tenderness at one time or another this is usually

generalized you can feel it kind of throughout both breasts and it's typically associated with your period.

It often starts somewhere after the middle of your cycle or the week before your period or a few days before and it usually

goes away when your periods start.

Gynecologists consider a minor amount of cyclic breast tenderness normal and just related to hormonal changes.

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