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Hello,
I hope this is the right forum for this question, as I am new here!
I'm having an anxious reaction from my visit to the dentist yesterday. He gave me Novocaine (probably Lidocaine) to prepare my bottom molar for a crown and my heart started racing. As I have nervous tendencies to begin with, that probably made it worse and I had to ask the assistant for a cold cloth for my head. The sensation passed and he did the work, but then I couldn't sleep last night! I was out of the dentist's office by 1PM, could it have been the epinephrine in my system still? Or was it just coincidence and I just had a bad night?
So, now, because of that I'm worried it'll happen again, when I go back to get the rest of the work done in 2 weeks. I plan to ask him to use "non-epi" novocaine this time, but just in case, and for the sake of knowing...
...how long could the effect of epi have lasted?
Thank you!
I hope this is the right forum for this question, as I am new here!
I'm having an anxious reaction from my visit to the dentist yesterday. He gave me Novocaine (probably Lidocaine) to prepare my bottom molar for a crown and my heart started racing. As I have nervous tendencies to begin with, that probably made it worse and I had to ask the assistant for a cold cloth for my head. The sensation passed and he did the work, but then I couldn't sleep last night! I was out of the dentist's office by 1PM, could it have been the epinephrine in my system still? Or was it just coincidence and I just had a bad night?
So, now, because of that I'm worried it'll happen again, when I go back to get the rest of the work done in 2 weeks. I plan to ask him to use "non-epi" novocaine this time, but just in case, and for the sake of knowing...
...how long could the effect of epi have lasted?
Thank you!
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