Wednesday, May 18, 2016

pain

dtoday I got to new tooth implants. Happy happy, if it weren't of the pain.

Imagine yourself laying on the dentist's chair, fully packed with antiseptic covering, waiting to be drilled in an area that always has been extremely sensitive (the lower jaw bone, right end). The dentist kept on adding injection after injection, without result. Finally he surrendered, adding that a former infection might be the cause of this horror story. Pain. It clearly isn't.

As far as I know, pain is just an electrical impuls sent from a local nerve to the brain, that declares it a pain. There is no pain, unless my brain tells me so.

So, how can I convince my brain that the implanting of two new teeth should not cause pain?

The one who finds the real answer to this question will probably get a Noble prize. Good for you! Do let me know!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

you know, each level of anything we can handle is usually different.
for instance with me, with daily life living in DPS, and going to kintamani was cold for me back then, what I did is inhale a deep breath and say to my self "its fresh", so luckily it worked. and when I was in the NL, I did the same trick, it work for about 10 minutes and I ran back inside the house. after a few while, I get used to the cold. odd?
pain work the same way, the level of handling is different. maybe say instead of saying it is not hurt, but you try to enjoy the sensation of it, say that if the pain will be gone after treatment, you might miss it.
usually when I got sick, that is what I am doing, enjoying every bit of it sensation that my body felt.
hope this help.

paul bavo said...

thanks sweetie, I'll try your approach! For the moment, the pain is bearable :-)