Literally can’t stand after c section?

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Had c section this morning and can’t get off the bed to stand. Pain is so bad. Is this normal? I’ve read people tend to be able to get up after 7/8 hours.

I feel for you OP! I was fine with pain relief but couldn't stand/walk without being in terrible pain, had to hold my stomach because it felt like if i didn't it would fall out. I didn't shower/walk until the 3rd day and found it painful. By day 7 I felt OK. I live in Switzerland though, they keep you in for 5 days after a c section, I was in for 8 as my baby went to neo natal care. No idea how women get up and go home on day 2.

Don't they do voltarol suppositories any more? With all three of mine, they do that for the first 24 hours or so

I couldn't stand after my first. I needed a lot of oramorph and an extra nights stay... they really tried to make me feel bad about needing the painkillers but I didn't.

I couldn't get out of bed for 24 hours but I had a haemorrhage and had to have further surgery

I found it extremely painful- deep burning and hard to move. I had a midwife help me - this was my second c-section, (the first I was severely I’ll and was attached to a machine by the artery in my neck (long story ) and bled quite heavily (but I do tend to bleed a lot), so to me it’s insane that people can get up and home within 24 hours!!!

had hideous pain after my c-section. Take all the drugs. It’s only short term and it will improve. Good luck with everything.

I had the oramorph and it was brilliant. It took away the pain and made me feel.incredibly chilled and at ease. Take it!

Yep I couldn’t stand up straight for a few days, hadn’t expected that at all. The pain of the first time I moved from the hospital bed to a chair was horrific. But it does get easier, just keep asking for pain meds if you need them. The nurses kept forgetting mine which didn’t help

Take the oramorph! You don't have to get up yet, so take your time.

When you do get up (I would wait till tomorrow) concentrate on immediately standing up straight, do not stoop! If you stoop or bend it puts pressure on your wo
Ot will get better, you've had major surgery.und.

Weird things going on there!!
It puts pressure on your wound.

Speak to the nurses. Get all the rest you can. Drink lots. Move your arms and legs as well as you can in bed to keep some movement going. Tell yourself that this time next week you’ll feel a lot better than you do now.
Congratulations on your baby, I’m sure you’re doing amazingly well — don’t compare yourself to others. 💐 from someone who couldn’t stand up without fainting for 48 hours after a normal delivery!

I had my ds via elective section at 11am and got up at 1pm the next day. Struggled horribly even then. Could never have contemplated getting up after 8 hrs!!

Your body is telling you its not ready yet.

I didn't stand for 24hrs after my planned cs as they made me stand too quickly after my emergency one. The more I rested at the start the sooner I recovered.
Please please rest as much as you can . I wasn't upright for about two weeks after my EMCS, weeks of pain relief too.

Me too! I’m a midwife myself and I’ve had 2 emergency sections. It is hugely painful. And it’s normal for it to be so. Take the oramorph and make sure they discharge you with meds. After my second section I made sure I went home with dihydrocodeine (you can breastfeed with it too)

When you do get moving, make use of the adjustable bed! I was up and shuffling 6 hours post section but it was planned ( so I wasn't wiped out from being in labour) and it made a huge difference when I realised I could raise the bed before I stood up, and adjust the top and bottom so I didn't have to try and use stomach muscles to lie flat/ sit up from lying flat.

I had crap pain relief so couldn't stand or walk.

Was eventually given cocodamol after being given 2 paracetamol every 4 hours and it was brilliant.

Ask for better pain relief.

I was like this after CS#1. No post op pain relief whatsoever (in a country where there they believe ‘women must suffer for the sins of Eve’ and I was a wicked foreigner) and the pain was indescribable.
I asked the nurses to help me up off the bed and they yanked me upright and told me off for crying out in pain.
CS#2 in UK and I made sure I got my dose of oromorph on the hour every hour.
Biggest issue after all three of them was attempting to get my knickers on after a shower.
Take all the pain relief you can get. Don’t overdo it, but try to stand up straight as you walk. Brace yourself if you need to cough or sneeze and I promise you, things will feel so much better after your first poo. Pillow to lift the baby if you’re breastfeeding too.
Good luck!

You have only had it done today. Give it time. I was in pain for 3 days! Hope you feel OK soon.

Keep buzzing for pain relief and help! Just because some people are up quickly after, doesn't mean all are. Really depends on the individual's experience. A section is a major operation and it's perfectly normal not to spring back into action! It was a full 5 months before I'd say I felt completely recovered.

I was in so much pain after mine, I was like you I couldn’t stand up. When I did eventually stand I was like an old lady bent over and shuffling. It definitely isn’t the easy option than some people believe it is. I took the oromorph but it didn’t help me that much. I was still in a lot of pain for at least 10 days, but was walking like a shuffling old lady after 24 hours. Like anything, I think it’s probably a different experience for everyone. It will get easier.

I didn’t have that with mine though I remember I felt if I stood up straight my insides felt like they would fall out. It was almost 24hrs before they took my catheter out and I got up though. What I most remember is lying flat in bed one night and I just couldn’t get up.

I was in huge amounts of pain. I almost fainted when I walked to the toilet to go for the first time post section, and had to be wheeled back to my bed in a wheelchair (this was covid times so they still sent me home a few hours later!). I was in huge pain at home too and really struggled to stand up off the sofa or to get up from lying in bed. I ended up sleeping downstairs on the reclining sofa for 2 or 3 weeks post section so the recliner could help me to sit up - I found it almost impossible to get up from lying down in bed.

It sounds like some people had a better experience than that, but that was mine. It was a planned section with no known complications.

I'd take the oramorph! The day after my EMCS, maybe 12/16 hours after I was in so much pain I couldn't speak. I'd been at my babies side in scbu in a bad position and a bit lax on pain relief (Over confident after the anaesthesia maybe) and it was the worst pain I've ever experienced.

The lovely nurses saw me sort of shuffling along crying and got oramorph straight away, helped me lie down and the relief was instant. An hour later I was back with the baby and the healing went great from there.

I was so scared it would be a difficult recovery at the time but actually by a week post section I was pretty much fine.

Congratulations OP and wishing you a speedy recovery

I had oramorph for 3 days after the section if I remember rightly along with the paracetamol/diclofenac at regular intervals. Good pain relief was definitely needed in such early hours after major surgery. All the best.

DS2 arrived by EMCS and I have never felt rougher than the week following. The mw wanted me up and in the shower and I struggled so much - nearly passing out and throwing up. I can honestly say the experience traumatised me for months and if anyone said to me in those months that they were contemplating a section I would get unreasonably cross that this was even a position women could choose to put themselves in.
(Disclaimer - I'm perfectly reasonable human status now and back to the opinion of women can chooses any which way to evict the mini tyrants when the time comes)

Take it easy and allow yourself time to rest and recover.