I did it!!!!! I got my filling
I didn't have any anti anxiety medication to use for this appointment and I already knew my dentist doesn't offer sedation etc so I spent the day slowly preparing for my appointment and listening to a lot of music (to take my mind off the fact I had a dental appointment that day)
Any way to prepare for my appointment I made sure that I took pills for stuff like acid indigestion, nausea etc so that it lessened the chance of me getting so frightened that id throw up
Another thing I found EXTREMELY helpful in the hours leading to my appointment was every time I felt the panic coming on I take a cough lozenge and concentrate on sucking it and think of nothing else but sucking it...by the time it was sucked and gone my panic had gone...so I kept doing that each time I felt the panic appearing and it kept me calm in the hours leading up to my appointment
The taxi ride to my appointment was torturous...i had built myself up mentally that I could do it( have the filling)...once the taxi driver knew she was driving us to the dentist she started going on and on recounting every horror story about the dentist...my confidence plummeted and I actually thought I was going to throw up in her taxi...
I arrived at the dentist feeling nervous and nauseous (because of that taxi drivers stories) and I would have thrown up in the waiting room only there was another lady in there too and I didn't want to be embarrassed by throwing up in front of a stranger
The dentist finally called me and I went up to her room and sat in the chair...i was so anxious by this point I was coughing with nerves and kept gagging...the dentist tipped the chair right back which increased my anxiety and made me cough and gag more...i said to her does it have to be tipped so far back and she said yes I need to be able to see your teeth properly....she put that numbing gel on my gums and then did the injection....i braced myself for pain and must have looked petrified as both the dentist and dental nurse kept speaking gentle to me...anyway when she did the injection I felt a slight scratch and nothing else...i actually laughed with relief
Then came the drill...i braced myself for that expecting to feel pain and discomfort and felt NOTHING..and because it was a tiny filling she had it drilled in a couple of minutes and then put the filling stuff in and I was done
She said my teeth are all fine and I don't have to go back for 6 months
I felt absolutely elated that I did It...when I left the dentist surgery my knees were trembling from the earlier anxiety...but I felt on top of the world that I did it and I was so happy that none of it hurt and that she did it so quick...
I couldn't believe how my mind had built it up when in reality it was painless and quick (my mind had built it up to the point I was convinced it would be like torture
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Hope you are OK.
how did it go?
thank you...
