Watty's Awakening

Watty1

Two £50 prizes on the premium bonds Wahoo     Following excellent suggestion on here it simply goes back into the premium bond pot and is reinvested but am delighted as this is the animals "health" pot.

Watty1

i agree it was a trauma response but have been so busy at work trying to clear up before another day at the dentist tomorrow I have just shelved that for now.   "Day at the Dentist" sounds like a nice adventure but I'm really not looking forward to it at all. Have packed credit card as part of the bill will need paying tomorrow I think.   

beanielou

Hope all goes well.

PennysIntoPounds

Hurrah for a hundred quid more in the PB/animals fund!

Hope it all goes as smoothly as possible tomorrow, it'll be worth it in the end

savingholmes

Nice win. 

Hope the dental trip isn't too bad. 

KajiKita

Good luck with the dentist today. Will be thinking of you. 

KK

LadyWithAPlan

Good luck with the dentist - I didn’t have a bridge as it does weaken the teeth next to it so I wanted a long term ‘best ‘ solution but I am sure your dentists advice is specific to you and your mouth 

@debtfreewannabe321 @Watty1 I am so sorry you have both been through these experiences- it does scar you and there  may be a part of you (especially in your body) that will always remember the trauma response 
Yoga can be incredibly helpful to releasing trauma and the physical responses, it allows you to reconnect safely with your body - I did a month yoga retreat once alongside a lady who had been stabbed over 20 times by an ex - and she was using the yoga to bring balance back and reconnect - she said it had been hugely helpful in downgrading her body’s stress responses and starting to feel safe again - yoga actually means health and helps the mind and the body 
I really should start doing some again ! 

debtfreewannabe321

LadyWithAPlan said:

Good luck with the dentist - I didn’t have a bridge as it does weaken the teeth next to it so I wanted a long term ‘best ‘ solution but I am sure your dentists advice is specific to you and your mouth 

@debtfreewannabe321 @Watty1 I am so sorry you have both been through these experiences- it does scar you and there  may be a part of you (especially in your body) that will always remember the trauma response 
Yoga can be incredibly helpful to releasing trauma and the physical responses, it allows you to reconnect safely with your body - I did a month yoga retreat once alongside a lady who had been stabbed over 20 times by an ex - and she was using the yoga to bring balance back and reconnect - she said it had been hugely helpful in downgrading her body’s stress responses and starting to feel safe again - yoga actually means health and helps the mind and the body 
I really should start doing some again ! 

Wow! Poor her that sounds awful! I use meditation in the same way. I am in a good place with it all now. I don't let my past define me in any way anymore...takes a while to get to this place though ❤️ 

Good luck today Watty ❤️

Watty1

Yes I really want to get back to yoga sometime soon too.

Thank you all for your good wishes however it seems @Slinky was on point.  I saw my regular dentist first who asked how I was feeling about the afternoon's work and then launched into why he didn't think it was a good idea and why he thought it would fail very quickly and so on.  He kept saying he did not want to be critical of a fellow professional but a guiding principle of dentistry was that the patient should always come first. He said this about 6 times!     He then pulled up my x-rays and talked through why he thinks the planned work will fail.    He said it was up to me but I have been a patient for a while and he likes me and he didn't want to see me waste £3500 on something he can't see working.

A bit confused I said I wasn't really sure what to do now and he said "get another opinion".  The followed up by telling me of a specialist at another dentist that does referral work and who I should go and have a chat with and then decide.  This referral person is a specialist in restoration and implants and all he does is work on referrals from other dentists and it will apparently cost around  £150 to £200 to have the chat and then I can decide what and who I would like to do the work.

Interestingly I asked how I was going to get out of the appointment later and my dentist sent his nurse  to say I was seeking a second opinion  I checked both dentist and nurse were happy with this because they had to work with the other dentist and was told that (a) he was leaving the practice (which I knew) and (b) neither of them saw any possibility of working with him in the future anyway

Now I really do like my dentist and I was going to ask his opinion before the work began but the fact he couldn't wait to share his thoughts made me think the second opinion worth seeking before I do anything.    Interestingly i also raised I still have the toothache I went in with and he suggested we give it a few days to let the work that has been done settle and then look at the really old crown next to the tooth that has just been worked on.

So all in all I'm happy with the outcome for now.

Slinky

Sorry to hear about your tooth Watty, but it certainly sounds as though another opinion would be worthwhile to help you decide one way or the other. Well done on not pushing ahead just because you had an appointment booked.

When he said that the work could last decades, I had to say I was a bit doubtful at that point. It's so easy for an infection to set in at a weak spot in the body and you'd have to think a filled root always has potential to cause trouble.

I hope that the pain eases soon and you get to the root (bad pun, groan) of the problem.