Carolyn -

I have a New Beginnings story in my thrush folder (NB May-June 1987 p 76)
entitled "Breast Pain After Nursing".  Here it is, in part:

"Following a breast infection for which I was treated with antibiotics, I
developed sharp, shooting pains in one breast an hour or so following
nursing.  The pain would disappear or dissipate only when treated with
painkillers.  This lasted about 2 weeks and then cleared up... These pains
reoccurred several months later in the other breast.  I waited for this,
too, to pass, but by the third week the pain was more severe and I found it
difficult to function.  Again, I had been recently treated with antibiotics
for another breast infection... (The doctor) suggested that it might be a
yeast infection in the breasts.  I was given a prescription for a topical
cream that I applied several times a day.  I experienced relief within 24
hours and the symptoms disappeared completely in a few days."

I can't help but wonder whether whatever it was that worked on yeast so
quickly topically in 1987 would perform as well in 2001...

By the way, it's well worth a membership in LLL just to get New Beginnings.
My files are full of "mother stories" like this one that I share with moms.
My greatest coup was being able to give a picture of a veterinary assistant
working on a dog with her baby watching from a backpack to a mother who said
she couldn't bring her baby to work because she was, yep, a veterinary
assistant.  Don't know what she finally decided to do, but at least she knew
for sure what was possible.

Diane Wiessinger, MS, IBCLC  Ithaca, NY
www.wiessinger.baka.com

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