SEARING pain in breast--HELP!

[555Baby]

Background: I'm nursing 14 month old dd and am now 13 weeks pregnant with #2.

All day today I have been having horrible, searing pain in my right breast. It comes and goes but I would say it happens about every 10 minutes, sometimes more often. It does not seem to be related to nursing--nursing neither seems to hurt it or help it. I don't have any red spots, obvious plugged duct or lump or anything, and I'm not feverish or ill. Except for the pain my breast seems totally normal. I called our consulting nurse hotline and the nurse was pretty much stumped.

DD has been reducing her nursing during the last month or so (used to nurse a ton, and now she is down to a few times a day and a few times at night) presumably due to pregnancy-related changes, but I would not think that she is weaning suddenly enough to cause me serious problems.

Has anyone had anything like this? Any ideas? It hurts quite a bit--I'm concerned I won't be able to sleep tonight--but I'm reluctant to take pain meds considering I'm both pregnant and nursing.

[quirkylayne]

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[fuller2]

When I had thrush the pain was unbelievable, but it only happened while nursing. (We're talking a feeling like my breasts were full of broken glass and someone was grinding them into my chest, or like being sawed inside with a rusty bread knife) Sometimes the pain shot up my arm too. So unless it feels like this, it doesn't sound like thrush to me.

If it DOES seem like thrush, I would immediately start taking large doses of acidpholus, putting it baby's mouth and on your nipples too. A naturopath or homeopath can get you large-sized packets to mix with water and drink, but I expect you could also just take say 5x-6x the dose on the bottles of capsules. Also helps to cut out all sugar (even fruit), wheat, and dairy. The meds the doctor will give you usually don't work very well, but the acidophilus worked great. (Acidophilus is a bacteria that eats the yeast that causes thrush--it's what makes yogurt yogurt.)

Sometimes nursing gets painful when you're pregnant--many people have told me that.

If you are nursing less, maybe the adjustment or whatever might cause some pain? My son is 3.5 and still nurses once every day or two, and when he goes for the longer time I sometimes feel slight pain inside the breast, just randomly.