Aibu to be looking forward to having a spinal?

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I am booked in for a planned section on Friday morning, I am actually more excited about the spinal than the squishy baby as for the last 5 months I have been on 60mg codeine every 4 hours, paracetamol, pain injections from an anethitist every 2 weeks into my lower back & have not left the house unless it is to the hospital as I cannot walk further than the drive all because of my pelvis...

I also have to lay completely still for half an hour after eating anything at all else it comes back up in epic projectile vomit bouts..

And I'm exhausted, to the point of tears every day I only seem to be able to nap in 2 hour blocks not easy with a 2&1/3 year old.

So aibu to be excited to have the spinal in so for just a few hours I feel no pain and may even stand a chance of some sleeping??

Ha murder I am the same as you, Dh is having 2 weeks off then my mum is coming for a week to help and I was saying tonight oh we can go here for lunch and into town etc etc

Everyone was looking at me with a stern face! I've been house bound for months I can see myself over doing it.

Think I'm being slightly naive as I've been in agony every day for months on end and barely slept in that time that the thought of a different pain actually sounds quite nice.

Ooof not at all! Good luck!

YANBU, you poor thing sounds awful.

All the best for the big day

Yep, I do overdo it.. I did a mile run five weeks after my other c-section then went rollerskating. Went head over heels and sprained my elbow. One of those two "clever" things slightly opened my incision which then got mildly infected. So yeah, it's not big or clever. But nobody takes into account how utterly, utterly, UTTERLY frustrating it is being trapped in a body in constant pain and no freedom, and the obvious reaction to getting that freedom back again. It's partly why I entered the marathon despite having no previous running experience.. I never take my mobility for granted again.

It's been a real eyeopener to me for people who must live like it constantly with no hope of recovery, that's for sure. And how people treat those who need to use wheelchairs

You can have painkillers that actually touch the pain for a c-section after all.. and you can physically without things clicking nastily! It IS an improvement!

I've had a spinal for my planned section, and for two serious operations on my legs. All three were easy, barely hurt a bit ("sharp scratch" for the local then that was it). Yours will be fine and lovely AND result in a lovely squishy baby. What's not to like? :)

I had a planned CS due to SPD as well, and I often long for those wonderful drugs, must have been the morphine as i had an EMCS with DS1, which was great, but nowhere NEAR the blissful floaty feeling with DS2.

I remember being in the recovery ward, holding DS2, and feeling as if I was on a giant raft. The slightest slightest movement made me feel as if the raft was going up and down, but in a really pleasant way.

I, too, cried every night with sheer frustration and pain. And felt so guilty that I couldn't take DS1 to the park, or out to the garden for that matter. He was 18 months when DS2 was born, so was a lively wee toddler.

I developed SPD when I was 14 weeks and I remember going to Day Care with blurred vision towards the end, but was glad to be there, cos I begged, begged, begged them to let me have a ECS. The consultants and MW's were keen for me to have a VBAC, and initially, I was up for it. But even seeing me hobble after the consultant on my crutches didn't make him realise how bad it was. (to be fair, he did a wonderful job of my CS, opened the original wound and did a very neat job of stitching.)

The day I went in to have DS2 was one of the nicest days of my life, DH and I were both so calm and chilled out, as we knew that I would be taken care of, and my pain would be dealt with.

If i could get my hands on those drugs again, I surely would. I've never felt so wonderful in my life, the birth of my children notwithstanding.

Sadly, DS2 is 4 and a half, and my SPD is WORSE than ever! I so long to lie on my side for longer than 15mins at a time, and I often have to get up during the night for a hot water bottle and a very strong cocktail of painkillers. I've recently started getting shooting pains down my right hip/leg, which is my worst side. I'm fairly certain I'm developing arthritis haha!!!!

However, I do NEED to lose weight, have been caught in a vicious circle of comfort eating and not being able to exercise properly. It won't SOLVE the problem, but it must sure as hell alleviate it.

Having said that, given the choice between being SPD-free, and no DS2, well, I would still do it all over again. Having him is worth it, a small price to pay.

Good luck, enjoy the drugs, and I sincerely hope your SPD clears up quickly after the birth. It does for most people. I'm just awkward haha!

murder just before Christmas my dh organised a wheel chair for me to take me into town for lunch and to do a little Xmas shopping. We could not belive how rude some people were to us, things like not holding the door so it slammed on my legs and swinging their bags around which caught me in the head!

It has so made me appreciate how Lucky I really am to have the choice of just nipping to the shop or chasing dd down the street, and I will be much much more aware of people who are mobility effected in public when I'm back on my feet.

cubbie sorry you still have ongoing problems, it must be awful for you. Do you have physio or pain injections to help you atall?

I think that weight and hormones have the biggest part, when I got pregnant this time I was 5 stone heavier than when I fell with dd I do think that has played a huge part in it.

Are you on contraception? I was talking with my anethitist last Friday and he warned me not to go on anything for a good couple of months as the body needs to restore its natural hormones and some contraception causes the imbalance.