Had to go to the dentist this morning for root canal treatment.
Didn't feel like going really because I haven't been feeling too good this week but wanted to get it over with.
When the dentist gave me the injection to numb my mouth I came over all funny.
My heart started racing and I felt really shaky, thought I was going to pass out.
When I told the dentist, he said it was quite normal to feel like that but I've never felt like that before.
Anyone else experienced that?
Not nervous at all sqad but I put it down to already feeling unwell after having an infusion of Zoledronic acid earlier in the week and have been feeling unwell since then, but as I said, I've never reacted to an injection like that before in my life, found it quite scary really.
I'd rather know if it's natural to feel that way even though I wasn't and have never been nervous of going to the dentist.
Squad, could it have anything to do with the infusion?
I suddenly started to feel peculiar in exactly the same way after an injection at the dentist.
I am not nervous of dentistry at all.
My dentist too assured me that it was a fairly common response to the adrenaline in the injection. He then arranged for me to have injections without adrenaline and there is no problem with these.
He forgot once and I forgot to remind him and I got the 'shakes'.
I moved to another dentist on his retiral and explained the problem to him. Again he arranged for me to have injections without adrenaline and I had no problems. He too forgot once (and I forgot to remind him too) and again I got the 'shakes'.
Nothing in the slightest psychological about it, just a reaction to adrenaline.
It is a bit scary if you do not know what is going on, but it passes very quickly...more a nuisance than anything else... and hugely embarassing for the dentists who forgot.
(I could see the £ signs flashing in front of their eyes as they wondered if I would sue or report them for whatever people report dentists for)
Sqad I told my dentist before he started the treatment today that I had had the infusion but he made connection to the way I reacted to the injection and the infusion.
I have to go to the dentist again on Tuesday and will again have to have an injection.
Am I likely to feel the same way again?