Mastitis

So today I woke up at 4am drenched in sweat with the chills, engorged left breast and muscle aches. The flu is so bad I figured I was starting to get the flu and that I was just engorged because LO hadn’t eaten in 5 hours. I nurse that side till it was empty, took some Tylenol and felt mildly better. 2 pm came around and my breast was super painful, fever spiked, sweating with cold chills every muscle in my body was sore and a giant red rash was over my chest. It took 12 hours for mild mastitis to turn into a full blown bad infection!! And it’s a whole body experience!

Moral of the story if you think there’s even a possibility it’s mastitis go to the doctor!!! They caught mine in time. If I would’ve waited till Monday it could’ve been so much worse