Posted by floatingbridge on April 29, 2011, at 10:41:47
In reply to Re: is pleasant/but odd, posted by Dinah on April 28, 2011, at 20:23:20
Dinah, so you know these things happen much more often than people realize. I'm sorry you had that experience. I kept my experience to myself :(
When you say you could feel the knife, are you saying during the entire procedure? I guess I don't understand. It sounds dreadful.
In my case, I was numb, but felt indescribably terrified once the operation commenced and the second anesthesia was in my system. I literally held on until my son was born, and he was o.k. Then the shakes came on so hard. There are more details, but it was finally a nurse who asked the doctors to help me. That's when they put me out.
You sound like you've been able to contextualize or process your birthing experience. I hope so. I now suspect that I had a latent ptsd before, (you know, cumulative crummy events), and that childbirth kicked it in. (I'm looking for a therapist.)
Anyone can Google childbirth and ptsd. (Not including your experience Dinah, in with ptsd. You speak well enough for yourself. An awful experience does not automatically mean ptsd.) There are now a zillion hits. A few ridicule, but for the most part, it's growing common knowledge. Wish my surgeon who also saw patients as ob/gyn had been
apprised of this. She could have just given me a referral. I wasn't asking her to hold my hand. Intellectual acknowledgment can go a long way.Thanks, Dinah.
*a rose by any name
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