great stuff, sounds like mastitis really is what you have and that you
should be taking the antibiotics, hope things are beginning to feel better,
I would still encourage you to nurse nurse nurse on the affected side as
much as possible, particularly as you mention your nipple is tender, pumping
puts pressure on it in a different way, if I am feeling sore at all, bad
though feeding is, pumping is worse!

Hope you get better soon

Anne

PS I particularly feel for you just before Christmas I had mastitis just
before Christmas 2 years ago and was on a 10 day course of antibiotics with
a higher dose for the first 3 days, Christmas morning was day 5 and when I
woke up my breast was a mess, at about 2pm I gave in and called the doctor,
expecting stronger antibiotics, but he sent me straight to the hospital and
I ended up with IV antibiotics! The next 2 times I stopped antibiotics
exactly the same thing would happen, next morning, hugely inflammed, I guess
there must have been a really stubborn bug in there. I'm now having a big of
a panic as I have a plugged duct in the same location as the section that
was infected that time and I've just looked and my nipple looks red :-(