Extreme, immediate reaction to pain or stress- anyone else?

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Not sure if this relates to you, but many people who suffer from PTSD have extreme dental fear:

How could a visit to the dentist trigger memories or feelings of past abuse?

Many aspects of dental treatment have been found to symbolically represent sexual abuse for many survivors. The following conditions may trigger a repetition of earlier trauma:

being alone with a person more powerful than oneself,
being placed in a horizontal position,
having someone nearby and touching you,
having objects placed in one’s mouth,
being unable to talk or swallow, and
experiencing or anticipating pain.

Many dental experiences may remind the patient of their abuse experience in that they produce awkward sensations of suffocation, such as in the use of rubber dams, or gagging sensations, or feeling restrained in their movement.

Just food for thought.

Sunny

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I used to get lidocaine/botox TPInjections in my back and I had to b sedated, the doc told me that when i come in to calm myself because when he put me out I would jerk when he'd inject me as if I was awake but I wasn't supposed to be jerking so I'd wake up with sore injection spots.

Other than that I am fine with needles at the dentist or elsewhere. I laugh hysterically whenever I get any kind of shot, its quite the scene. . .lol nurses and docs walk past smiling and laughing, I'm known in the doc office as the woman who laughs when I get shots. . .lol