I really want to keep breastfeeding but I need some help because it really hurts. My daughter is 10 months old and has only recently become interested in solid foods and she won't take a bottle so not only do I WANT to keep going I kind of HAVE to

She has never been the best latcher, but usually painful nursing only lasted a few days, with months of pain free nrusing in between. It has now been a few months of pain and I am at a loss.

Mid March I started experiencing sharp pain in my right breast. I went to the Dr and he thought I might have mastitis so he put me on a course of antibiotics. I knew it was not mastitis but went along with it, and of course it did nothing. I went back to the Dr and asked if it could be thrush. My DD had a diaper rash in her creases so even though he said it was unlikely he gave my some nyastin (sp?) cream for my nipples and her diaper area.

DD's bottom cleared up instantly and I seemed to get better for a day or two, and then the pain returned along with a white bump and some nipple blanching. I read up that it could be a blocked duct or a bleb, so I sterilized a needle and tried to empty it, but nothing happened. Milk was able to flow through the area again but it still hurt. It almost looks like small lump of scar tissue. My nipple also looks a bit cracked at times and I get red irritated spots on the areola where her little teeth rub.

I have started feeding DD mostly on the left side as that side that does not hurt. My right nipple starts to feel like it might be getting better but then after she feeds it burns and aches for hours and I get a sharp stabbing pain into my breast.

My nipple does sometimes look like it may be flattened with those white ridges along the side but not always, and yet I always get the pain with that side and that white spot and the reddness never go away. I have been using Dr Jack Neuman's nipple cream but it only helps marginally.

I have been to see the LC in the past but she really didn't help that much and I don't know what else to do. I will be devastated if I have to give it up but I can't take much more of this. The other day she bit my sore side hard enough to draw blood and that was kind of the last straw.

Please any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.