Boobs

[Anonymous]

So a couple days right after the middle of my cycle, so maybe when I ovulated, I had uncharacteristic breast swelling and extreme breast pain and sensitivity. The swelling is still happening (I have 5 days until my period) but the pain has lessened by a lot. I've had breast tenderness before but I don't recall a recent time my boobs swelled this much. Could this just be PMS? My obgyn thinks, since the pain has lessened, it isn't pregnancy.

[Anonymous]

You sound just like me! I have no idea why, but my breast tenderness has increased a lot since I stopped the pill in the fall and started TTC.

I have been getting sore around the week after I've ovulated -- usually about a week or two before my period is due.

This month for some reason, I've been sore right around ovulation, like you're describing.

This is a very common PMS symptom, but it is a little strange that it seems more intense this month (for you and for me!). I don't have an answer but can tell you that it's been going on for a couple of months for me and has been PMS-related (except maybe this month -- not exactly sure why now). For a while, I thought maybe it was related to shoveling snow because it happened when we had the big snow storms... don't know!

[Anonymous]

Me too! Like up a couple cup sizes and don't fit into button down shirts. Has only happened on that extreme scale - totally visible to the naked eye, so to speak - since starting to TTC #2.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Me too! Like up a couple cup sizes and don't fit into button down shirts. Has only happened on that extreme scale - totally visible to the naked eye, so to speak - since starting to TTC #2.

Could that be associated with a chemical pregnancy? I don't fully understand what that is.