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Hi mate .Good to hear your better.Next time you may have to go private.Pain is just not worth it.

I've never been in so much pain in my whole life.
Yes, I've had toothache, and yes, I've broken a bone or two. I've banged my head badly and had sprains and backaches and needed a walking stick with bad knees.

The tooth pain was excruciating and the only thing was to overdose on painkillers.
All behind me now, and just a "painful" memory.

ouch
hope your better, having read tooth ache can be worse than the pain of childbirth due to the number of nerves in the teeth i feel for you

They are very selfish things teeth, far to full of their own importance. Take the heart for instance, now that is important bodily part, can't quite live without it, but if it encounters a problem or two it barely lets us know. you can live fairly normally with a dicky ticker . Where as teeth, even the tiniest minutest little defect and it will scream and scream until you do something about it, and in most cases they are not even needed, just get the thing pulled out and binned!. As far as body parts go why are teeth so far up the complaining hierarchy ?

Pebble wrote: ↑11 Jun 2023, 8:12pm They are very selfish things teeth, far to full of their own importance. Take the heart for instance, now that is important bodily part, can't quite live without it, but if it encounters a problem or two it barely lets us know. you can live fairly normally with a dicky ticker . Where as teeth, even the tiniest minutest little defect and it will scream and scream until you do something about it, and in most cases they are not even needed, just get the thing pulled out and binned!. As far as body parts go why are teeth so far up the complaining hierarchy ?

because the body needs food?

Enjoying the humourous slant on this and totally agree with you about teeth. There are times when I e considered having all the rest of my teeth removed and replaced with top and bottom dentures.

Littgull wrote: ↑10 Jul 2023, 11:40am Enjoying the humourous slant on this and totally agree with you about teeth. There are times when I e considered having all the rest of my teeth removed and replaced with top and bottom dentures.

Total removal was sometimes given as a coming of age or wedding present. AFAICT the dominant reason was avoiding the cost of future dentistry. And good teeth could be sold on.

Jonathan

Pebble wrote: ↑11 Jun 2023, 8:12pm They are very selfish things teeth, far to full of their own importance. Take the heart for instance, now that is important bodily part, can't quite live without it, but if it encounters a problem or two it barely lets us know. you can live fairly normally with a dicky ticker . Where as teeth, even the tiniest minutest little defect and it will scream and scream until you do something about it, and in most cases they are not even needed, just get the thing pulled out and binned!. As far as body parts go why are teeth so far up the complaining hierarchy ?

The trick with sensation, including pain, is to think of evolutionary advantage rather than current purpose.

Jonathan

Jdsk wrote: ↑10 Jul 2023, 11:46am

Littgull wrote: ↑10 Jul 2023, 11:40am Enjoying the humourous slant on this and totally agree with you about teeth. There are times when I e considered having all the rest of my teeth removed and replaced with top and bottom dentures.

Total removal was sometimes given as a coming of age or wedding present. AFAICT the dominant reason was avoiding the cost of future dentistry. And good teeth could be sold on.

Jonathan

When I lived in S Wales there was a guy in the factory had this done on the NHS. They left the two upper front teeth. After that he was known as Di Central 'Eatin!

Al

Mick F wrote: ↑11 Jun 2023, 4:44pm All behind me now, and just a "painful" memory.

Glad of that, Mick. Hope it lasts.

Mick, I'm so glad ... to quote eric jack and bruce, that you're over it.. pain is not good, i live with someone who had a brain anneurism in 98, had it clipped inside her brain opened head from above her left eye to in front of her right ear. lost her left side in a vascular spasm and suffers several times a week with god awful headaches, she says the pain is often as bad as the worst hangover headache x10.. the good thing although you remember the pain you cannot remember the depth of it thank God..
In the past 4 weeks i've been recovering from a serious chest infection, started strangely causing me who isn't panic effected to be
exactly so, mind all over the shop, and very short of breath i couldn't breath well laying down in bed so to all intents and purpose sleeping on our big leather settee propped up with blankets pillows and sleeping very well sat up leaning back. then ankles were extremely swollen, i take 8mg of perindopil daily and thought new batch had affected me, Doctor contacted pics sent and appointment made for that afternoon , she reckons my heart is the issue so i 'm on diruetic pills to flush out the excess fluid from legs ankles etc and i am starting to see them reduce, blood pressure which was vey high has now over the last week become as normal as it can be for a reasonably fit 16st seventy year old cyclist and car guy at 87/145.. I take your point though, it really sets you straight in your head just how tight a guy you thought you were and aren't..I had a ECG done and they're happy with that and my BP waiting on a chest Xray,no heart issues from my folk at all. I think i'll mount the pedals this incoming week.. stay safe guys.. will

Look after yourself mate.

I've not been cycling as much as I used to. I did 30miles yesterday and I was knackered!
For the first time in my cycling life, cyclists were overtaking me, and not just that, it felt like they were whizzing past me.

Hello, willcee, I have been mithering about what you have said about your panic and blood pressure etc and I have to say it mirrors exactly what I felt when I was in serious heart failure due to a virus and the GPs did not pick it up despite ecg and xray etc. I was in hospital eventuallyfor three weeks and I have survived for over thirty years with consquently damaged heart muscle and atrial fibrillation. I was lucky, I think. I am not a doctor but I want you to see a cardiologist pronto and I encourage you not to take a NO from the GP. The crucial thing for me is your experience of anxiety and uncharacteristic panic. I think it's your body saying that there is something far wrong.
I am sorry it has taken me too long to reply,
Tim