bluewolf
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Some people have different reactions to large quantities of adrenaline entering their system in one hit... If you're not used to it, it can come as somewhat of a shock...
Dutch courage......................
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DaveM
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Good luck with the Dentist Smiffy. Hope Louise is ok seems a nice girl. Now that looks agood Chrismas party. Trying to figure out who's legs are sticking out underneath her. Not hers I'm sure of it???
Aztecs27
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I had a pretty bad one (4k's worth of damage to my car bad) about a month after I'd bought my last car.
Late at night, lost concentration and ended up driving through a fence and into a field on the side of the road where I came to a sliding stop. Was pretty shocked at the time, but more so for the fact that I had ruined by new car which I was still in love with.
Airbags didn't deploy, but it was a pretty scary incident. My mum was more worried than me. Got back into a car a few days later when I had the courtesy car (a Nissan Micra! FML) and never had a problem with being shaken up or being scared of driving. I use the bit of road regularly too and never have any bad flashbacks. I just always think to myself "what a knob".
Smiffy
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Not mine unfortunately. Only joking. I tend to look on her as my daughter as she is a similar age. But it doesn't stop me dreaming does it?????
I was sitting in the centre of a dual carriageway, in a Fiat Panda, waiting to enter the outside lane when BAM! I was broadsided and ended up completely across the other side and the guy who hit me ended up in a garden. I was playing squash 45 minutes later.........the youth of today....Pah!
Smiffy, Rosecotts comment was the only thing on my mind reading through the posts, thank goodness your not in today, that would have made their job too easy!
Re the Dentist....Man up man......it's just a 21st Century dentist, there is NO pain, do it and be pain free, do it not and live many sleepless nights with searing toothache and smelly breath:angry: you know it makes sense and you know I mean well
Smiffy, Rosecotts comment was the only thing on my mind reading through the posts, thank goodness your not in today, that would have made their job too easy!
Re the Dentist....Man up man......it's just a 21st Century dentist, there is NO pain, do it and be pain free, do it not and live many sleepless nights with searing toothache and smelly breath:angry: you know it makes sense and you know I mean well
AuburnWarrior
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A few years ago I had a nerve taken out of my tooth and I didn't feel a thing!!
I've had every tooth in my head filled at least once (apart from the front ones).
I don't understand people's hatred of dentists. You're not going to die and they numb you up so much that you don't feel them drilling, etc.
I've had every tooth in my head filled at least once (apart from the front ones).
I don't understand people's hatred of dentists. You're not going to die and they numb you up so much that you don't feel them drilling, etc.
chris661
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Smiffy
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You are a little bit younger than me.
My introduction to dentists was in the mid sixties when I was dragged, screaming, to the only one available to us at the school clinic. A gas mask was slapped on your chops and you were out for the count. It was terrifying to a 9 year old, and if you panicked you were threatened with "cocaine" or "the needle". No compassion, no putting the patient at ease. You dreaded going. Those things stick with you for a long, long time.
My kids go now and they treat it like a visit to the doctors. They listen to the radio while they are sitting there and they are informed at all times what is happening. If they feel a slight twinge, the dentist will stop what he's doing. The bastard that butchered me 40 odd years ago wouldn't have done. He'd have ripped your teeth out as soon as look at you so that he could get onto the next victim.
Why are people scared of spiders? Maybe they had a fright when they were a kid and it's stuck with them. No rhyme nor reason for phobias. I'd love to be brave at the dentists, but unfortunately the damage has been done.
richart
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Hope Louise is ok Smiffy. Does she know she is the current Golf Monthly Forum pin up for December. Not sure that will make her feel any better.:mmm:
bladeplayer
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When i was a bit younger i was having a tooth extracted , 2nd from back on the bottom , tooth shatterd . even swallowed some of it, nearly threw up on the chair , after a bit he explained it had shatterd on the gum line, more pain killer , slit the gum eventualy got the rest out , teeth hurting even writing this , so i HATE dentist full stop . Ta.. ive broke alot of bones & dislocated fingers etc even had to have my ear stitched back to side of my head (well the part at the top of my ear) no probs at all , dentist .. dentist.. did i mention i HATE the dentist
I detest going to the dentist,I am sh1t scared of going.
Last time she stopped after 2 minutes and asked me if I was having a hypo (type 1 diabetic) as I was pishing with sweat.......I replied that the reason I was sweating was because I was crapping myself!!
Helps she is bang tidy though,nice thoughts got me through the half hour extraction!:thup:
Still won't be back unless something major goes wrong though!!!
Last time she stopped after 2 minutes and asked me if I was having a hypo (type 1 diabetic) as I was pishing with sweat.......I replied that the reason I was sweating was because I was crapping myself!!
Helps she is bang tidy though,nice thoughts got me through the half hour extraction!:thup:
Still won't be back unless something major goes wrong though!!!
AuburnWarrior
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When I was at junior school (probably about 10 years of age) I had a number of veruccas on my feet. We went to the Norbury Health Centre where I was seen by a 'chiropodist'. I say chiropodist - I have absolutely no certainty that she had any qualifications in this practice. A farmer from the 1800s skillfully harvesting his crop with his sythe would have been better at attending my feet! The cretin absolutely butchered my feet with a scalpel! I left there with more bandages than if they'd removed some of my toes! If she'd done that in this day and age we'd have sued for thousands and she'd have been struck off!
I then visited an old fella who delicated scrapped away the top layer of skin and then applied some ointment which killed them in a very short matter of time.
Am I scared of chiropodists?? No. I had a bad experience with one.
As you've said, dentists have come a long way from the archaic practices of the late 1920s
whoo and are actually quite nice places to visit.I always fear things that can kill me - flying, snakes, hairy spiders, cars, etc.
Smiffy
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When I was at junior school (probably about 10 years of age) I had a number of veruccas on my feet. We went to the Norbury Health Centre where I was seen by a 'chiropodist'. I say chiropodist - I have absolutely no certainty that she had any qualifications in this practice. A farmer from the 1800s skillfully harvesting his crop with his sythe would have been better at attending my feet! The cretin absolutely butchered my feet with a scalpel! I left there with more bandages than if they'd removed some of my toes! If she'd done that in this day and age we'd have sued for thousands and she'd have been struck off!
I then visited an old fella who delicated scrapped away the top layer of skin and then applied some ointment which killed them in a very short matter of time.
Am I scared of chiropodists?? No. I had a bad experience with one.
As you've said, dentists have come a long way from the archaic practices of the late 1920s
I always fear things that can kill me - flying, snakes, hairy spiders, cars, etc.
You went to that old bint once.
I had to go to the "Butcher of Crescent Road" every time I had problems with my peckers up until the age of about 14. So it wasn't a "one off" experience.
I don't like flying. Not enough to put me off going on holiday but I still don't like it.
First place I head for when I get to Gatwick???? The bar.
3 or 4 pints, even at £6.00 a lob, are required to chill me out.
It's called "Dutch courage" and I don't mind admitting I need it for certain things
Pants
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I've got absolutely no fear of flying.
But I have got a phobia about crashing :lol:
But I have got a phobia about crashing :lol:
Region3
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I hate the dentist too, and also had gas as an anaesthetic for the first few years.
From about 2 weeks before I go I can't stop thinking about it and wind myself up something chronic.
I even have dreams about going in the days leading up to it. I wake up and realise I haven't really been and it's still coming up.
10 seconds after leaving the surgery I wonder what all the fuss was about, but still go through the same cycle the next time I go.
I know it's irrational, I know it won't kill me, and I know it'll all be over in an hour tops (usually 20 minutes), but I still hate it.
From about 2 weeks before I go I can't stop thinking about it and wind myself up something chronic.
I even have dreams about going in the days leading up to it. I wake up and realise I haven't really been and it's still coming up.
10 seconds after leaving the surgery I wonder what all the fuss was about, but still go through the same cycle the next time I go.
I know it's irrational, I know it won't kill me, and I know it'll all be over in an hour tops (usually 20 minutes), but I still hate it.
papyt
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if that is her leg in the photo she should be in hospital!!!!
Qwerty
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I had the gas mask treatment when I was 13, the dentist just pinned me down and shoved the mask on my face, I actually though I was suffocating at the time.I remember Hallucinating, then waking with with my head pounding and blood everywhere.
I believe they do things differently now, but I've not been back since. That was 25 years ago, and my teeth have been absolutely fine.
I believe they do things differently now, but I've not been back since. That was 25 years ago, and my teeth have been absolutely fine.
USER1999
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Aged about 14, I had an Aussie dentist who wanted to pull one of my teeth with no anaesthetic. I was out of there like a whippet. He also had me down for about 4 fillings. I changed dentists, and strangely the new one found nothing wrong.
I have now had the same dentist for twenty years or more. Very nice bloke, but I still don't want to go and see him.
I have now had the same dentist for twenty years or more. Very nice bloke, but I still don't want to go and see him.
