Do they give you a sedation during a c section

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Weird one but have had a lot of surgeries before including three under local with sedation. The sedation always makes me feel dizzy and sick afterwards.
I know they give you a local anesthetic for your bottom. Half but do they sedate you as well.

No they don't - I imagine there would be quite strong objections to it in most cases.

I have had 2 CS and wasn’t sedated for either (as far as I am aware). In one of them they gave me something and it made me feel strange, I said “I feel a bit funny”, DH said “if she says a bit funny she means really funny or she wouldn’t mention it” and as he said it my blood pressure plummeted and the head of the table went down and they gave me something to bring it back up....

No sedation.

When you say “local anaesthetic for your bottom” do you mean spinal anaesthesia? Anaesthetic is placed into the spine which numbs you from the chest/waist down. That’s the only anaesthesia. You may get painkillers in suppository form for when the spinal wears off but nothing else for your bum.

Fwiw though I still felt very sick, shaky and dizzy from the spinal, because my blood pressure drops through the floor. They can do things to help like put your head down etc.

No, definitely no sedation. I'm not even sure they'd do it if you asked for it. I think they'd be more likely to send you off to sleep than sedate you.
It's a spinal anaesthetic for a Caesarean section. It can drop your blood pressure and make you feel a little sick, but if you tell them, they'll give you something for the nausea.

Sorry meant bottom half not bottom itself. Sorry mistype there. Thank you x

They would not sedate you (unless an emergency situation occurs where it is absolutely necessary) becuase it would also partially sedate the baby and be dangerous.

I wasn’t sedated at all for mine, just the epidural and the painkillers. It’s a weird sensation - you can feel them rummaging around to pull out the baby, but it doesn’t hurt at all.