My situation was pretty different, in that I had to have a subsequent exploratory surgery (cystoscopy) after my c/s. I found the morphine made me extremely out of it. At least I think it was the morphine. They had me on an interesting ****tail of morphine, propyfol, fentanyl..... mi..something.. whatever. It was a lot. Of course that's not the norm though, I was just unfortunate enough to have copped ALL the bad stuff. Multiple mistakes made by drs, an induced coma, and a very tough recovery.

Once I was back on the maternity ward though, I was given endone and panadol regularly. The midwives timed my doses so that I'd have Panadol, (which did NOTHING...) then 3 hours later would have endone, then 3 hours later panadol... you get the pattern. They also talked to me about 'pain management' and keeping up with the pain relief, taking it before my pain got out of control.

I was discharged with about 4 days worth of endone, and I took panadine forte as well. By the time I got home though, I was already almost a week PP. I needed strong pain relief for 2 weeks. Instead of stopping my meds all at once, I dropped the dose one pill at a time, over several days, until I wasn't taking anything.

Hopefully some of my rambling was helpful