Also...from all our bouts of thrush while bf, Joel now gets it all the time, I have a tube of canestan cream on hand and when it shows up again I use it for a few days and it goes for a while. Nothing the dr gave me for his butt helped only the canestan.

Another thing, I never had any signs of thrush on my nipples and Joel didn't have any signs in his mouth, one week we were checked by 3 midwives, a LC, plunket and the dr (all appts just happened to be the same week lol) and they all said it was thrush without symptoms. The plunket nurse said any nipple that had had an infection was likely to get thrush (whether true for others I don't know but sure was for us)

Yep canestan is ok for nipple thrush as it is for vaginal thrush.

I try to remember to put it on after every feed and it does seem to help. Apparently the trick is to continue the treatment for 2 weeks after your symptoms disapear though!

And like I said, Inner Health and yogurt can't hurt either....juez the things we go through!  

Sorry Mel, sounds like thrush hun....

I have this at the moment too...brought on I suspect by the IV antibiotics then 10 days oral antibiotics for suring my mastitis!  Ouch doesn't even begin to describe it.....

I'm taking Inner Health and yogurt and putting canestan on my nipples. Clodagh is not latching great either but still feeding well (thanks to my over supply..sigh).

Hope you feel better soon ((((hugs))))

Sounds like thrush...I had it 4 times while bf and one time the sharp stabbing pains went all the way round my back. Sometimes putting a warm wheatsack on it helped but in my case the creams the dr gave me didn't do a lot. The only one that helped was Daktarin... and a friend gave it to me after she had finished with it my dr didn't give it to me. Oh and I hear you with the purple nipples as well....mine would also go white after he had fed, very painful!