Re: Dental Work & Carbocaine

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Some people have " weird nerves " in different places, and are just plain hard

to get numb. Your dentist may not have given you enough carbocaine. Your

case does not necessarily mean that every one else will have a problem with

carbocaine. There was nothing to clue you in on.

Jen M

Dental Work & Carbocaine

> I recently had some dental work done -- with carbocaine -- and it did not

> work well for me at all. In my case, it took much longer to work and it

never

> completely numbed the area where the work was being done. Also, it's

> " effectiveness " wears off much more rapidly than novocaine due to the lack

of epinephrine

> (sp?).

>

> In retrospect, I would take a beta blocker 2 or 3 days before having the

> dental work done (my endo's late suggestion) and take novocaine. It's my

belief

> that I was much more stressed with the carbocaine than I would have been

with

> novocaine, so any benefit it may have had for my heart was lost. I'm also

taking

> MMI so I feel that my GD is reasonably under control. (Obviously, it would

be

> a different story if you were extremely hyper.)

>

> At any rate, I don't mean to scare anyone, but I wish someone had clued me

in

> to the possible downsides of carbocaine before I was in the dental chair.

>

> Shelly M.

>

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