SCARY drug exp post C-Sec - DROPERIDOL

[alphafe]

Everyone,

This is a personal post and I appreciate any and all responses. It's been hard for me to face this for years.

Right after my dd was delivered via C-sec (15 years ago) I complained of "fear", etc. and was given Droperidol through my epidural. I had the most terrifying response -- as though I was fading way down, evaporating. It's impossible to describe. I remember one doc (new partner in my doc's practice who was there to assist/observe) IN MY FACE telling me I was fine, baby was fine, vitals were fine. I was OUT OF IT in recovery still experiencing this falling, disappearing, evaporating sensation.

When I pursued this at my 6 week appt, my docs said it was "just a bad reaction" but another doc in another field looked pretty shocked when I mentioned this (several years later) and said this drug is off the market.

WHY was I given this and what do you know about its use?

Thanks everyone...

[Munch]

I know this post is a little old but I have a few things to add.

First of all anyone that has a baby lady partslly without an epidural, with an epidural, with an injection or two of pain meds or by c-section ALL should be commended. What's the crime in A) wanting to be comfortable while giving birth lady partslly? and B) whats the crime in having a c-section? As long as the safety and of the mother and baby is at hand then NO mother should feel like a failure NO matter HOW they give birth.

As for the Droperidol, it is in the same group of medications as haldol, and like haldol it can be very sedating. A few months ago I had a craniotomy and spent 15 hours in the PACU waiting for a bed in the NSICU(it was pretty miserable being in the PACU all the time..thank goodness my neurosurgeon hooked me up to the dilaudid PCA otherwise I would have been really miserable(I was in TERRIBLE pain after the surgery) Anyway people would come in and out of the beds next to me in the PACU as I was waiting and sometimes you just can't help but overhear what the surgeon/anesthesiologist/doctor is explaining to the nurse about the patients. This one patient next to me had surgery on her inner ear(or something of the sort) and with that type of surgery nausea and vomiting is to be expected. So one of the Doctors was telling the nurse that Droperidol was used as a part of the anesthesia combination. Poor woman was still vomiting her brains out(almost made me vomit actually). Just goes to show Droperidol is still on the market today in 2011, and this surgery took place at a HUGE urban teaching hospital in New York City, with a very good reputation, especially for surgery amongst other specialties.