C-section Pain During Second Pregnancy

Updated on August 15, 2010
R.B. asks from Brooklyn, NY
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Hi,
I am having off and on lower abdominal cramping for awhile right over my scar from my first child/ c-section. I am thirteen weeks pregnant with number two and just saw the baby the other day. It had a nice strong heartbeat at 158bpm and looked good, but all this discomfort is stressing me out. I've spoken to my doctor about it and she seems unconcerned, but did test me for a UTi which I'm being given antibiotics for some bacteria in my urine. I know I haven't had a UTI the whole time but I have had this on and off cramping. Has anyone had pain at their c-section scar. Is it adhesion pain, and is there anything dangerous about it? Can I do anything about it? I'm worried that as I get bigger it will get worse.
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R.R.

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I have had the same pain. I was pregnant for the second time when I was only 6 month post c-section and the scar was still raw.
The pain did subside with time and by the 5th or 6th month I didn't feel it anymore.

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L.M.

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I'm in my second pregnancy (first delivered by C-section) and I've had pretty intense round ligament pain, some of it near my scar. It has felt very different and more scary than the first time around. Just a thought that might be part of what you're feeling. Best wishes.

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K.A.

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I had some discomfort with my 3rd pregnancy do to having a c-section with my second. It was more like a pulling stretching pain in the area of my scar. They cut some muscles when they did your last C-section and those muscles are starting to have to bear weight. I don't remember mine hurting throughout the whole pregnancy, mostly just in the first two months after I began gaining a little weight.

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R.Y.

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I had a c-section with my first and felt achy stretching pain near the scar when I was pregnant with my second. Pain was not all the time for me but as I got bigger I felt it more when I was active and the weight of the pregnant belly was pulling on the scar area. I did not know I had a lot of internal scar tissue until they had to do the second c-section which was more painful during the surgery and while healing. But that second one was also an emergency c-section (baby in distress) not just a no rush, failure to progress c-section.

D.K.

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I used to get some adhesion pain but I don't recall it being like cramping. I guess it could feel different depending on where it was. After having a bunch of adhesions cleaned up my surgeon suggested that if I have another C-section I should have my doctor close the peritoneum. I guess it's common practice to just leave it open after slicing through it, but the surgeon had found that it leaves less scaring if it is closed. It wasn't easy to get my doctor to agree to it. I really had to stick to my guns, but in the end he did it for me.

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C.L.

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Well I have scar tissue pain in another part of my body. I had something way before I had kids. It left my with scar tissue around my heart and left lung. Although I can't see it I can feel it. I find when I am more active (exercing) it hurts less. I have been told by one then one doctor this is normal.

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J.G.

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I've had something similar. In 2003 I had to have surgery, I had a cyst on the lining of my abdomen, laying right over my right fallopian tube. When I was pregnant with my daughter and I was about 7 months along, I started to experience this pain on the left side of my stomach. It was in line with my belly button. The pain was SO awful, it felt like someone was stabbing me in the uterus. Then I experienced some light spotting and started to get worried so I was rushed over to the OBGYN. It turns out the spotting was from working on my feet for literally 8 hrs/day and I was starting to dilate and was taken out a month later for pre term labor (she was born only 5 days early). The OB's office is who did my surgery in 2003 and when I finally had an appt with the doc who did the surgery (5 docs in the practice and they rotate you when your pregs so you know all of them) I ask him about it and he said that what must have happened is my uterus was knicked with the cautery machine on the way out and it adhesion was stretching. So when I was pregs with my son and experienced the same pain, I knew what it was. It probably is the scar tissue around your scar on the inside stretching out. It will probably let up soon. Hope this helped and hope you feel better.

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L.E.

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I'm in my 3rd pregnancy and I know the pain you're experiencing. All of mine are c-sections, during my 2nd I felt an achey pain and sometimes sharper pains around my scar. Make sure you let your doctor know the level of pain and where. Try to take walks to loosen the abdominal muscles and don't do too many weight bearing activities.

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