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I got this while breastfeeding it hurts, my breast was very red and engorged and hard & painful. It was like my breast had hard lumpy balls in it. My doctor said this was from my milk ducts being blocked. The redness started inthe nipple area and slowley moved to the areola, top & middle of my breast area. Wearing a bra was so uncomfortable. The material made my breast feel like it was on fire. Has anyone else experienced this? If so how did you combat it. My health nurse and doctor both told it maybe the start of an infection, they said to express out as much as i could to ease the pain and unblock the milk ducts also use frozen cabage leaves to cool the area, this helped relieve the pain but it really killed to express. But when the milk was less in my breast, i was so much more confortable. I also had a ulcesated nipple & areola as my bub wasnt suckeling properly. I bought a special nipple cream & nipple caps from my local pharmacy. This helped heaps. I was ready to ween bub off my breast milk, but we managed threw it & my maternal & child health nurse taught me how to attach bub to my breast properly so i wouldn't get any ulceration again. I quickly learned my lesson. And feeding was fine once it passed. Any otherinformation would be great. If not i can add some.