Do Breast Implants Make Pre-menstrual Breast Pain Worse?

It has been my experience that in the short term this may happen as the pain in the breasts with menstruation is mostly a pressure phenomenon brought about by fluid retention in the dense fibrous tissues of the breasts.  Thus with the increased pressures that can occur with postoperative swelling as well as tensions placed on tissues while they are accommodating to the implants, I think this can happen.  Once the tissues relax and the implants settle, which may take several months, I would expect this to return to the baseline where it was before implants, although that is just an expectation.  Although doubtful, the truth is that you could experience a permanent increase to your breast pain; it is just very difficult to say one way or the other absolutely for sure.  I would not expect the plane of the implants - subglandular, submuscular, or dual plane - to have a significant impact on this.  The bottom line is that you will have to decide for yourself how important breast augmentation is to you, and if it is important enough, you will have to undergo the procedure and just see if you have an increase in your pain, and if you do, is it temporary.  Good luck.

Even those your breasts are sore before and during your menses, there is no current evidence that breast implants will make that concern worse.  Given the very large number of women who undergo breast augmentation, if menstrual pain was made worse by placing implants above or below the muscle this concern would likely be known by now.