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Saradraws
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|  Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2013 2:18 pm?? ?Post subject: Dental work and Nitrous Oxide |  |
| | I recently had a root canal done, since I grind my teeth when I sleep and cracked a large molar. The dental surgeon who did the procedure used Nitrous Oxide on me. Before the procedure, he told me that I would feel giggly, floaty, very chilled out, and dreamy. He also said that my sense of time would be altered - an hour seeming to go by in mere minutes.
He froze up the area around the tooth and began giving me the gas. He asked me every few minutes whether I felt anything. And I kept saying 'no'. I didn't feel anything. So he kept edging the mixture of Nitrous Oxide up and the Oxygen down, so I was getting more and more Nitrous and less O2. Within about 20 minutes, I was at the highest dose he was able to give, and I still felt the same as always.. maybe a bit calmer, but I certainly wasn't experiencing the floaty, giddy, dreamy thing, and time was passing just the same as I usually perceived it. I felt totally normal and was able to think and communicate just as well as always. For the entire duration of the procedure (a little over an hour), I felt nothing at all from the continual inhalation of the gas.
I was wondering if anyone else had a similar reaction... er.. non-reaction.. to Nitrous Oxide as I did. Does anyone have a theory as to why this happened? It really was strange. The dental surgeon told me he'd never had a patient who could just shrug off such a high dose like it was nothing. |
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| | Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2013 3:02 pm?? ?Post subject: Re: Dental work and Nitrous Oxide | |
| | Saradraws wrote: | | I recently had a root canal done, since I grind my teeth when I sleep and cracked a large molar. The dental surgeon who did the procedure used Nitrous Oxide on me. Before the procedure, he told me that I would feel giggly, floaty, very chilled out, and dreamy. He also said that my sense of time would be altered - an hour seeming to go by in mere minutes.
He froze up the area around the tooth and began giving me the gas. He asked me every few minutes whether I felt anything. And I kept saying 'no'. I didn't feel anything. So he kept edging the mixture of Nitrous Oxide up and the Oxygen down, so I was getting more and more Nitrous and less O2. Within about 20 minutes, I was at the highest dose he was able to give, and I still felt the same as always.. maybe a bit calmer, but I certainly wasn't experiencing the floaty, giddy, dreamy thing, and time was passing just the same as I usually perceived it. I felt totally normal and was able to think and communicate just as well as always. For the entire duration of the procedure (a little over an hour), I felt nothing at all from the continual inhalation of the gas.
I was wondering if anyone else had a similar reaction... er.. non-reaction.. to Nitrous Oxide as I did. Does anyone have a theory as to why this happened? It really was strange. The dental surgeon told me he'd never had a patient who could just shrug off such a high dose like it was nothing. |
Actually, I cracked a molar last week, went into the dentist, and had nitrous for the first time. It worked like a charm. Since my problem was unexpected, the dentist had to work me in around her regularly scheduled patients. So, it took about four hours. The nitrous made it seem like minutes, and felt fantastic. I found myself wanting to listen to Pink Floyd and Tangerine Dream even though I was getting some serious dental work done.
I have to wonder whether you were breathing the nitrous in properly. Have you even smoked tobacco or cannabis? In all cases, you must get the smoke or gas into the lungs. If you were by chance breathing through your mouth, it would short-circuit the process, and nothing would happen. |
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| | Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2013 10:09 pm?? ?Post subject: Re: Dental work and Nitrous Oxide | |
| | Thelibrarian wrote: | | I have to wonder whether you were breathing the nitrous in properly. Have you even smoked tobacco or cannabis? In all cases, you must get the smoke or gas into the lungs. If you were by chance breathing through your mouth, it would short-circuit the process, and nothing would happen. |
Good thinking, but the mask used was a nose-only mask, to allow the dentist access to the tooth. I have used pot before.. quite a lot in HS and my early 20's, and that always got me floating!
When I was being given the gas, I consciously tried to make sure I was breathing deeply and using my diaphragm more than my chest. Most people are chest breathers, but I had some vocal training and learned how to use the diaphragm breathing for singing.
When I was a little kid, I had bacterial spinal meningitis and was given an inhalant anaesthetic during the spinal tap. It worked back then, but I have no idea what the gas they used was. I was four, and it was 1979. Could have been any number of different gasses.. on that one, I did feel floaty, disconnected, dreamy, high and trippy.
I react oddly to meds though. Give me codeine, and you may as well give me a sugar pill. Morphine too. It takes a very high dose of strong narcotics to put me into a painless haze. But if you give me anything in the benzodiazepine class, even a quarter of a usual dose, I am comatose for 12+ hours! When I'm on my antidepressants, I take about half a standard adult dose and do well, but if I'm given a full dose, I get way too logy and the side effects hit me very hard. Even Benadryl reacts oddly with me. Half a pill and I'm fine.. sleepy and slow, but fine. A whole one, and I'm pinging off the walls for the next 24 hours. My list of med sensitivities is long and scary. sh** like seizures, anaphylaxis, hallucinations.
Despite not reacting to the nitrous, the root canal procedure was not painful, overly distressing, or at all upsetting. If I ever have to go through it again, I won't worry nearly as much as I did before this one! |
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| | Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2013 10:37 pm?? ?Post subject: Re: Dental work and Nitrous Oxide | |
| | Saradraws wrote: | | Thelibrarian wrote: | | I have to wonder whether you were breathing the nitrous in properly. Have you even smoked tobacco or cannabis? In all cases, you must get the smoke or gas into the lungs. If you were by chance breathing through your mouth, it would short-circuit the process, and nothing would happen. |
Good thinking, but the mask used was a nose-only mask, to allow the dentist access to the tooth. I have used pot before.. quite a lot in HS and my early 20's, and that always got me floating!
When I was being given the gas, I consciously tried to make sure I was breathing deeply and using my diaphragm more than my chest. Most people are chest breathers, but I had some vocal training and learned how to use the diaphragm breathing for singing.
When I was a little kid, I had bacterial spinal meningitis and was given an inhalant anaesthetic during the spinal tap. It worked back then, but I have no idea what the gas they used was. I was four, and it was 1979. Could have been any number of different gasses.. on that one, I did feel floaty, disconnected, dreamy, high and trippy.
I react oddly to meds though. Give me codeine, and you may as well give me a sugar pill. Morphine too. It takes a very high dose of strong narcotics to put me into a painless haze. But if you give me anything in the benzodiazepine class, even a quarter of a usual dose, I am comatose for 12+ hours! When I'm on my antidepressants, I take about half a standard adult dose and do well, but if I'm given a full dose, I get way too logy and the side effects hit me very hard. Even Benadryl reacts oddly with me. Half a pill and I'm fine.. sleepy and slow, but fine. A whole one, and I'm pinging off the walls for the next 24 hours. My list of med sensitivities is long and scary. sh** like seizures, anaphylaxis, hallucinations.
Despite not reacting to the nitrous, the root canal procedure was not painful, overly distressing, or at all upsetting. If I ever have to go through it again, I won't worry nearly as much as I did before this one! |
I understand. I had a brother who died a junkie, yet I really don't like narcotics myself.
Good luck on any further mouth surgeries. |
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