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[quote=Anonymous]Epidurals wear off after about 24 hours (ask me how I know!). A lot of women who have to have pitocin will go a lot longer than that. Mine clocked in at around 40 hours on pitocin by the time my kids were born. Epidurals were almost completely gone (I could walk and was screaming) for the worst part. Clearly my days in labor were the most miserable of my life- no sleep, no food and pain relief was gone for most. Also, they start you slow on pitocin but really crank it up near the end. You can get a bolus in the epidural line, but they are sparing with those and you have to really beg. For my 1st birth I got an epidural 2 hours into pitocins, 2nd birth I got an epidural 12 hours in (still gone at the end), for my 3rd I plan on waiting until I'm dying to get the epidural. [/quote]
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