Still in pain after VBA2C birth - is this normal?

[joey123]

I gave birth 7 weeks ago. A VBA2C!! YAY!! (so this is my first vaginal birth) But... I tore pretty bad inside and out. (I would still do a VBAC again even this being the case!) They gave me a general to stitch me up and I was on pain killers for a while. I am a runner, so at 5 weeks and 5 days I felt really good and decided to go for a little jog, pushing the pram, just home from the markets, only 800m or so. The next day I ran 3.1km, the next day 3.4km, had a day off, the next day 5.4km, the day after felt a little pain so had the day off and the day after that was in so much pain that I had to go back on my pain killers.

I had about a week off, and then did a simiar lot of running. I then power-walked about 4km the day after the pain came back bad, and about 2.5km the day after that as well (it was there a little bit throughout the week after my runs, but not too bad), it is now two days since I have done anything and it is still painful. BTW it doesn't hurt at all when I run, just when I have cooled down afterwards. Sometimes it feels like a burning pain.

I have been to my GP and he says all the stitches are healed really well and you can hardly see any scarring. I have some green vaginal loss, heaver on days that I run, which started only when I started running. He has taken a swab and I have to call on Tuesday to see if there in an infection. (My bleeding slowed down rapidly at 4 weeks and was all but gone by 5 weeks).

Has anyone else had this problem? I feel like I healed quicker from my C-S! If you tore inside and / or out, how long did it take you to feel right again? And don't even mention sex, that just scares me to death!

Any comments would be greatly appreciated.

[onthefly]

If it's started hurting more again then I think you'd better go back to your doctor. It could even be something else, you know?

[kristi14]

I only tore on the inside but it took me a good year to not feel so sensitive down there and even now, 11 yrs later, if the toilet paper hits the scar the wrong way i feel it.

I think you should give yourself a bit more time. By all means run, but maybe lesser distances. I think any form of pain like that is your body saying you need to rest or slow down a bit.

I applaud you for getting back into running at 5wks postpartum though, at 5wks pp for me i was still in my sleep deprived/just given birth state and not capable of doing much more than dressing myself and eating

[Lily Dust]

I had an all but 4th degree tear and it took a good 12 weeks to resume DTD, a good many many months not to feel sensitive may possibly have been a year and even now occassionally if I sit the wrong way and the area pulls then it hurts ALOT! If you were offered the general for tearing it sounds like it was a pretty bad tear and it will take quite a while to repair, remember its muscle and tissue and all sorts of stuff down there! Did your Dr recommend 3, 6 and 12 monthly checkups?

[joey123]

I only tore on the inside but it took me a good year to not feel so sensitive down there and even now, 11 yrs later, if the toilet paper hits the scar the wrong way i feel it.

11 years?? OMG!!

I had an all but 4th degree tear and it took a good 12 weeks to resume DTD, a good many many months not to feel sensitive may possibly have been a year and even now occassionally if I sit the wrong way and the area pulls then it hurts ALOT! If you were offered the general for tearing it sounds like it was a pretty bad tear and it will take quite a while to repair, remember its muscle and tissue and all sorts of stuff down there! Did your Dr recommend 3, 6 and 12 monthly checkups?

Dr didn't recommend any check ups. ???

[Lily Dust]

Dr didn't recommend any check ups. ???

Dont stress hun, it was more to check that my pelvic floor was healing/ strengthening. If you want to be sure of things then you can make the follow up appointment.