Hi nic

I had the spinal fluid leak that gets 'mentioned' in prenatal classes as being a risk (no way does it come close to describing the feeling that your head is going to explode if you lift it off the pillow!). My anaesthetist came in and described how he thought it might have happened (three different tries since the first didn't work completely, second didn't go in and third time lucky!). They then did another epi for a blood patch (ouchies! the spinal was much more gentle). That thankfully fixed it and I'd only had the problem for just over a day in total (came up on day 3).

But I had no ongoing probs. The reason I included the whole spiel was that the number of times you had the needle would increase the risk of something happening I guess. Try to talk to the anaesthetist to see if there was something untoward during the procedure that might explain it. Also, is there a chance you could have an infection?