"Novocaine" reaction????

[divingbiker]

Nitrous oxide is fun though.

Not fun for everyone.

Nitrous oxide makes me paranoid. My dentist gave it to me once, and I wanted to jump out of the window--five stories up--until I pulled the gizmo out of my nose. I had the same paranoid reaction when I dove to 140 feet one time, and got nitrogen narcosis (too much nitrogen in your blood.) I'll never have nitrous at the dentist again (or dive deeper than 100 feet.)

Sorry, no info on the novocaine reaction, but it sounds scary.

[Xrayted]

It sounds from your description that it went into a vessel, not the nerve or soft tissue. That means it raced through your entire body. IV (intraveneous) and into a blood vessel is one and the same. I've heard of this happening although, it's not a common thing.

Here are some links about this very thing. http://en.allexperts.com/q/Dentistry...-Novacaine.htm
http://www.medhelp.org/forums/neuro/archive/1569.html
http://www.netwellness.org/question.cfm/37014.htm

Your dentist sounds like he was trying to cover his arse on a mistake. Not a major mistake, but still he should have come completely clean with you on this.

[emily_in_nc]

Wow, I am glad I didn't read this before my dental appointment on Tuesday. I am dental phobic and don't need any more reason to be scared! I had to have eight novacaine shots to get fully numb in my right upper mouth, where I was getting two crowns. Had no reaction whatsoever (other than severe anxiety and sweating until I was fully numb). I've had a lot of dental work over the years and have never had any bad reaction to novacaine. Lucky me.

Emily

[crazybikinchic]

The funny thing about allergies is that you can not have a reaction one day, then have one the next to the same thing. I seem to be the queen of drug allergies. The contrast used for an MRI, the one that 1 in 1 billion people are allergic to, yes, I am. Typically, it is the epi that causes the reactions. There is nonepi options. I would tell the next dentist about what happened, and I would change dentist. Not that this guy is neccessarily bad, but that you have lost your trust in him.