Did I mess up?

[Treehugginglady]

I was due to have a molar (which I think was a wisdom tooth) removed today at the hospital as my dentist said the root was growing at a slant and she didn’t have the capabilities to deal with it at the dentist surgery if it broke apart during extraction.
The tooth had a large filling in it and up until recently had been causing me pain whenever I bit down on it. Recently a small piece broke away and the pain seemed to disappear but I decided to go ahead with the extraction as I was worried I could have future issues with it.

I’ve had teeth extracted before, root canals, fillings, etc. I’ve had burst appendix. I feel like I know what pain is and tolerate it reasonably well. But when the dentist surgeon tried to extract this tooth today it just hurt so bad. Maybe it was more the anxiety? I don’t know. She numbed it well and I could feel pain in the root of the tooth, she numbed it again, felt pain again, and she numbed it again. This happened at least two more times. By this point I thought I was going to be sick and or pass out. She stopped. I asked if it was too late to back out. She said no, and we aborted the mission.

My questions are:

Was I a whimp, should I have just given her the opportunity to numb me up
More? I feel bad for wasting their time.

Am I going to get more grief from this tooth now? Surely having it pulled to an extent then left in place can’t be good?

Why did it hurt so damn much?

My face is in agony right now. Feels like I’ve been beaten up. Obviously I have pain killers and antibiotics. I know this is expected, but crikey…the tooth didn’t even come out…

I just feel like a failure, a whimp and I’m so disappointed in myself.

 

[MagicDuck12]

im not sure why youd apologise for feeling pain?

its THEIR job to stop you feeling pain, if youre sitting there in agony THEY are failing you, not you failing them.

 

[sudzs]

You're not a failure or a wimp. You are exceptionally brave to have gone through all those injections and efforts to extract. I and a lot of people would have been out of that chair like a shot after the first bit of pain so please don't feel like a failure because you definitely are not.

I hope the pain eases for you soon and I'm sure you'll be able to get this tooth dealt with pain free in the near future. Good luck.

 

[Natzuk]

@Treehugginglady you are not a wimp and they should have offered to give you sedation or put asleep. Please tell them you would like this god am so sick of these professionals thinking it’s okay. Sorry I have a fear of health issues and professionals ! Do not let them do it again .