can you choose your meds?

luvmybaby28

that they give you during and after the csection?

after my first csection I was so OUT OF IT, I want to be more present next time, do they always give a specified med after the procedure?  Was I loopy because of the anesthesia?

 I will obviously ask my ob when I am pregnant again, just curious about others experiences.  I started just motrin a few days afterwards, so I am most curious about the first days.

chickaboo1974

I had a spinal and magnisium (because of pre-e) during my c-section. 

 I don't remember what they gave me in the IV after the c-section.  I was a little out of it- but I was unable to see my guys anyway since they were almost 6 weeks early and went straight to the NICU.

When I was able to take pills, I asked for some other than Vicoden after.  I get super sick on vicoden- so they gave me Darvocet. 

shaindelr

luvmybaby28:

that they give you during and after the csection?

after my first csection I was so OUT OF IT, I want to be more present next time, do they always give a specified med after the procedure?  Was I loopy because of the anesthesia?

 I will obviously ask my ob when I am pregnant again, just curious about others experiences.  I started just motrin a few days afterwards, so I am most curious about the first days.

I sort of asked a similar question earlier -- the post about Percocet. I honestly feel like narcotics make me depressed. I honestly wouldn't feel safe functioning alone with a baby on narcotics again. I feel awful admitting that, but it's true. My guy is a SAHD now, and when we first had our baby, he was a student who worked part-time, and when he went back to school after I had our LO, I spent a lot of days alone at home just crying, and I really think it was the meds. When I had my wisdom teeth out, I had vicodin, and I acted the exact same way.

If I ever have another LO, I'll definitely ask my doctor what other options there are.

JG362009

I hope so.  I had duramorph in the spinal and I'm going to ask if I can not have it if I have to have another c-section.  I seriously hate narcotic pain killers and I would rather be in terrible pain than on them, so I want the absolute minimal/no pain relief if possible.  The whole "stay on top of your pain meds" theory did NOT work for me and made me feel worse so I learned my lesson the first time.  Pain I can deal with and understand; the drugs do not make me feel any better. 

ChiTown Bridget

luvmybaby28:

that they give you during and after the csection?

after my first csection I was so OUT OF IT, I want to be more present next time, do they always give a specified med after the procedure?  Was I loopy because of the anesthesia?

 I will obviously ask my ob when I am pregnant again, just curious about others experiences.  I started just motrin a few days afterwards, so I am most curious about the first days.

This was me! I was SO out of it after my c/s. I felt as if I was in a fog. And to this day it really bothers me. I think it was the morphine that made me so loopy and itchy. I don't know if I would ever be able to choose my anesthesia meds though.

katmacwv

I don't know what I had in my IV either, but I was never the slightest bit out of it.  My complaints were feeling like I was freezing cold and shaking with itching later, so I'm going to talk to my OB and the anesthesiologist about that.  After the recovery room, all I remember taking was Motrin and was fine.  I took a total of 3 prescription pain pills throughout my recovery and otherwise was good with Motrin.

To the PP who made the comment about Percocet, I had a similar reaction to it when I needed it for a cyst I had years before pregnancy.  I would be in the middle of a sentence and just start crying for no real reason.  I would also realize that my sentences weren't making sense, so I stopped taking that as soon as I could handle the pain.

MI-bride

YES YOU CAN!  I met with my Dr this time around since it was scheduled and talked about the medications that I was on last time and how they made me feel.  I have drug allergies that are newer than my last csection and I needed to steer clear of those one for nausea issues and the other for loopiness.  I was so glad that i did. 

magdalina.h

My friend did. I have no idea what she took, but she had different meds.

sillypit

You should have the opportunity to talk with the anesthesiologist about it before the c-section and they can modify accordingly.

skio

If I need another c/s in the future, I will be talking to my doctor and anesthesiologist about medications for sure. I had no issues with the Percocet or ibuprofen, but they gave me some kind of slow-release morphine during and immediately after surgery that I hated. It made me very dizzy and woozy for a good 24 hours after the surgery. When the nurses tried to get me up to walk 12 hours after surgery, I got about 20 feet down the hall before they stopped me in my tracks, plopped me in a wheelchair ad brought me back to my room. I had mentioned that I was woozy and apparently I had gone white and they thought I was about to pass out. Id really like to avoid that scenario if possible. 

biblionerd

Like others said, you should be able to talk to the anesthesiologist or dr. I'm actually going to make sure they give me the same thing this time! I was a little itchy, but was never loopy or out of it at all. I was actually surprised after I had my c/s to find out how many people get so loopy because I felt 100% coherent. She ended up putting something in my IV for nausea during the c/s, but I never vomited. 

cottonlily84

I was a bit drowsy in recovery but after the shock of the c/s was much more alert.  I definitely wouldn't call it out of it.  So I would ask for something different or at least tell them how you felt last time.  Sometimes they just give you too much or too strong.  I know they gave me special meds because I was BFing.  The thing is you just have to know about it to ask.  Like I didn't know they'd give me 2 freaking bags of pit after the c/s.  I would've had a lot to say about that had I know ahead of time!

lorist202

sillypit:

You should have the opportunity to talk with the anesthesiologist about it before the c-section and they can modify accordingly.

This exactly.  I requested, and was granted a meeting with a rep. from the anesthesia group prior to my c/s.  My concerns were 1) my Epilepsy, and 2) feeling coherent.  I had the Durmorf and Percosets also and all went well, not loopy at all.

I did have a friend who, after having a c/s was so drugged that she didn't even remember the first two days.  I don't know her details, but that was very sad to me. 

Redsoxchick

I refused to take anything stronger than Motrin because narcotics make me very ill and I couldn't imagine vomitting after an abdominal surgery. The nurses constantly asked me if I was sure I didn't want something stronger, but I stuck to my guns and the pain was bearable with the motrin and I felt better than I would have on something stronger

hopkins5

I'd run it by your OB and see if you can work something out. I am allergic to morphine, so my OB set up a consult with the anaesthetist beforehand with no problems. They were able to change up their "normal" procedures for something that worked for me.