TENS machine - anyone used one? and buying off ebay.

[~Raven~]

The machine is the same but the labour TENS has a hand controller that plugs in so you don't need to twiddle with knobs all the time. It shuts off the impulses when the button isn't pushed (you don't need the TENS to be working between contractions) and when you feel the contraction building, you push it and off it goes

I found it to fantastic for helping me manage the pain

[jackrose]

:yeahthat:

The regular tens and labour tens should be the same thing, they just differ in how easy they are to use.

I used a regular tens for my labours (It was FANTASTIC for managing pain) but I was really familiar with it before hand as I use them in my work.

If you go for a regular tens, make sure you get a chance to familiarise yourself with it before hand so you don't have to 'learn a new skill' while birthing They are really simple to use but the labour versions are even more simple again as Raven explained.

You have probably heard the advice of get them on early to take care of the pain. If you use them too late in the labour they are not as effective. This happened for me with my second labour which was so much faster. By the time we went to use it (by the time I realised I was in labour!) it was too late to be of much help. Early, it can be good to take care of pain and give you something to distract yourself.