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C-section question
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I delivered my baby via c-section almost 6 weeks back. I dinot really feel any pain even for the first walk on next day but then I was taking pain medications. I stopped taking pain medications almost 12 days later and the pain improved a lot but I am still feeling much pain if I try to walk. very very slow walk inside home is fine but whenever i go outside, it hurts in the incision as well as somewhere deep inside(not sure where). this pain is not unbearable but uncomfortable. i am not taking any more pain medication . I am surprised I am close to 6 weeks but still not normal. I am not liftin heavy weight. I stay in a two-story house so avoiding stairs is not possible nowadays though the first two weeks I did avoid the stairs totally. The pain is sharp pain in both incision and deep inside. I am following all recommendations for recovery as suggested for c-section (of course getting much sleep with a baby is difficult)..other than sleep I have been taking good care to myself..thanks to DH for all the help. Anybody who has gone through c-section can let me know please their recovery experience. when have you been totally pain free? I am a runner and though I can make time for running, its totally out of question since even walking is uncomfortable. I am really looking for speedy recovery and any suggestion/tips or if you can share your experience will really help me a lot. Thanks so much in advance. |
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New Mommy wrote:
I delivered my baby via c-section almost 6 weeks back. I dinot really feel any pain even for the first walk on next day but then I was taking pain medications. I stopped taking pain medications almost 12 days later and the pain improved a lot but I am still feeling much pain if I try to walk. I think you should talk to your doctor. Have you had your 6-week checkup yet? Has your doctor been monitoring your pain when taking out your staples at week 1 and 2 and whatnot? I went home after 5 days in the hospital and the next day stopped all pain medication. I was able to walk around without pain within a week and was driving at 2 weeks. I don't know what the normal time is; the above is only one person's experience. Still, I think you should let your doctor know exactly how and where the pain is. -- Anita -- |
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"New Mommy" wrote in message oups.com... Hi - I delivered my baby via c-section almost 6 weeks back. I dinot really feel any pain even for the first walk on next day but then I was taking pain medications. I stopped taking pain medications almost 12 days later and the pain improved a lot but I am still feeling much pain if I try to walk. very very slow walk inside home is fine but whenever i go outside, it hurts in the incision as well as somewhere deep inside(not sure where). this pain is not unbearable but uncomfortable. i am not taking any more pain medication . I am surprised I am close to 6 weeks but still not normal. I am not liftin heavy weight. I stay in a two-story house so avoiding stairs is not possible nowadays though the first two weeks I did avoid the stairs totally. The pain is sharp pain in both incision and deep inside. I am following all recommendations for recovery as suggested for c-section (of course getting much sleep with a baby is difficult)..other than sleep I have been taking good care to myself..thanks to DH for all the help. Anybody who has gone through c-section can let me know please their recovery experience. when have you been totally pain free? I am a runner and though I can make time for running, its totally out of question since even walking is uncomfortable. I am really looking for speedy recovery and any suggestion/tips or if you can share your experience will really help me a lot. Thanks so much in advance. Totally pain free? Try about a year. This was for a classical C-section. I'm 7 weeks post-partum, after a repeat classical, and I'm still occasionally taking pain meds if I overdo it. This is why I have a hard time believing anyone willingly chooses a repeat C-section over a VBAC if they have a choice in the matter! |
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"New Mommy" wrote in message oups.com... Hi - I delivered my baby via c-section almost 6 weeks back. I dinot really feel any pain even for the first walk on next day but then I was taking pain medications. I stopped taking pain medications almost 12 days later and the pain improved a lot but I am still feeling much pain if I try to walk. very very slow walk inside home is fine but whenever i go outside, it hurts in the incision as well as somewhere deep inside(not sure where). this pain is not unbearable but uncomfortable. i am not taking any more pain medication . I am surprised I am close to 6 weeks but still not normal. I am not liftin heavy weight. I stay in a two-story house so avoiding stairs is not possible nowadays though the first two weeks I did avoid the stairs totally. The pain is sharp pain in both incision and deep inside. I am following all recommendations for recovery as suggested for c-section (of course getting much sleep with a baby is difficult)..other than sleep I have been taking good care to myself..thanks to DH for all the help. Anybody who has gone through c-section can let me know please their recovery experience. when have you been totally pain free? I am a runner and though I can make time for running, its totally out of question since even walking is uncomfortable. I am really looking for speedy recovery and any suggestion/tips or if you can share your experience will really help me a lot. Thanks so much in advance. sounds like you are in more pain than i experienced, i agree with other posters to talk to your doc about it c |
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"Donna Metler" wrote in message . .. "New Mommy" wrote in message oups.com... Hi - I delivered my baby via c-section almost 6 weeks back. I dinot really feel any pain even for the first walk on next day but then I was taking pain medications. I stopped taking pain medications almost 12 days later and the pain improved a lot but I am still feeling much pain if I try to walk. very very slow walk inside home is fine but whenever i go outside, it hurts in the incision as well as somewhere deep inside(not sure where). this pain is not unbearable but uncomfortable. i am not taking any more pain medication . I am surprised I am close to 6 weeks but still not normal. I am not liftin heavy weight. I stay in a two-story house so avoiding stairs is not possible nowadays though the first two weeks I did avoid the stairs totally. The pain is sharp pain in both incision and deep inside. I am following all recommendations for recovery as suggested for c-section (of course getting much sleep with a baby is difficult)..other than sleep I have been taking good care to myself..thanks to DH for all the help. Anybody who has gone through c-section can let me know please their recovery experience. when have you been totally pain free? I am a runner and though I can make time for running, its totally out of question since even walking is uncomfortable. I am really looking for speedy recovery and any suggestion/tips or if you can share your experience will really help me a lot. Thanks so much in advance. Totally pain free? Try about a year. This was for a classical C-section. I'm 7 weeks post-partum, after a repeat classical, and I'm still occasionally taking pain meds if I overdo it. This is why I have a hard time believing anyone willingly chooses a repeat C-section over a VBAC if they have a choice in the matter! you are also in way more pain than i experienced donna. In fact, by about a year down the track, the only time i ever felt anything was when i went swimming in really cold water! well, ok i got an incisional hernia but even that wasnt painful. I have sort of willingingly chosen repeat C-sections b/c the pain does go away. maybe you should talk to your doc too? chris |
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Totally pain free? Try about a year. This was for a classical C-section. I'm 7 weeks post-partum, after a repeat classical, and I'm still occasionally taking pain meds if I overdo it. This is why I have a hard time believing anyone willingly chooses a repeat C-section over a VBAC if they have a choice in the matter! Donna, it might be the classical incision that made the difference and it is definitely more difficult to get into a 22 week uterus than a full term one. Did you ask about them doing a different incision, I've definitely heard of people having repeat c-sections due to a classical incision but having a low transverse incision 2nd time round. Donna, I think a reasonable proportion of ERCS are probably fear of the unknown, or fear of a repeat of the known, a bad labour experience followed by a c-section isn't going to make you want to go into labour again and if you had a scheduled section, but the same reason doesn't apply next time around, it's like being a first timer, but with a get out clause, many first timers would jump at a c-section if it was offered to them on a plate. For the OP, not from personal experience, my friend who had one a couple of months before I had DS was cycling by the time I delivered, she said she was pain free at 6 weeks. From the cycling point of view I wasn't comfortable after 5 months for a vaginal delivery. |
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New Mommy wrote:
Hi - I delivered my baby via c-section almost 6 weeks back. I dinot really feel any pain even for the first walk on next day but then I was taking pain medications. I stopped taking pain medications almost 12 days later and the pain improved a lot but I am still feeling much pain if I try to walk. very very slow walk inside home is fine but whenever i go outside, it hurts in the incision as well as somewhere deep inside(not sure where). this pain is not unbearable but uncomfortable. i am not taking any more pain medication . I am surprised I am close to 6 weeks but still not normal. Its hard to remember, but I think by 6 weeks I was walking pretty well and driving. I was certainly carrying baby. By 10 weeks I was pretty good (we went on vacation and I remember being fine). I did find that my incision site was sore when I leaned on it (like at a counter) for probably a year. I definately took my pain meds for nearly 2 weeks (I remember thinking it contributed to my daughters lazy nursing), and then took pretty high doses of ibuprofen for a while after that. You sound like your recovery has been a bit harder than mine was, and its probably worth talking to your doctor about. Mary W. |
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New Mommy wrote: Hi - I delivered my baby via c-section almost 6 weeks back. I dinot really feel any pain even for the first walk on next day but then I was taking pain medications. I stopped taking pain medications almost 12 days later and the pain improved a lot but I am still feeling much pain if I try to walk. very very slow walk inside home is fine but whenever i go outside, it hurts in the incision as well as somewhere deep inside(not sure where). this pain is not unbearable but uncomfortable. i am not taking any more pain medication . I am surprised I am close to 6 weeks but still not normal. I am not liftin heavy weight. I stay in a two-story house so avoiding stairs is not possible nowadays though the first two weeks I did avoid the stairs totally. The pain is sharp pain in both incision and deep inside. I am following all recommendations for recovery as suggested for c-section (of course getting much sleep with a baby is difficult)..other than sleep I have been taking good care to myself..thanks to DH for all the help. Anybody who has gone through c-section can let me know please their recovery experience. when have you been totally pain free? I am a runner and though I can make time for running, its totally out of question since even walking is uncomfortable. I am really looking for speedy recovery and any suggestion/tips or if you can share your experience will really help me a lot. Thanks so much in advance. I was taking pain pills for about a week after I got home. These were basically ibprofin in a stronger dose. When I finished those, I took regular ibprofin for a while. I wasn't in pain after 6 weeks. Renee |
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Donna Metler wrote:
"New Mommy" wrote in message oups.com... I delivered my baby via c-section almost 6 weeks back. I dinot really feel any pain even for the first walk on next day but then I was taking pain medications. I stopped taking pain medications almost 12 days later and the pain improved a lot but I am still feeling much pain if I try to walk. Totally pain free? Try about a year. This was for a classical C-section. I'm 7 weeks post-partum, after a repeat classical, and I'm still occasionally taking pain meds if I overdo it. This is why I have a hard time believing anyone willingly chooses a repeat C-section over a VBAC if they have a choice in the matter! I had a classical incision, too, both inside and out. But, still, I was off pain meds by the time I got home on day 5. I do occasionally have itching on the scar, but that's not pain. -- Anita -- |
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"Mamma Mia" wrote in message u... "Donna Metler" wrote in message . .. "New Mommy" wrote in message oups.com... Hi - I delivered my baby via c-section almost 6 weeks back. I dinot really feel any pain even for the first walk on next day but then I was taking pain medications. I stopped taking pain medications almost 12 days later and the pain improved a lot but I am still feeling much pain if I try to walk. very very slow walk inside home is fine but whenever i go outside, it hurts in the incision as well as somewhere deep inside(not sure where). this pain is not unbearable but uncomfortable. i am not taking any more pain medication . I am surprised I am close to 6 weeks but still not normal. I am not liftin heavy weight. I stay in a two-story house so avoiding stairs is not possible nowadays though the first two weeks I did avoid the stairs totally. The pain is sharp pain in both incision and deep inside. I am following all recommendations for recovery as suggested for c-section (of course getting much sleep with a baby is difficult)..other than sleep I have been taking good care to myself..thanks to DH for all the help. Anybody who has gone through c-section can let me know please their recovery experience. when have you been totally pain free? I am a runner and though I can make time for running, its totally out of question since even walking is uncomfortable. I am really looking for speedy recovery and any suggestion/tips or if you can share your experience will really help me a lot. Thanks so much in advance. Totally pain free? Try about a year. This was for a classical C-section. I'm 7 weeks post-partum, after a repeat classical, and I'm still occasionally taking pain meds if I overdo it. This is why I have a hard time believing anyone willingly chooses a repeat C-section over a VBAC if they have a choice in the matter! you are also in way more pain than i experienced donna. In fact, by about a year down the track, the only time i ever felt anything was when i went swimming in really cold water! well, ok i got an incisional hernia but even that wasnt painful. I have sort of willingingly chosen repeat C-sections b/c the pain does go away. maybe you should talk to your doc too? chris Supposedly, it's normal-I have a vertical incision, and had a lot of adhesions from the prior, so it was a pretty complicated surgery. In the first one, I had a lot of swelling and bruising because my platelet count was extremely low due to HELLP. Supposedly, everything has healed well, so I'm not at risk for ripping anything, simply that it will take some time for the nerves to heal and to stop sending pain signals. |
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