Hi, I have had both epi and spinal.
My first born was emergancy c-sec and they did a epi and i had the cathetar, i had what they call the epidural shakes in recovery ( some get it some don't, i was just one that did) and that lasted a while, can't remeber now as that was 16 yrs ago.
I followed with 4 natural drug free births and then my last was a c-sec as bub was in breech and my hosp does not support breech del anymore.
They did a spinal block (dif hosp than the first c-sec) and everythin was the same for me, had the cathetar and this time i had the itches which is apparantly the side effect from the morphine. So either way had side effects. But after my first emergancy c-sec they didnt let me get up for 4 days as i had toxemia very bad. With this bub i had him at 7:55am and was up about 12 hours later, as thats how long it took for me to be able to feel my legs properly.
Given the choice i would just prefer to have vag with no drugs any day though.

Good luck

Cheers
Kat