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Originally Posted by magnolia It worked on me (some people, it doesn't or only works on one side) and I felt no pain at all. |
I am one of the ones that it only worked on one side. I was induced and had my epidural when I started feeling the contractions (I worked for my OB Dr). I was contracting every minute to 2 minutes apart when I got to the hospital and wasn't feeling a thing, but after they gave me the pitocin, I started being able to tell when I was having them. So they went ahead and gave me the epidural. My left leg went totally numb and couldn't feel a thing. My right leg, however, not so numb. They told me to lay the other way and tried more meds to get it to numb more to no avail, but I still wasn't in pain. 12 Hrs later, my son was NOT coming out. His head was too large and was not engaging in my pelvis and the contractions was causing him to "bounce" off my bones and was causing his head to swell. So off to have a C-section. OMG by the time they got him out the epidural was wearing off what little it numbed on the right side and I could feel every stitch they were doing to sew me back up. When I got in the recovery room and they were pushing on my stomach to get all that stuff out....I was crying like a baby!!! It hurt like HE!! and they were all saying well it was because I never felt any of my contractions or anything. He was 8.9. Second son I could not have the v-back because my uterus was too thin and would have ruptured if I had tried to push him out so they gave me a spinal instead of the epidural and I did not have any pain at all and was up walking around the halls that night!!! It was like total night and day from the first one. He was 8.13. So I say go for the pain meds, because if my contractions had of felt half as bad as the end of that first c-section, I would have literally DIED!!! LOL