Percocet question (looking back to 10 months ago)

shaindelr

Hi, All,

I'm just wondering if anyone else gets depressed from narcotics or has gotten depressed while on narcotics in the past. My LO is now 10 months old, but when I think back to the first six weeks, I feel awful. (I mean, I think I'm at peace with it, but if I ever have another baby, I want to try for things to go better.)

I honestly think what seemed like PPD was how I react to narcotics. I was on vicodin for a surgery before and remember just crying all day, every day... Did anyone feel like this on percocet after their c-section?

I don't know if I'll have another LO; if I do, it will be a few years from now, but lately I've been wondering if it wasn't the narcotics coupled with just giving birth, hormones, etc., that made my first six weeks post-partum such a rough time.

Thanks for anything you share!

shouldbworkin

My mom is like that while on narcotics, especially coedine (like Tylenol 3).  I didn't have any adverse reax to Percoset or Darvocet when I was on them either time.  I did have some depression when I was PG and PP with DD.  The fog seemed to lift around 6 mos PP.  I didn't even realize it was that bad, I just woke up one day and told DH that I felt like myself again.  I don't think the meds were the culprit, I think it was hormones and having two kids so close in age.

surprise3rd

I had some PPD with my second, but none with my first and I was on percocets following both c-sections.  I agree with PP in my situation that I think my PPD was triggered by having two under 2, and my DH was working at home and started a new job one week after my 2nd was born so I wend from having two adults and one baby at home to having 2 babies and me.  It was rough on me.

I have never associated it with the narcotics and was on them one other time when I tore ligaments in my knee, and did not have any depression that I can associate at that time.

goldenleaves

Percocet just made me feel super disconnected from everything. I stopped taking it at like 5 days PP because it was interfering with bonding with DS. I will request something different this time.

katmacwv

I saw response to another post and responded about Percocet there.  I took it about 10 years ago (not pregnant) and HATED the way it made me feel.  I felt out of it and would just start crying in the middle of a sentence for no reason.  I remember being on the phone with a guy from school discussing a joint project and realizing what I was saying wasn't making any sense.  I really needed prescription pain meds at that point, but I stopped taking them as soon as I could handle the pain.  Since then, if I need pain meds, I request anything other than Percocet.  I've never taken Vicodin (to my knowledge since I never know what they put in IVs), but I've never had a reaction to any other pain meds like I did to Percocet.

8yearslater

I couldn't use narcotic pain relievers after my c/s because of their effect on my digestive system.  I had tordol for 24 hours then just Advil and Tylenol.  If you're going for #2 and are going to have a c/s, see if your doctor would be OK with tordol. It's an IV thing, which I hated, but there are very few side effects and it's great at getting you through the first 24 hours. 

After that, kinda psych yourself up that the c/s procedure results in some discomfort, but the pain is natural and not a sign you're in trouble. You know what caused it, and you're under the care of doctors, so anxiety shouldn't add to the pain response.  I found that if I started to get upset with the discomfort, I just reminded myself that surgeons did the work and they know what they're doing. The pain isn't a sign of danger to me.  So just deal with it... and the advil/tylenol combo was enough to get me through.