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I hope it gets better soon! I know my chiropractor helps with babies who have feeding difficulties by doing different types of adjustments on them. We were concerned about my supply due to other issues that I've got and my midwife had me pumping after every feeding to make sure I was empty on both sides and I took Motherlove More Milk Plus & Motherlove Goats Rue...they definitely helped! Eating lactation cookies and drinking tons of water (seriously, like a gallon) a day always helps bring up my supply.

Where are you located? I agree with seeing a chiropractor or a cranio sacral therapist. If you're in NYC I can give some recs! Good luck!

@Tidybee: I was thinking of you and c

@hilsy85: I thought so. ugh, remember those days??

@Espion: the therapist was an occupational therapist who specialized in this type of therapy, so I'd search for any suck and swallow specialist for babies. Both our pediatrician and LC knew of her so perhaps you can start there.
Honestly, it got better immediately. I was stubborn and didn't want to spend more money and scoffed at a "craniosacral therapist". It took me til she was 6 weeks and I was EPing because I was in so much pain. As a last resort, I went to her, and after an hour's session of massage, DD was already opening wider. Most of the exercises I couldn't do myself at home because it was related to tension in her head, neck, jaw, and shoulders due to her "fascia" in her head not settling well due to my labor & delivery (which was as normal as could be, so who knows?), so the therapist had to do some massage. DD also had a hypersensitive palate. Basically, she would gag when the nipple would be where it's supposed to go, so it resulted in a shallow latch. We would rub the palate to desensitize it. I don't know if that even made a difference..it was really the massage and the better opening of her mouth as well as the ability to turn her head more comfortably to latch on.