Dentist Phobia - Scared To Visit
Feb 10, 2016
Please can anybody tell me if they are scared to go to the dentist for fear of what they will say? ie got to have teeth out etc..
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Feb 10, 2016
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Phobia With Dentist
I have not been to the dentist in many years because of a low tolerance to pain and my fear of dentists. Now it's been so long I am ashamed & embarrassed to go yet I know I must. As for now I have periodontal (gum) disease and for past 8 months I have had 3 teeth just fall out. I am Mortified how I look. I do not have any dental insurance. I just cannot bring myself to go to the dentist. I'm the biggest procrastinator. Any advice?
View 3 RepliesDental / Dentist Visits Phobia
I'm really struggling right now with dental problems. It seems like it's one thing after another with my teeth.
I have a really severe dental phobia. I've had it for years, but it's gotten worse over time. Every visit to the dentist makes my fear and phobia worse. I've gotten to the point that even having tooth pain or thinking about a dental appointment will make me feel physically ill.
I've had a lot of dental work done in my life. Most recently had to get a root canal on a molar that was really hurting me. To make matters worse, it took my dentist and the endodontist 8 months, to figure out what was going on to treat me properly. I went back to both of them repeatedly and they couldn't find anything wrong until a couple of weeks ago. I finally got the root canal done, but this whole situation has made my phobia worse.
I'm also dealing with adult braces and TMJ problems. Any dental work is very difficult for me due to the anxiety, fear and TMJ pain. I'm also getting increasingly harder to numb for dental work.
I finally convinced myself to try a sedation dentist. I'm really shaken in the faith of my current dentist and doubt that I'll go back to him. This new sedation dentist offers Nitrous Oxide. I have mixed feelings about it, but it sounds like the best way to help me with this problem at present.
I know I have a bunch of dental work that needs to be done, so the nitrous oxide seems like it'll help with my anxiety and phobia during the appointments and work.
This whole thing has gotten really bad now. I don't even want to go to a dentist ever again, but I know I need the work done.
Any advice or comments regarding dental phobia/anxiety and nitrous oxide would be great.
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I am 47 and had been battling the health anxiety since 20 years. I have hypertension,hyperlipidemia & mitral valve prolapse with trivial regurgitation (which causes anxiety & palpitation). All these years my focus was mainly on heart, but since one month i has become very cancer phobic, as i remember one of aunt who died of cancer before 15 years..
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I know that, anxiety & depression does not cause cancer.
But Now i am fearing & obsessing that, depression is the symptoms of cancer.
What i know is that, upon being diagnosed with cancer, the patients become depressed, anxious & sad.
I have seen the people having depression for 30+ years & living with it & they don't have cancer.
Half of the world has depression, if depression would be the symptom & then half of the world would have cancer.
If somebody is depressed, when he will go to psychiatrist for treatment, will the psychiatrist will tell him to go & test for cancer.
This obsession had made me more fearful & i am having full blown continuous panic attacks since 2 weeks. The anxiety is 10 out of 10 since i read that answer. I unable to function & get up from the bed. I am not going to work since one week & unable to sleep since one week only obsessing that, cancer causes depression & it is becoming vicious cycle.
All these years i know that, panic & anxiety symptoms are harmless & i never bothered about these symptoms,only afraid for the first few years when i was not aware.
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24 years of age and i'm crying because I don't want to be sick...
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I am 25 years old and feel like my life is completely screwed.
I have suffered from major anxiety and depression since I was very young (before elementary school) and have fought it ever since.
School was a horrible experience from me, my anxiety would cause horrible stomach issues so I was sick all the time, then that progressed into the fear of getting sick. Panic attacks were the norm and still are many days.
I think I have a phobia of work and I cannot figure it out or get past it. I had my first job when I was sixteen and loved it, I had to quit due to school but then got another job after I graduated high school and worked there for about a year. As time went by I grew extremely bored and almost aggravated at the job. I started feeling sick again and started to always look for ways to miss days.
Another job came and same thing happened.
Then I found a part time job I enjoyed as it fit my one and only true passion, I worked there for six years on and off, last year I decided to bust my butt to impress the higher ups to possibly ensure more work, only to have days cut and treated in my opinion like anyone else. I was mad and once again started the calling out, getting sick, etc. I was also put on Prozac which was HORRIBLE.
I had a very hard time the past five years or so finding a real full time job. Nobody would hire me. I applied everywhere and only had one interview, I even had a background check ran for myself to make sure nothing was on it.
A few months ago I was hired to work for a company from home. It was a fantastic opportunity because it got rid of my getting sick at work fear, paid well, and had potential to move up. I got married, life was good, my future was bright.
I ended up losing the job because I couldn't figure half of it out. It wasn't even hard, it was just customer service type stuff. This murdered me in the head and now I can't stop thinking what I lost.
I have ZERO motivation to try looking again because I know how hard it is and don't trust myself. I hate almost everything, I have one passion and I consider it my only opportunity in life to go anywhere but it cannot be done without money. So I'm in such a bind I can't figure out what to do.
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I am not on any medicine now, it made things worst. I'm just completely lost in life and quickly falling. Has anyone else dealt with similar issues? How did you overcome them or did you?
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But what am worried is the symptoms or the things happening.
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Tests taken
13th day PCR DNA - Negative
28th Day - Antibody screening (finger prick) - negative
30th day PCR DNA - waiting for results.
my questions are
1) Do you think i will be hiv + ?
2) How good is a 13th day PCR DNA test?
3) 30th day PCR DNA test results are expected to come by this weekend.. If it is negative, then do you think i still need to do the testing after 84 days or 3 months?
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