I’ve been in so much pain I had to have an emergency dentist appointment earlier. Apparently, a deep filling in one of my teeth has caught/damaged the nerve-y stuff and I’ve got to have a root canal treatment done on July 24th. Just the thought of the words “root canal” makes me shudder, but apparently it’s not as painful as it sounds or as people make out.
Now just to survive a week or so on huge pink ibruprofen… how amusing, they match my site layout!
14 Jul at 10:11 pm
Good luck with the treatment Jem! It sounds horrible.
14 Jul at 10:20 pm
Ugh! Hope everything turns out all right! At least you don’t have to drink Pepto Bismol by the gallon…that stuff is nasty and a bright pink.
14 Jul at 10:45 pm
Augh, that sounds scary. Scary and painful. I hope all goes well.
14 Jul at 11:44 pm
I had one before. Actually, it was two at the same tiime. It wasn’t that bad, as far as I remember. Just have to eat a lot of squishy foods.
15 Jul at 4:10 am
I have to have my wisdom teeth cut out on Wednesday, so I kind of know how you might be feeling. Everyone tells me getting those removed isn’t as bad as it seems, either. Anyway, best of luck! I hope it goes well. =)
15 Jul at 6:39 am
Ugh…good luck. I say bring on the novocaine :D
15 Jul at 9:37 am
The words that would make me shudder would be “you can pay on the way out” Hope they get it sorted for you soon.
15 Jul at 1:05 pm
I’ll keep my fingers crossed… and would write more but apparently I can’t figure out which of my words is the blacklisted one *grumbles*
15 Jul at 2:33 pm
I don’t mean to scare you anymore, at all. But it is as bad as people make out (well not horrific but pretty bad), my mum had it done and she was in a lot of pain. But our guy wasn’t very nice, so I’m sure yours will be fine!
15 Jul at 2:34 pm
Another comment: are any words that are relevant to dentist, pain or injections blacklisted? Until I removed all them words I couldn’t make my post.
15 Jul at 2:38 pm
@Amber: a lot of people are having problems with blacklisted words but none of the ones in my table are relevant to dentists.. that I can find. Very odd. :/
15 Jul at 2:55 pm
Yes, I couldn’t say r**t c*nal. I was wondering if you took your hatred of dentistry a bit too far or something ;)
15 Jul at 5:48 pm
Ouch. :( Feel better soon, love. V xx
15 Jul at 9:44 pm
I had my wisdom teeth removed awhile back and it wasn’t horrible at all. I had thought and heard that it would be, but it was over before I knew it.
15 Jul at 10:08 pm
Good luck with the dentist treatment! I had a root canal 2-3 years ago, but that was cause I had chipped my tooth as a little kid and the nerve had died, so I didn’t feel anything. Hopefully you won’t either :)
16 Jul at 2:48 am
Ah, I don’t like the dentist at all… I have this horrible fear of having anything happen to my mouth. I remember when I had braces in high school that each time we went in to get them adjusted on school days and such, just having their hands in my mouth and messing around caused me to become so irritable and emotional that I wouldn’t even go to school that day. Thank goodness both of those things are done with. Now I just try to avoid the dentist as much as possible because I just… HATE the feeling of people messing in my mouth. Ahgughg! Hopefully you handle it better than I do, haha. I’m a wreck in the dentist office and it’s so irrational.
16 Jul at 5:59 am
I have to get my wisdom teeth pulled, I’m sooo not looking forward to that. :(
16 Jul at 1:22 pm
Have fun! Dentist treatments are scary. But with the anastesia and laughing gas, you really don’t feel much at all.
16 Jul at 6:34 pm
Oh, poor you :(. Hope it’s not too bad. I loathe going to the dentist and am terrible at putting it off; at least you’re brave enough to get it fixed!
17 Jul at 7:03 am
A… I hate dentists… As long as I could keep the pain inside me I would, haha… Good thing you’re brave enough to actually go through with it, me, if I would be given more extensions I know I’d chicken out in the end hehe
17 Jul at 2:32 pm
The word “r**t c*n*l” would make me faint! I promise! I’ll keep my fingers crossed that it wont be that painful for you. I have my yearly dentist appointment now in August I think. I will most definitely take my big old teddy bear with me, because my age is at the most 12 when I go to the dentist…
21 Jul at 5:13 pm
I had to have the same thing done on Tuesday and it went okay, actually. It hurt a bit as the anaesthetic wore off but I was eating ice cream the same night so it couldn’t have been that bad! I hope it goes all right for you :)