Would this concern you?

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Will try to keep it brief.

Gave birth 7 weeks ago, natural delivery. Had an epidural that only worked on one side. Because I kept getting top ups one side was completely dead, it just kept getting reader and deader with every top up and the other I could feel/had minimal relief that wore off quickly.

It took me quite a while afterwards to get feeling back on the side that had been completely numb.

Since then, I've been really struggling with my hip on that side and at the top of my bum (tail bone area).

I can walk on flat ground but going up steps, even just a few really hurts. Getting up off the sofa is hard and I almost have to lift my leg up with my arms to get pants on because it's very sore.

It just so happens to be the side that was dead during the birth though I don't know whether it's because of that or not.

When would you see someone about this? I know it can take a while for things to get completely back to normal but I'm a little concerned.

Speak to your health visitor or GP. I would want some reassurance that the feeling would come back. Or at least to get started with physio.

Thanks.

It is worrying. They weren't the most reassuring at the hospital when I was still having numbness some time afterward. The anaesthesiologist actually said to me that she'd woken up in the night worried about me and 'hoped that lady got feeling back'!! because they'd given me a lot of top ups to try and get the other side number.

I would see your GP and exaggerate it all so you get a referral to get it checked out ASAP - if there has been damage then I imagine swift treatment is important. I wouldn’t bother discussing with HV to be honest, I’d want it checked out.

If you’re concerned, get it checked out, you don’t want it to get worse and be off your feet. Not a birth injury, but I ignored a few aches in my bum and ended up with my piriformis muscle sat on my sciatic nerve - took about 3 weeks to right itself.

I had a spinal block and after suffered badly with sciatica where it had irritated the nerve took quite a while to settle down and anti inflammatories

If I’d have gone to the doctor I probably could have avoided being off my feet with a few specific stretches everyday, but I’m a wally.