Melissa, regarding your friend with a numb hip:

After delivering my firstborn daughter in the hospital, I was given
an injection to help my uterus contract.  Ugh, I had asked for "nothing"
to be given.  I wished totally natural childbirth.  However, the nurse
hit a nerve and my right buttock was numb from then on--I mean I
couldn't feel it at all!  Plus, my doc wouldn't admit the error.

When I became pregant with #2 nine months later (whom I birthed at home
with the pleading of my husband due to how they handled #1 at the
hospital), one of the effects of growth hormone and additional blood
supply was that this nerve then healed quickly.

Thankfully so, because nothing feels worse than running with a buttock
that is hanging on for the ride.  It actually felt totally detached
until it came back to life again immediately upon getting pregnant.  So,
I
wonder how many adverse epidural effects women have.

If it's like the various breast implant clients I have seen over the
years with complications.  The doctors told them they are the "only one"
of their patients with that problem.

Well we've seen the cluster of implant symptoms at our mastectomy
fitting clinic over the years and they weren't isolated instances. The
investigations into greater immune system problems was supposedly
disproved.  Yet, I had multiple clients whose voices got hoarse in the
same way.  They had this strange clearing of the throat in common, plus
other symptoms that were seen visually by us.  Our perspective was
different as we saw patients from all the doctors combined.

Judy Ritchie

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