Ok, all you weed-soaked hippies out there, learn from my mistake:
I went to the Dentist this morning to have 3 cavaties filles, and after the 1st shot of novocaine, she begins to drill. After about 30 seconds, she hits a non-deadened nerve. I say HOhoHo. She stops.
She gives me more novocaine and we wait, then she continues. about 10 secs in
OUCH!
She gives me more novocaine (the strong stuff( and we wait. About 10 secs into it
MEGAOUCH!
She comes back and says “May I ask you a personal question? Do you use any recreational drugs such as Marijuana?”
I answer “Yes, MJ,” because I never lie to my doctor(s).
She says “Marijuana interferes with the operation of novocaine and other pain killers, It usualyy takes about 2-3 weeks of nonuse for novocaine to be effective.”
She then put in temporary fillings and I reschedule for 3 weeks ahead.
LEARN FROM MY LESSON, FRIENDS.
If you rock the Ganj, stop at least 2 weeks before you see a dentist.
IF YOU ROCK THE GANJ, STOP AT LEAST 2 WEEKS BEFORE YOU SEE A DENTIST.
That is all.
Ow! that sucks.
All my cavities were filled without novocaine because my dentist as a child was a sadistic freak. But for those ones, the drilling was less painful than the novocaine needle can be.
I didn’t mind the needle at all. The searing bright through-body singular experience of pain from the drill on the other hand, was not so good.
Maybe I’m just a big sissy.
(Maybe?)
I’ve never minded the needle, myself, but as an adult I’ve been quite resistant to freezing. When I went in for a root canal a couple years ago I just wouldn’t freeze and they had to put the needle directly on a nerve. Christ on a bike, that hurt. It worked though, and left me a captive audience for the only full episode of Babylon 5 I’ve ever seen.
hrmm, this would be a good time to go to the dentist, i haven’t been a team player for a couple months, good to know