in lots of pain but really scared (emetophobia)

[sleepy]

hi,
im new here, well i wrote a post in the support section and was told i may be best to come here for some advice.

will try to keep it short...

i only have four teeth left one back left at the bottom and three front ones had to have all overs taken out last year under sedation due to mixure of things the main being i have a phobia of vomiting (emetophobia) and for the past four years had sufered from constant nausea for some reason and as a result sucked mints 24/7 as a result my once lovely teeth completely rotted to the point i had constant infections, some even fell out, but i was so ill through the phobia and nausea i didnt get them checked out early enough as the thought of going to the dentist when i was feeling so ill terified me.

eventually last may i had no choice as the pain was terrible and really maing me even more run down, i was sedated, and woke up in a bit of a state, they had even tried to put the false top dentures in while i was sedated, this on top of stitches, and also i was gagging really badly for ages afterwards as a result of the numb tongue and mouth. this more then anythig gt me in a terrible state and b/p went really low and i nearly passed out - this to me was the worst part.

well about fivwe weeks ago the infection came back in my last few remaining bottom teeth, they to are rotton, i paid to go privately and explained my fear of the numbing feeling and the dentist only numbed the surounding gum so as not to cause the numbness to tongue and throat, i was in there for hour 40 minutes as the pain was so bad every time he tried to get the teeth out he had to stop and give me more injecions about 20 in the end prob perhaps more i lost count... he couldnt just pull them out as they are so bad he said they would just crumble so it was more a case of using something to lever them and sliding something else into the socket to prise them out, but i was in agony so in the end we gave up.

beforehand the xray had shown i had infection in all the remaining teeth down the root and into the bone, hence the terrible pain in jaw, ear, under chin in eye sockets that i have had for weeks and not slept for just as long, i have never had so much constant pain, two courses of antibiotics later and the pain is not going, im to scared to take anything stronger then the od nurofen because most tablets have a side effect of vomitting which is my phobia...

have to wait until the 15th august (when dentist cmes back from holiday) o try again - this time he said h will give me some tranquilisers to calm me down and still only inject the gums -
but im terrified, will the pain be better if i have tranquilisers? i cannot have the pain block to my tongue and jaw or under chin because it makes me gag badly,,, at the moment im just desperate to get these teth out but because i cant have the pain block im so frightened, do i have any other possible choices here, im crying all the time either throug the pain or the situatuion i find myself in, that being i cant stand this pain any longer but i cannot have the injections to numb me properly to take the teeth out without all the pain i had last time..

sorry for this long post but dont know where to turn to for advise and at the moment i cant even go out as the pain gets so bad so suddenly i need to be at home .

also i am etting through a botle (nealry ) a day of corsodyl as for a few seconds it takes the worst of the pain away, but i have badly burnt my tongue and skin in my mouth as a result and also got really big mouth ulcers which i havent had bfore..

if i am sedated do i have to have the pain block injections, because ireally cant have them, is there an alternitive please???

thanks so much for reading my rambling post

sleepy

 

[sleepy]

Re: im in lots of pain but really scared

hi its me again, sorry just re-read my first post and wanted to apologise for the mistakes, my laptop keyboard sems to stick on certain keys - i can spell really !! and tooth hurts prety badly at the moment so i didnt check before sending , just wanted to get in written so hopefully i can get some advice.

thanks again

 

[sleepy]

Re: im in lots of pain but really scared

sorry its me again!! i have just read that not supposed to be on this part unless you suffer from/or have suffered from dental phobia - i suppose i have a kind of dental phobia - but its just not as severe as my vomitting phobia - so hope i havent offende any one in posting here - but im terrifeid of going to the dentist but jusat for a different reason, if i hadnt have been terrified my teeth wouldnt have got in the state they are in now.

hope this makes sense -and again sorry but feeling a bit of a zombie atthe moment with everything going on, and brain not functioning that well.

but i really dont know how i am going to manage to sit in the dentist chair to go through all of this again, i tried so hard last time and i think i was really brave to stick it out for so long, but it just didnt get me anywhere and now im worse off and in even more pain and feeling like there is no way out, i either have to have agony with only the gums numbed or have to face my very worst fear and be numbed and gag for ages afterwards stuck between a rock and a hard place really.

thanks

sleepy

 

[Gordon]

Re: im in lots of pain but really scared

The only way round this for you really is general anaesthesia, but then there's a small risk that you'll feel nauseous after that too.

Sedative tablets may help a bit, but other than that I can't suggest much, sorry.