Isn’t it kinda crazy that we just administer a drip of fentanyl into a mother giving birth?
Do people even know that’s what a epidural is?
Isn’t it kinda crazy that we just administer a drip of fentanyl into a mother giving birth?
Do people even know that’s what a epidural is?
(Anecdotally and this was in the 90’s) My mom was given a spinal epidural when she was giving birth to my brother which was only supposed to last through child birth, however she wasn’t able to walk right for days after because of the lack of sensation in her legs, and for the rest of her life she would occasionally lose sensation in her lower half for a few seconds and have to brace herself on anything nearby to stop herself from falling.
Really not sure what the downvotes are about, I never said epidurals were unsafe, just something that happened to my mom when she got shit medical care a long time ago…
According to the source I sited above it seems permanent loss of sensation or motor function could potentially affect up to 15,000 a year so not out of the realms of possibility.