Re: Re: Root Canal

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In a message dated 7/27/2001 10:09:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time,

bowjude@... writes:

<< I recently have had two root canals. If you have a good dentist they

are painless. You will probably have a dull tooth ache for a few

days afterwards but Advil will help. I didn't experience any

problems with the anaesthetic.

>>

Thank you, thank you, thank you, Greg! Yours is the first positive input

I've received about root canals, and it was desperately needed since I have

spent most of my vacation worrying about this upcoming procedure. I had been

thoroughly frightened by horror stories told by well-intentioned friends. To

hear from a fellow afib sufferer that you survived the procedure with no

problems has brightened my day and greatly lessened my anxiety. Pain is not

my major concern, since I have had most dental work done with no anesthetic

due to fear of epinephrine, but I am concerned about the effect of that

anesthetic on my hyperactive heart. Do you know what kind of anesthetic was

used for your root canals? I assume that it was the type with some

epinephrine since my endodontist tells me that the type with no epinephrine

would not be long lasting enough for the hour and a half procedure.

It's now looking as if I will undergo my root canal while in afib since I

went into afib yesterday on schedule (day 12 of my 11-14 day cycle). I had

hoped that the milk elimination experiment and flaxseed oil would be a

deterrent to my scheduled afib, but I'm not giving up my search for the cause

of my afib after yet another failed experiment. It seems that the process of

slipping into afib is becoming easier and easier for me in the sense that the

first moments of afib are now much less discernible than they were in the

beginning eighteen years ago when the afib would exert a cataclysmic effect

on my entire body. The line between sinus and afib must be very fine. If I

follow my typical afib schedule, I will be about due to convert to sinus at

about the time of the root canal or shortly thereafter. Perhaps that

epinephrine will jolt me back into sinus!

Thanks again for taking the time to share your experience with root canals,

Greg. I really appreciate the cheer and calming effect your note brought me.

Gratefully,

in cloudy, cold, rainy Seattle, just returned from sunny, hot eastern

Washington (like another universe) Brrrrr!

P.S. It just occurred to me that perhaps I should mention that while I was

in eastern Washington at a much higher (mountain) elevation, I noticed a

certain breathlessness with my afib that I have not noticed at the lower

Seattle elevation. Perhaps I could become accustomed to the higher elevation

and in time would not notice the breathlessness, but I wonder if differences

in elevation could partially account for some of the differences in afib

symptoms, such as breathlessness, we different individuals experience.

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<< Pain is not

my major concern, since I have had most dental work done with no anesthetic

due to fear of epinephrine, but I am concerned about the effect of that

anesthetic on my hyperactive heart. Do you know what kind of anesthetic was

used for your root canals? I assume that it was the type with some

epinephrine since my endodontist tells me that the type with no epinephrine

would not be long lasting enough for the hour and a half procedure. >>

, I have had a good bit of dental surgery (root canals, periodontal

surgery, etc.) since I've had afib. My dentists also told me that without

epinephrine the anesthetic would not last long enough, so my anesthetic did

contain epinephrine and I had no ill effects. I should say that my afib

(knock on wood!) does not seem to be as bad as many others on this list, so

perhaps that had something to do with it. I also felt absolutely no pain on

any of these occasions and not all that much afterward. Tylenol took care of

most of it. Good luck!

Brenta