I'll try to make this short and sweet. After my daughter's adventure in Dental Land, I had my own on Monday. I had to get a couple of teeth pulled and some work on part of my gum. Oral surgeon, not a regular dentist.

Okay, me in the chair, nurse, surgeon, and 3rd year dental student. Hooked up to IV. Surgeon fills syringe and tells student that this is Fentanyl, a narcotic, can you tell me its method of action. "No." Okay, so that gets injected in me. Made me just a little bit dizzy, but that's all. Barely noticeable. Surgeon fills up another syringe, this is Versed, what type of drug is it and its method of action? "Anti-anxiety and I don't know it's method of action." Surgeon tells him to come back tomorrow with the answers to both those drugs. Yikes! 3rd year student?? Scary. Injects me with Versed. Then they all leave to let me get sleepy. Well, I don't. I see them walking back and forth past my open door, checking on me as I am basically twiddling my thumbs. Surgeon comes in once and asks how I feel and I say, "I feel like ....me." So off he goes again. A couple of minutes later, all three of them come in and start setting everything up. I grabbed the surgeon's arm and said, "Wait! Don't start anything yet. I'm not sedated!". He said, "Oh no, we wouldn't do that", and then injects another big syringe of Versed in. Then the nurse put a nose cannulas on me. I said that was different and she said it was and she didn't know why they were doing that! (Probably thought I was going to OD! LOL). Then she runs her fingers down my eyes and tells me to close them, the doc freezes my mouth, and off to work they go. I'm fully conscious, but relaxed enough just get this over with. But because we had waited so dang long, the narcotic was wearing off, and I felt pain about 3 different times (which I let them know!!! Lol). Anyways, half an hour later, all done, go to Recovery Room, fully alert from the start.

Doc tells Recovery nurse to write in the reports for the drugs: 15 and 200. The 15 got no reaction from her, but she jerked her head up and asked loudly "200?!?". And the surgeon shook his head yes with this amazed smile on his face. I asked if that was a lot, and he said, "Yes".

Question: 15 was obviously a normal dose (no reaction), and it was wearing off before the procedure was done simply because I couldn't get sedated. The 200 was obviously unusual to these professionals, and it allowed me to relax enough to let these people do their job. How much of an abnormal dose is 200 of Versed?? I'm really curious because of their reactions.

God bless,
Sandy