<s>[INST] Hi I am a healthy 26 yr female. I had my daughter a year ago and only breast-fed for 6 weeks before she had to be put on special formula. Yet I am still lactating and its starting to get painful because I can feel the sensation like my milk is "dropping". Im worried something might be wrong with the milk ducts as to the fact when my daughter was 3 weks old I developed severe mastitus. please help. [/INST] Hi,   I understood your query.   -Dropping of the milk is a normal thing in lactating mothers. It happens when baby is not fed for a long time, it overflows. It's not a sign of milk duct problem.   -  Stagnation of milk in breast may cause little pain.   - mastitis is a condition of swelling, hardness, painful/tender breast- which is many a times following some trauma / hard push to a lactating breast.Many times it is associated with fever.    A healed mastitis is not known to cause defect in milk ducts unless it was treated by incision & drainage.  * I don't know why your baby was put to formula- Enquire it to your doctor. - If there is possibility that baby will return to breast feeding-      - You have to keep on emptying the breast,      - Maintain breast health & wait for the breast feeding - But if doctor is advising to keep baby on formula milk ( ? lactose intollerance)-- you should ask medicines to stop the lactation, & get rid of the risk of developing an abscr=ess.   Thanks.. </s>