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Freakingouthealthanxiety
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Hi,
First of all I’m sorry for the images, I know it looks gross and I feel embarrassed
I have a rotten tooth that broken and it’s at a point where there’s already gum covering the hole
What keeps me from going to the dentist is health anxiety. I’m afraid of anesthesia because I fear I might be allergic. I’m afraid of developing an infection due to the extraction that will spread to the blood and I know this one is nonsense because I’m risking it more by not doing anything. I feel depressed by how far I’ve ignored my dental health and how worthless I feel. I want to go to the dentist but at the same time I know that it’s going to be a difficult extraction and there will be pain after. I know that I will be panicking through the all time I feel pain. That’s what’s happening right now with other parts of my body. I feel something and I panic as I search my symptoms online
I read that people got into septic shock after an extraction, infections that got into the brain etc and I simply can’t gain the courage to go. I have a headache on both sides of my head, of course I googled all symptoms and it can be related to my teeth like an infection that’s already in the brain
Anyone have any advice?
If I start taking an antibiotic before, during and after all this will I be at risk of an infection? How will be the pain with no anesthesia? I’m also afraid it won’t clot. What scares me the most is the infection spreading. Even the extraction being made with no infection it could develop pretty fast after. Is there anything that can be done to be 100% sure this won’t happen?
I apologize in advance for any grammatical errors, english is not my first language
First of all I’m sorry for the images, I know it looks gross and I feel embarrassed
I have a rotten tooth that broken and it’s at a point where there’s already gum covering the hole
What keeps me from going to the dentist is health anxiety. I’m afraid of anesthesia because I fear I might be allergic. I’m afraid of developing an infection due to the extraction that will spread to the blood and I know this one is nonsense because I’m risking it more by not doing anything. I feel depressed by how far I’ve ignored my dental health and how worthless I feel. I want to go to the dentist but at the same time I know that it’s going to be a difficult extraction and there will be pain after. I know that I will be panicking through the all time I feel pain. That’s what’s happening right now with other parts of my body. I feel something and I panic as I search my symptoms online
I read that people got into septic shock after an extraction, infections that got into the brain etc and I simply can’t gain the courage to go. I have a headache on both sides of my head, of course I googled all symptoms and it can be related to my teeth like an infection that’s already in the brain
Anyone have any advice?
If I start taking an antibiotic before, during and after all this will I be at risk of an infection? How will be the pain with no anesthesia? I’m also afraid it won’t clot. What scares me the most is the infection spreading. Even the extraction being made with no infection it could develop pretty fast after. Is there anything that can be done to be 100% sure this won’t happen?
I apologize in advance for any grammatical errors, english is not my first language
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