Self surgery

[Profpointy]

*whimpers*

twas 30 years ago and I still remember the pain. As it was Christmas day had to wait a good week before getting it seen to as well.

As an aside , in the olden days (well 1980) when you had a tooth abcsess, the dentist drilled it straightway, letting all the gunk out and stopped hurting instantly. These days they send you home with some penicillin giving you another week of misery; progress eh!

 

[Ganymede]

twas 30 years ago and I still remember the pain. As it was Christmas day had to wait a good week before getting it seen to as well.

As an aside , in the olden days (well 1980) when you had a tooth abcsess, the dentist drilled it straightway, letting all the gunk out and stopped hurting instantly. These days they send you home with some penicillin giving you another week of misery; progress eh!

*whimpers a bit more in sympathy*

 

[Profpointy]

*whimpers a bit more in sympathy*

it's ok Ganymede - I'm over it now :-)

 

[Ganymede]

it's ok Ganymede - I'm over it now :-)

 

[Mrs M]

This is a lovely thread.

Ranulph Fiennes is famous for this isn't he - removing his own frostbitten fingertips with a hacksaw because he couldn't be arsed to wait for the doctor?

I myself have done the hot-thing through the fingernail stuff (agree re paperclip) and also hit a wrist ganglion with a big book to make it go away. It did. My doc had looked at it and said "In the old days, you would have whacked that with the family bible, but I'm not going to because it's unprofessional". Hardback Shakespeare did the trick.

Mr M's golf partner, a retired GP advised him of the "bible treatment" for his ganglion.
Seeing as we don't have one in stock I used the remote control for TV, did the trick .
(And it was fun)

 

[Ganymede]

(And it was fun)

Mrs M, you are me AICMFP

 

[Mrs M]

Mrs M, you are me AICMFP

Don't have a scoops what that means but gave it a like

 

[Ganymede]

Don't have a scoops what that means but gave it a like

"and I claim my five pounds" - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobby_Lud

 

[ColinJ]

it's ok Ganymede - I'm over it now :-)

Ok for some - I had one broken bad tooth and now another one has broken. It is only a matter of time before the filling drops out and then it will end up like the first one. Time to make that appointment ....

[This post is dedicated to the memory of the sadistic/incompetent/cheating b*st*rd dentist who traumatised me as a small child by doing a root canal without anaesthetic causing me to faint, then started on the extractions, which was a nice thing to wake up to! The knee in my chest and the red-faced screaming at me when I was too afraid to let him continue was a lovely touch.

My sister told me that the dentist hospitalised a girl at about that time doing the same kind of stuff.

Sis also told me that he did 12 fillings on her in one session. This was in a young mouth which had been looked after with regular trips to another dentist before we moved to a new area. We think that he was doing unnecessary treatments purely for profit. Nice!

Apparently, he was heavily in debt and committed suicide some time afterwards.]

 

[Spinney]

Ooh that's worth remembering. What did you use to do it - ie what appliance, and did you have detergent / soap in the warm water?

Obviously you do the olive oil thing for a week first.

I only just managed to talk myself out of DIY tooth extraction 3am ine Christmas morning. Got as far as finding a big pliers but didn't go ahead. It f**n hurt and I was desperate

I have some syringes (the normal plastic sort that nurses stick needles on the end of). Can't remember where I got them from. Little bit of liquid soap in warm water (after, as you say, the olive oil treatment, except I use Otex). Took a lot longer than the nurse doing it with their electrified thingies, but worked in the end. I don't think I was applying any more force to my ear - drum than the official way of doing it - it certainly didn't feel any more uncomfortable.

 

[Ganymede]

Ok for some - I had one broken bad tooth and now another one has broken. It is only a matter of time before the filling drops out and then it will end up like the first one. Time to make that appointment ....

[This post is dedicated to the memory of the sadistic/incompetent/cheating b*st*rd dentist who traumatised me as a small child by doing a root canal without anaesthetic causing me to faint, then started on the extractions, which was a nice thing to wake up to! The knee in my chest and the red-faced screaming at me when I was too afraid to let him continue was a lovely touch.

My sister told me that the dentist hospitalised a girl at about that time doing the same kind of stuff.

Sis also told me that he did 12 fillings on her in one session. This was in a young mouth which had been looked after with regular trips to another dentist before we moved to a new area. We think that he was doing unnecessary treatments purely for profit. Nice!

Apparently, he was heavily in debt and committed suicide some time afterwards.]

Dear God Colin, I'm glad I was lying down when I read that! *shudders* You poor little chap!

 

[Saluki]

Ok for some - I had one broken bad tooth and now another one has broken. It is only a matter of time before the filling drops out and then it will end up like the first one. Time to make that appointment ....

[This post is dedicated to the memory of the sadistic/incompetent/cheating b*st*rd dentist who traumatised me as a small child by doing a root canal without anaesthetic causing me to faint, then started on the extractions, which was a nice thing to wake up to! The knee in my chest and the red-faced screaming at me when I was too afraid to let him continue was a lovely touch.

My sister told me that the dentist hospitalised a girl at about that time doing the same kind of stuff.

Sis also told me that he did 12 fillings on her in one session. This was in a young mouth which had been looked after with regular trips to another dentist before we moved to a new area. We think that he was doing unnecessary treatments purely for profit. Nice!

Apparently, he was heavily in debt and committed suicide some time afterwards.]

Were you in Norfolk. We had a school dentist like that. Hideous man. He said that I had to have 2 extractions and 7 fillings when I had the school check-up, or something like that anyway. I went to our 'proper' dentist that afternoon and he said my teeth were fine and he'd see me in 6 months. Mum gave him the school dentist slip and Mr McAppleby (I think his name was) was horrified.

Dug out a couple of veruccas over the years. That cold stuff a couple of times and then digging it out with a craft scalpel seems to do the trick.

I would love to know what best to use to syringe out my own ears.

 

[Spinney]

Were you in Norfolk. We had a school dentist like that. Hideous man. He said that I had to have 2 extractions and 7 fillings when I had the school check-up, or something like that anyway. I went to our 'proper' dentist that afternoon and he said my teeth were fine and he'd see me in 6 months. Mum gave him the school dentist slip and Mr McAppleby (I think his name was) was horrified.

Dug out a couple of veruccas over the years. That cold stuff a couple of times and then digging it out with a craft scalpel seems to do the trick.

I would love to know what best to use to syringe out my own ears.

My post a few above this?

 

[Drago]

Self surgery? Well, I've poked my piles back inside a few times.

 

[ColinJ]

Were you in Norfolk. We had a school dentist like that. Hideous man. He said that I had to have 2 extractions and 7 fillings when I had the school check-up, or something like that anyway. I went to our 'proper' dentist that afternoon and he said my teeth were fine and he'd see me in 6 months. Mum gave him the school dentist slip and Mr McAppleby (I think his name was) was horrified.

Nope - Coventry.

I am sure that 99% of dentists are perfectly reputable but the idea of unnecessary dental treatment fills me with horror. (I'm too scared to even have the necessary work done!)

I'm going to try one of our local dentists who is supposed to specialise in treating nervous patients. I want to see if they can work with me wearing earphones and blasting myself with loud music to distract me from what is being done to me! Assuming that my mouth is numbed as efficiently as the last time I had teeth out, then that might work. If I could manage to have a couple of treatment sessions without any major problems then I might finally overcome this phobia. The problem is that I have gone out like a light the last 3 or 4 times I had dental treatment. It is not only a very humiliating experience for me, but I feel absolutely lousy afterwards which feeds the dread for the next time. Also - most dentists tend to stop work as soon as one faints, which means that the experience needs to be repeated ...