CB2511
06-11-17, 12:56
Hi!
This is my first post on this forum. I've found other threads which have been a lot of help but I feel like I need to share how I'm feeling somewhere, I hope this is ok.
I'm currently (well, I have been for a while) suffering from a crippling fear of things going wrong with my teeth. It's getting worse, it's destroying my life at the moment and I don't know what to do.
I've always been a bit of an anxious person, I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism about a year ago and treating that has helped massively.
I'm trying to figure this out the best I can. Early last year I had toothache for the first time in my life. I've never been scared of the dentists, I've had a horrible experience as a teen during an extraction and a couple of fillings but I still wasn't scared.
Early last year I had toothache for the first time in my life. It was terrible. I saw the emergency dentist who made some mistakes, I ended up having a root canal on the wrong tooth. This then led to over a year of pain because my dentist didn't think there was anything wrong. After a year of this the pain got worse, I saw a new (fantastic) dentist who said I had an infection and was surprised I'd lasted that long without it getting treated. The infection was in the tooth that was causing the pain early last year, the one that should have had the root canal originally but didn't.
Since I first got toothache last year I have been absolutely crippled with fear of things going wrong with my teeth. It's all I can think about. I'm obsessing over keeping my teeth clean, what I eat, every little niggle. When I saw my new dentist who said I was going to need a root canal on the infected tooth I cried and didn't sleep for the next two days. I keep imagining pain and panicking. I know most of it is in my imagination but it feels so so real.
I feel like I don't want my teeth anymore. They're too much worry. If they went away everything would be ok, my life would be ok. I don't feel like things are ok at the moment. I can't think of anything else. I have an ulcer in my mouth at the moment, no big deal, but I've spent the last two evenings crying because I'm imagining that it's an infection in the tooth that's just had a root canal and something terrible is going to happen.
I don't know what to do, how to fix this.
My husband is a psychiatrist. He says this isn't normal and has encouraged me to see my GP. I feel like I'm not worthy of my GPs help though, what if there's nothing they can do? What if this is all just silly, everyone feels the same about their teeth and I just need to get on with it?
I'm not really asking for any advice I suppose, I just needed to write this down somewhere. Thanks for reading!
This is my first post on this forum. I've found other threads which have been a lot of help but I feel like I need to share how I'm feeling somewhere, I hope this is ok.
I'm currently (well, I have been for a while) suffering from a crippling fear of things going wrong with my teeth. It's getting worse, it's destroying my life at the moment and I don't know what to do.
I've always been a bit of an anxious person, I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism about a year ago and treating that has helped massively.
I'm trying to figure this out the best I can. Early last year I had toothache for the first time in my life. I've never been scared of the dentists, I've had a horrible experience as a teen during an extraction and a couple of fillings but I still wasn't scared.
Early last year I had toothache for the first time in my life. It was terrible. I saw the emergency dentist who made some mistakes, I ended up having a root canal on the wrong tooth. This then led to over a year of pain because my dentist didn't think there was anything wrong. After a year of this the pain got worse, I saw a new (fantastic) dentist who said I had an infection and was surprised I'd lasted that long without it getting treated. The infection was in the tooth that was causing the pain early last year, the one that should have had the root canal originally but didn't.
Since I first got toothache last year I have been absolutely crippled with fear of things going wrong with my teeth. It's all I can think about. I'm obsessing over keeping my teeth clean, what I eat, every little niggle. When I saw my new dentist who said I was going to need a root canal on the infected tooth I cried and didn't sleep for the next two days. I keep imagining pain and panicking. I know most of it is in my imagination but it feels so so real.
I feel like I don't want my teeth anymore. They're too much worry. If they went away everything would be ok, my life would be ok. I don't feel like things are ok at the moment. I can't think of anything else. I have an ulcer in my mouth at the moment, no big deal, but I've spent the last two evenings crying because I'm imagining that it's an infection in the tooth that's just had a root canal and something terrible is going to happen.
I don't know what to do, how to fix this.
My husband is a psychiatrist. He says this isn't normal and has encouraged me to see my GP. I feel like I'm not worthy of my GPs help though, what if there's nothing they can do? What if this is all just silly, everyone feels the same about their teeth and I just need to get on with it?
I'm not really asking for any advice I suppose, I just needed to write this down somewhere. Thanks for reading!