Anyone experience this?

[catlvr976]

Yesterday, I went to the dentist to have a filling fixed. Now, let me start out by saying that I am absolutely terrified of the dentist, I'd rather go through childbirth again than go there.

Anyhow, he could not get my tooth numb. But that's not what I'm asking about. What I want to know is, when he injected the novocaine (or whatever it is), I started feeling real panicky. I also started to shake, really bad. My legs were shaking and I couldn't control them. He told me that it was b/c of the epiniphrine in the injection. Has anyone else ever had this happen? It went away after 10 minutes or so, but I've never had that happen before.

I'm afraid to go back to the dentist even more now, b/c I have a couple more cavities. I'm afraid my stupid teeth won't numb and I'll feel the drilling and everything. I don't understand it, everything else gets numb, my lips, my front bottom teeth, my cheek, but my molars don't seem to get numb.

SIGH, I hate, hate, hate the dentist.

[kaPOW!]

I don't know if this helps you, but I've heard about that before. I had a numb mouth for 6 hours once, and while I was researching about whether or not that was normal I read about the exact reaction that you described. I don't know if that means that it's good, or bad; just that it's not uncommon.

It especially sucks that it should happen to someone who's already afraid of the dentist

[Rach]

When I had my wisdom teeth removed, my legs were shaking uncontrollably and I was having a serious rush of bad memories. I just thought it was because of my fear of dentists. They acted like it was very strange, and they even stopped halfway through to give me a break.