Watch what you eat and drink. Caffeine and sugar can cause premenstrual breast tenderness. If you can't give up coffee, cut down all month, not just premenstrually. Salt is often mistaken as the culprit in bloating and breast tenderness, but sugar is actually implicated in puffy, sore breasts. Minimizing sweets helps manage breast soreness, and may improve other PMS symptoms.
Breast pain can make exercising uncomfortable.
But regular exercise actually helps reduce premenstrual breast soreness, according to a Canadian study. The supplement Vitamin B6, taken as part of a B-complex vitamin that contains magnesium, can reduce premenstrual breast soreness. Evening primrose oil may also help premenstrual breast tenderness. Review your medication. During perimenopause, PMS-like symptoms such as breast tenderness often worsen.