Do Not Mention the GAS in my presence.
Booble's childhood trauma. It goes like this:
Booble's parents had 3 young children and needed a nearby dentist... Booble's mother grew up and learned above novacaine that made it so you didn't feel anything.
I would give this message a 100 likes if I could. Brilliant referring to yourself in the 3rd person to dissociate from it all. You should write a novel! Defiintitel.
Btw, i've had dental horror stories as well also starting from age 8.
(A quick distraction before i get back to my responses to your thread: I red this thread when i saw the title because my route to illness was from dental work. years and years Had an allergic response. First time, got better after 6-8 months and the second time that was it and never recovered. Then a couple years ago realized that it was becasue i had MCAS lifelong so i was especially vulnearble to the onslaught of chemicals used on me. Would have though led a normal life (fi didn't have a differnet chemcial assault) were it not for the dental work. But when i realized the allergy was agaisnt a backdrop of mast cell stuff, made alot more sense cause i could never figure out why an "allergy" had ruined my life. )
On one of your messages here, you give the note from dentist and your reply. I thought you did a great job and did the right thing. not your fault they be dicks. YOur reply was so controlled and professional so give yourself ALOT of credit for that becaause what we all want to do in this situation is grab them by the collar and shake and say look your mother...what will it take to get you to acknowledge what's going on here? Such an added burden that you/we had to have the restraint to calmly give your reply.
if you're still regretting it how about a follow up like:
To: detnist
RE: Qucik followwup
I wanted to keep you posted that one of my MDs asked if there was any epinephrene in the anestetic becasue apparently with my dysautonomia I can get an extreme reaction to it. He also brought if the possiblity of allergy to dental materials and suggested I both try antihistamines and if the reacton returns in the future to consider dental material allergy testing. I asked him if this was possible becasue my reaction seemed a bit delayed until the way home, and he said yes, was still possible.
How's that? maybe too long, but you get the idea...Play one off the other. Does not matter if you have a phantom MD or not. Chances are dentist won't ask to speak to md and if he does, then you send a quick note to MD saying "my dentist wants to talk to you about whether i can tolerate epinephine in anestetic and also about the possiblity of allergic reactions to dental materials".
playing MDs off one another can work very well and i have used this strategy. These days i try to talk to any of them as little as possible, but works when i feel like playing.
CAn we change your name to Warrior Booble? I think you've earned it.
