Please help - I'm in agony! I had mastitis about a month ago which was treated with antibiotics. Since then I've suffered, on and off, from shooting pains in my right breast (the one with the mastitis) deep into the breast. It starts five mins after feeding and lasts anything up to two hours afterwards. It's agony. I thought it might be thrush, though it doesn't happen every time I feed from that side and I can't see any white patches in my baby's mouth.
So, I went to the docs last week and she prescribed more antibiotics to treat the mastitis again, which she said hadn't cleared. I asked about Thrush and she said she didn't think it was that. That evening I came down with full blown mastitis - sick, hot, very painful and full breast. I took the antibiotics and felt better in myself within a few days though my breast still felt very engorged and doesn't ever feel totally soft and drained. Managed to hand express in the bath and some yellow stuff came out (sorry). The breast is now feeling a bit softer in places but now the shooting pains are back (they had, weirdly, disappeared when I had the mastitis - maybe because I was too blocked?). It's so painful, I couldn't sleep for 2 hours after a feed last night.
Any ideas what it could be and what I should do? Thinking of going to the walk-in clinic today, though I'm still finishing the course of antibiotics so will they just say wait until I've finished and see what happens? Feel like giving up breastfeeding, though I really don't want to 