Scared about having my remaining teeth pulled

[BigBrando]

Hello everyone, my name is brandon. I found this forum looking up tooth extraction fears on the Internet because I have very significant dental work planned and I'm very fearful. I have severe anxiety for which I take .5 mg of clonapin 3x day. High blood pressure which I take 6.25 mg of carvedilol 2x a day. And 100 mg of zoloft.

Now to the main point. I have lost 8 teeth already due to negligence and abscesses. My remaining ingredients teeth now must also be extracted as well. Simply put I've been negligent with my teeth, no excusrs. However I go tomorrow too have 8 pulled on my right side to begin the process. I'm extremely fearful though because I've never had more than one tooth at a time pulled. My blood pressure and heart rate have ran low at times lately, like 49 on pulse and 96/63 on blood pressure. This makes me very fearful to have it done, even though it is a must do process now. I'm afraid of my BP and heart rate being low thst I'll react negatively to anesthesia and have complications resulting in my death on the table. These teeth are cheduled to be simple extractions, while I have 2 on top that will need surgical extraction, but those will be done on the next visit, if I make it through tomorrow's.... I was told I will not have general anesthesia and not be put to sleep, but I'm still terrified. I also get very uncomfortable laying flat on my back (feels like I can't breathe when I do, so I always sleep in a recliner and haven't been laid flat in some time now.) I've had two courses of antibiotics for infection prior to this. The teeth onot the right side don't hurt, but 2 on the upper right are broke to the gumline. However I've got a tooth or two on bottom and top on the left side that are hurting and I've taken 2 advil once every other day or so for the pain. I am jut so scared. I've got Noone to blame but myself for allowing myself to.get in this situation in the first place. But my fear is reaching extremes now,I don't know what to do, I cannot stay calm. Any suggestions?

 

[carole]

Hi welcome to the forum.

It will be fine they know what they are doing and will make sure you are comfortable there is nothing to fear but fear itself. When we are afraid we blow things up out of all proportion and imagine all sorts of things that will not happen.

Explain to them how you feel and I am sure they will be able to put your at ease. They do this every day and it is just routine to them. Try not to stress out too much it shouldn't take long and will be totally pain free.

All the best to you GOOD LUCK !!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[BigBrando]

Hi welcome to the forum.

It will be fine they know what they are doing and will make sure you are comfortable there is nothing to fear but fear itself. When we are afraid we blow things up out of all proportion and imagine all sorts of things that will not happen.

Explain to them how you feel and I am sure they will be able to put your at ease. They do this every day and it is just routine to them. Try not to stress out too much it shouldn't take long and will be totally pain free.

All the best to you GOOD LUCK !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you so much. They decided to pull the lower left side instead of the right, since those were more troublesome. Most came out easy, but two had to be pulled pretty hard and I could still feel some pain with those. I was worried since they were hurting that the infection was back or still present, but he told me I should be OK after two rounds of antibiotics. Now I'm just worried about what might happen next. When I got up, I couldn't walk good at first, and that scared me as I just had local anesthetics. Hope I didn't mess up doing this......

 

[carole]

I am glad things went well for you. The fact that you couldn't walk when they were done has been felt by myself and probably others on here. I think it is the body relaxing after being so worked up beforehand and getting so stressed out by the fear.

If you are worried about anything then do contact your dentist.

Give yourself a gold star for getting there and going through with it I think you did really well. All the best to you and happy healing.

 

[BigBrando]

I am glad things went well for you. The fact that you couldn't walk when they were done has been felt by myself and probably others on here. I think it is the body relaxing after being so worked up beforehand and getting so stressed out by the fear.

If you are worried about anything then do contact your dentist.

Give yourself a gold star for getting there and going through with it I think you did really well. All the best to you and happy healing.

Thanks again! Yeah, fortunately my dentist has a cell phone I can contact him directly on and I left him a message about it. He said the reason I couldn't walk good was probably because of my equilibrium being thrown off. I'm used to sleeping in a recliner and rarely lay flat. That and he said sometimes even local anesthetics can do that too. I had also voiced concerns over some white stuff around a couple pockets, but he said not to worry about that.

Now I do notice my bottom center tooth is somewhat loose now. I don't know if that's due to the tooth to its left being removed, or if it's periodontitis. It never seemed loose before hand. 2 more of these procedures to go and then it's to getting dentures.
I also have an every so slight dull headache that's just enough to tell it's there. Not close to warranting even ibuprofen right now. Not sure if that's related to the procedure or not.

 

[carole]

Your dentist is correct in what he told you. The white stuff is granulation tissue, I think i have that right, you want this it is good and shows you are healing normally. Don't panic if it comes off that is also normal. The front tooth feeling loose is also normal and the gums will toughen back up and the tooth will feel normal, it is because the tooth next to it has been removed and it is temporary.

Jaw aching in some cases and dull headache and general aches and pains are all normal after extractions.

You are doing really well, all the best to you and good luck for the future treatments