Arthritis and breast pain?

[amberly87]

Ladies, I have psoriatic arthritis and fibro. Can anyone with any form of arthritis tell me if you ever experience breast pain? Mine tend to hurt around menstration and ovulation, but they’ve been hurting a few weeks (& no I’m not pregnant), and I was wondering if this could be caused by the arthritis. Anyone else had anything similar?

[cyberbarn]

Pain is a really fascinating perception. First of all, it doesn't exist in the part of the body that feels the pain, it is in the brain. The nerves from the part of the body we perceive the pain to be in sends a signal to the brain, and the brain interprets it and decides what to do with it.

For instance if you stub your toe, your brain might decide to pull your foot away and say ow and you perceive pain, but then decide that the pain isn't useful anymore and blocks the nerve from sending more pain signals, and you perceive that the pain subsides.

Most of the time this serves us well, but sometimes things don't work as well as they could, or even go over board and work too well.

For instance the brain can think that the pain is greater than it really is, sort of turning the volume up to 11. Of it can mix up light touch and pain so that people percieve someone putting a hand on their shoulder as pain.

So what might be happening is that your brain has become more sensitive to pain because of the arthritis, so you are noticing something that before you didn't, or the pain might be what is called referred pain where the source of the pain is felt as if it is coming from somewhere else.

if you are at all worried that it might be something causing the pain then you should see your doctor, but in the mean time watch and wait and figure out how your body processes pain. It might just be your brain over reacting to the pain from the arthritis, or it might be something else.

[Bananas5 in reply to cyberbarn]

If you haven't heard of Lorimer Moseley....try this

youtube.com/watch?v=gwd-wLd...(Not working as expected?)

x

[dtech]

Have you tried the NRAS (arthritis) site? You may get more information there. I’m a bloke (with rheumatoid arthritis) but I’m afraid I have no experience of your problem!😉

[Mary-intussuception]

Yes. Have sent pm with more info. Will you be going to your GP to get this checked out.