Epidural site pain?

Sent a message to my OB about this but wanted some personal insight—’ll be 4 weeks PP this week and am still having some decent soreness where my epidural was placed as well as a chill/cold feeling in that area from time to time. Has anyone else experienced this?

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I’ve had a couple of epidurals now and I have gotten lucky enough to never have this - I would definitely mention it to my OB, it might be normal, but better to be safe than sorry.

I didn’t have any weird sensations but I had aching and pain in the area after my daughter. I went to my pelvic floor PT and she did some dry needing and cupping as there was some scar tissue there and after just one session of her working on releasing the area and breaking up the scar tissue I never had pain again!

Yep had back spasms for like 6 months pp the first time and this time the same with the pressure of where the needle was.

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