Gawsh - that does bring back so many memories of getting a good attachment and then not wanting to break it because of the pain! That's another thing, thrush does cause your nipples to look irritated, red or in my case they were pink which isn't normal for me. Seriously TS I was in denial when I first told I had it because I had never had thrush before (that I know of) and I couldn't see anything but curdled milk in my babies mouth and she definately didn't have a red bot (never did get a red bot) - I developed mastitis and put down the sensations I obviously had from thrush as the mastitis, but when the mastitis cleared up I still had the symptoms of thrush. It just got worse and worse - I even came on here crying because I gave my baby a bottle of formula I couldn't handle it anymore and felt so guilty. After we went and got some more help for the thrush - Rochelle seemed to developed a thick white scale on her tongue. Thrush was really hard to get rid of and it's pretty yucky to treat because the stuff to put on your nipples is bloody sticky and would make any anything that touched it sticky like candy. But it helped like you wouldn't believe - seriously, you should really just try it for yourself for even just a day (won't do you anyharm either way) and if it hasn't done anything, well then it's prolly not thrush. But the relief I had was just so quick that I couldn't believe I suffered with it for such a period of time when relief was only a few drops of nilstat away! Best of luck TS - I hope you do find some relief soon whatever the outcome, especially if it is thrush cause my god it's painful.

I agree with what Marydean said!