So I had an epidural about five weeks ago. I'm extremely sore and have pain  where I got my epidural. Is that normal? Is it still healing that's why it still hurts? Does anyone else have that problem? I'm really hoping it goes away because is wanted to have a natural birth but after 30 hours of back labor and 2.5 cm had no more strength to  contuine I was so tired. My contractions where every min without a pause for six hours. My worst fear was the epidural because I feared I would have long term affects.