I had one for my first labour, mainly due to the fact that I was induced for pre-eclampsia and they wanted to keep my blood pressure down, so I had the epi. I felt absolutely nothing at all - it was like I was paralysed from the waist down. I couldn't move my legs at all - I needed help with that and I couldn't feel to push either. I came very close to having a forceps delivery, but thankfully DS made his way out without them. Because I couldn't feel anything I also had to have a catheter put in, which I hated. And after the birth, I didn't get full feeling back in my lower body until the following morning. As you can probably guess, all in all my experience was not a positive one. There were positives of course - no pain at all, and I didn't feel a thing when they stitched me up afterwards. But on the whole I didn't like the experience of having an epi. I did not have one for my next two births, in fact I had no pain relief at all, and they were heaps better experiences.