Did you feel like you needed drug rehab after delivering your baby?

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I've never done drugs. That's not bragging, just the truth. So, when it was my time to go into the hospital, I assumed that I could go through labor with little intervention. No way! Didn't turn out like that. After induced labor it was almost impossible to bear the pain, so I gave into Demoral. And, that was very little help with the pain. And, after a painful C-section, they prescribed a type of pain killer, Tylenol, (I think) that has codeine in it. After I got out of the hospital, I felt so strung out from all the drugs they gave me before and during my stay that I was not very well. I quit all the pain killers cold turkey and was miserable for weeks. Then later, I read that some forms of pain killers (Seconal and Dermerol, types you use in delivery) require rehab or drug treatment. That was no surprising news to me. I wish I'd never had to go on those things. They made me feel like a wreck. Did you find that happened to you as well, during the delivery process? Was it difficult to come down off of the drugs they gave you without rehab or treatment after you left the hospital?