whos had an epidural before?

how did you feel when you got your sensations back? Did you have a sore back? Did it take you some time to recover when you came back from hospital?How long after does the epidural wear off?

I had an epi. It's a strange sensation. I could still feel sensations like pulling when DD was coming out (but when it's time to start pushing they make you stop self administering so you can feel it a bit). I could move my legs and feel when they were itchy but they felt like dead weight.
Straight after DD was born and they took her to neo-nates and after I had been stitched up I wanted a shower and was told that I could only have a shower if I could walk to it which I slowly managed to do with DH's help. My legs felt like jelly for about an hour or two after I started moving around but I could move. I got DH to stay in the room with me while I had a shower just in case I fell though. I had to lean on him while I got dressed.

I don't remember having a sore back.

I took about 12 weeks to recover from giving birth but I think that was due to a difficult birth, not due to the epi.

The only thing that I was worried about was I remembered at one stage that I had a cathida coz I couldln't feel sensations enought to know when I had to pee during the epi, but the cathida was not inside when I was having a ven tous. At some point I had pushed it out which worried me a little because there is a little balloon on the end to keep it in.

I had an epidural with my first. I was up having a shower within an hour. Took a while to get full sensation (as in a couple of hours) but I didn't need help in the shower or anything. I had no problems afterwards at all. xo

I had one with DD, once it wore off I felt fine, no sore back or anything and recovery was all fine.
I can't remember how long it took to wear off.
I did have trouble pushing DD out, I don't know for sure if it was because of the epi, she hadn't dropped down far enough so there was extra pushing needed to get her further down plus mixed with exhaustion. The epi could have played a part in the fact I couldn't get up out of bed to help gravity assist getting her down and then suction was required to get her out.

I had an epi but it wore off before I entered transition and they wouldn't top it up so that I could push properly. I didn't have any negative side effects whatsoever. My legs went tingly and I had to be helped to the toilet but that's it.

I had an epi with Nina. I didn't have a sore back or anything after labour. My epi wore off about half an hour after having Nina. I had it put in an hour before she was born. Within an hour of having her I'd showered and was walking around.