I was engorged like no one I've ever spoken with. I would get 12 ounces at a time when I pumped. And that continued on until my son was almost 4 months old, it didn't stop after a few days like they said it would. Which was the reason I started pumping in the first place and ever introduced a bottle at all. He was using me as a pacifier and I had my mother and husband constantly making me feel like every time he cried it was because he was hungry, so I'd try, and sure enough, he wasn't, and my breasts thought that meant they needed to make more, and well... you get the idea.

I only breast fed for about 2 months before I got thrush (so did the baby), inter-ductal thrush at that, EXTREMELY painful. (shutter) I quit breast feeding while I was taking medication so that we wouldn't keep passing it back and forth, and once I tried to get him back on, he wasn't having it. So I pumped for about 4 months. WITH A HAND PUMP. I started introducing formula around 4 months, and slowly pumped less and less until he was almost 6 months when I stopped completely. (Because my 3rd hand pump broke and I thought I was getting carpal-tunnel, lol. I took it as a sign that it was just time to stop.)

My son is 7 1/2 months now, so it's been at least a full month 1/2 since I had any milk at all. The pain just had me freaked out, and when I tried to google it I just found info about general breast pain, which everything I read said was normal and comes and goes for a good amount of women. But I didn't find anything about whether or not it was connected to having recently breast fed.