Had my telephone consultant appointment, he was shocked I’d had this going on for over a year, wants me in ASAP when they’re taking in patients again, due to covid.
He talked me through everything very reassuring as I also have a phobia of the dentists big time!!!!!!!
When I’m only in the waiting room I’ve got the chin wobbles, ridiculous!!!!
He reassured me my meds wouldn’t be to much of a problem as I take other ones as well.
When I said micro vascular dysfunction he said yeeeesssssss!! Not sure that means he knows much about it or not considering my cardiologist if referring me somewhere else in the country as they don’t know much about it around here.
So anxious about that 🙄
Tooth really throbs especially when I bend to get something etc max pain relief all day every day.
Probably being silly but with all this going on I’m now really worried about catching covid when I go there, should be only a short time but if it’s a difficult job may need sedation so may stay longer.
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It is beyond shocking your dental situation has been going on for over a year despite your determined efforts to get it sorted - good to hear the consultant sees it that way! Did he give you any idea when he thought he could finally get at it?
Don’t know if that’s a happy you or not, you know you have to get this tooth fixed, it’s been going on too long, I don’t know anyone who likes going to the dentist, I loath going to the hygienist, that hook thing !!Anyway it’s another step in the right direction, and getting pain free, you will wonder what is going on when you no longer have to take pain killers.
Hope apart from the tooth your doing ok, not in to much pain in the chest.
Not to bad back is improving so that’s a bonus, have taken to have a chin wobble in the shower so John can’t see! As you say sometimes things become just too much 😩 His back is nearly back to its proper colour, we have our appointments for our jabs the 9th and 12th, let’s hope the whole country is making forward gains to getting out of this awful situation.
If anyone should be complaining it should be you, this dental problem as gone on far too long. Let’s just hope you can get it fixed sooner than later.
Think we all need a place to go to sort ourselves out! I have said before on the forum my Mother used to say to me “straighten your shoulders head up and face the world “ just sometimes I need to have a bit of a wobble first. 😂 Thank you for your really kind words, it means a lot.
Hope your weather is behaving, our snow as finally gone for now, a hard frost this morning.
We are both ok, thanks for asking. A good day yesterday John is getting his confidence back, so we are getting there. My back is getting there did some housework! So must be better.
Felling old today my youngest sons birthday 47 can’t believe where all the years have gone😂
You spend over a year in pain Fluffybee! The dental department will be separate from the Covid Wards! Get this done! I myself got a hospital appointment soon and I just go as every precaution is taken there! Really hope you get that appointment ASAP 🙏
It needs to be done and then you be finally pain free! 👍💕
Dental pain is just awful. I had to have a tooth extracted last year over Christmas and was in agony when the paint relief wore off. Had to get a prescription from the dentist for antibiotics and took the strongest painkillers I had. He told me to double them.
It’s a paradox isn’t it! Finally you are going to get your treatment but the thought of it is terrifying!
Perhaps try to separate the dental anxiety and the COVID fear.
Dental departments and practices have always been careful about infection prevention, we have assumed all patients have HIV for many years so we have put in place rigorous cleaning and PPE protocols to protect ourselves and the next patient in the chair!
And that was before COVID. To help yourself stay safe, try to take as little with you as you can. Wear your safest/best mask (multi-layered) and take handgel with you. Don’t get in a lift if you can avoid it. Use the sanitizer each time you touch anything eg a door handle.
Throw away your mask or pop it in a plastic bag once you’ve used it.
When you get home, wash your hands, take off your clothes in a clean cotton pillowcase & put them in the wash and if you can have a shower and wash your hair.
You do need this treatment and have really suffered for too long. Let the professionals look after you and use some of the great distraction ideas above.
Hi FluffybeeI have just broken a tooth, on a crispy doughball of all things , and it is now level with gum line. I have to go and see my local dentist on Tuesday morning. It's not so much the extraction as the insertion of the needle for the pain killer that makes me twitch.
Trouble is that I am getting old , and might pop off any time so any costly programs involving sticking things into my gums afterwards and putting crowns upon them may not be cost effective. I have suggested, in the past , that they just grind it down and put some cement in, which was met with a some what icy glare.
So I will be looking forward to hearing what they suggest this time.
OH MY WORD! I read this yesterday and meant to 'like' it but forgot owing to how hard I was laughing - '...grind it down and put some cement in, which was met with a some what icy glare.' is just the best dental comment I've heard in years!
Still laughing but at least this time I've remembered to uptick ya
PS - oooh yeah, that needle, crikey it's awful! Once the numb takes effect on me they can 'drill to China' for all I care, but that needle going in is just pure torture! (erm, sorry, Fluffybee, I'm sure it won't be that way for you!)
OHHH NOOO of course it won’t be like that for me 😂😂 I have a switch under my mop of hair that turns my mouth numb, don’t feel a thing 😱 only this constant ache but goodness knows where it comes from as I have a numb mouth and it won’t be like that for me 😂😂😂
I cannot believe I’m going to share this but once I had sedation, the next time I went in apparently I was talking about sniffing beards 🥴
I know where it came from, a friend of mine had some new beard oil and asked me to see what it smelt like...... so told the dentist I go around sniffing peoples beards, no wonder he doesn’t want to sort me out 😂😂😂
It's winter and it snowed last night - the only fly in my soup is it's not enough to make a snowman with, thank-you for asking! (quick reminder, I'm that weird one with the presumed MVA that does much better in cold winters than warm summers)
I hope your wait for the dental work is short-short-short! I know your MVA is the one that doesn't do winter so having dental pain during winter has to be the worst!
You are an odd one in that respect lol not that I know that much, still got ‘L’ plates on with this condition 🙄
There was enough snow here a week or so ago, one appeared half way through the day, still don’t know to this day who did it 😂
As far as investigations go with your MVA have you just been left now to take meds or keep having follow ups, did they do just a process of elimination for your presumed diagnosis xx
My cardiologist did echo and angio - echo showed I was in an acute pericarditis flare and the angio showed 'crystal clear coronaries', process of elimination once the acute flare cleared brought him to deciding I very likely have MVA (but not vasospastic angina) so he has me on the list for the angio with acetylcholine provocation (will be done at the Golden Jubilee down in Glasgow). But the queue is very long and longer again every day.
Luckily I responded immediately to a low-dose beta blocker (Bisoprolol 1.25mg+300mg aspirin once a day and GTN as needed with another 600mg aspirin permitted also as needed) - still on it nearly two years on and still doing quite well.
So every time someone with worse symptoms joins the queue I get bumped to the back.
I don't see the backwards queue bumps as a problem owing to how well my medication regime and lifestyle adjustments are working as regards the presumed MVA; my cardiologist says if my symptoms change or worsen he'll fast track me to the head of the queue. I'm to email using 'urgent' in the topic line if things seem to be worsening.
The only follow-ups are scheduled annual echocardiograms for the recurrent pericarditis and 'trivial' scarring on my aortic valve - but Covid delayed that last year. Then in December I went into another acute flare and got fast-tracked to an echo a few months ago and the cardiologist is happy for that one to stand for another year.
I am looking forward to your report after your appointment with the microvascular guy, I'm still on 'L' plates meownself so every little bit of new knowledge is beyond fab!
I feel for you Fluffybee. So glad there is some movement in the right direction. As others have said, I am certain that all the necessary steps to keep you covid secure will be taken. Maybe try to focus on how it will be after when you are finally pain free. I try to manage my anxieties by deep breathing. It helps a bit and I think the odd chin wobble is healthy, you have much to wobble your chin about. Fingers crossed that you don't have much longer to wait and then, in my experience, you can look back and wonder why you got so worked up about it.
Thank you for saying that and reminding me of how much better I’ll feel afterwards, I must concentrate on that, can only buy 2 packets of paracetamol in one go and I need more than that, I’m not going near shops for obvious reasons to get more, and only have one shop per week unless someone else can get me some, not doing me any good taking the max each day, I told the consultant how much I need to take but what can he do ??
Hi Fluffybee, I so much admire your strength with everything you have to put up with. I understand the paracetamol problem. I am wondering if your GP could prescribe some codeine tablets or similar, if you can tolerate them, which you could use instead of one or two of the daily paracetamol doses. Sadly, all oral opiates make me vomit, but my GP practice has frequently suggested prescibing them when I've needed paracetamol more often than every 6 hours.
Hi Fluffybee, it’s awful knowing you have all this unnecessary worry and pain on top of your heart problems 🤗🤗🤗, it’s just not right😠, sounds like there is light at the end of the tunnel, it will happen soon, it going to be such a massive relief, you will be fine, Dentists are being over the top with protecting us, which is reassuring🤗❤️xxx
I think when you’re having a bad day with chest pain then the constant throbbing tooth, jaw, face and jaw now just gets a bit much.
I can sleep at the moment if I take pain relief before bed but if I happen to wake up it’s there but not that bad, go to get more meds and off it starts full on again and cannot get back to sleep.
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