> On Sat, 12 May 2007 Kathy Lilleskov asked about a mother with severe 
> breast pain.  (Message reproduced, in part, below.)
>
> Kathy, you look as if you have done a very thorough investigation.  One 
> thing I would add, as i do in cases of severe breast pain, is to ask - Has 
> the mother had a spinal injury or any type?  What part of the spine was 
> affected?  In most cases, the answer has been "yes", and I then send the 
> mother to whoever has been looking after her back problem, i.e. her 
> doctor, for pain management, and/or her physiotherapist.
> This may or may not help with your client, but it is a question I ahve 
> found valuable in cases of severe breast pain where the usual explanations 
> have been ruled out.  I have now seen several Mums where the pain has been 
> referred from the area of spinal injury.
>
> Virginia
>
> Virginia Thorley, PhD, IBCLC
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> I am working with a woman who is five weeks postpartum. She has 
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> pain "like my left breast is on fire'" about an hour or sometimes sooner =
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> nursing. Nursing itself is pain free, she describes the pain coming as he=
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> breast is filling with milk and is experiencing intermittent, simultaneou=
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> neurological symptoms, numbness and pain in her arm extending to her hand=
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> When she nurses the baby, the pain is relieved, though she can't bear to =
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> the baby on her breast until she expresses about 5 ml of milk.She also=20=
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> experienced this in her right breast to a lesser degree, though that 
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> generally resolved. She does not have oversupply, the breast is completel=
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> soft after feedings and  if she tries to empty more with a pump only gets=
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> few mls following feedings.  Several test weights showed the baby took in=
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> between 2.5 and 4 oz per feed..... 

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