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Rstew2207
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Hey! I'm glad I found this forum!
I'm 17, and I'm a girl.
I have severe anxiety and depression problems, so going to doctors has always been stressful for me. Even doing a simple CT can make my anxiety sky rocket.
So when I was 15, I had this bad tooth infection, that needed a root canal. I went to the dentist, and she took an x-ray, and didn't even explain what was wrong. I was in a lot of pain. She gave me anesthesia, but didn't even wait for it to work (I'm a bit tolerant to anesthesia in general; I've had surgeries under general anesthesia and sometimes it took longer to work than the doctors expected). She started drilling, and at some point I heard her saying she touched the nerve and how could it ever be so badly infected. I was on there for 1 hour, in such an excruciating pain ( and I've been trough worse) , And as dentists say, " raise your left hand if it's hurting" while she was working on my tooth, I raised my hand multiple times and she didn't care. I tore my pants because I was grabbing them to try not to scream. She didn't even remove the nerve or anything. She put some sort of material there (not those tiny rubber pink files, she just put some white stuff on top of the tooth) and left it like that, and told me to go home, with just a painkiller. It was a traumatic experience because only when I exited the dentist, only then, the anesthesia worked. So I felt everything.
No pain for 2 years, except for lots of sensitivity to cold and hot. She supposedly performed a root canal, but I'm sure she didn't use those tiny files they use to take off the nerves. I was okay, until a week ago. A throbbing intense pain came in suddenly, and this time it was so intense my entire jaw would hurt and feel like it was being stabbed and shot at the same time. Needless to say, no painkiller worked, and I spent a night crying in agony and not even 1 hour of sleep.
My dad took me to a new clinic, as an emergency because the pain was so sooo bad I would do nothing but cry.
They are so so so nice, and caring, and Soo friendly. And that helped me a lot, and made me calm down immediately. Took an x-ray, I have a huge infection. My dentist took a look, and explained everything to me. He said it was badly done.He explained step by step what he was going to do, and that again helped so much, also he tested each tooth. Went to the (damn) chair, my heart was beating do fast I could see that attached light jumping as my heart was beating so fast. My brain was screaming " DONT OPEN YOUR MOUTH" And as he said to open it, I only opened it a bit later...
My dentist is an amazing guy, he is really understanding, caring and friendly!
But still, I couldn't help but almost cry. He gave me one anesthesia, and waited... I still felt pain I asked him to stop several times and he did. Gave me another, still felt pain. Before the 3rd, when he reached the nerve I felt a shooting pain on my jaw, , really strong one. At this point I had a huge panic attack. He told me not to move as he was working with sharp tools, but my reflex was to immediately get up and sit down ( I was laying down) and I was hyperventilating a lot, I couldn't control it and my chest started to hurt, I had the sensation I was gonna die... And my dad, the assistant and the dentist all worked to calm me down. After a bit of talking to me softly, the dentist said that he was going to give me to the strongest anesthesia he had and so I would feel anything else. I didn't believe at first, I was just sitting there hyperventilating, clenching my hands on my jaw... Until eventually he convinced me to lay down and he gave me the anesthesia. The assistant was so nice she even gave me her hand!
After all, I didn't feel a thing, and it was pretty Easy. I felt so embarrassed in the end I apologized, but they said it was totally fine. Today I was supposed to go again, but my heart started racing again. Really bad. Couldn't even control. I was in the Chair, once again, same dentist and assistant, but still I started breathing fast again... Until he told me we had to wait a bit more for the infection to go away. I felt so good in that moment, and I only wanted to run away.
I wasn't so scared of dentists before! But when I had the first root canal, I got traumatized... Although this new clinic I go to is really nice, and everyone is so welcoming, nice, friendly and caring, I can't help but feel a lot of fear...
Next time I'll be going I already know I'll be having extreme fear. Do you guys have any techniques? Breathing techniques or any others? I wanted some to help me through!
I'm 17, and I'm a girl.
I have severe anxiety and depression problems, so going to doctors has always been stressful for me. Even doing a simple CT can make my anxiety sky rocket.
So when I was 15, I had this bad tooth infection, that needed a root canal. I went to the dentist, and she took an x-ray, and didn't even explain what was wrong. I was in a lot of pain. She gave me anesthesia, but didn't even wait for it to work (I'm a bit tolerant to anesthesia in general; I've had surgeries under general anesthesia and sometimes it took longer to work than the doctors expected). She started drilling, and at some point I heard her saying she touched the nerve and how could it ever be so badly infected. I was on there for 1 hour, in such an excruciating pain ( and I've been trough worse) , And as dentists say, " raise your left hand if it's hurting" while she was working on my tooth, I raised my hand multiple times and she didn't care. I tore my pants because I was grabbing them to try not to scream. She didn't even remove the nerve or anything. She put some sort of material there (not those tiny rubber pink files, she just put some white stuff on top of the tooth) and left it like that, and told me to go home, with just a painkiller. It was a traumatic experience because only when I exited the dentist, only then, the anesthesia worked. So I felt everything.
No pain for 2 years, except for lots of sensitivity to cold and hot. She supposedly performed a root canal, but I'm sure she didn't use those tiny files they use to take off the nerves. I was okay, until a week ago. A throbbing intense pain came in suddenly, and this time it was so intense my entire jaw would hurt and feel like it was being stabbed and shot at the same time. Needless to say, no painkiller worked, and I spent a night crying in agony and not even 1 hour of sleep.
My dad took me to a new clinic, as an emergency because the pain was so sooo bad I would do nothing but cry.
They are so so so nice, and caring, and Soo friendly. And that helped me a lot, and made me calm down immediately. Took an x-ray, I have a huge infection. My dentist took a look, and explained everything to me. He said it was badly done.He explained step by step what he was going to do, and that again helped so much, also he tested each tooth. Went to the (damn) chair, my heart was beating do fast I could see that attached light jumping as my heart was beating so fast. My brain was screaming " DONT OPEN YOUR MOUTH" And as he said to open it, I only opened it a bit later...
My dentist is an amazing guy, he is really understanding, caring and friendly!
But still, I couldn't help but almost cry. He gave me one anesthesia, and waited... I still felt pain I asked him to stop several times and he did. Gave me another, still felt pain. Before the 3rd, when he reached the nerve I felt a shooting pain on my jaw, , really strong one. At this point I had a huge panic attack. He told me not to move as he was working with sharp tools, but my reflex was to immediately get up and sit down ( I was laying down) and I was hyperventilating a lot, I couldn't control it and my chest started to hurt, I had the sensation I was gonna die... And my dad, the assistant and the dentist all worked to calm me down. After a bit of talking to me softly, the dentist said that he was going to give me to the strongest anesthesia he had and so I would feel anything else. I didn't believe at first, I was just sitting there hyperventilating, clenching my hands on my jaw... Until eventually he convinced me to lay down and he gave me the anesthesia. The assistant was so nice she even gave me her hand!
After all, I didn't feel a thing, and it was pretty Easy. I felt so embarrassed in the end I apologized, but they said it was totally fine. Today I was supposed to go again, but my heart started racing again. Really bad. Couldn't even control. I was in the Chair, once again, same dentist and assistant, but still I started breathing fast again... Until he told me we had to wait a bit more for the infection to go away. I felt so good in that moment, and I only wanted to run away.
I wasn't so scared of dentists before! But when I had the first root canal, I got traumatized... Although this new clinic I go to is really nice, and everyone is so welcoming, nice, friendly and caring, I can't help but feel a lot of fear...
Next time I'll be going I already know I'll be having extreme fear. Do you guys have any techniques? Breathing techniques or any others? I wanted some to help me through!
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