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Had this happen to me on OB last night. This girl's been laboring all day, and I don't hear anything for an epidural, of course until right at midnight as I lay down my head for 20 minutes. I start flipping though her chart, and she's 21 and I do see things like meth at some point? OB's note only mentions marijuana though, and when I walk in the room she seems relatively normal, not whacked out. But she is screaming and hollering...her positioning is all horrible. She won't really sit still, and she's screaming that she's so tired, she hasn't slept 2 days... I get going, and she's not huge, but her moving and positioning is horrible, I'm feeling weird false losses here and there. I finally get a maybe loss, it's not the smoothest but a noticeable loss with saline. I thread the catheter in, and it goes really easy. But as I get ready to do test dose, I aspirated first, and it just keeps coming back. Now I have 3 cc test dose + 2 cc more. I squirt it all out, aspirate again, and it's definitely coming back clear. And now she says she's got a horrible headache, it's in her neck even. And then she gets nauseous and puking a little. I pull the catheter, go down a level. After she's done puking a little we really reinforce everything, get her sitting cross legged, and she's still whining and complaining a lot, but she's holding better position. I get loss at 7, this one tests fine. I bolus and really watch her closer for first 30 min, and she really calms down to the point her contractions are nothing. Still has headache, so I get a bottle of Tylenol hanging and go lay down again. I have wet tapped before of course, and I know how that free flow is. What happened exactly here? Did I nick the dura and magically threaded it intrathecal? And why such sudden symptoms? Or is she just super sensitive like that?