hun, it's hard having problems at any stage. You're doing such a fabulous job of feeding Miss M! Totally agree with Jennifer. If you do have thrush DD will need to be treated as well, otherwise it just spreads from her mouth back your nipples, IYKWIM. The shooting pain could well be from thrush.

You sound like you have a brilliant plan hun . Just be really careful in the meantime when handling your nipples that you hands are nice and clean, so as to reduce the chance of introducing any nasties into the cracks.

Let us know how you go at the Dr, and how things progress over the next few days