Post c section.... how long to not need pain relief

[Deedee2019]

Hi,

1st time posting...
Had a failed vbac, resulting in a c section now 6wks ago.
I'm fortunate enough to have help every day, but I'm still struggling with pain and fatigue from surgery.
My section was long (2 1/2hrs) as the stitches tore through my uterus wall and I lost 1.2 litres of blood.
No transfusion, and recent blood results have come back with normal iron levels now.
I'm getting down about not being able to just get on with being a mummy, and nervous about being dependent on pain relief.
If I over do it on a day when I'm feeling ok, i end up in bed the next day, wiped out and in a lot of pain.
I still struggle to get up off the floor if I try and play with my 2yr old.
Any positive encouragement is welcomed. Has anyone else had similar and come out the other side?

When you say they ripped through uterus was this during the op? Or you went to recovery and stitches burst? So is this your second section sorry?

It's my 2nd section. 1st one was text book, and recovery was quick, with minimal pain relief.
Stitches just wouldn't hold during surgery. I was starting to feel it too, and anesthesitist was about to put me under. It was all very traumatic.

It took me about 3 months to recover after my emcs after a failed induction including 48 hours in labour, PPH, Hellp syndrome, blood transfusions & high dependency care.6 weeks is only a short time after what is major abdominal surgery, yes your skin has healed, but the muscles & internal tissue will take longer to be back to normal, there is also the chance of adhesions which may be pulling as well. Speak to your GP if you feel that you aren't recovering as you would expect.

I had a very straightforward ELCS, no bleeding or complications but had to take regular otc painkillers every single day for 6 weeks. The later weeks were very tapered, maybe 1 ibuprofen or paracetamol per day, but as you mentioned the pain comes and goes. I read somewhere that the nerves grow back at a rate of 1-2mm per month and you need to wait for them to "knit" back together.

However it eventually fades but over such a long time period I can't even remember exactly when. 2-4 months? By 6 months I was definitely back to normal and able to walk, run, drive without any discomfort at all. The scar also healed and there was no numbness or itching.

Hi, this is my first time posting in here! I just want to think if people reckon I'm being a bit of a crank basically. I'm pregnant with my first baby it's all very new and scary for me, it came to a massive shock when I found out as I didn't think I could have children but I am so excited and so are my family and boyfriend and his family. I've seen to be getting really irritated by my boyfriends mum but like I am now at a point were I don't want to see her. I'm 22 weeks pregnant I feel like all she's done is stress me out, obviously a lot of people around me are offering to buy me stuff which is a good help including herself. But since the start even like my first midwife appointment my boyfriend was all excited telling her about what the midwife had said and she was just kinda like "I know I could of told you that" (one of them I know it all) to my boyfriend did say to her well next time should we just come to you? and she shut up. She offered to buy the pram when we first found out and started telling people and I agreed (I wish I never) i fell in love with a pram which I talked with my own mum about and I told my boyfriends mum that me and my boyfriend like this particular pram at the minute but we are still looking and she made a very snotty comment to me about it to which I ignored because I got upset. I left it a few weeks and hadn't spoken about it and my boyfriend went round to have tea at her house and she had said to him whilst I wasn't there that she didn't like the pram and I can't leave the baby in it for longer than 2 hours? my boyfriend said to her I don't know where you've got that from that we will leave a child in it for 2 hours and she also said certain prams are bad for the babies back so you can't leave them in them for more than 2 hours (where she got the idea from that we were doing this I don't have a clue)I felt like she was trying to change my boyfriends mind on the pram so we would get one that she likes that was similar to her apparent amazing that she had when her children were babies. So I've got upset again I've argued with my boyfriend over her a lot and I feel like I'm moaning to the wrong person but I've explained to him that I can fall out with her if I wanted but I'm trying so hard to be nice but it's getting me down. She also has told us we have to go to her house a certain day for tea each week (I don't even do this with my own family) so I'm having to organise for me to go different places each week because I don't want to sit in a room with her and be told what to get and what not to get for our baby and for her to think that when the baby is here that's HER day to see the little one. She also messaged me with a photo of a Moses basket and before I could even say what I thought about it she had bought it for us when my own mum wanted to buy me that. A lot of other people are feeling left out like they can't get anything. She's been trying to tell me how to have the nursery, I just don't know how much longer I can take with it all and I'm so scared that when our little baby is here she's going to try and tell me what I should do and shouldn't do when I want all this to come naturally and to do my own thing. She tells everyone she gives us our own space and she doesn't since we moved out she rings my boyfriend nearly everyday aswell. She wanted to be centre of attention at the gender reveal also. I'm not being dramatic am I for feeling upset about all this?

OP that sounds very traumatic.

I had a fairly straightforward 1st EMCS and took painkillers all the time for 3 weeks, and then occasionally for the next 2 weeks.

If you need them, you take them; have a quick call with the GP just for a peace of mind.

Thanks everyone for your comments. I'm just too fixated I think on this 6wk figure.

From what I was told, 6 weeks is the primary healing, and then another 6 secondary healing, and that’s for straightforward CS.
Give yourself time to heal well.