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10:15am August 2, 2013

➸ Janna's weird crap: Dentist stuff.

feliscorvus:

clatterbane:

karalianne:

Sometimes I think I should just find a dentist who does sleep dentistry.

I’m okay with cleanings and I love the hygienists at my current clinic because they’re always nice and don’t make me feel bad about not brushing often enough or anything like that.

But fillings and stuff… it always takes…


If local anesthetics don’t work so well on you, the gel they dab on your gums before sticking in the needle won’t be very effective either. :( I figured the stuff just didn’t work at all, but no. Apparently it really isn’t supposed to hurt much when they jab you with the horrible horse syringe.

Mostly felt a need to chime in with that, but I definitely hear you on the dental sedation. Local anesthetic just doesn’t work well if at all on me, and after some major work without much benefit of numbing over the years, I’ve concluded that there is just no way I am going to do that again while I’m fully awake and aware of it. (Now I just need to overcome the well-earned fear to get a repeatedly abscessing molar from a botched filling taken care of at a nearby dental anesthetic clinic… :/)

For me the numbing gel helps a little bit but I ALWAYS feel the needle anyway. Always. And the darned stuff wears off so quickly on me that they need to re-administer a bunch of times to get through any procedure (and they’re always so surprised when I point out that I can feel something they’re doing…they’re like “you FELT that?“ Yep, yep I did.).

The dental stuff at least lasts a wee bit longer than getting a local elsewhere, because it usually includes epinephrine (which constricts blood vessels and therefore keeps the lidocaine, etc., in the area longer). When I got my hand stitched up in April after my woodworking mishap I remember they had to give me something like 8 shots to numb me enough for 15 stitches. Horrible. (That’s the only part that almost made my partner pass out just from watching…he said it wasn’t the visual, it was just the fact that he could tell I was in so much pain.) :(

I get nerve blocks which technically start with numbing injections buy I always feel the steroid injections regardless.

And when they put my feeding tube in, the local barely worked at all, but they wouldn’t stop the procedure to find an anesthesiologist, they just kept saying "the Versed will make you forget everything later, just hold on”.

My roommate had a procedure done by the same team, and she talked about how if she felt anything she squeezed their hands and they stopped and gave her more.

Apparently I wasn’t important enough to rate basic human decency.

These days I demand propofol and a genuine anesthesia team every time I get a tube replaced. They don’t like me but they do it.