Did you feel dizzy/strange/faint during csection?

[Reastie]

Am having elcs for dc2 after a failed induction leading to csection with dd. It was a few years ago but I’ve been remembering the experience and how awful I felt during the csection and wondered if my experience was normal or not.

Effectively I felt very faint and perculiar during the entire procedure. I kept saying tk the anaesthetist ‘I don’t feel right’ and ‘I feel strange’ and ‘I feel nauseous’ but he said I was fine. I really wasn’t expecting that, I was expecting to feel the washing machine in my tummy (which I did) but I wasn’t prepared for a weird sort of drugged mental nauseous haze throughout. I haven’t read anywhere else where people describe this so I’m not sure if what I experienced was normal or not. I just imagined I’d feel normal but numb and wasn’t prepared for the strange ness of not feeling right. It was fine when they did the spinal at the beginning, it was once I was lying down.

If it’s not the norm I’d like to look into causes of it (?drop in blood pressure) and how to minimise it happening again as I felt awful.

How did you feel during your csection.

Once my son was out we were in theatre for a further 50 minutes. The moment he came out I started to feel sick and had extra pressure, pain, and shortness of breath like someone was crushing my lungs. Anti-nausea and G&A got me through the rest of the time as I was adamant I wasn't going under general anesthesia even though the anesthetist kept offering it to me as an option. With the G&A I don't really remember much. I recall telling my partner to go wait in recovery with my son because it was pointless him being there because I was out of it, and I thought he had done because the next thing I remember I was being wheeled to recovery where he was sitting with our son, but apparently he only moved to recovery about two minutes before I was brought through and was with me the rest of the time. As icky and scary and horrid it was for the minute or two before the G&A hit, I'll still be opting for a C-section next time after the horrific 32 hours I spent labouring for an outcome of natural birth which would never have happened x

Yes and it's your blood pressure dropping. Mine went so low all the machines went off and I felt very unwell.

They gave me an injection of something and within minutes I felt ok.

Talk your concerns over with the anaesthetist before you have the procedure.

It's not inevitable. I felt absolutely fine with mine. No nausea, no shivering, I felt like superwoman!