Did you giggle, feel happy on gas and air?

[elliejjtiny]

Ds3 aged 14 is going to have it at the dentist. Dentist said it's great and everyone gets really happy and giggly on it. She also said it's the same as the gas and air you get in labour. I had gas and air for 3 of my births but don't remember being giggly or happy, just little waves of temporary relief of pain. But maybe it feels different when you're having a tooth taken out instead of a baby!

I’ve had it in an ambulance after a car accident and it made me giggly. In labour it doesn’t but that was a different level of pain it wasn’t touching the sides of

Did absolutely nothing for me in labour. When they were stitching me up afterwards I could feel it was doing something, made me feel drunk, more lairy rather than happy and giggly tbh.

No, I threw up everywhere. Baby couldn’t be put straight on my chest as I was absolutely covered. When I broke my elbow in 2021 it took them 3 attempts to put it in place. Each time they tried shoving that green pipe in my mouth, saying it would help. Each time I refused, I’d rather have a few minutes of agony rather than be covered in vomit, especially as at that time no one could visit me and bring me clean clothes. I’d honestly never have it again, awful stuff.

I gave a lecture on the importance of remembering WWI (it was 2018) and then sang I am Woman. I was sick a couple of times too.

Yes it made me feel tipsy, in a good way. I remember making jokes and thinking I was so funny 🥴 I probably made no sense at all.

DH had it for a broken wrist and he acted a bit pissed too, in a nice way.

I didn't feel anything. I asked if it was broken or something but it was fine, just didn't do a thing for me at all.

I gave up with it in the end.

No. First time made me feel sick. Second time right have taken the edge off the pain, but still made me feel rubbish.

Irritated and annoyed I was in pain, didn’t work as pain relief and definitely not giggly, worked as a focus on something while going through contractions. Maybe mine wasn’t working.

Every time I have gas and air I’m sick 🤢

Not in labour no, it just made it harder to concentrate on stuff and harder to move, so fairly rubbish and stopped taking it.

I've had it recreationally before it was illegal though - whole different experience 😂

I just felt nauseas and dizzy. However, it was either that or in pain so I took the nausea and dizziness until I couldn’t any longer during contractions, then swapped to pain until I couldn’t any longer, then back to the nausea/dizziness and so on and so on.

That’s exactly how I felt on it.. The “know the one that’s one too many” stage!

For me, it was more akin to being stoned (what I can remember from 25+ years ago!) than drunk. But a nice, floaty, giggly sort of stoned, as opposed to the one where you feel paranoid and awful.

Absolutely the best part of going into labour. Everything else was awful, gas and air was great. I was pretty much out of my tree.

It still hurt, but it didn't hurt me. "Oh that poor soul, that contraction was awful! Poor thing!"

No I felt sick and like I wasn’t getting enough normal air if that makes sense. I wasn’t able to get the hang of it, kept having a bit and then taking lungfuls of normal air like I was dying 😆 think everyone thought I was an idiot.

I got really sweary and shouty on it . Did almost nothing for the pain but was in advanced labour by that point

To be fair, that may have had nothing to do with the gas🤣. I had one (back to back labour) where I had a midwife come in and tell me off for swearing, loudly, as ‘there were other women also giving birth’. Had not had the gas at that point. I also could not have given a flying fuck - as evidenced by my screams of ‘just get this fucking thing fucking out of me fucking NOW’ many, many times🤣. Anyhoo after giving me gas to no avail, I got an epidural and thought I had landed in heaven. I told the anaesthetist I wanted to divorce DH and marry him instead, he seemed far more useful 😁.

@HoppingPavlovamine was also back to back, possibly explains the swearing.

Same here. Might have been different if I’d had it earlier.

As with a PP I felt detached from my body. If I had too much, the room started to spin and I'd feel nauseous. Taking a few deep breaths would clear my head, and I could continue on.

I got reeeeeeally chatty, much like I do when I'm drunk.

I did, I felt drunk/high. I just wasn't really caring about the pain anymore.

Unfortunately I also always throw up when using it 😂