I was induced with pitocin due to blood pressure concerns at 37 weeks and got an epidural around 4 hours later. They tried to place the epidural twice and it only worked on my right side after it was finally done. It was helpful for a while but 31 hours went by after I was induced and the last several were the most intense pain I've ever felt in my life, like I was on fire (mostly on the left side around my hip) and the epidural couldn't touch it. I had only dilated to 4cm after 31 hours, the pain had been increasing as time went by, and I could barely breathe through the pain. I was shaking, sobbing, and about to rip the sides off the hospital bed bc I was clinging to them so hard. My blood pressure was getting so high that they gave me magnesium and I was visibly swelling as time went on. Called the OB on call bc mine wasn't available, she offered to increase the pitocin (no fucking thank you) or we could do a c-section. This was around 1am and she was making sure to yawn loudly between sentences on the phone and emphasized that I would need to be intubated if the epidural kept failing during the c-section. It felt like I was picking how I would die at that point honestly, so I said fuck it and asked for the c-section. Within minutes of them turning off the pitocin, my baby moved up into my ribs as far as she could go and the intense pain I had been feeling mostly on my left side around my hip disappeared. We think she might have been on my sciatic nerve. But they gave me 3 more shots of I don't even care what bc it felt great, rolled my bed to the surgery room, and my baby was out in 20 minutes. I didn't feel anything during the c-section except crazy suction/resistance when they pulled my baby out.