I can't take this anymore....not sure what to do really...

[SilverB33]

Ever since I started getting dental work done once more (last monday) I've been getting anxious, especially after I started taking amoxicillin and getting pretty bad allergic reactions from it...from getting dizzy, being unable to breath temporarily, and diarrhea/constipation, losing a lot of water weight cause I decided to drink a whole 10 oz bottle of magnesium citrate cause I was freaking out of the 5+ day constipation...and then going crazy looking up everything under the sun that could also be wrong with me...

I fear if I keep going on with this dental work right now, the more its gonna serve to keep winding up my anxiety and put my Hypochondria into a frenzy, and the more its gonna cause me to do stupid stuff that'll eventually just be me hurting myself.... I might have to consider dropping off in the next week or so after my post-op healing of what I teeth I got extracted is good to go, and can actually get my mental health in check before starting up again.

[Hidden]

Hi Silver - sorry about the reaction to the medication. There are other drugs especially for dental work, which are anaerobic and tackle bacteria which has no oxygen. I think you are right. You've got to feel better enough to have more dental work done. Your nerves are bound to increase with the thought of more dentist work at the moment.

[SilverB33 in reply to Hidden]

Well I had taken the amoxicillin he gave me for about 7 odd days, then he switched me to clindamycin (150mg) when I told him about the allergic reaction I've had to the previous drugs....but I had to stop again due to my little incident with the magnesium citrate, and yeah my next appointment is this monday, so I'm gonna end up telling him about the situation that occured and about dropping off until I can get my mental state back in gear or something.

[Hidden in reply to SilverB33]

Suppose the citrate might upset your stomach as it is acid. Magnesium on it's own can be helpful. Sure you will feel better in a few weeks. As you are a hypersensitive patient like myself then you should tell your dentist how wound up you get. It took years to find a dentist who understood nerves.

[SilverB33 in reply to Hidden]

I'll be telling him this, unfortunately he has told me that he usually ends up dropping patients if they start effecting his reality as he puts it with their mental issues. Which is why I'm still considering dropping for the time being until I can actually get mental help.

[hypercat54]

Hi it sounds to me like you could have developed an allergic reaction to penicillan which is quite common. I took this for many years until one day my heart started racing, had crippling stomach pain, and my body turned bright red and felt like alligator skin! I haven't taken it since.

I have just been to the dentist because of abscesses and was given an ab called Metronidazole as the thromycin meds don't work on me either so there is only that one left. However I know they tell you not to drink on ab's, this is because you go to the toilet more and flush it out of your system, but you really can't drink alcohol on Met coz it will make you ill.

I would stop taking the pencillan and get something different. I know how you feel coz I hate the dentist too and when I was a child would try and hide to avoid going. I hadn't been for around 5 years before this so it is partially my fault. Good luck. x

[SilverB33 in reply to hypercat54]

Well like I said to another... I am off the amoxicillin as of now since tuesday, and they put me on clindamycin the same day, which I had to stop taking due to the incident with the magnesium citrate giving me diarrhea and me ending up losing a lot of water weight, which I'm trying to regain back still. Still I'm gonna end up dropping off now from this dental stuff, not that i really want to but with how my mental health and general health has been going lately...it would be better I seek mental help before I can continue with this.

And this dentist has told me before all of this that he had dropped patients for mental issues if it starts to effect his reality, as he puts it.

[Hidden in reply to hypercat54]

We have no antibiotic cover any more and bacterial infections are ignored - new government guide lines based on the misinformation that withdrawal of antibiotics will encourage your immune response to fight back - not good advice when your immune system is damaged from diabetes and other autoimmune diseases which can flare up if untreated. Like you some drugs are allergens but older ones have been removed from the formulary which I had no problem with.

[gerg]

A wait may be a good idea.

I always let doctors and dentists know about my anxiety disorder, it has helped me a lot to get it out in the open.