I'm 42 and there are no answers. just more body creaks.
Perhaps the answer's in the creaks somehow? If you could just find a way to play them backwards like a heavy metal record maybe?
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EpicTangent - Jun 21, 2012 7:46:44 am PDT #15571 of 30001
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Zenkitty - Jun 21, 2012 7:48:53 am PDT #15572 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Steph, I validate you and agree with the previous people that you ought to follow your gut instinct here. And switching dentists mid-procedure shouldn't be a problem; it's a root canal, not a mind-meld!
I got the answer, but we're not supposed to tell. Sorry.
Epic, I sympathize. Every year I say I don't care about my birthday, and then when it comes I'm all, why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit?
(I mistyped "validate" and "validfate". Almost kept it.)
Ginger - Jun 21, 2012 8:00:26 am PDT #15573 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Happy birthday, Epic! I got to 42 and was told to rephrase the question.
If an antibiotic isn't showing any improvement now, it's not going to magically show improvement in 10 days. I think a second opinion is always in order and well worth it in the case of a tooth.
WindSparrow - Jun 21, 2012 8:05:32 am PDT #15574 of 30001
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Happy birthday, O Most Epic of Tangents!
Teppy, go with your gut on this one. A second opinion is never the wrong thing to do. If it turns out to contain the same information, well at least you will spend less time wondering What If.
DavidS - Jun 21, 2012 8:06:06 am PDT #15575 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I'm going to validate you too, Tep. Seems like there should be another couple options before you pull that tooth, and the fact that your dentist is so unresponsive to that (or my more cynical self says, is interested in making good money with an expensive tooth implant later) means you get a second opinion.
WindSparrow - Jun 21, 2012 8:11:15 am PDT #15576 of 30001
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
At what point does a car alarm become a nuisance? There is one car in the parking lot next door that keeps going off. While I was bringing laundry in off the line, it went off three times, and twice more within ten minutes of me coming indoors. I can speak for the times I was outside that no human was near it, and no squirrels or birds were on the two sides I had clear visual contact with. I think it is the one that goes off frequently while I am eating breakfast, and may be the one that goes off repeatedly in the evenings.
askye - Jun 21, 2012 8:24:47 am PDT #15577 of 30001
Thrive to spite them
Steph, I'd go to Tim's dentist for a second opinion at the very least.
Sue - Jun 21, 2012 8:24:55 am PDT #15578 of 30001
hip deep in pie
Anyway, 41 today - only one more year till I finally have the Answer!
Happy Birthday!
Le Nubian is right though. I am 10 months into 42 and the answer is elusive.
Steph L. - Jun 21, 2012 8:25:41 am PDT #15579 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Happy Birthday, Epic! Get some good ice cream, or chocolate, or something, and create your own birthday fuss!
Thanks for all the validation on my weird dentistry issue. If the tooth really needs to be pulled, so be it, but I'm very taken aback by the idea that the dentist wouldn't even try more than one antibiotic. I know how antibiotics work, and if every pathogen was able to be killed by just 1 antibiotic, well, then, there wouldn't be a kajillion antibiotics out there.
Also -- I forgot this -- she said root canals can be slow to heal because of diabetes, and I said "I don't have diabetes," and she said, "Really? Maybe you should get that checked."
HAND TO GOD.
I told her that I don't understand why she asked me the question if she's going to not believe the answer. (Also fucking inappropriate to suggest I have diabetes -- I get the connection between diabetes and slow healing, but slow healing + my fat ass does not automatically = Teh Diabeeeetus. God DAMN. I'm fat and have a parent with heart disease; I get my cholesterol and glucose tested every year.)
Anyway. I'm going to switch dentists no matter what, because I am over their shit. I just didn't know if it was okay to switch mid-root canal. Well, not mid-root canal; the actual root canal is done. Just between root canal and crown. But surely every dentist gets patients who want a second opinion, right?
my more cynical self says, is interested in making good money with an expensive tooth implant later
And this is what I was also thinking. Again, if it's so damaged (despite the total absence of pain) that it needs to be ripped out of my head, so be it. But she seemed awfully quick to jump to that option.
le nubian - Jun 21, 2012 8:36:56 am PDT #15580 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
she said root canals can be slow to heal because of diabetes, and I said "I don't have diabetes," and she said, "Really? Maybe you should get that checked."
okay, this made me laugh. ruefully.
girl, you need a new dentist.