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Go to the doctor!!! When I got mastitis, I felt better just minutes after taking the first antibiotic.

I hope you feel better soon! Get yourself to the doctor!

you can still bf....i'm sure they will give you one that is okay for bf

i am on antibiotics right now for my kidney and i can bf

If they knew you were breastfeeding they hopefully put you on something breastfeeding friendly. Check with your doctor and kellymom is a good resource too.

Sorry, mastitis sucks, I had it when LO was 2 weeks, the good thing was my fever was gone within a few hours of starting the antibiotics and we just had a few snuggly days with a lot of movie watching/bed laying/daddy taking care of us. I took lots of warm showers and tried to express milk from that breast to keep from it getting too swollen. Baby was def more clingy too me, I feel like she could sense something was up. She also had a bit more runny poo, prob from the antibiotics but that was the only thing I noticed slightly different and it wasn't even that different.

Best wishes for a speedy recovery!

@Mrsdaredevil: i still breastfed. i had mastitis twice with olive, but only took antibiotics the first time. i just took a lot of probiotics and gave some to olive too. very important so you don't develop thrush! antibiotics kill the good bacteria as well as the bad.

here's a post i wrote on it: http://www.hellobee.com/2011/10/20/probiotics/

good luck! mastitis sucks, but you will feel good pretty quickly once you take the antibiotics.

That sucks, feel better soon!

I hope you feel better quickly with the antibiotics.