My breasts hurt on the sides under the armpit every day for MONTHS. .. it never goes away it did for awhile but now it’s been back again for several months nonstop. I am 48 years old with heavy periods. I have suffered perimenopause for 9 YEARS! !! When will it end? ?? I have very heavy and long periods sometimes lasting 6 weeks of bleeding. This seems to coincide with the breast pain by the way. The months I had no periods or light ones I had no breast pain. Now the pain is back and so are the never ending heavy periods. I don’t want to take hormones or medicines etc. What causes NON STOP HIGH ESTROGEN? I mean if you only ovulate once then what would make estrogen continually release week after week? I have been tested negative for low thyroid prolactemia etc etc. So it has to be something causing non stop estrogen release because even after a period will end and all during I have the breast pain. It does not let up even during or after the period. ..just keeps right on till the next one! Do I have ovaries that won’t stop releasing estrogen or is this pain pretty normal for ladies my age? does anyone else have breasts that never stop hurting whether they have their periods or not? UPDATE: so I found out there is something called a LOOP which is when the ovaries are hyper stimulated by the estrogen to n produce another ovulation on top of the one which just occurred... so then you can have MULTIPLE egg follicles stimulat5ed growing and producing yet MORE estrogen for a cascading effect. I had non stop period for 6 weeks then a break for 4 weeks then now more period for 2 weeks so far and the breast pain which is a clue NEVER went away and still continues as does the ovarian pinching. So I'm guessing you just have to wait out the round of LOOPS until it finally dies down. Very awful and annoying. from what I've read basically in perimenopause there is a disconnect between the ovarian response and the brain pumping out FSH and other ovarian stimulating chemicals. so the brain never gets the message to shut off and you get continual ovulating which is why older ladies get twins so much! I hate this and I want my life back! !!