blocked duct/mastitis dragging on is this ok?

[hellymelly]

Hi,Ive posted a few times over the past week,I've had a tender and sore breast,GP could feel a thickened duct,has referred me for a mammogram (not sure if I even need this? )he felt was prob a blocked duct.Anyway,the duct area seems less painful and sore in itself,but my nipple is mre tender and it is not quite painful,but uncomfortable ,to feed.The breast feels rather tender and bruised but not really horribly painful.I don't have a temp.I do feel a bit rough but I think its maybe hayfever as it isn't getting any worse.Is it normal for a blocked duct to resolve but for the breast to feel sore still?Anyone else had a mammogram for a blockage?

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My experience not directly relevant to yours, but at least it'll bump for you!

Sorry you're feeling sore.

The first time I had mastitis it took a good week to go full-blown temperature and awfulness; up til then it was just bruised feeling. In fact I didn't realise it was a blocked duct, thought I'd just bumped myself, and didn't express or anything, until after I got the temperature. Never had a mammogram. Just made sure I fed loads on that side and it got better a few days after the temperature came on.

Hope someone more helpful comes along soon!

Hmm.I've had it for a week.really hope it won't turn into mastitis .I have antibiotics here ready from the GP but I really don't want to take them unless I absolutely need to as they make me feel so vile.I suppose my duct could still be blocked ? I couldn't feel the block even though the GP could so I don't know if it has shifted but it felt as though it might have.

Hi helly -

Assuming it is just a blocked duct, I guess the thing is to keep on with the self-help measures until it clears, which it should soon. Are you doing anything in particular - e.g. breast massage, warm flannels, different feeding positions? Ibuprofen may help to reduce the inflammation as well as the pain.

Also have a think about supply - any engorgement on that side won't help things, so you want to make sure that your baby is draining the breast effectively and regularly. Sometimes, without even quite realising it, you end up feeding less on the affected side because of the discomfort.

Mammogram certainly sounds like overkill to me for a simple case of blocked ducts, but I'm no GP!

I have been trying heat and different positions etc,plus ibrubrofen and homoeopathic remedies.I wish I could feel the lump and then I would know if it had gone.My breast does feel soft after feeding,but still feels sore.My GP said that as a woman presenting with a thickened area in the breast he had to refer me,although he wasn't going to fast track me as he thought it was probably a blocked duct.The "probably" has freaked me even while I know he would have fast tracked me if he was worried.My GPs seem pretty clueless anyway about breastfeeding and shocked/horrified that my dd is nearly three.
It wasn't painful to feed at first and now it does hurt a bit,but the breast was more painful if prodded than it is now.I just want to get better so I can cancel the mammo and stop worrying.

Oooooh yes, warm flannels. Sorry, I'd forgotten about them. Even better - sit in a really nice hot bath and massage/hand express as long as you can face it. Then as soon as you're out, feed on that side.

Sorry, cross-post.

I've never managed to hand express,I find it really hard to pump too and when I had bocled ducts with dd1 I just had to wait until she had a long feed and they cleared.I've never had this lingering soreness and I'm worried waht is going on.it has been 8 days now.

that would be blocked,not bocled,I dread to think what bocled ducts would be like.

anyone else had this?

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bocled ducts, not likely

How about latch, is that ok? Could your baby have developed a lazy one and doing some nipple damage? Or thrush? - that can cause pain deep in the breast between feeds rather than during. I had that and it is definitely uncomfortable but a different sensation to blocked ducts.