Hi Pam,

I'll tell you my personal story in case a similar situation may be 
happening with the mom you're referring to below.  About a year ago (I was 
nursing at the time.) I started developing pain in the outer edge of my 
left breast. The pain was not severe but very noticeable and would feel 
like a combination of burning/pulling/pain.  It would radiate down the left 
side of my chest wall.  The pain was uncomfortable enough that I could not 
sleep on my left side.  It occurred throughout the day and night, sometimes 
less, sometimes more.  A mammogram and ultrasound revealed nothing to cause 
this.  To make a long story short, after this pain had been around for 
about 6 or 7 months, my husband suggested I work on strengthening my upper 
body muscles and he gave me some simple light weight routines to do.  I did 
them faithfully every other day and within a week I started noticing 
improvement in the pain and after several weeks of the strengthening 
exercises, the pain had completely gone.  This, of course, was a wake-up 
call to me (a "middle-aged" mom of a nursing little one) that I've got to 
consistently do strengthening exercises of all body parts unless I want a 
lot more wake-up calls like this one!

~Dianne Oliver, IBCLC
   Simi Valley, CA



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>Date:    Thu, 12 Jan 2006 22:45:42 EST
>From:    Pamela Mazzella Di Bosco <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: deep breast pain unilateral
>
>Years ago I posted this same question for another mom.  I go back and  read
>archives again and see nothing much new so thought I would ask if there was
>anything new.  I already read LLLI's information
>_http://www.lalecheleague.org/NB/NBJulAug99p120.html_ 
>(http://www.lalecheleague.org/NB/NBJulAug99p120.html)
>and  think this comes the closest to the description.  The mother reports
>unbearable pain only in her right breast that radiates into her arm, her
>shoulder and her upper back.  She said the pain has her doubled over 
>and  she can no
>longer take the pain.  It is not always during the feeding, but  after it.
>Sometimes minutes after.  Warmth is not helping at  all.  She has already 
>seen
>a breast surgeon and they cannot find anything  that should be causing this
>pain.  She has been treated for yeast  appropriately, but it made no 
>difference....

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