Might be told to stop bfing

I had mastitis a couple of times when bfing Jack but have had it at least 1/2 dozen times with Ben.

About a month ago I got a lump which turned into 60% of my breast being rock hard like when your milk comes in, ended up on antibiotics and it took 36hrs for it to disappear, it just completely went when I fed Ben.
2 wks later it comes back but smaller, another course of antibiotics and a referral for an ultrasound the next week. Within 5 days I get redness like an infection and get a different course of antibiotics. The next day the ultrasound and it finds nothing.
I have a follow up with the GP a few days later (last Friday) and the lump is back so I get a referral to a Breast Physician which is on tomorrow.
Then yesterday I end up with mastitis (but no lump) in the other breast and I am still taking the last course of antibiotics!!! So spent 2.5hrs at the A&M, ended up with IV antibiotics and had to go back this afternoon for another lot.

Two of the GPs I have seen have told me that I might have to give up feeding. I really don't want to, I am really enjoying it this time and was even thinking to continue bfing after 1yr which is when I had thought to stop. Mum is coming with me tomorrow so will just have to see what the specialist says.

I suppose a bit of both Weegee. The info would be good thanks. Mum is a bit skeptical about me having to give up but then she was a card carrying member of LLL for 7yrs+

You've probably heard this before but just in case....the antibiotics won't help a blocked milk duct. I had really bad blocked ducts for the first month and I'd end up with huge boobs but hardly any milk able to come out. Every night I'd do some serious massage on each lump in the shower (made showers very long). About an hour later milk would be pouring out of me. Oh, and it's really really important to massage backwards (away from the nipple).

I got mastitis alot, it is awful and I feel for you.
One thing that I found was that I needed plenty of rest to get it to come completely right. Actually I ended up in hospital on antibiotics for a week once and that was the best thing that could have happened because I got the rest I needed plus I could really concentrate on massaging the breast and feeding my boy heaps (if he wasn't hungry I expressed).
hope that you get your desired outcome.

2 LC's and 2 midwives all told me to do it this way but none of them explained why it works. As a result I only started massaging this way (backward) when I got massively engorged with rock like lumps in my breasts and wow it was so much more effective.

The explanation I came up with (no idea if it's true or not) is that if you massage toward the nipple you're just jamming that cheese into the milk ducts further and squashing it into a more solid lump. If you massage away then you're pushing it into a bigger part of the duct where you can break up the lump with the massage.
Anyway, on each rock like lump I used to do about 10 deep strokes away from the nipple (really bloody hurt), then about 10 little circles, 10 backward strokes etc. Probably did up to 2 mins on each one. It took ages at first because I had so many blocked ducts but after about a week there were only 3 or 4 persistent ones I had to work on.

Oh you poor thing, that's rough. I had mastitis a couple of times and it was so awful. I was taught to use hot flannels at the start of a feed and ice cold at the end. Once the milk was flowing I had to massage the lumpy bits. Also try to position bubs so their chin points to the problem area.
Have you seen a lactation consultant?