Possible Mastitis?

I had a clogged duct 2 weeks ago and got it out with my haakaa. Since then I experience severe pain in my breast when nursing and also in between. It feels like hot needles in my nipples but the pain is deep inside. Just a little engorgement is extremely uncomfortable. I’ve been nursing a lot on that side in hopes it would help but it’s not getting better. My obgyn told me to only come in if I get flulike symptoms so I’m not sure what to do or where to go? What could this be? Has anyone else experienced this?

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I think you're only adding to the pain by over nursing. The research is now showing that it's not an actual clog but more of a narrowing due to inflammation. The new recommendations say to not do any extra nursing or pumping, to ice for about 10 minutes every 30 minutes-1 hour and take pain relief like Tylenol.

By continuing to nurse it's just adding more inflammation and continuing to make it hurt for you.

Dangle feeding, Epsom bath in a haaka, vigorous massage are also not recommended as it also adds to the irritation and inflammation.

yeah I actually think my haakaa might’ve caused it because of the strong suction but I thought frequent nursing would flush out the ducts

Take advil too to reduce the inflammation and Tylenol for pain

Yeah that's the old recommendations that only changed in like 2022 so a lot of people aren't caught up yet with the new advice. Give your self a break and hopefully in a day or two you're feeling a LOT better ♥️

@Chrissy it doesn't always work from experience though and sometimes you do need to squeeze it out. Castor oil helped me once or twice too or get your husband to get it out for you 😏

I mean I've had multiple too and the ones that resolved quickly were with the new guidelines. Do what works for you but I'll keep telling the new recommendations😊

I think it could be the start of it, I literally just now getting over my mastitis and still finishing my meds.

It started with uncomfortable sharp pain everytime I tried to feed or pump and nothing work and it was super engorged and then one night I had a fever. If your OB wanting to wait to till it get worse then you need to go to the Doctor or a 24hr clinic

how long did you have the pain for before it turned into mastitis? It’s been over 2 weeks now and there are no other symptoms than pain

I just started with castor oil and heat and feel like it’s helping until I have to nurse again. I might continue with that for today and see if it gets better.

1 week and then the 2nd week is when I had my fever. But because I didn’t know I wasn’t pumping I was only breastfeeding so I think that’s what made mines worse.

When I used it, it pretty much cleared immediately but I did have to still squeeze after I applied to make sure everything came out

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