This week has not been a good week 4me... Mon experienced severe pain n milk refused to come out no matter wat methods me use to relieve the pain... warm, cold compresses... massages... milk stil refused to come out... as it was onli 1 side, there were obvious differences in the amount of milk collected in both bottles after each express session... felt realli sad n demoralised, realli felt like giving up... cos it was realli painful, cried... *sobz*
@ 1st, thot after a few daes, the pain wil subside n the milkflow wil resume to normal... but the pain stil remains n got worse... finalli on thur, decided to call Dr Lui... he referred me to the bfeeding consultant, Sister Kang, @ MAH... she said nt engorgement (as wld happen to both sides), but blocked ducts... she said nid to drain it else wld get infection... she pressed down on the blocked gland n massaged (PAIN!!!!), thn pressed all the way down.... thn she hand-expressed into a bottle... dis took quite a while... she managed to clear the major blocks but me stil nid to clear the minor blocks myself every 3 hrs (following her methods)... she oso told me to watch out for fever cos wld b a sign of infection or worse, mastitis.
The next dae in office, stil experienced pain n milkflow stil felt blocked... followed her method but stil super painful... complained to my female colligs n tears jus flowed down whn they showed concern n understood (as they went thru b4 too)... @ abt 4pm, felt feverish n giddy... went back 2c Dr Lui who upon consulting Sister Kang, prescribed me antibiotics, fever medicine n pills to relieve the pain n swelling... he oso gave me a prescription to get over @ MAH, in case me decided to stop bfeeding... he sorta chided me 4 seeing him @ the last minute... sighz... thot me cld relieve it myself ma...
Realli hope the pain wil subside n milkflow wil resume to normal... *pray hard*
@ 1st, thot after a few daes, the pain wil subside n the milkflow wil resume to normal... but the pain stil remains n got worse... finalli on thur, decided to call Dr Lui... he referred me to the bfeeding consultant, Sister Kang, @ MAH... she said nt engorgement (as wld happen to both sides), but blocked ducts... she said nid to drain it else wld get infection... she pressed down on the blocked gland n massaged (PAIN!!!!), thn pressed all the way down.... thn she hand-expressed into a bottle... dis took quite a while... she managed to clear the major blocks but me stil nid to clear the minor blocks myself every 3 hrs (following her methods)... she oso told me to watch out for fever cos wld b a sign of infection or worse, mastitis.
The next dae in office, stil experienced pain n milkflow stil felt blocked... followed her method but stil super painful... complained to my female colligs n tears jus flowed down whn they showed concern n understood (as they went thru b4 too)... @ abt 4pm, felt feverish n giddy... went back 2c Dr Lui who upon consulting Sister Kang, prescribed me antibiotics, fever medicine n pills to relieve the pain n swelling... he oso gave me a prescription to get over @ MAH, in case me decided to stop bfeeding... he sorta chided me 4 seeing him @ the last minute... sighz... thot me cld relieve it myself ma...
Realli hope the pain wil subside n milkflow wil resume to normal... *pray hard*
