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Hello, everybody. I like reading what you have experienced in all these messages. I have been on dom for a week now, and pumping every 2 hours plus once at 2 AM and I have a question about letdown. Yesterday and today I started noticing a kind of electrical current feeling in my breasts when I am pumping. I use the Pump in Style, and I had been using it "low and slow" -- slowest rate, lowest suction -- until yesterday. That is when I increased the suction and started noticing the electrical current. I have now worked my way up to the halfway setting on suction but I am keeping it at the slowest setting. I am also now getting the electrical feeling if I express in very precise areas. It kind of runs down into my breast and for some reason down into my pelvic region if you know what I mean. I have never been pregnant so I do not know what the letdown is like. Is that what I have been feeling? I am not producing with the pump yet, but I can express droplets, and I read earlier that you can start getting the letdown reflext before there is milk to eject. My breasts are getting kind of dense from the dom and the pumping, and my left breast almost felt solid <img src="http://www.asklenore.com/ubbthreads/images/icons/shocked.gif" alt="" /> (upper left quadrant) area this morning when I woke up. Well, let me know about that electrical current. It feels really good, too! <img src="http://www.asklenore.com/ubbthreads/images/icons/cool.gif" alt="" /> -new reader
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you sound like your having letdown.. but not sure about the electical going down the leg.. If your expressing drops then you need to turn up your suction. You should be able to get them out with the pump as well. I pump on the fastest setting and about medium suction. I don't think you have enough suction going or stimulation to get the milk out. The faster you pump the speed stimulates a letdown.. the suction pulls the milk out. I would adjust my pump if I were you.
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Nona, I have been gradually increasing the suction at each session. I guess I will increase the speed, too. I do not want to be too hard on my tissues, though. Since I made the initial post, I found another area where I could express carefully and get the same feeling in my breast. I am embarassed. About the "electricity," I did not say it went down my leg like sciatica! <img src="http://www.asklenore.com/ubbthreads/images/icons/smile.gif" alt="" /> It seems like it goes down all the way to my pelvic floor, where I do my Kegel exercises. <img src="http://www.asklenore.com/ubbthreads/images/icons/blush.gif" alt="" />
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Hi,
I have a slightly different thought on the electrical feeling so I apoligize ahead of time if I offend anyone. I breastfed my bio son and am now breastfeeding my adopted daughter. I think everyone's letdown feeling can vary. With my bio son mine felt like a big sinus draining through my breast. I only just recently got a letdown after breastfeeding my adopted daughter for three months. The let down feels similiar but much less intense than with my bio child. However, the electrical sensation you describe reminds me very much of my pre-placement pumping when I was turning the level of suction too high on my pump. I was turning it up high because I got more milk that way but ended up getting very sore nipples and learned through the advice of women on this message board that it was due to too high suction. When I lowered the suction, the soreness and the "electricity" went away.
Just another opinion. Hope it helps.
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okay.. you said it goes to the pelvic floor.. hmmm okay <img src="http://www.asklenore.com/ubbthreads/images/icons/wink.gif" alt="" /> . Remember... your breasts are used for arousel as well. Sounds like they are just not yet used to them being used for pumping lol. Sounds like your getting 2 benifits out of pumping at this point <img src="http://www.asklenore.com/ubbthreads/images/icons/grin.gif" alt="" /> This has happened many times before.. When your body gets used to it .That should subside.. <img src="http://www.asklenore.com/ubbthreads/images/icons/wink.gif" alt="" />
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Jeanne, I never suggest anyone go to high on the pump. I suggested she change her speed .. not her suction. <img src="http://www.asklenore.com/ubbthreads/images/icons/smile.gif" alt="" />
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Thanks, Nona. I don't feel so weird now! <img src="http://www.asklenore.com/ubbthreads/images/icons/smile.gif" alt="" />
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Jeanne, I do not think it is dependent on the suction, because I get it when I express, which has no suction effect. If getting tingling is a high note like a piccolo, and getting the shivers up and down your spine is like a flute, then the "electrical current" feeling I am talking about is like strum on a bass fiddle. A deep bass note. AND it feels really good, which Nona explained in another post.! <img src="http://www.asklenore.com/ubbthreads/images/icons/smile.gif" alt="" />
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lol I love the way you phrase your words <img src="http://www.asklenore.com/ubbthreads/images/icons/grin.gif" alt="" /> . Your quite enlightening <img src="http://www.asklenore.com/ubbthreads/images/icons/grin.gif" alt="" /> . Welcome to the site.
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Oh, Nona. Only now do I get a welcome, only after I post a nice turn of phrase? <img src="http://www.asklenore.com/ubbthreads/images/icons/wink.gif" alt="" /> I guess I should register as 'FRAZE-O-MATIC' huh?! <img src="http://www.asklenore.com/ubbthreads/images/icons/laugh.gif" alt="" />
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ROFL!!!!! <img src="http://www.asklenore.com/ubbthreads/images/icons/grin.gif" alt="" />
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Nona, with this letdown, do I have to be careful about it? I mean, if I am not ejecting any drops, is it harmful to have this reflex firing away? I am getting it a lot more today than yesterday, so I want to be aware of what is best for my body.
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it won't hurt you. Its just a bodily response.. hang in there <img src="http://www.asklenore.com/ubbthreads/images/icons/smile.gif" alt="" />
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Hi New reader,
It sounds like what you are experiencing is a result of let down. Let down is a result of the release of a hormone called oxytocin and the tingly feeling you are getting in breasts and pelvic floor is likely a result of that. Uterine contractions in response to nipple stimulation is not uncommon. Oxytocin is the same hormone that is involved in orgasm. Women have a lot of different feelings in response to the let down reflex. Some feel nothing at all, some feel tingling and some feel something quite similar to orgasm. It's all normal.
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No really really normal. Women often experience it even when they are not trying to lactate but just holding a baby. It doesn't hurt your body at all.
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Dawn, I guess that means my Pump In Style is actually an orgasmotron! <img src="http://www.asklenore.com/ubbthreads/images/icons/cool.gif" alt="" />
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lol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! <img src="http://www.asklenore.com/ubbthreads/images/icons/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.asklenore.com/ubbthreads/images/icons/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.asklenore.com/ubbthreads/images/icons/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.asklenore.com/ubbthreads/images/icons/grin.gif" alt="" />
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