OK fellow LactNetters, put your collective great minds to work and help me
help this mom.  Please reply to me by private email as well as to the list.
Thanks.

>Dear Dr. Dettwyler,
>
>I am in a silent struggle as I breastfeed my 24 month old daughter.  I want
>terribly to fulfil her tender needs at my breast, but my own breasts are
>literally driving me CRAZY.  The only feeling I can liken it to is a feeling
>I have felt after experiencing an orgasm and my husband stimulates me too
>long. It's a kind of crazy, not really painful feeling, but one I cannot
>stand. My nipples have always been very  sensitive and,  when touched, they
>easily cause arousal.  I can't stand feeling these overwhelming feelings day
>in day out.  Most days I just start feeling physically crazy, something like
>the feeling when you scrape your finger nails on a chalk board.  I feel like
>if I breastfeed one more time I will lose my mind.
>
>I also suffer from never ending yeast problems.
>
>Have you ever heard of women like me?  Medical doctors don't know what to
>say to me.  I spoke to a LLL leader who thought it was hormonal.  No advice.
> I am leaving my daughter crying as she paws at my breasts. I want to feed
>her, but I am, after 2 years losing it to this awful oversensitive
>overstimulated crazy making feeling.  When I am pre-menstrual it magnifies
>ten-fold. If you know what the problem is could you please direct me to some
>literature?


Kathy Dettwyler

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