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redheads feel more pain -> dentist, needle discussion
i agree! my youngest is an 18 year old son who is built and looks like a Viking complete with a fiery red beard and yet he moans and complains about every scratch and bruise. he says "owwww" before stuff even happens
Well, I've known some redheads that were pains. But ... uh ....
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Thanks. I was nine or ten, and he deserved it, refusing to give me enough painkillers while pulling two teeth that were clearly not ready to go. I warned him, too.
I'm a redhead, terrified of the dentist, but was told by my physicians that I have a high pain tolerance...
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I hate the dentist.
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I have never even had a cavity, but it is my worst fear that I will go to the dentist, they will have a look around and tell me I need a root canal, then they will start the procedure, but not give me the proper meds, and I will feel the whole thing. That is my fear. I HATE the dentist!!!
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I love going to the dentist. I like to get my teeth cleaned. No sarcasm. However, when I was a kid and would hear that I'd have to get a shot, I'd escape to the lobby area of the doctor's office and have the whole team of doctors and nurses chasing me down as I hid under chairs and tables and crawled through people's legs. :) One time I kicked the doctor so he asked the nurse who was trying to hold me down to do it instead. I kicked her, too. They still gave me a sucker after the visit. I didn't expect to get one. My mother could probably verify all of this.
my dentist, Tom Prather, has a crooked mustache. perpetually. it drives me crazy when i am looking up at him from the chair. he wears these weird magnifying glasses like something from "Honey I Shrunk The Kids". the 'stache makes me batty but i don't hate the dentist
I had to be strapped into a bed and held down by nurses once too. I was two and had shoved a rock up my nose. No one could get it out so I had to be rushed to the ER...Sally, good to know that my fear can't be realized in the way of my terrors. I still hate the dentist though...
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Sally wrote: "I do not like the dentist. I once had a root canal done incorrectly. It continued to get infected, so my crap dentist would remove the crown, drill some more, put in "softener" re-cap it, and resc..."
I once had a root canal done without painkiller. The dentist still shakes his head whenever he sees me.
The pain was more breable than the needle, I absolutely fucking hate needles.
I once had a root canal done without painkiller. The dentist still shakes his head whenever he sees me.
The pain was more breable than the needle, I absolutely fucking hate needles.
Somehow I doubt I could ever like any dentist, even if it were the most beautiful man alive, I would still hate the dentist.Jim, that's crazy. I would take 100 shots over going to the dentist once.
I can't give blood for the same reason.
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I can't give blood because of the weight requirement, but otherwise I would, it's such a great thing to do.
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I don't mind needles, but I would mind them if they went anywhere near my teeth. There's just something about anyone messing with my mouth that really freaks me out...
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*dies inside* What are you trying to do to me Sally? LOL
But seriously, that is one of my worst fears come to life...
i don't mind shots or needles. i once, after nearly severing my thumb, gave myself a local anesthetic shot in the thumb (with the crazy blessing of the doc in the clinic)and pushed the really thin needle clear through my thumb and accidentally squirted the numbing stuff into the faces of the mortified nurses standing too close. i didn't feel a thing. they went ape-crap and began pawing their faces. one seemed to have a bells-palsy like droop to her left side lips for a short while
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I've honestly asked them to pull all of my teeth and give me a set of dentures in exchange for never having to go again.
Kevin "El Liso Grande" wrote: "i don't mind shots or needles. i once, after nearly severing my thumb, gave myself a local anesthetic shot in the thumb (with the crazy blessing of the doc in the clinic)and pushed the really thin ..."Oh, Kevin. You just made me laugh out loud. Really, really laugh.
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Oh SHUT UP that is not true! You story teller!
The only reason it made me laugh is because we just had a major panic around my office on Thursday last week when my coworker was stuck with a needle after a blood draw. I had to drive him to the clinic to get innoculated immediately after the stick. And they drew his blood to have it tested. THAT wasn't funny, but I can totally imagine the panic after the nurses were stuck with the needles.Or are you making this up? Because if you are, then THAT SHIT'S NOT FUNNY, KEVIN!
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BTW, in case you were concerned after reading that, my coworker didn't contract HIV or any other bloodborne diseases. :)
totally true. at Med-One in kokomo, IN. that is the day i went there twice in 4 hours. first for welders burn of the eyes (from staring at a welding operation like a bug drawn to a porch light) and then just hours later for a partially severed thumb. the young doc couldn't figure out how/where to give me the shot in the thumb and i said "give it here" and he did. i jabbed it into my thumb and pushed the plunger. the needle had gone clear out the other side and sprayed the stuff into the faces of two nurses standing there watching with dismay.i am a reg a Med-One and they all have good Kevin stories there
Okay, then it's a great story. Poor panicky nurses. :) I'm chuckling as I type this. WHY am I chuckling as I type this?
heck, i gashed my melon one time and a buddy superglued the wound shut. it then expanded like i was growing a horn and i had a near golf ball size right on top of my head. bleeding stopped though
My dentist looks and sounds like Al Gore, but apparently he's Republican. I have to get a couple of fillings replaced next month, and I'm not looking forward to it. :(
yes. my skull. i ducked when i should have dipped
I had a few years where I didn't go because I was so scared...my new dentist is a wonder. I haven't had a cavity since I was a kid, but I did get a toothache last year and I needed to have a filling put onto a spot where the root was exposed. The dentist did some magical thing where he shook my lip and gum repeatedly while he gave me the shot, and I have to say, I didn't feel the shot at all. It probably also helped that I had no idea what he was doing at the time.Kevin's dentist's mustache reminds me of the dental assistant who worked with my orthodontist. She had two birthmarks on her chin, and if I looked at her right, everything she said looked ridiculous, like her chin had eyes, and her mouth was upside down.
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It was excellent distraction.
Hahahaha!!! Anything to keep your mind off what they're doing with sharp implements is a good thing.My dentist numbs the spot that's going to get the shot with some topical anaesthetic first before the injection. I REALLY appreciate that.
i am sitting there the whole time thinking "are you kidding me....does he not see how crooked that is....maybe his mouth is not straight and that is the deal....what if he tilted his head?"my friend works as a dental hygienist there and once when i went in to get a teeth cleaning by her i ate a small package of Oreo's in the parking lot before i went in. i got back and sat down and opened up and there was all the black crud on my teeth. she didn't say anything but put the little hooky deal behind my front tooth slightly into my gum and put a little pressure to it. i levitated off of the chair. like she lifted me straight up. last laugh was def hers
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*puts head between knees*
That'll teach ya, Kevin. Do not mess with the hygienist, as they have the pointy metal instruments.
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As I was writhing around in the chair, kicking my legs up. At one point I actually got out of the chair and just looked at her.
Such a bitch.
that's right jacks - when the pointy thing gets ahold of you time to fly right
Sally, man that sounds AWFUL! I think you should have bit her!
I don't have red hair... and I still hate the dentist...
You should definitely have gone the biting route. It's soul-satisfying.
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SO, I guess I'm in the minority here (loving dentist visits).
Heidi, I think you might be in the minority anywhere on that one.
I really DO like getting my teeth cleaned! The only exceptions to enjoying a visit to the dentist's office would be 1. having to do the flouride rinse (I always get sick) 2. having to bite down on the mouthpieces for x-rays because I have a childsize mouth and they keep giving me damn adult size bites and lastly, 3. when I've had to get my tooth sanded to get a (I forget what they're called - but's like a fill-in extension) on my incisor that I chipped in the 2nd grade put on it - the sander cut it a bit too close to the nerve in my front tooth and my teeth were all sensitive for a couple of months after that.
But I really do like getting my teeth cleaned.
I knew it.
As chronicled in song, I did in fact bite the dentist. I also amazed dentists by begging for second and third shots of novocaine. They kept saying "You couldn't possibly still feel this," but I did. I did. I have proof, now. Or at least some justification.
I may be a wuss about pain, but at least now I can say its genetic.