[tomcam]

Sorry to hijack this, but have you heard of people on whom no local anesthesia works? I have to be put under general anesthesia (yes, requiring an actual anesthetist at an extra $8,000 or so). The pain is not endurable otherwise.

[Doxin]

Hi! The local anesthesia works poorly on me. To the point of the dentist using enough to where I can't feel my eyebrow. It's bearable but very much not fun. I've been largely just bearing down,but then recently I had a root canal done by a specialist.

I dunno what exactly he did, but him applying the anesthetic sucked way worse, but I didn't feel anything whatsoever during the root canal itself. So I'm definitely asking my regular dentist next time if he knows of any anesthetic methods that involve injecting it really slowly and it hurting, and if not if he could maybe have some conversations with his colleague about that.

So I guess nothing super helpful, other than the knowledge that the way the anesthetic is done has a LOT of influence on how well it works.

[tomcam]

Thanks for sharing. I have indeed had long slow injections and seemingly every other way to deliver local anesthetic. It hurts but that'd be fine if it worked. Doesn't work at all with me. I feel like I'm being drilled, electrocuted, and whacked with a baseball bat at the same time.

[butlike]

No, but I used to have a pretty bad "aine" habit, and the novocaine wouldn't start to work until the 3rd application.

[tomcam]

Interesting. I have never used any recreational drug other than junk food. I deal well with the pain of frequent kidney stones and don’t even take aspirin.