Breastfeeding+pain and Maybe Thrush, Not Sure. Moms, Ever Get This?

Sounds like yeast to me and I've had a whopper of a case. I had zero luck with effective treatment with Dr.s but the laceration consultant saved the day. We used Genitan violet and its not easy to find. You need to treat baby and mom at the same time and wash all bedding, clothes, and bras in hot water. Kellymom.com is helpful on this subject. Don't go another way without seeing someone for diagnosis and treatment because the yeast can cause so much pain for you that you may be unable to continue feeding. It can take a good three days of treatment before you feel any relief from the pain and its likely to get worse before it gets better.

Hi, there. I hope that you're feeling better. I would have yourself checked out-any kind of pain should be checked by a doctor, just in case, for your sake and the baby's sake. Best of luck.

Sounds like mastitis or a clogged duct. I have had both. With mastitis you will get flu like symptoms as well. So fever, chills, run down feeling, along with stabbing horrible pain in your breast but the pain doesn't go away it just stays, every time you nurse your baby it's killer pain. Now a clogged duct can be just as painful! i had one once that lasted a whole month! Horrible pain in my right breast. But it would kinda come and go sometimes. Because some times the duct would unclog for a day or two but then come back. You just have to keep working the milk out. So lots of warm packs on your breast before and after you pump or feed your baby. massage the sore area and just keep working at it. It will get better. But go to your doc first to make sure it's not mastitis. You would need meds for that.

When I nursed my oldest I had both the thrush and mastisis. My guess would be a mastisis, and an ultrasound will tell you. Another reason I dont think it is thrush is because you would be bleeding and cracking.

I had a breast infection (mastitis) when I was nursing my son. It felt as you describe, as if someone stuck needles in there. I got a prescription for an antibiotic and the pain went away right away. I think it would be best to go to the doctor and have it checked out and get a prescription if it's an infection.

take him to the Pediatrician.
A Professional has to diagnose this.
Then prescribe you and him, medicine.
IF it is Thrush, then you AND your son has to be treated. Otherwise the Thrush will continue to go back and forth between you and him.

Per your breast pain, see your OB/GYN. Only a Professional can diagnose this.

Don't guess, with either one.

Please call your GYN about this. All pain in the breast should be examined.

I had that sharp needle like stabbing pain while breastfeeding the ENTIRE time I breastfed. It really sucked. I had it with both kids and they never could figure out what was causing it. I'd just grit my teeth and bear it. I saw all kinds of breastfeeding experts and we could not figure it out. Antibiotics did not help. I had it from the first time I breastfed till the last. I also had a low supply of milk the whole time...maybe 1/3 of what my child would need. If you can ever figure it out, let me know. I have always wondered why.