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Fynaticx
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So i have been struggling to live a normal life for nearly 15 years now due to really bad panic attacks and agoraphobia but to skip to the end of that story i have been getting really good support for it over the past 2 years and was even diagnosed with autism along the way. Over all this time i have also had a really bad dental phobia which comes from my childhood. With the support for my mental health i have got to the point where i was able to attend a dentist and sit in the chair and just last month i got a tiny filling done.
However right now i am in complete agony, its something a bit too familiar that happens maybe 2 or 3 times a year as one of my deep fillings has failed and the tooth is basically needing to be removed. This tooth in my mouth often causes infections and abscesses which put me in completely debilitating pain as im sure some people here also may have experienced. I was supposed to be getting treatment under sedation as its how i managed to get a lot of work done about 8 years ago. However my anxiety got so bad that I couldn’t make it to the dentist to get the sedation given to me. Since i have gotten back the my dentist he has stopped doing sedation dentistry and im now on a waiting list to try get that done in another dentist. However there’s still that option of just going in and getting the tooth out the standard way with just pain numbing injections.
So last weekend my tooth started to get painful so first thing Monday morning i rushed to a emergency appointment to get help before it got too bad. After that appointment and once again refusing to get the tooth removed im now on a course of 400mg metronidazole 3 times a day.
So first of all some questions i have is I’ve been taking the antibiotics for right now exactly 46 hours and the pain has only gotten worse. But trying to remember back to last times this happened i seem to remember also desperately counting down hours of the first few days till the 3rd and 4th day i finally got some relief. So with me going crazy right now not being able to sleep caus of pain is it normal and should i still be waiting on my medication to take effect?
Next up is on Friday i have my next standard appointment and obviously with the pain im in right now im tempted to see how far i can get with a tooth extraction but my deep rooted fears almost make the idea of it seem impossible or crazy just to consider it. Any advice or words of encouragement on dealing with my mental health and phobias and also getting a tooth removed?
Thank you for reading this far.
i look forward to getting some replies.
However right now i am in complete agony, its something a bit too familiar that happens maybe 2 or 3 times a year as one of my deep fillings has failed and the tooth is basically needing to be removed. This tooth in my mouth often causes infections and abscesses which put me in completely debilitating pain as im sure some people here also may have experienced. I was supposed to be getting treatment under sedation as its how i managed to get a lot of work done about 8 years ago. However my anxiety got so bad that I couldn’t make it to the dentist to get the sedation given to me. Since i have gotten back the my dentist he has stopped doing sedation dentistry and im now on a waiting list to try get that done in another dentist. However there’s still that option of just going in and getting the tooth out the standard way with just pain numbing injections.
So last weekend my tooth started to get painful so first thing Monday morning i rushed to a emergency appointment to get help before it got too bad. After that appointment and once again refusing to get the tooth removed im now on a course of 400mg metronidazole 3 times a day.
So first of all some questions i have is I’ve been taking the antibiotics for right now exactly 46 hours and the pain has only gotten worse. But trying to remember back to last times this happened i seem to remember also desperately counting down hours of the first few days till the 3rd and 4th day i finally got some relief. So with me going crazy right now not being able to sleep caus of pain is it normal and should i still be waiting on my medication to take effect?
Next up is on Friday i have my next standard appointment and obviously with the pain im in right now im tempted to see how far i can get with a tooth extraction but my deep rooted fears almost make the idea of it seem impossible or crazy just to consider it. Any advice or words of encouragement on dealing with my mental health and phobias and also getting a tooth removed?
Thank you for reading this far.
i look forward to getting some replies.