I gave someone else the "why dental analgesics like novocaine don't work as long in many people with Ehlers Danlos" advice so I'm top-leveling it because it's always helpful to SOMEONE every time I post it
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rahaeli
Okay! The problem with EDS is our tissue perfusion is Weird. The two key things: use articaine instead of lidocaine, and ask the dentist to do an intraligamentary block, not the standard INAB block. Then, start testing for onset MUCH earlier than they usually do.
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My mom gets itchy from morphine - I get barely any pain relief, no euphoria, just a mild additional detachment.
Somehow I'd missed this one.
The numbing itself lasts way _too_ long - 4 to 5 hours - but actually getting the numbing shots hurts so damn much I prefer to skip them altogether and just deal with the dental work, which for the most part doesn't hurt as much. 🧵
I have EDSh; at least 2, maybe 3 of the MCR1 red hair genes; a perinatal ABO HDN treatment; opthalmic trigeminal chicken poxing as a toddler, etc.
My body is hella weird.
...this was strangely perfectly timed. (I'd been planning to dig it up, because even though the one the first one referred me to doesn't work with Medicare at all, I need to find one.)
I've never figured out why local anesthesia doesn't work well.
I don't show signs of EDS (yet).
I'm am "coded" autistic.
But I've been like this since I was a child.
Scary thing being 11 waking up during a tooth pull because they have to rotate you off the nitrous gas and saying
That was more surgical (adult tooth grew in very fast behind bany tooth). The next time he pulled a less problematic
And barely got it out before it wore off.
Then told me my wisdom teeth and any other things that they'd normally use local...to get put under. And I did.
I got 2 stitches in my thumb and the second one was VERY painful.