What causes spinal pain during cesarean section anesthesia?

After a cesarean section, spinal pain is also a common symptom of cesarean section. This is because during anesthesia, anesthetics often need to be injected into the spine. Therefore, when the body gradually gets better, pain in the spine may still occur. This is a very big problem for many mothers and often causes low back pain, especially at night when the pain is more severe.

What causes back pain after cesarean section?

Many mothers have reported that they have been troubled by lower back pain after a caesarean section. Sometimes I feel severe pain when I go to bed at night, but the pain is gone when I wake up in the morning; sometimes I feel pain all day long and can hardly move. So, what exactly is the cause of lower back pain after cesarean section?

1. Physiological calcium deficiency. Postpartum back pain in women is likely caused by physiological calcium deficiency. After giving birth, the mother consumes a lot of energy and her body is quite weak. In addition, she needs to breastfeed after giving birth, so the calcium loss in the body is serious, which can easily cause back pain.

2. Incorrect posture causes back pain after childbirth. Many women need to take care of their children after giving birth. They often hold their babies without paying attention to their posture, which causes the center of gravity of the body to move forward, causing tension in the waist muscles. If this continues for a long time, the waist muscles will become fatigued, resulting in postpartum back pain.

3. Excessive fatigue causes postpartum back pain. After the confinement period, some women start to be busy with various housework, such as washing clothes, cooking, taking care of babies, working and doing housework. So many things make women's bodies overwhelmed, so it is not surprising that they experience lower back pain.

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4. Lack of exercise causes postpartum back pain. Many women have been sitting in bed for a long time during the confinement period. Due to excessive rest, the blood circulation in the body is slow. After the confinement period, they lack exercise, which leads to increased abdominal fat and increased load on the waist muscles, causing lumbar muscle strain and low back pain.

5. Caesarean section causes damage to the muscles and ligaments in the lower back, leading to low back pain. Now more and more women choose cesarean section to give birth. The anesthesia during cesarean section is epidural anesthesia, which requires puncture in the waist. This puncture will cause certain damage to the muscles and ligaments of the waist and back, causing postpartum low back pain. A very small number of patients may suffer from nerve root damage, epidural hemorrhage, etc.

Most women feel that there are sequelae of anesthesia during cesarean section, but in fact they are just psychological effects.

1. Physical discomfort

Many women feel that they have sequelae of anesthesia for cesarean section, such as soreness or tingling where the anesthetic was injected, and lack of strength in the whole body. In fact, experts say that most women feel that they have sequelae of anesthesia for cesarean section, but these are actually psychological effects. Only a small number of people actually have sequelae of anesthesia for cesarean section. The above situation may be temporary nerve damage, which may be caused by direct mechanical stimulation or neurotoxicity of local anesthetics. The symptoms are generally mild and can disappear within 3-6 months even without any medication.

2. Memory loss

Many people mistakenly believe that memory loss is a sequelae of anesthesia for cesarean section. In fact, memory loss is not one of the complications of anesthesia. Generally, there will be a short period of memory loss and unconsciousness after anesthesia, which will recover soon after waking up from anesthesia. The drug components retained in the body will also be decomposed and excreted within a certain period of time. The feeling of memory loss is mostly due to psychological factors, not the sequelae of cesarean section anesthesia.

3. General anesthesia

in the country, most people choose partial anesthesia for caesarean section, and fewer people choose general anesthesia. Intrathecal anesthesia is a good anesthesia method with minimal impact on the mother and fetus. However, in some special cases, general anesthesia may be more appropriate. During pregnancy, pregnant women are more likely to have difficulty intubating than other people due to obesity and edema of the respiratory mucosa. Foreign studies have confirmed that pregnant women are more likely to suffer from aspiration during general anesthesia, which affects their ventilation function. But this does not fall into the category of sequelae of cesarean section anesthesia.