I've been treating thrush for a couple of weeks now, but still having pain in the nipple and ache in the breast after feeding (for a long time after, in fact most of the time). Paracetomol helps. I only feed from one breast, so the pain is only in that side (very inverted nipples, baby managed to 'correct' and feed from one of them but not the other). I've had attachment and positioning looked at at BF clinic and babycafes. I think the problem was caused by trying to do lying down feeding over Christmas when we had teething/ growth spurt involving 2 hourly feeding day and night. We probably didn't get the latch right then. Back to a normal (for us) feeding pattern of 6 BFs a day and sometimes 1 during night if she wakes.
Is the pain still likely to be thrush? It's certainly not excruciating like it was before I started treating it, but very uncomfortable a lot of the time. DD is 5 months, by the way. Any tips/ experiences? We've had so many BF difficulties that I was really hoping we'd be good at it by now!