hi stumpy, nice to meet you thanks for sharing. i do know what you mean about male dentist and things in the mouth. i have difficulties connected to that. and breathing. my nose must be able to get air freely.

i did the dentist. they discouraged me from using nitrous oxide and the adult me was ok. but then i began to cry. they were decent but not compassionate and they are clueless about why i was crying and i let them stay clueless. i had no spare energy or desire to try to educate them about patients with abuse.

i was glad i let myself cry. i had abusers who would not let me cry and i've always had a low threshold for pain. i have been in horrendous pain since the local wore off and i think maybe because it is a root canal in an abscessed tooth. even the icebag is not doing much. i feel some guilt because i used a huge amount of pain meds over 5-6 hours and got so little help. so i did something against my conscience and it did not even help. this much pain knocks me on my butt.

thank you for encouraging me. i hope we will get to know each other here on the forum. glad to meet you.

leslie and her pixies