Arcadia - Ta for the tip - I might call the ABA today. It's definitely not a Montgomery's follicle though as it's on the tip of the nipple, not the areola. The pain is so bad I am considering stopping feeding, but I'd hate for that to be the reason I wean. DS is VERY attached to his two feeds a day, with lots of stroking, comfort sucking and grizzles/pulling at my top when I do take him off. This is only a recent thing, before that he barely seemed interested and we dropped from 5 feeds to 2 since the New Year. I might post and ask Barb what she thinks...
Hot shower and boobie massaging is worth a try. As for boob stuff being confusing. Im still confused 19 months later! 
) feeding 3hrly overnight - I thought we were getting close to the actually sleeping through (ie only waking 1-2 o'night); he's also started in the past week or so to feed on both sides - he hasn't done that since about 4mths old (occasionally but not this regularly). I've ended up falling asleep in the glider again and it's not being nice to my lower back doing that. The lack of sleep is just about killing me as I'm working basically full time in the classroom and lack of sleep generally means a very grumpy teacher. DS won't let DH get up to him in the middle of the night either 
unless he wants to be awake for a while. I'm yet to see evidence that it's a growth spurt either - doesn't seem much heavier than usual or taller yet.
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