Fear of Doctors and Dentists

I readily admit to having an irrational fear of dentists, plus Every Single Time I was ever told "this may pinch a little"...it felt like a nerve had been located and ground into a bone.

Now when I go to the dentist, I take several (2 or 3) valium before entering the office. (My dentist understands how I am.) On top of that, when I've had a tooth pulled, I get gas. I would choose to go ahead and get knocked out, but dentists around here don't do that. (You have to go to an oral surgeon to get knocked out.) When I've gotten a root canal, I also take valium first and get gas. It isn't just the pain that I'm scared of...it's someone with sharp tools in my mouth working and grinding away that put me into an anxiety-attack mode.

Other doctors I'm not scared of. I also don't think very much of them - the doctors I've been to...but then that's another story.

 

I lost my soul, my youth, and left my dreams in medical school.

 

Germs exist. But germ theory pretty much says...here is a germ. Person runs into germ and therefore gets ill. When it has to be here's a germ, person runs into germ and there body isn't properly fit to fight it...gets ill.

I drink a designer whey (brand) white chocolate smoothie almost every day. =)

 

Yeah, I know. I just meant that germ theory doesn't tend to talk about the OTHER condition needed for the germ to effect you, for your body not to fight it off. If your body is in ultimate health it's designed to fight the germs.