fish I hope you're having a better time of it now. I know the feeling re: hell-bubbles.
dee 
I hope the test comes back false pos.
consort Oh how terrible! to then be given such shit advice from a HCP doesn't help either. Thanks for sharing...thankfully my mastitis isn't caused by cysts...see below if you want details.
Welcome klinda.
mightyma the shower-leaking thing...it's marvellous. It's actually been a blessing the last few days...and welcome! I don't remeber saying hi to you before...but then I am exceedinyl exhausted mentally right now.
MY SHIT: feel free to ignore:
So, it all went literally tits-up.
Admitted to hospital Friday with another bout of mastitis as I couldn't tollerate oral ABs. Finally been 'let out' today.
Thankfully it wasn't/isn't cyst-driven mastitis, so I didn't need surgery, but my breast swelled significantly.
Ended up with a very, very high temp causing rigors (violent enough to move the bed) for about 14h and at one point had 3 doctors 2 nurses a err, HCA and my MIL (mopping my head), all of them regularly saying "you're going to be ok" (which, combined with the readings I could see and the look on MIL's face, meant "holy-shiiiiit this shouldn't be happening"), whilst they held me down to take bloods and whack me on a CTG as my heartrate plummited...so, yes, it's been great.
I ws on 3 different IV antibiotics, so whatever it was, they hit it HARD and that seems to have worked well. Am now only on Augmentin orally.
Off to the breast clinic next Monday for a review, but they've told me to wear decent underwired bras, as the mastitis isn't being caused by blocked ducts etc and being a K cup, the weight of the breasts is making it all worse so a decent bra is needed.
Needless to say, any spirit for fighting to BF I had, has been destroyed (partly because they said this would probably happen again, maybe not so badly) and thanks to DH looking after Snufflix at home, she's going to be exclusively FF (I might save some of the expressed and freezer it for a 1 a day feed), so I can cut back the expressing.
I also def. need help with the birth/my sanity. I ended up being transferred from surgical admissions, where I was already fairly mental with guilt for abandoning my DH and not missing/wanting to see Snufflix at all...
...to be wheeled in to the Women's Unit and start having horrid flashbacks to the many times in pregnancy I went in and, the birth, and the stay on maternity too...I did however promise the nice exceedingly sexy doctor I wouldn't top myself, so I couldn't possibly let him down now, could I. 
Now I'm having bouts of OK (as in able to not cry and joke about being so bat-shit mental) interspersed with bouts of sobbing uncontrollably....especially when some well-meaning person had just finished talking to me about how much I must be missing/love my baby...or post-flashback.
I can't face the GP tomorrow, so will go to the alloted appointment on Wed. The doctors in hospital all agreed with me that I blatantly have PND and should get treated asap, so that's something. At least if they want to drug me with something unsuitable for BF then they can.
Now I've just got the challenge of having to get back to dealing with Snufflix allover again. DH is off work tomorrow, but really can't take any more time, so will be back to me and Snufflix most of the time. Oh well...I guess I'll be fine.
DH bumped into HV in morrison's so she's appraised and will no doubts want to come visit and throw all the support at me she can.