Anesthesia used by my new dentist
Added: August 30, 2006 - 9:08 PM
By: Patient Email Withheld, Seattle, WA
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Case Description
Soon after the local anesthesia was injected I began shaking all over and my heart rate speeded up dramatically. When I asked the dental assistant what was going on she said it was a normal reaction from the epinephrine in the local. She said it would only last for a couple minutes and this was a very common reaction especially in women. I am 56 years old,weigh approximately 290 lbs and take 25 mg atenelol per day. I have a history of tachicardia. The inicident lasted over ten minutes and after that I continued to have heart palpitations. I was very concerned however the dental assistant acted very unconcerned. Was it appropriate to have given someone with my history and medication a drug with epinephrine? I have further procedures to be done and I am trying to figure out if I can trust my new dentist.
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Reply: Anesthesia used by my new dentist
added: October 05, 2006 - 4:26 PM
Most all local anesthetics have epinephron in the and this is not an unusual reaction. If you presented to the emergency room with a heart attack one of the first drugs they would give you would be epinephron. So don''''t worry and lose some weight an you will be able to go off that atenolol.
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