Therapeutic target
Pain relief
Therapy recommendations
- Hormone-free phytotherapeutics (herbal medicine) should be used alongside non-drug therapies at the start of treatment
- Hormone therapy (progestins, oral, transdermal (“through the skin“) or vaginal (e.g., vaginal suppositories); prolactin inhibitors (dopamine agonists)) for cyclic (premenstrual (“before menstruation“) mastodynia (cycle-dependent feelings of tension in the breasts or breast pain).
- Estrogen-progestin combinations or progestins for contraceptive desire and mastodynia.
- See also under “Further therapy“.
