I have been having breast thrush for months and still not able to cure it, please help!
I was given antibiotic (both oral and inject) when Alex was born. After about 2 weeks of pain free breastfeeding (except for engorgement!) my breast start hurting like hell and I noticed there's white spots in Alex mouth. So we were treated with:
Alex - Nystatin suspension
Me - Clotrimazole cream
Since I was breastfeeding, I asked if I needed to wipe it off before feeding and was it sufficient just to apply it twice per day for such a short period. The doctor said it'd be sufficient if the cream has been on for more that half and hour and I should wipe the cream off. So I followed the instructions and the situation improved slightly. After 2 weeks, the doctor stopped Alex's medication as the spots in his month had cleared.
I was still in pain so I seeked help from breastfeeding councilor. She gave me leaflet to show to the doctor. I did and the doctor gave me:
Alex - Nystatin suspension
Me - Miconazole and Fluconazole 100mlx2 for the 1st day and 50mlx2 for the remaining 9 days.
I had the Fluconazole for 14 days ( I had the Miconazole for 3 days and it get extremely itchy as soon as I applied it, so I changed to use the Clotrimazole instead) and when I went back to request for more, my doctor was on leave so I was refer to another doctor. He looked at my record and decided that my thrush was cured (dispite I was still in pain!) and believed that I had Mastitis instead (although I didn't have any red spots on my breast or flu like symptoms). Anyway, he's the doctor and he asked me to stop the Fluconazole and gave me antibiotic.
A few days after I stop the thrush medicine, the pain intensified and I went back to the doctor but he refused to gave me thrush medicine as he didn't believe that it's thrush (as I didn't have cracked nipple!) and asked me to take pain killer only.
I think the doctors are incompetence so I changed to another medical centre last week. I told her my concern of wipping the cream off for feeding and not able to have it on for long enough. So she gave me:
Alex - Nystatin suspension
Me - Miconazole oral gel (so I don't need to wipe it off!)
I have had it for 4-5days (I myself decided to used Miconazole cream during night as they are designed to penetrate the skin!) but again after using it for a few days, my nipple become very itchy and hurt more than before! (I think I'm allergic to the cream!)
I'm using the oral gel only at this moment but I don't believe that it'll help as I read that it's not designed to penetrate the skin. I'm slowly reducing breastfeeding and hope that once I don't need to breastfeed, I can concentrate on treating the thrush and much easier to keep my breast dry. And don't need to worry about transferring the thrush back to Alex.
I don't know what I should do now. My breast hurt and the doctor doesn't seem to know how to deal with it. Please could anybody help?! Any successful cases of treating thrush, please give me some tips please!
