Pain management plans?

Just wondering what you ladies are thinking about pain management. This is my third, so you'd think I'd have a plan in place, but I'm on the fence. I had a great experience with my first delivery with an epidural, then my second I opted for the epidural again and it was not so great. The second time I got the epidural too late because the hospital was too slow, so I felt EVERYTHING and the epidural never kicked in. This time I'm having such horrible pain in my pelvis that I'm terrified to go through delivery again. I had thought about going unmedicated this time, but again, pelvic pain. So what are you ladies thinking?