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FearfulHwk
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In Canada I always get sedation and that gets me through an appointment. Even triazolam between .5 and .75 dosage. That's three little pills that some take at home for sleeping. You'd think it wouldn't be that difficult to get in India for dental work...
im in indiancurrently and of course a tooth which absolutely nothing wrong only one month ago at the checkup and X-rays now I need a root canal.... in INDIA! My husband is from here and we now live here half the year. He took me to his friend who is a dentist and she was hesitant to give me anything at all and I explained it's just triazolam, a med that many people take for sleep but I need it for the amnesia effect.
She writes the the script for alprazolam instead... xanax. Which has different dosages and some people use far more than .75 mg for every day anxiety. It also doesn't appear to have amnesia effect. So we call her and she says bring her to the government hospital dental area (free) and they can do sedation because she is too afraid to use it in her clinic. I get there and the terror begins...
i tell them my issue with with local anesthetic that I always get trismus and post op pain. So at home I was in habit of nonor very very little local and the sedation helped me cope with drilling pain. They ended up giving g me two klonopin sublingual...another anti anxiety which I think is even less effective than xanax and at a lower dose. It doesn't take effect.... at all. So there I am sitting in the chair facing a root canal without sedation. I reinforced my stance on the injection and said do not use it. They tricked me. They did not listen to my request at all. They first sprayed strong topical and I said do it with just that and then They tried saying they were going to 'irrigate' the tooth by spraying something on it. I knew better and protested .... loudly!!!!! That is a tactic dentists use on kids!!!! I saw the syringe with needle firmly attached!!!! They ignored my non consent!!!!
They ignored me and held me down!!!! And injected and I felt the whole thing it was excruciating. There is no way that was 'spraying water' I felt the needle all the way in my muscle and something injectingnin which was painful.
It was for upper 6 tooth and I think they injected my jaw muscle behind my back top tooth. In Kashmiri they were talking but I clearly heard something about 'buccal' which referrs to injections! I don't want to hear about how nobody can withstand a root canal without local. I know I can and I have done so before under sedation. The difference this time was they won't sedate me just given me some mild anti anxiety stuff which didn't work.
I went into full panic attack on the chair breathing to 50 respiration per min and heart rate was 180 (they had s pulse oximetry on me). That didn't stop then they held me down drilled with me fully aware and screaming. They were laughing. Then the horrible dikes which I could still feel some. They left it open meaning no filling so I have to go back and when I got out of the chair and started to walk I fainted.
Now due to past injuries I had from dental needles I panic with the frozen feeling so I scratched my face in frantic attempt to make it go quicker and bit my cheek also in panic. I didn't sleep all night last night because every time I close my eyes I see the whole event. Even though my tooth no longer hurts...
but now I have a new issue. Where the needle was is extremely sore and I can't open enough to even get a level spoon in. Family made me cream of wheat and I could slurp the milk but the little balls of wheat got stuck on the outside. The pain is definitely not the tooth And is further back where I felt the needle. Pain level is about 3-4 at rest and 8-9 if I try to move my jaw at all. It's clamped shut.
What at do I do? India dentists don't believe in any pain relief (once you are out of their office) or measures to keep patients comfortable while there. I now am considering going to a hypnotherapist here to erase the memory of the actual root canal since I didn't get the amnesia effect. I dont know how effective it is. I am
also stuck in pain with only Motrin and a jaw that is locked shut and painful and still have to get he filling.
I have not eaten anything at all and can only get pure liquids past my clamped teeth. the area over the jaw where the needle was injected is extremely tender to touch and I can't even lay on that side. The actual abscess thoigh painful was not limiting my eating or talking.
I had a lingual nerve nerve injury when I was younger so I am freaking out. What did geybdo to me???
im in indiancurrently and of course a tooth which absolutely nothing wrong only one month ago at the checkup and X-rays now I need a root canal.... in INDIA! My husband is from here and we now live here half the year. He took me to his friend who is a dentist and she was hesitant to give me anything at all and I explained it's just triazolam, a med that many people take for sleep but I need it for the amnesia effect.
She writes the the script for alprazolam instead... xanax. Which has different dosages and some people use far more than .75 mg for every day anxiety. It also doesn't appear to have amnesia effect. So we call her and she says bring her to the government hospital dental area (free) and they can do sedation because she is too afraid to use it in her clinic. I get there and the terror begins...
i tell them my issue with with local anesthetic that I always get trismus and post op pain. So at home I was in habit of nonor very very little local and the sedation helped me cope with drilling pain. They ended up giving g me two klonopin sublingual...another anti anxiety which I think is even less effective than xanax and at a lower dose. It doesn't take effect.... at all. So there I am sitting in the chair facing a root canal without sedation. I reinforced my stance on the injection and said do not use it. They tricked me. They did not listen to my request at all. They first sprayed strong topical and I said do it with just that and then They tried saying they were going to 'irrigate' the tooth by spraying something on it. I knew better and protested .... loudly!!!!! That is a tactic dentists use on kids!!!! I saw the syringe with needle firmly attached!!!! They ignored my non consent!!!!
They ignored me and held me down!!!! And injected and I felt the whole thing it was excruciating. There is no way that was 'spraying water' I felt the needle all the way in my muscle and something injectingnin which was painful.
It was for upper 6 tooth and I think they injected my jaw muscle behind my back top tooth. In Kashmiri they were talking but I clearly heard something about 'buccal' which referrs to injections! I don't want to hear about how nobody can withstand a root canal without local. I know I can and I have done so before under sedation. The difference this time was they won't sedate me just given me some mild anti anxiety stuff which didn't work.
I went into full panic attack on the chair breathing to 50 respiration per min and heart rate was 180 (they had s pulse oximetry on me). That didn't stop then they held me down drilled with me fully aware and screaming. They were laughing. Then the horrible dikes which I could still feel some. They left it open meaning no filling so I have to go back and when I got out of the chair and started to walk I fainted.
Now due to past injuries I had from dental needles I panic with the frozen feeling so I scratched my face in frantic attempt to make it go quicker and bit my cheek also in panic. I didn't sleep all night last night because every time I close my eyes I see the whole event. Even though my tooth no longer hurts...
but now I have a new issue. Where the needle was is extremely sore and I can't open enough to even get a level spoon in. Family made me cream of wheat and I could slurp the milk but the little balls of wheat got stuck on the outside. The pain is definitely not the tooth And is further back where I felt the needle. Pain level is about 3-4 at rest and 8-9 if I try to move my jaw at all. It's clamped shut.
What at do I do? India dentists don't believe in any pain relief (once you are out of their office) or measures to keep patients comfortable while there. I now am considering going to a hypnotherapist here to erase the memory of the actual root canal since I didn't get the amnesia effect. I dont know how effective it is. I am
also stuck in pain with only Motrin and a jaw that is locked shut and painful and still have to get he filling.
I have not eaten anything at all and can only get pure liquids past my clamped teeth. the area over the jaw where the needle was injected is extremely tender to touch and I can't even lay on that side. The actual abscess thoigh painful was not limiting my eating or talking.
I had a lingual nerve nerve injury when I was younger so I am freaking out. What did geybdo to me???
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