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Originally Posted by Littlepaw
Marleen, that sounds awful on your tooth. I can't imagine. I am deciding that I am going to get very comfortable with asking for good anesthesia or blocks.  |
Next time I will not be so foolish, lemme tell ya! My own damn fault, but well, it's kinda normal that you let them know what you're taking, right, for interactions. I guess he decided, I had enough "pain control". Yeah, right, even those meds didn't stop that pain!
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So the teachable moment came with the assistant before the surgeon came in. I was asked if I was getting anesthesia for my single tooth extraction (insurance only covers it for multiple teeth) because I was "just so anxious" about the extraction. When I said no, because I had chronic pain he said "well everybody's pain tolerance is different". Both statements felt snarky to me and I had to make an effort to remind myself not to feel slighted and that he just really didn't understand pain conditions. I told him I'd had a devastating nerve injury and repair and multiple operations, that my pain tolerance was insanely high, but we needed to prevent further changes to my system by minimizing pain input. The whole scenario reminded me of the kinds of prejudice out there against pain conditions and the need for education about how acute pain can contribute to chronic pain. My doctor got it and I'm grateful for that. Hopefully, the medical field in general will catch up on this in time!
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Yeah, it's not always great, is it? Even difficult, these types of "discussions". If they make up their mind, they make up their mind. And then there you are.
