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Topic: ergh... dentists....
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BloodRedMoon
Knowflake Posts: 932
From: somewhere out there
Registered: Apr 2004
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posted June 09, 2004 10:41 PM
 
SOOOO last week I went to the dentist for the first time in 6 years. YES YES I know we're supposed to go every 6 months but something always came up so that I didn't. I am very good at procrastination.I *hate* medical establishments. HATE. HATEHATEHATEHATE. I don't know where this dislike/fear comes from but I can't talk myself out of it. And needles... I'm a grown woman and I hate needles. Actually it's more INJECTIONS that freak me out more than needles. I can have blood taken just fine but if they put something IN me my body just freaks out. And not during the injection or immediately afterwards... about 5 minutes later. A couple weeks ago I had a RhoGAM shot (I could go into another rant about this but I won't) and later when I was downstairs I passed out cold. ANYWAY! Had to go back to the dentist yesterday to have a filling done because I have one cavity. Fine. I'm an adult. BUt just going INTO that office and sitting in that chair with all the friggin' medical equipment and lights over me and tools and sterile ick ick the way it smells... ARRRGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH! So I get THREE injections in my gums. Fine. 5 minutes later I'm sweating and shaking all over the place. I could not stop my hands the entire time he was drilling. No it didn't hurt. It was just the feeling... and my face being paralyzed... it made me sick to my stomach and my hands were just *SHAKE SHAKE SHAKE SHAKE* I'm sure this post is a mess but I'm writing more from a stream of consciousness than thinking about it first.  Anyone else like this so I don't feel like a bigger baby?
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BloodRedMoon
Knowflake Posts: 932
From: somewhere out there
Registered: Apr 2004
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posted June 10, 2004 12:36 AM
OH! I forgot to add.. the dentist wants to remove my wisdom teeth (which I didn't even know I hAD). And for what reason does he want to rip these things out of my head?"It'll make it easier to clean back there." 'SCUSE ME?! nonononono. I read about 30 somethings having their wisdoms removed and it's serious surgery!! They aren't causing me any problems whatsoever so I'm not doing that!! nononononooooooo IP: Logged |
pixelpixie
Knowflake Posts: 5301
From: Ontario Canada
Registered: Jun 2005
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posted June 10, 2004 12:54 AM
Hi sweets!
Thank you for your great words to me on my sad thread. I appreciate them. 
I also have issues with dentists.
I have had to go many many times, but I too, have been putting it off.
I just made an appointment yesterday, as a matter of fact.
I get.....depressed is the only word I can think of, when I get the freezing.... I mean, I have adapted, and put myself into the pleasant-est sphere I can under the circumstances, as a matter of need.. but I find for the rest of the day, I am just 'off'.
Also, I went in for alot of work a few years ago, repeatedly for a few months... I found, every time he'd put the freezing in, I'd have an adreneline reaction.. I assumed the fight or flight reaction was because I was scared, but I asked him about it one day.. he said he was probably too close to a vein or something, and that the novocaine was infused with adrenaline to isolate and localize the injection and to speed up the numbness... That explained the rapid heartbeat, 'need' to jump off the chair and tenseness. It was a literal physical sensation, as opposed to an emotional reaction.
I have since not had that reaction....- but the emotional one still remains. Hence the putting off of it. But tooth pain sucks.. if I can successfully ignore something in my head for months on end, I can successfully ignore someone 'fixing' my mouth out of necessity for an hour. It's all a matter of perspective. ( clouded sometimes)
Good for you to overcome.
And yeah.. keep your wisdom teeth. Not that you need any more (wisdom).... maybe they'll come in handy one day. I don't use my baby finger much, but you know, it is attached to me. I grew it myself, so you know, I think I'll keep it. Nor my spleen for that matter.. I hear we have evolved past it and it is an 'unnecessary' part of the human body. But you know, it's mine.IP: Logged |
Special
Knowflake Posts: 421
From: Another timezone
Registered: May 2004
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posted June 10, 2004 05:54 AM
I haven't been since I was about 5  ummm.. really need to go! Have made appointments but something would always come up.Think I need my wisdoms done actually, although I been terrified by scare stories. Did anyone see a docu on a study done on twins. One had dental surgery (wisdoms and other teeth removed) and the other hadn't. The twin which hadn't had horrific disfigurment, his face had basically collapsed from the surgery - too many teeth out! Then we went on to see other people left scarred too.  Now I want to know how important removing wisdom teeth are? Since I may just leave well alone!! Anyone know? 
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Yang
Knowflake Posts: 2296
From: A temporary home
Registered: May 2004
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posted June 10, 2004 06:02 AM
Haven't been to one in YEARS-I suppose I should!O while...
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purplezen
Knowflake Posts: 888
From: outer space
Registered: Aug 2003
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posted June 10, 2004 12:53 PM
I can relate! I HATE that smell of sterile hospital, dr, and dentist offices. IP: Logged |
FishKitten
Knowflake Posts: 1033
From: on the trail of the Old Ones
Registered: Aug 2003
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posted June 10, 2004 12:55 PM
Poor witchy one. Yucky dental stuff. I think you were totally right about the wisdom teeth. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Strangely enough, I never got any wisdom teeth. (Does that mean I'll never grow up? Cause if it does, yee-haa.)IP: Logged |
trillian
Knowflake Posts: 4050
From: The Boundless
Registered: Mar 2003
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posted June 10, 2004 01:09 PM
Keep the teeth. Why should you have to pay, both monetarily and with your health, to make his life easier??My early childhood dentist was a bona fide sadist. He had us kids more afraid of the needle than the drill...so we would forfeit the novacaine. Yup, we got drilled w/o painkillers. Don't even wanna think about that anymore. IP: Logged |
Philbird
Knowflake Posts: 3396
From: Here, there and everywhere.
Registered: Jun 2004
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posted June 10, 2004 01:21 PM
In Linda's book Star signs, she mentions a bit about crabs and how they can grow back a claw. And goes on to say there is no reason humans can't do this as well....
Modern Medicine has come up with a way to use your own DNA to acually grow your own teeth back!!! It won't be available to the public for another 5 years, but how about those cookies!!.$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$!!!.
I no longer have my natural teeth (heredity)
I was constantly at the dentists office. At one time I spent 10,000 for a bridge that was supposed to last 20 years. Yeah, right, that is, if the teeth they cemented the bridge to didn't rot first. How very dissapointing. (lasted two years)
To everyone who freaks out before, during, or after the "chair", I whole-heartedly feel for you. I swear, when ever I had work done, I was levitating, horizontly from my rigidity!
I was a trained hypno-therapast at one time, and there was a dentist in the program who wanted to help his clients calm down during his proceedures. I think that was very thoughtfull. IF A DENTIST TELLS YOU NEED ROOT CANAL GET A SECOND OPINION!IP: Logged |
Yin
Knowflake Posts: 1409
From:
Registered: May 2004
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posted June 10, 2004 10:24 PM
I don't have any experience with dentists in the US yet.
But I have with medical doctors. I had a strange dizziness that will not disappear and it will make me stay in bed for days.
Now almost $3000 later doctors still don't know what went wrong and why. Luckily it went away by itself.
Oh, yeah, I got a MRI done also. At least I know that I don't have a brain tumor.
Bitter experiences.
I cancelled all of my follow ups. BloodRedMoon, listen to your own intuition. If your teeth aren't impacted there is no need to pull them out. Trust me on this one. My dad has been in the dental profession for over 25 years. ------------------
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Xelena Ben
Knowflake Posts: 263
From: New England
Registered: Jun 2002
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posted June 11, 2004 08:23 AM
i second (third, fourth?) that opinion - if he wants to rout your gums for his OWN benefit - not YOURS... ha! i've heard dental floss does wonders for those tight spaces you're not alone - the only doctor i avoid more than the dentist is the gynecologist  IP: Logged |
Special
Knowflake Posts: 421
From: Another timezone
Registered: May 2004
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posted June 11, 2004 12:42 PM
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purplezen
Knowflake Posts: 888
From: outer space
Registered: Aug 2003
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posted June 11, 2004 11:38 PM
I guess I forgot to mention that I will never go to a dentist again. I am 22, and have had over eleven supposed cavaties filled and drilled (all without health insurance! yikes!) over the past few years. Growing up, I never had any cavaties in my baby teeth, but as soon as I hit high school, bam! I also rarely drink soda and brush my teeth religiously. IP: Logged |
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