C-section scar twingers anyone?

[boozysoozywong]

Just wondering if anyone else's C-sections scar twinges in the cold weather?

Just the one end of mine is quite sore in twinges throughout the day. My first one never gave any trouble. This is my second and is 15 weeks old. It was quite a hatchet job.

So the question is, 'is this nomral in the cold weather?'

Mine is twinging but I hadn't thought about the cold weather, been putting it down to my period which is due but still not here. It's also my second & 14 weeks old. Hatchet job sounds familiar ! Be interesting to see if there's anyone else who's having the same.

we could start a club!
Sorry you're having trouble but glad it's not just me.
Maybe 14 weeks is a critical mending process. Do you have any numbness or tingling where the nerves are growing back?

And how's your baby - it was worth it in the end wasn't it

The baby's gorgeous, definitely worth it! I've got a little boy, did you have a girl or a boy ? I've got a lot of tingling going on at the moment, then painful twinges every so often. No numbness. What is weird is that it started off healing really well and it's only the last week or so that it's started up again.

Adell,
that is exactly what is happening with me which is why I put it down to the chilly weather.

Personally, I feel quite disfigured with this scar, first one I was quite proud of, although everyone (hv,dr, dh, friend) says it's not bad at all. I can't bring myself to look at it yet.
It was my second enormous DS - slim hips+9 poun porkers = emergency caesars in my case

Mine still twinges and feels numb (at the ends) 4 years after ds1 and 2 years after ds2!

I haven't looked at mine either and don't want to for the moment. DS shoulder's got stuck, so they had to make it wider. The rather stressed senior reg. who did it said that if I was to have another it would have to be another section done by someone quite senior, I had adhesions from the first one apparently. I tried to reassure him I won't be having any more ! This was my 2nd emergency one - they both didn't descend and got distressed.

poor you
I had adhesions and they called for the senior registrar - I could hear them cutting through the gristle.
it really is an unspeakable process isn't it?

And you are always reminded of it, so it would seem jimjams.

i guess it's a topic for another thread but would you have prefered vaginal stitches or c section wound scar ... I'm quite happy to be still 'in tact"

so glad to read I am not alone, often wondered about going to the doctor to see if it's normal! Both mine emergency c-sections and after the second one 4 years later still have uncomfortable sort of pain at times nothing to do with cold weather for me. What could we call the club boozy!

How about
"I was butchered but I have lovely kids to show for it'
or
'Scarsisters'

I'd just had a shot of pethedine and was feeling very nicely spaced out so all I really remember was looking at DS on the table next to me and being massively relieved that his full head of hair was dark and wasn't the very bright ginger that I was born with !

Think I'd rather have the c/section scar. I like the sound of scar sisters !

Very sweet memory, Adell

Scar Sisters it is, unless anyone has any other bright ideas.

How about 'Double ECS - Double X - XX' Get it?

oooh boozysuzy we are sisters! I got the "quick call a consultant" because of adhesions during my second (although no-one would tell me why they needed a consultant so I was busy having a panic attack). Then in the postnatal ward I was "the lady with adhesions in bed 20". Bloody nightmare and puts me off a third more than any sleepless nights!

Did you know I read recently that they think adhesions may develop because of latex allergy and they have recently developed a spray to use in ops to prevent them. Too bloody late for is though!

us even

Yuck ... i will never forget the look on the reg's face as he worked away. It's put me off too, Dread to think what kind of gnarled growth is going on under yhe livid purple scar

However, baby comes out looking fine and dandy and not slightly squashed head.

My bladder and uterus are still stuck together (they couldn't seperate them). Which explains why I spent the entire pregnancy with ds2 saying "this baby is sat on my bladder" and had to get up to go to the loo 3 times each night. I dread to think what is glued together down there now. Yuck yuck yuck!

mine is almost 17months old ( scar and dd ) and I still get the odd twinges.

it really is best not to think about it ...makes me a bit angry actually ... but must 't grumble .... I did raise the issue of thr brutality of my second at the 6 week check and it turned out they had used my op as a teaching tool i.e. watch out for scar tissue and have a snr reg present at all 2nd ECS .. at least the next poor cow got some benefit out of it, I hope.

Don't mean to be competing with you JJ about who had the worst op. they all sound bloody foul, so hats off to us for getting over them and getting on with raising and loving those kids.

it really is best not to think about it ...makes me a bit angry actually ... but must 't grumble .... I did raise the issue of thr brutality of my second at the 6 week check and it turned out they had used my op as a teaching tool i.e. watch out for scar tissue and have a snr reg present at all 2nd ECS .. at least the next poor cow got some benefit out of it, I hope.

Don't mean to be competing with you JJ about who had the worst op. they all sound bloody foul, so hats off to us for getting over them and getting on with raising and loving those kids.

My scar took around two years to settle down completely, probably even a bit longer. It was raised and would go through stages of being either itchy or a bit sore.

Finally (ds now 3) the scar has completely blended in with the rest of me! and is hardly visible. Can't believe it took that long though.

At least you made a difference boozy. The ironic thing is before going into the op I read an american book - and there all second c-sections are perfomred by senior bods because of the problems of scar tissue.

That book said each section made the scar tissue worse? Do you know if that's true. I wonder about going for a number 3 but would have to talk to someone first but don't know who!

I was going for an elective this time round before I changed my mind and decided to try for VBAC. I'm a bit cross that none of the medical staff mentioned anything about scar tissue or adhesions. I'm glad I was pretty spaced out during the last section, I think things got a bit heavy going at one point, the senior reg. looked very stressed.

JJ, not sure who you'd speak to about that, what about ringing the hospital and seeing if that gets you anywhere.

Sorry, not helpful suggestion at all about ringing hospital. Think I'd better go to bed!

I've had 2 C-sections and both scars twinged forr quite a long time afterwards.
Also had adhesions with 2nd which took FOREVER to work through (although my MW said the OB was 'ever so skilful and attentive' (YUK - would rather not think about it).

My second scar healed very red and raised and really ached for quite some time, as it used to get hot and itchy if I sat down for long periods at a time (e.g at my desk at work!)

In the end, I tried some 'scar reduction patches' for a couple of months, and although I was sceptical, they actually worked brilliantly and now my scar is flatter, whiter and hardly bothers me at all.
You can get them in Boots (either their own, or Elastoplast).

Thanks adell. TBH it is obvious that I must have been drinking last night as having a number 3 would be the stupidest thing I could do! I think I'm better off remaining terrified

Glad I'm not alone on the adhesions, I've never met anyone else who had them. This is very therpeutic