Spinal vs epidural My last pregnancy I was in labor for 12 hours and had the epidural before needing a c-section. Once…

I had an epidural with my first and a spinal for my surgery. They use a catheter to be able to give you constant pain relief medicine over a long period of time with the epidural. The spinal is basically a one shot deal, short term. It lasts a few hours. After my surgery they gave me oral pain meds

Did it make you sick or anything?

I had both. My epidural didn't work the first try so they did a combo on the second try. Generally one is placed just a bit lower than the other but the overall side effect are about the same though I'm not sure if they use the same meds or not.

No it didn't make me sick at all

I had the epi with my son and it kept failing and i ended up not progressing so i had to have a csection and they took out the epi and used the same hole for a spinal, i never felt weird or anything on the epi, and the spinal i felt instantly sick but as soon as i said i was going to get sick they pushed meds through my ive that stopped it, over all the spinal was just fine. I did have alittle problems afterwards with my heart rate to fast and blood pressure to low but it didnt last long at all.

The sickness is what my main concern is when it comes to the spinal. My last c-section they gave me meds before I could even start to feel sick because I was so afraid if vomiting during the c-section.