Stopped bfing and now pain / lumpiness - help!

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I stopped bfing DD2 11 days ago after several bouts of blocked ducts and general fed-upness. I've had lumpy bits in one breast, i presume of milk, which I hoped would just go away but now the pain is back. What can I do? I don't want to stimulate supply again as the other side is quite squashy, and so is the problem side except for hard lumps in one area and under the nipple. Am so over this, I just want to be normal again and not trying to deal with sore breasts all the time. :(

Hope someone with more experience will be along soon - in the meantime try kellymom - loads of great advice on there whenever I have had BF challenges. Good luck.

kellymom.com/bf/concerns/mother/recurrent-mastitis/

Have you tried a hot flannel and manipulating the lumps towards your nipple. Or using a pump to get them out.

I wouldn't worry about supply as it'll settle down again.

I had this problem when I stopped bf-ing my daughter last month.
I coped by hand-expressing just enough to ease the lumpiness, without it being long enough to seem like a feed, iyswim!
Also took ibuprofen and paracetamol for the pain. I have heard people say that Psedoephedrine (sudafed) helps to dry the milk up, but I never tried it myself.
I did get so desperate with the pain that I even tried putting savoy cabbage leaves in my bra - weirdly it did seem to soothe and soften the lumpy bits!

Thank you all. I had a hot bath last night and pumped and massaged a bit to try to ease it, and have been taking ibuprofen. It seems a bit eased today, but still there. Will try again this evening. Thank you for the link, Livein - very interesting and useful. I can't manage to hand express very much (or pump very much actually) Ditsy - I just can't make it work and I find it very hard on the neck as I'm looking down to try to see what I'm doing. Will keep trying the suggestions though! I am just looking forward to supply stopping altogether really, although that also seems sad.

Sudafed is very effective at reducing supply. I used it when I stopped feeding DS1 and only needed to take it once or twice to reduce my supply enough so that I didn't get engorged/lumpy.

I fed my son until he was 2 because every time I tried to stop my milk would build up and the pain was unbearable. He never had a bottle and went straight from me to a cup.

I finally stopped when my grandmother bound me up with a crepe bandage and told me to take Epsom salts! Old wives tale or not it worked.