Pain in breast

[briggsy's girl]

is it superficial pain or deeper? the way it's radiating up to your armpit makes me wonder if maybe it's muscular moreso than actual breast tissue? i get similar when one of the muscles is messed up - hurts like a biatch. but i also have bigger breasts so i'm not sure if it's the same sort of thing - hard to compare

[Ca Plane Pour Moi]

Feels like it is going down from the skin to the bone - but that is a very, very small thickness, about .5-1cm. The pain that is in the breast rather than where the underwire in a bra is less painful, but is in the breast and not deeper.

I actually like the pulled muscle suggestion. I will warm the water up and have a nice hot shower and see if that helps at all. Odd thing is that I carry Liebling on my right side, so would have expected those muscles to pull first!

[briggsy's girl]

if you are always carrying Liebs on the right side, your muscles will be used to it - so more likely to be injured on the other side hun

apply heat for 20 mins (wheat pack or something) then leave it for a while, and do it again (i tend to do 20 on 20 off for a couple of hours)

there is a slim possibility of mastitis as well - my mum was never successful in BF either my brother or myself, so didn't even contemplate mastitis - she got it when i was 12!

[Ca Plane Pour Moi]

I did think about mastitis, but as Liebs self-weaned and there is no milk being produced any more (stopped about a 5m ago) I dismissed it. That should go away on its own too, right?

I rarely carry Liebling these days: he past 5 years now! I will pick him up if we're having a chat on the way to school in the morning, but not usually. Because then I'm carrying Liebling, his bookbag and his lunchbox. Whereas I normally only carry the lunchbox, if that.

Will hunt out the wheat bag we have. Sounds a lot cheaper than having to heat the water!

[Ca Plane Pour Moi]

Thanks BG - pain seems to have mostly gone now. Plus I managed to warm up! Wheat bags all the way from now on.

[briggsy's girl]

glad it helped hun

apparently (if the specialist mum seen many moons ago is right) we never truly stop making milk, we just reabsorb it - so it's possible to not have any come out, but still be making it and get the blockage.

hopefully the heat keeps helping - if it doesn't fully resolve though, get yourself checked. we'll be here to support you if you need that extra assistance to deal with the medicos hun

[lilima]

Please go and read my thread'they think I have breast cancer'. It had just tsken me more than a month to recover from a serious breast infection. I had similar symptoms, but also a fever. The symptoms you describe can be very serious, and need immediate medical assistance to rule out the C word.