Patient's question:
When taking a shower, I noticed small hard lumps on both sides of my breasts. Usually, there's no special sensation, no pain or itching. I asked a few friends, and they said it might be fibrocystic breast changes. I'm worried it could worsen. Please ask: Is the onset of fibrocystic breast changes related to emotions?Doctor's answer:
Breast hyperplasia has a significant relationship with emotions. From a Traditional Chinese Medicine perspective, depression and liver qi stagnation can lead to breast hyperplasia and emotional blood deficiency disease. From a Western medicine perspective, emotional disorders can affect endocrine function, leading to endocrine dysfunction of the ovarian axis, resulting in elevated estrogen secretion and insufficient progesterone, which disrupts breast structure and ultimately causes fibrosis to reappear. For women, to prevent this type of breast disease, it is essential to cultivate a positive mindset and face everything with optimism.