While I was nursing my third child - now almost seven years old, I also had deep shooting pain in my breasts, for about the same duration of time as the client of Anne Stiller in VA. I had no difficulty with my milk supply, and the pain ebbed eventually went away. My physician also had no clue. This was before I was a CLC, and my LLL group had no suggestions. I had a client who had similar symptoms who turned out to have thrush, but her pain was more nipple based. As well as being a CLC, I am also a pediatric Occupational Therapist. I had a five month old pt. last month who had Botulism toxin- caught from wind spores, not food. Her mother had some information that breastmilk fed infants were less ill and healed faster than ABM fed infants, and in fact this baby made a good recovery on EBM, NG tube fed while she was too weak to suck. Does anyone have any iformation on Breastmilk and Botulism toxin ?