Really must say "ow!"

[nineveh_uk]

My face hates me because I had a filling replaced 23 hours ago and while that part of my jaw is absolutely fine, my temporomandibular joints are very unhappy indeed after the efforts of holding my mouth open. So I have spent today in lots of meetings (talking does not help) interspered with holding a microwaved wheat pillow to my face. Though at least tonight I get a proper dinner rather than porridge eaten very carefully, as I had an awful lot of local anaesthetic* and the feeling in my face didn't start coming back for nearly four hours. And what with wobblyness due to mixed eating, extra walking for the bus etc. today was not the greatest. But such things can always be an awful lot worse, and hopefully that's it for the next decade or so (previous filling had lasted 20 years).

And please can we have a sensible national Covid policy?? The current state of things is absolute madness.

*On request because I am a wimp, but it turns out that I also need a lot of it, as I could distinctly feel his initial check even after he'd given me a bit extra in the first place. At least I didn't feel the third injection...

Comments

[azdak]

Owowow, you are a heroine to have gone into work instead of curling up in bed with your hot wheat pillow and a sleeping pill. I hope everything feels fine tomorrow.

[nineveh_uk]

I have retired to bed with wheat pillow, Nytol (thanks for the suggestion) and the Volatrol gel that is on the bathroom mirror shelf but I only noticed while cleaning my teeth. Better late than never!

[petra]

As someone who is red-headed enough to need the 20% extra anesthetic that is genetically indicated, I'm wondering if you are a fellow ginger.

[nineveh_uk]

I didn't know that about red-heads! But I am not one, so it must be something else in my case. What I need is a local anaesthetic procedure elsewhere so I can identify if it is my whole body or just the lower jaw. But I think I'll live with the uncertainty :-)

[antisoppist]

The last dentist appointment I had was with a new dentist who objected to my "yes I can still feel it but it is fine" and insisted on injecting me again because "No that is not good" and according to her, I shouldn't be able to feel anything. No dentist or hygienist has ever said that before or implied that the point is not to suffer the unavoidable hurting.

[nineveh_uk]

Your dentist is nice, and you are allowed to have it not hurt at all! Do not grin and bear it when unavoidable!

I actually emailed mine in advance to make really, really clear that I wanted no pain whatsoever and to over-anaesthetise rather than under!

[antisoppist]

No-one has ever told me that before! They inject me and the injection hurts a lot and then the drilling hurts. That is how it is. I always assumed that if I didn't have the injection that hurts, the drilling would hurt even more, but I did not know it was possible for all the hurting to go away or that a dentist would care about it hurting me because it always does! How could I have known that?

Also when we went as a family, Middle Sister and Dad never had an injection at all so having one was being a wimp already.

I had a hygienist who got cross with me because I cried all the way through once.

Sorry, that was supposed to be a reply to comment not reply to post, which it now looks like it is.