Aibu to cut my tit off

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Seem to have mastitis or it's a full blown absess now. It's so sore. I feel like shit. Too hot fever, leaking pus. Brian is foggy. Everywhere aches. Going to ring gp in half hour see what they say. ..

Any tips to help?

Yes to antibiotics.

The doctor wouldn't give for mine but it was nowhere near as bad as yours sounds. Definitely Mention that your worried about sepsis.

What did help me was a hot compress and expressing. I have some lanisoh heat pads that you can wear at the same time and was rotating them so I always had one on.

@MakingTheBestOfIt

When you speak to the GP / A&E staff don’t say “my breast hurts and I feel unwell”. Do say “I have a fever, my heart is racing and I feel very, very unwell. I have an infection in my breast and I am worried it could be sepsis”

Double mentioning this. Emphasis on the infection aspect as making has advised.

What's the redness around the main site of it like? Does it look like it's spreading?

Glad to hear you're getting antibiotics and hopefully your mum can come over. As others have said, whenever I've had an infection I've been told, by HCPs, if it gets a lot worse and I'm concerned, to go to A&E and specifically say "I have an infection and am worried about sepsis" as they will then do the specific tests and start treatment for sepsis, as they take it seriously.

If it’s not too painful to touch I used an electric face cleanser to help clear the blockage when I had mastitis. Apparently you can also use an electric toothbrush as the vibrations help loosen the blockage. That said, I’m not sure whether this would be practical if it has actual progressed to an abscess stage. Maybe something to check with your doctor.

Really hope you feel better soon - it’s absolutely awful and looking after kids when you feel like that is just torture.

Please be careful. I had a breast abscess after my first baby and was hospitalised for 5 days on intravenous antibiotics. My GP had initially diagnosed me with mastitis over the phone sight and prescribed antibiotics from the chemist which were nowhere near strong enough for an abscess.

Its red but there's no tracking. Mums going to come and help out. Then I'm off for a bath. My ds is 2 so it's probably him taking less milk now that's set it off

@DecorChange

You have signs of systemic infection and this could be sepsis - please call 111 or go to A&E
Don't wait for the antibiotics to kick in - you very likely need IV meds

You have my sympathy, I had mastitis in both boobs shortly after my milk came in after having my youngest. It was awful - fever of 41, constant shivering and hallucinating. I managed to get seen in the maternity unit as I was only 4 or 5 days post birth and they hooked me up to an antibiotic drip and then sent me home with two different types of antibiotics. I didn't even realise it was mastitis until I went in as I had been on morphine to help with the pain from a post Dural puncture headache, and this in turn masked the pain in my boobs.

Hoping that your antibiotics help nice and quickly, definitely a good idea to try and get some help with the kids as it totally floors you. Try and get a nice warm bath and soak the offending boob and express what you can.

I had that too, was he'll. You need antibiotics and a cabbage leaf in the bra. Sounds weird, my midwife recommended it and it really helped alot! Not kidding.

Hell

@SparklesAndFlowers

When breastfeeding I read that heat can help. A warm bath or a hot water bottle (wrapped in a towel or a cover) could relieve symptoms.

No, absolutely do not apply heat on a site of a bacterial infection. Never.

Hope the antibiotics kick in soon. Please be careful. I developed sepsis with mastitis and ended up in hospital for a week. I was originally given a course of antibiotics that were no way near strong enough.

Fever, flu type feeling, foggy head, lethargy - all dangerous signs.

I hope you are getting some relief from the pain by now.
By co-incidence in The Times is an obituary for Sir Patrick Forrest (aged 98) who was the breast cancer expert who devised and started the screening system now in use today. He and Norman Foster the Min of Health started work on it in 1987 and it started in 1990.

You poor thing! I had it and I was delirious with pain. The ABs kicked in really quickly though; I hope they do for you.

Still waiting about for antibiotics. Hope to fuck they kick in quick. Everything aches even my back and my eyes.

OP, is there any way your mum could take you to A&E? This sounds beyond a standard mastitis issue.

Does it? On the nhs site it says body aches?

When you get to the point of feeling like you’ve been mangled, it’s beyond aching. Please, if you’re able to leave the children with your mum do go to A&E.

@DecorChange
Please go to A and E
You have signs of sepsis
It's life threatening

We used to use cabbage leaves to draw out the heat

Hope you feel better soon

I’d go to A and E - someone needs to see you in person

Please be very careful OP. The foggy thinking and racing heartbeat are particularly worrying. As far as I am aware, they are not even symptoms of mastitis/breast abscess.

Has your GP actually examined you? It sounds like it was all done over the phone? If your thinking is foggy you may not be able to advocate for yourself very well.

Please tell your Mum that there is a risk you could develop sepsis and what signs she needs to watch out for. In the space of a few minutes I went from telling my DH I felt like my body was shutting down and I might actually die, to insisting I felt better and just needed to sleep. I felt like I was making rational decisions, but I wasn’t.

GPs are notorious for missing sepsis even when they do see patients face to face.

Hopefully you’ll start taking your antibiotics and quickly feel like a different person, but make sure those around you know the signs in case not.

If it's the left one don't do it...
Or you will just look like a right tit!!
Sorry op just trying to cheer you up!!

Echoing what other posters have said. Please get checked for Sepsis.