Bbtigger,
With the antibotic, pain will be gone. Massage is still needed but without the pain. With constant the circular massage, the lump will eventually get smaller n smaller. Remember, since our milk supply is always replenishing, the lump will resume pretty fast so got to be hardworking. Please dun use hot-compress, it will make the situation worst since it will increase milk supply faster and if massage can only clear abit at a time, the lump will be even harder. LC actually told me to use cold-compress (only on affected area, not the whole breast) to relieve the soreness. Must stop once condition is better to avoid drip in supply.
When your affected breast is softer, try to latch your baby on. As advised by LC previously, not your baby dun like to latch on, it's becos the breast is too hard and baby feel pain or uncomfortable when sucking. So to be fair to baby, soften the breast by massage, pump and latch baby on to clear the blocked duct. It took me about 3 weeks to clear my blocked duct - 2 visits to gynae, numerous call to LC, a painful visit to LC and numerous home hard-work to rectify the problem.
Agree with all the mummies, you have done your best for baby so far and even if you want to stop breast feeding, still need to rectify the problem.
Share with you a real life story which motivated me to solve the problem when I can : My MIL told me she stop BF but did not clear milk completely years ago. Ended up having a pair of rock hard breast, no effective pump in the past to assist. Finally got to go for surgery to extract two full bowl size 'nong' to resolve the problem. After hearing her story and with advance medication and equipment now, I told myself I will not end up in the same situation. So please believe in yourself. You can definitely do it, jia you.
But my HB worries with a helper the children relies on the helper too much and less independant, etc. Sigh we ding dong this issue since Oct..... 
