Have been ebf 5mo DS and been plagued with issues since the start - mastitis, blocked ducts, blebs, nipple blanching, you name it, I get it! Mostly in my right breast.
Over the months I've occasionally had this dreadful pain in my nipple and going up deep inside my breast. It's like a shooting pain, kind of hot itchy burny, takes my breath away, sort of lasts 5 seconds and is every 30 seconds or so, for a couple of hours. It's so excruciating I feel like I want to rip my nipple off. It's just in my right breast.
Anyway, I'm cutting down bfing now, with a view to stopping over the next few weeks, not sure if that is relevant, and over the last week or so I've been getting it all the time. I googled and it said perhaps thrush. I have no other symptoms and DS has no symptoms that I can tell either.
Went to the doc, he said it was unlikely, but gave me single dose fluconazole just in case. I took that on sat. If anything it's much worse since then. Am also now on antibiotics for mastitis as I was feverish and shivering sat night, and boob was really painful. Feel fine now though. Except this nightmare nipple pain.
Er, this is really long, sorry. Basically, WHAT IS WRONG WITH MY BOOB??!!?! I've been literally screaming in agony today, hitting it and squeezing my nipple, anything to ease it, actual pain is seriously better than this.....