Hi everyone, I need help.
I've been on a waiting list for ages to go to a dental hospital for review for treatment under sedation. Since having DS I've had quite bad gum disease and whilst its better, its certainly not great. I'm also horrific at the dentists, uncontrollable nerves... so, needing a deep clean below the gum line fills me with dread (can't manage a basic scale and polish ) so...
My dentist arranged for a referral to a local dental clinic that can carry the treatment out under sedation.. not GA but a drug that will relax me enough to be able to have the treatment and I've been waiting for the appt since July last year.... (laT wonders if she's ever mentioned this on MN... anyhow... ) I finally had my appt today.
They x-rayed my teeth, not one of those horrible 'bite on sharp bit of plastic' x-rays, but a nice pain free 'x-ray machine rotates around head' x-rays.
So, I need four fillings replacing, an extraction of a root that is infected and has been left from work I had done about 20 years ago (!!!) as well as the gum deep clean that I was originally referred for.
As I'm quite 'anxious' (read highly stressed and nearing pass out point when anyone so much as prods me in my mouth) I will have this work done under 'sedation', not a GA, just a drug that will 'relax' me enough to enable them to do the work.
So, do I start TTC? Or do I wait for this appt? I'll need three in total. Why is this happening to me? PG must happen to people and they'll just sort it won't they, and delay the treatment till after the pg? I'm not in any pain, and I've been waiting for this appt for about 9 months already, so it can't be that urgent, right? What would you guys do (please remember back to before you got your BFP's to when you were desperate to be pregnant).
I'm sure life shouldn't be this hard.
Sorry for constant me, me, me posts, really I am.