K
karingal
Junior member
- Joined
- Nov 15, 2012
- Messages
- 6
- Location
- Helsinki Finland
Hi everyone I'm so pleased I found my way here! It's helped a lot reading all of your stories and experiences but....trouble is I always assume i will somehow be different from everyone else and the thing that worked for you all will somehow not work for me. My problem is this. I've avoided the dentist like the plague for almost 20 years (a result of horror movie style dentistry experiences as a child). Having been ashamed of the state of my teeth for almost the same length of time, covering my mouth to smile etc etc. I finally got up the courage to make an appointment a week ago for a full check up and cost evaluation for the full monty. I went to a dentist who specialised in phobic patients and have to say he was wonderful. He came out to get me from the waiting room, sat with me in a seperate room to talk about my teeth and let me look at all the equipment and told me what it was for before I decided myself to sit in the chair. In short the guy was a saint and I really liked him and decided if I was ever going to let anyone near my teeth it would be him. Anyhow, I got the money together and am booked in next friday 23rd november for 5 hours of work using i.v. sedation. At first I was thrilled thinking how brave I was, imagining my lovely new white straight teeth and how my life would change. But now with every day that goes by I'm getting closer and closer to cancelling the appointment. Panic is setting in. I.v sedation seemed like the greatest idea ever but now I've psyched myself out reading other peoples horror stories about waking up, cardiac arrest etc etc. I read that the benzodiazepines they use in sedation can cause respiratory arrest and I'm asthmatic. I'm terrified and turning into a total hypochondriac imagining my imminent death in the dentists chair and how they'll inform my husband and all this crazy idiotic stuff. Somebody PLEASE HELP! I desperately need this work done but feel like yet again I'm going to fail when I've got so far.......