my c-section was actually not bad at all. I had an epidural after laboring for two days and only reaching 3 centimeters. I had pretty severe hypertension and elected to have the procedure. I felt very sore afterwards but I was not in much pain. In fact when my son made a month we had big bar-b-que and I was dancing and all, I was back to my regular self. Its been 7 weeks and Im back to work. I had a pretty great experince. I was sent home with 60 pain pills and I have more than 30 left.