……………… oh no. Don’t tell me this ends with the OP having felt the surgery. That makes me nauseated just to contemplate.

Oh good Lord. At least my Anesthesiologist believed me and was trying to up my epi. With all the pressure from the OB to either “get her numb or put her under” when he told me “They’re going to start cutting now – let me know if there’s any pain” it was out of sincere concern since I wanted to stay awake. I know I would have been out in a second if I’d said anything. All in all I ended up with one of the 5 highest epi’s he’d ever seen and it almost went into my lungs before they were done with surgery.

REALLY hope the mom didn’t feal pain!

Yes, because nothing says “I’m good at my job” like telling your patients what they’re NOT feeling. Whuff. I swear, these just keep getting worse and worse — it’s like a bad joke! An anesthesiologist and a psychiatrist walk into a bar…

and you are a phantom anesthesiologist?!

OMG. I know women who felt their C-sections since the epi did not take on one side. I sincerely hope this woman was not one of them!! Heartbreaking!

OMG. Surely this can’t be the first time this doctor has heard of someone’s spinal not working before a c-section. Dear Lord …. !

I had an OB tell me I couldn’t feel the sutures he was giving me because “I gave you 4 shots, there’s no way you can feel it.” So I started telling him every time he stuck me until he got the point and gave me more shots! The sutures hurt more than the unmedicated homebirth of an asynclitic posterior baby!

I HATE this comment, because I was given a similar one. I felt the whole second half of the surgery! I hope the OP got some relief.

When will medical professionals realize that it’s NOT the patient’s fault that they cannot do their jobs?!

A doctor whose job it is to relieve pain should not dismiss someone’s pain. **shudder**

This is mine. I was a homebirth transfer and came in stalled at 8 cm. My MW thought an epi would help me relax enough to finish dilating. The guy who did it obviously thought I was an idiot for trying to HBAC (this was one of *several* gems…) and hurried through the epi. It worked for a while, but it kept wearing off on my left side. He just kept shooting more medicine in it and it just kept making my right side more and more numb. After I told him that for about the 10th time, he told me they were “phantom contractions”. After over two hours of arguing that I would surely feel the surgery (this was before a truly needed c-section, BTW, I was on the verge of rupture), he finally told the resident to “do whatever it took to make [me] shut up”. They took out the epi and gave me a spinal, so I didn’t feel the surgery. I filed a formal complaint against him the next day.

The anaesthesiologist tried to tell me that the pain I was feeling when the surgeon started to cut wasn’t “real” pain, either, but “phantom pain,” “hard pressure,” and then “burning.” When I repeated, for the umpttenth and steadily more hysterical time, that it was pain that I felt on my right side, that I wasn’t just imagining it, he grudgingly deigned to use general anaesthesia, but not without saying it was “all my fault” first. This was one of many reasons I made up my mind after my first child was extracted to not have any more c-sections.

I don’t think anaesthesiologists are trained in bedside manner, but then again, they don’t have to be, do they? It’s entirely THEIR whim whether or not patients get adequate pain relief. From their perspective, this means they don’t have to be nice to the patient – the patient needs to be nice to them. Or else.

Lauren: OMG. I know women who felt their C-sections since the epi did not take on one side. I sincerely hope this woman was not one of them!! Heartbreaking!

My epi with my youngest didn’t completely take, and I felt everything during labor as far as nasuea through transition, the urge to push when they said not to, and the ctx. It made me realize what I was missing and why I am having this baby at home.

“My contractions may be all in my head, but your words are clearly coming out of your a**!”

I was one of those people. I never had a good epidural, even during labor it worked more on one side than the other. I was miserable, and not because I was in labor. I should’ve known then and asked for it to be taken out. When they brought me into the OR, I told them I felt them pricking me on the right side. I told them I felt them cutting into me. I screamed as they pulled my daughter out of me because I felt PAIN, NOT PRESSURE! It is a horrible thing to go through and I feel sorry for the mother who has a bad anesthesiologist who degrades her and tells her what she is or isn’t “feeling”. Jerks…

This is a little similar to what happened to me…instead in my case, they put me under and when I awoken I was told by the anesthiologist that I was by far his worst patient and that I should grow up before I have anothewr child. He’s an ass and I really hate everyone who assisted me in the birth of second child…she is two now and it still affects me till this day.

Isn’t an epidural insufficient pain relief for a c/s? I’ve always heard that they do spinals (or general) for surgery, NOT an epi.

I was induced and ended up with a c-section and thank god that the first anesthesiologist shift finished. I had pulled my epi out accidently during the labour and was feeling all the pain for a few hours. He took the epi off and re-put another, which wasn’t working. The second anesthesiologist came in hours later and ran ice up and down my body and I couldn’t feel it on my legs but felt it on my belly. I was in agony in tears and they thought I was making it up. Was in hospital from monday been induced and had DD on thursday by c-section. Thank god it went well in the end and DD was healthy.

I have a friend who felt her cesarean on one side.