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The classic risk in dental procedures is the dentist using a lidocaine-adrenalin mix, which when injected into a vessel (by mistake), will make your heart race,

by rscho 10y ago

The classic risk in dental procedures is the dentist using a lidocaine-adrenalin mix, which when injected into a vessel (by mistake), will make your heart race, your blood pressure skyrocket, and provoke a general sense of unease/impending doom. It is also the main reason why many people say they are "allergic" to anesthesia. In fact, the complication profile of amide-class local anesthetics is very safe. As for the interaction of anesthesia with development, scientific evidence is scarce and anesthesia alone does not seem to have such a great impact on the long term. Anyway, I would be far more worried about hypnotic drugs than local anesthetics in that regard.

throwanem 10y ago
> a lidocaine-adrenalin mix, which when injected into a vessel (by mistake), will make your heart race, your blood pressure skyrocket, and provoke a general sense of unease/impending doom Wait, that's not supposed to happen? I pretty much just figured oh well, it's epi, what are you gonna do.
masklinn 10y ago
> The classic risk in dental procedures is the dentist using a lidocaine-adrenalin mix, which when injected into a vessel (by mistake), will make your heart race, your blood pressure skyrocket, and provoke a general sense of unease/impending doom. And there's a fun side-effect, or at least I had that: body learns to completely blow up under stress. Before I went through that I had very low stress impact (psychological stress had no physical impact), since then stressful situations almost lock me up (heart racing, muscles contracting, …). It's really quite annoying.
viewer5 10y ago
> and provoke a general sense of unease/impending doom Oh shit I thought I was just weird. Do you have any more information on that? I felt that when I was getting a crown put in, it was horrifying, "impending doom" is the perfect description. It also happened the (one) time I donated blood, though I don't remember being given any injections or anything though; but I felt that EXACT same "impending doom" sensation; at the time I thought basically "well this is the end, they accidentally took too much blood and I'm going to die now". I felt cold to the core and started sweating horribly and spontaneously, just like the time at the dentist.
- rubber_duck 10y ago
  >I felt cold to the core and started sweating horribly and spontaneously Isn't that low blood pressure ? I felt that once when I had food poisoning, collapsed to the ground after having insane stomach pain for an hour trying to get to the phone to call ambulance, fortunately by the time I got up it cleared up.
  - viewer5 10y ago
    I don't know; at the time, I generally had high blood pressure, and I don't know anything about what might cause it to raise/lower in the short-term (obviously losing blood would, but I dunno if a controlled, intentional blood-drawing for a donation would be enough)

by rscho 10y ago

throwanem 10y ago

> a lidocaine-adrenalin mix, which when injected into a vessel (by mistake), will make your heart race, your blood pressure skyrocket, and provoke a general sense of unease/impending doom Wait, that's not supposed to happen? I pretty much just figured oh well, it's epi, what are you gonna do.

masklinn 10y ago

> The classic risk in dental procedures is the dentist using a lidocaine-adrenalin mix, which when injected into a vessel (by mistake), will make your heart race, your blood pressure skyrocket, and provoke a general sense of unease/impending doom. And there's a fun side-effect, or at least I had that: body learns to completely blow up under stress. Before I went through that I had very low stress impact (psychological stress had no physical impact), since then stressful situations almost lock me up (heart racing, muscles contracting, …). It's really quite annoying.

viewer5 10y ago

> and provoke a general sense of unease/impending doom Oh shit I thought I was just weird. Do you have any more information on that? I felt that when I was getting a crown put in, it was horrifying, "impending doom" is the perfect description. It also happened the (one) time I donated blood, though I don't remember being given any injections or anything though; but I felt that EXACT same "impending doom" sensation; at the time I thought basically "well this is the end, they accidentally took too much blood and I'm going to die now". I felt cold to the core and started sweating horribly and spontaneously, just like the time at the dentist.

rubber_duck 10y ago
>I felt cold to the core and started sweating horribly and spontaneously Isn't that low blood pressure ? I felt that once when I had food poisoning, collapsed to the ground after having insane stomach pain for an hour trying to get to the phone to call ambulance, fortunately by the time I got up it cleared up.
- viewer5 10y ago
  I don't know; at the time, I generally had high blood pressure, and I don't know anything about what might cause it to raise/lower in the short-term (obviously losing blood would, but I dunno if a controlled, intentional blood-drawing for a donation would be enough)