My teeth will Sparkle in the end!

[Sparkles]

Not had the best couple of days, everything getting a bit overwhelming again.

Not really sure whether i'm coming or going just now, and i'm just so exhausted all the time, doesn't seem to matter how much I sleep i'm still tired.

Don't know whats wrong with me.

[carole]

I think we get tired when we are feeling anxious, it is probably our bodies way of dealing with stress. The weather is supposed to be good this weekend, so fix your puncture and get out on your bike in the fresh air it will help take your mind off things.

I think it is an up and down process, one minute we feel on top of the world, and the next for no reason, out of the blue we can take a dip down. I think we just wear our selves out.

I hope you feel better soon, I don't think it is a sleep thing. Try and keep your mind busy on nice things, and get out in the fresh air.


We are always here for you, maybe we need a silly thread on the no topic to cheer us all up.

[Sparkles]

Thanks Carole, going to go to bed now and try and have a long lie then get outside for a while tomorrow. Your right the fresh air will probably help.

Will no doubt snap out of this mood soon.

Thanks for the hugs, much needed tonight.

[carole]

I think why the fresh air works is, because it takes our minds off other things. I hope you have a good nights sleep and a good sunny day tomorrow. GOODNIGHT SLEEP TIGHT.

[Kim]

Ah Sparkles - really sorry to hear you are not having the best of times at the minute. When I caught up with how you are, I had read the previous page where I had banned Mike and Lincoln from reading and I was laughing out loud to myself as it really was quite comical, and then I turn over the page and you are sad

But I think Carole is right in that it is a very up and down process. I had a really 'down' day the other day, and had been crying to my hubby about different things, and then a little while later someone asked me something and I was like a kid in a sweet factory

I think on top of all our dental worries, we also still have to deal with our normal everyday rubbish that gets thrown at us every now and again, and sometimes more so than others. How each and every one of deals with all of that will differ greatly - I am a worrier, but am sometimes scarily good at keeping it all inside of me which is rubbish because then people just think you are happily tinkering along with not a care in the world, when that is sooooo not the case.

So I think that we have to learn to 'allow' ourselves times when we aren't the happiest of bunnies, when things are getting us down and when we are just for whatever reason, feeling downright miserable. And we have to be able to remember that we are all here for each other, because apart from the fact that we all share something in common in relation to dentists and anything 'dentisty', we have all got to 'know' each other on here and to be there for each other, no matter what the problem is.

So lovely lady, I hope that after you have had your long lie in, you can do yourself a good old rustle up of a brekkie, and then get yourself out into the sunshine and fresh air to try to lift the weights and worries from your lovely shoulders

And if you still need a shoulder, you know where I am, just pm me, and I'll do what I can to help.

Take care hunni, want you smiling again.

Kim xx

[Sparkles]

Thanks for the email Carole, your right this dentistry stuff does seem to be never ending at times and I think that and worrying about money again has just got me down again. Thank you for the hugs and the support it means a lot to me.
Morning top chef Kim , i'm hoping to get out to the shops later to buy some ingredients for your recipes. So i'm sure that will cheer me up. I love cooking something new.

I had a very restless nights sleep and woke up at 5am wide awake thanks to some very inconsiderate neighbours. So got up and had a cup of tea and then went back to bed and slept till 10.30am so that wasn't so bad.

Have spent the morning cleaning and doing washing in an attempt to feel a bit more 'in control' of things and am going to have a lazy day. The sun is shining so that helps. Just need to find the energy to get out for a walk now. No chance of getting out on the bike it's not just a puncture there is something wrong with the gears so taking it in next week to get sorted. Just have to figure out how to get the cycle carrier onto the back of the car first!

It's weird how things go so well and then all of a sudden you just feel so completely weary of it all and end up in tears. Never mind. I'm sure I will be smiling again soon.

[Kim]

Bless you Sparkles

What with everything else, we have to worry about every penny these days don't we. I was watching a programme this morning about food and how things have gone up so much in price, and I have to agree because even a bag of King Edward potatoes has gone up by 20p, and if you have that sort of price rise on all of your everyday essentials, then it is going to be difficult, that is why I have to think really carefully, and like you Sparks, have to plan my meals so as to use everything I can.

Good on you for getting yourself more in control of things, that will make you feel better about yourself, and I hope you get to cooking something lovely to cheer yourself up even more.

Take care hunni.

Kim xx

[carole]

How annoying when life gets in way of our happiness, how dare it.

I keep talking a good exercise and I do love walking and lord knows I need to be doing it as well. So with you in mind Sparks I went for a walk this morning. I am all right going out as where I live we go down towards the main road where there is life, where I live we are tucked in the middle of fields, but close to towns but when we go out it is down hill. So the coming back in is a nightmare, so I decided that I am going to go out and if I cannot face coming back up two hills which kill, then I will get on a bus bike an all if I have it with me. I really need and want to feel fit.

I hope you managed to get a walk in, and I hope you are feeling better. Things have gone up to a stupid amount, and with the cold summer we have had so far I don't hold out much hope for the low bills I usually get, as the heating has had to go on sometimes. I hope you get your bike fixed too, I love my bike, I don't know about you but it makes me feel like a kid again. I just wish I could ride it like I did as a kid. I used to ride with no hands now if I don't concentrate I get a right wobble on. I have nearly ended up in the canal a few times. Do you know what I would really like to do, I would love to get some roller boots and have a go. This may be one of the stupidest idea's I have ever had, I would probably break my neck or back or everything. I never got on with roller skates/boots, I was an ice skater but haven't been for years. Maybe I should give that a go.

I really hope you have had a good day and feel better, sorry for rambling on, I just got all carried away with my self there

[Sparkles]

Carole I am glad I have inspired you to go for a walk today I hope you enjoyed it. I didn't quite make it out for a walk but I did get to the shops to get ingredients so I can make some of Kim's lovely recipes.

I admit I did have a good chuckle when I read you would quite like to get out on roller skates, knowing us phobics luck it wouldn't be a broken leg or arm it would be our teeth we'd end up damaging!!

Not long now until my next appointment. Only 10 days worrying to go.

This next tooth that's getting sorted is the one that eventually drove me to seek treatment years ago on my first return to dentists and then more recently in my second return to seeing a dentist. Now it's the very same tooth that's being worked on again but this time by mike.

Fingers crossed that by the time mike has finished with it that will be it sorted and hopefully won't need RCT.

Hoping for a more positive day tomorrow. Looking forward to crawling into a nice clean bed tonight. Still completely exhausted.

[Sparkles]

I have a little bit of pain around the top left socket where the wisdom tooth was. I think i've just tried to chew something on it and it has irritated the gum. I've started using corsodyl again in the hope that will help settle it down.

All my 'problem' teeth have started playing up, but that seems to happen just before an appointment so hoping that's all it is.

Still feeling quite down just now and completely exhausted but hoping i'll get a chance to catch up on myself at the weekend. Never seems to be long enough.