Anyone have combined spinal and epidural?

[lilmisspositive]

Well, ladies it is coming close to the day we meet bun.
I found out I am having both. Can anyone tell me how they went.. Which one did they give you first?

I am starting to get anxious and really need to be put back in my positive, it will only sting for a moment mind set! Lol.

I have been told the epi is for the first 24 hours for my pain relief....

Any experiences would be awesome. Thanks. : )

[Janie71]

Hi there - I had both. I had laboured for about 24 hours before getting the epidural (what a relief!) and then it turned out that I had to have an emergency CS as in the 24 hours of hard labour I only dilated 1cm and with severe PE and meconium in my waters it was time to get her out. So they then put in a spinal for the CS.

I only found the epidural a bit painful as I was having full on contractions whilst he was trying to get it in. It would not have been bad if that wasn't happening (I don't think).

The spinal wore off really quickly and I was out of recovery within an hour.

As for pain afterwards it was manageable. Due to my other problems I was still flat on my back in the delivery suit for another 24 hours - this was because of my PE and the magnesium they were giving me. After the epi wore off my pain was manageable on the tablets they were giving me. I even got them to cut out one lot of them within 48 hours as all they were doing was making me feel sleepy.

I'm not sure if my situation is of any help at all. Honestly I didn't even feel the needle going in and once that epi started the relief was instant. I also recovered really quickly from the spinal. So all in all I had a positive experience in a rather yucky situation.

Good luck - I am sure you will be fine and up and about with your bubs nice and quickly.

Janie xxx

[EsJay]

my story is similar to janie's. the epi didnt hurt, the drip they put in first hurt more, but the epi was minimal at the most. then it was topped up for emergency c/s to a block and that wore off pretty quick. the epi remained in for about 36 hours which they gave me pethidine through for pain relief rather than tablets till they took it out. goodluck, im sure you will be fine, positive thinking and all that. it really didnt seem to hurt much at all and i had very little pain from labour so it wasnt like i had that to distract me from the epi pain.

[lilmisspositive]

Thank you ladies. Just what I needed to hear! Need to start my vision board up with happy needles all over it. Lmao. xx