Hi
@ballard what happened for you? I am curious.
After years of using a numbing medicine containing epinephrine, I suddenly reacted to the injection. I started shaking uncontrollably. Actually, I was flopping around in the dental chair. The doctor next door came running in and grabbed my feet and elevated them. Someone put an oxygen device in my nose. The paramedics were called, and they found my blood pressure dangerously elevated and my heart pounding rapidly.
The paramedics loaded me onto a stretcher and took my to a nearby emergency room. I rested in the emergency room until the drug had cleared my system. The dentist sent flowers.
But, there's more. A little time passed. I was doing okay on an alternate numbing medicine called carbocaine,
and I was careful to remind the dentist to use that medicine for numbing. Then, one day I went to the dentist, and the dentist was having an assistant do the injections rather than doing them herself. I forgot to remind the assistant that I can't tolerate epinephrine. So, even though my chart is clearly flagged "no epinephrine", I was given another injection of it.
The same reaction happened. This time, the paramedics just stayed with me until the drug effects had subsided. I have a new dentist now.