I took Bromocriptine as well as the Cabergoline didn't quite dry the milk up because they gave me the wrong dose. Should ahve had the dosage that pacific says. this was what my GP read out to me from 'The book'.
My dad's friend is a retired Gynaecologist and he wrote me a private prescription for Bromo as this is what he used to use. It was a Sunday and I was desperate. Bromocriptine is an old school drug and it made me go to sleep within 1 hour of taking it which is not particularly useful with a young baby and you need to take it for 14 days. I think it just had more side effects in general like nausea (but I didn't experience this) so they mostly use Cabergoline now.
I just had 250 micro gram single dose of Cabergoline because the useless 12 yr old doctors at Heartlands Hosp. couldn't be bothered to look it up in the book and they got the drug from the maternity ward where they usually just dispense it to new mothers who want to surpress lactation.
The surpress thing is key. I don't think there is anything that will just stop the milk it still takes a few days of ouch.
My milk actually came back a bit because I stopped taking the Bromo bcos I thought it had worked and didn't like the side effects. Breast doctor said that nature is very powerful and they still don't understand everything about lactation. I even still got a letdown feeling when baby cried weeks after I had stoppd bf. BF is amazing, when it works.