I had a c-section 3 years ago with my second child my insicion healed nicely but the area is still numb? My doctor told me the feeling will probably not return due to nerve damage. I wondered if anyone else has had the same problem.
2006-10-16 06:38:55 · 25 answers · asked by Jody 6 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Other - Pregnancy & Parenting
Yes still numb. If you have another section, you won't be in as much pain (if they use the same incision) because of the numbness.
2006-10-16 06:44:00 · answer #1 · answered by TRUE PATRIOT 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can't believe some of the rubbish I read from people on here!! A c-section is NOT "cheating". I had my son by c-section due to the fact that he was breech, I had a broken rib, was suffering from pre-eclampsia and he had to come out ASAP for both his health and my own. How else was he going to be born under such conditions!? I guess I was just supposed to leave him there and allow both of us to die? Yeah, a GREAT mother THAT would make me!!! Quite frankly anyone who thinks I or any other c-section Mom didn't really give birth should just shut up until they are put in that position! As everyone who HAS been through a c-section and knows what they are talking about will tell you, it is NOT the easy way out, it is major surgery from which it takes far longer to recover than a vaginal birth!! It's not as though we would not have chosen vaginal if given the choice, how dare we be made to feel like bad mothers for doing what was best for our children! Sorry, but attitudes like that really make me mad!!
Anyway, I had my son 26 months ago. I was numb around the inscision for a good 18 months but the feeling has returned now. However, I do seem to get a sharp stinging pain in the area occassionally. My next door neighbour who had a c-section 7 months before me still has no feeling so it really seems to vary quite a bit form one person to the next.
2006-10-17 01:29:34 · answer #2 · answered by QueenofSummertime 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When my last child was born I had a C-section. Good thing he was the last, because if he wasn't planned that way then we would have planned for him to be last after that. In the beginning (like the first 2 or 3 years) it was totally numb. Then the feelings sort of changed. It's still got some numbness but it's not the same anymore. In the beginning it was an allover sensation; now it's very localized. You'll just learn to live with it.
2006-10-16 18:06:43 · answer #3 · answered by Carole M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
2 C-sections, one with my now 10 yr old and the other with my now 8 yr old. I've regained a little feeling back, but for the most part, still numb. My first insicion was a terrible job! At the end of the insicion there was leftover skin (yeah yuck!). But I had a different ObGyn and she fixed it and you can hardly see it! I believe the itching went away a few years ago.
2006-10-16 06:47:33 · answer #4 · answered by Sweetie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
same here, had c-section 1 year ago. My area was literary hair free for 5 months after the surgery...I believe there should be certain degree of nerve damage there. I don't worry about it too much because there is a half-inch cut on my thumb I got it 20 years ago, it still somehow numb when I touch the scar now. Compare that to c-section scar.....
By the way, I have a friend just gave birth of her second last month and she had a c-section 3 years ago. She said when she her uterus started to stretch during the early pregnancy of her second, she felt funny for a long while at her c-section cut.......no one told her that before.
2006-10-16 08:49:41 · answer #5 · answered by Yuko 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Been there!!! I had a c-section almost 2 yrs ago & the skin by the incision is still numb. My sister also had 2 c-sections(8 & 7 yrs ago) she is still numb.
This is for St. Helena Woman :o) Some people can't have children naturally. In my case I am too small to have a baby like many women are. Other's have to have a c-section b/c of risk to the baby! So we are not cheating by having a c-section! It's not our choice, it's what has to be done!!!
2006-10-16 09:37:34 · answer #6 · answered by April 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I had a c-section 4 years ago and my insicion area is still numb. Don't worry. It'll always be like that :-)
2006-10-17 10:56:22 · answer #7 · answered by Justinsmom 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh I have the same problem with my c-section incision. All the insicions that I have I have also had my gall bladder removed and my appendix. It is just nerve damage and nothing to worry about.
2006-10-16 06:41:44 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I had a c-section five years ago with my son and in that area it is still numb. But they told me they cut through nerves and that it would stop being numb like in a year but what a lie that was but it dosen't make me worry about it.
2006-10-16 08:40:10 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have had 4 csections and from the first I was numb around the incision area and even a little further up. It feels very strange, and took me awhile to get used to....but I'm over it now. Its a normal part of the csection experience.
2006-10-16 06:45:27 · answer #10 · answered by rollings83 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋