Why am I such a wuss?

Re: Why am I such a wuss?

• kpearse99 member

  February 2013

  Maybe because you know you'll feel a little something with the spinal??  Once you are numb, you don't feel being cut open....

  Strangly, I don't remember getting my epidural, or what it felt like.  I do remember it not being as bad as I had expected!

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  BFP: 10/27/2011 |  EDD: 6/30/12
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  9/30/2019 - IUI #1 (5 mg of Letrozole + Trigger) =  BFP but Betas showed CP @ 4 weeks
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  1/24/2020 - IUI #5 (50mg of Clomid + Trigger + Crinone after IUI) = BFN and an Ovarian Cyst
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• brazzale member

  February 2013

  I was TERRIFIED to get a spinal.  The Anesthesiologists promised me it would be no big deal, and I sat there shaking I was so afraid of it.  He was right, I didn't even really feel the prick from the numbing part.  Getting the IV in my hand prior to the C-section was WAY more painful. I remember it hurting way worse than any IV I've ever received & burned really bad. 
  

  
  
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• michelle04us member

  February 2013

  I was in your spot with my last c-section. But mine had to do with the fact I had to get a spinal tap done in April '12 for a meningitis dx and when they did that I was already in pain and it took more than 5 min. and 3 different sticks to get what he needed 

  When it came time for my c-section spinal I was scared to death but they said it was either that or general anesthesia and I did NOT want to be put under. I was real tense when they went to do it but the nurse who helped started talking to me and I didn't even realize he had done it except for the pressure. 

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• KatieM558 member

  February 2013

  Major surgery is scary.  That's just a fact.  It means you are trusting your health and well being to someone else.  I think it's okay to be scared, but don't give in to it.  In the end you will have a lovely baby to raise.  (That's the scary part to me!  How do I protect this little one for the next oh...rest of my life.)
  

  

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  February 2013

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• 2u2wow member

  February 2013

  brazzale:

  I was TERRIFIED to get a spinal.  The Anesthesiologists promised me it would be no big deal, and I sat there shaking I was so afraid of it.  He was right, I didn't even really feel the prick from the numbing part.  Getting the IV in my hand prior to the C-section was WAY more painful. I remember it hurting way worse than any IV I've ever received & burned really bad. 
  

  yup - this was me too. the IV hurt like a ***! although they missed 4 times before getting it right so that was the worst!

  the spinal barely hurt 

   

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