Blowing the nurse off (and you in the process) is negligent disregard for a patient. Have him disciplined. When I had mine pulled, after he was finished, I ended up having to grab the dentist by the lapels and demand pain meds. My grandfather had his pulled without any anesthesia. Drove home, told everyone that a real man didn't need anesthesia and promptly fainted from the pain.

this happened to me, but my teeth were being drilled out. i said "i can feel it" his resonse:no. you just think you can.

You can totally sue if you wanted to. As a pharmacology major, the first thing we're taught is that under surgical conditions, the patient MUST be PROPERLY anesthetized through the entire procedure.

There are quite a few people who are immune to anaesthesia but don't know it (recent genetic studies citing redheads in particular). And while I don't have personal experience I'm sure it does not just "majorly suck" but it's very traumatizing. It is actually a problem that researchers and doctors are dealing with. There have been quite a few cases of patients waking up but being unable to move or indicate that they can feel everything. I'm not sure how it works but I think it has to do with some kinds of general anaesthesia acting as both a paralytic agent as well as a sedative, and the paralysis sets in but not the sedation (once again, not totally sure if this is true). http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2004-10-22-waking-up_x.htm As for suing, the reason there might be a case is not because she woke up, but because the nurse NOTICED she woke up but the doctor told her to ignore it. The doctor may have been unaware but considering this is an acknowledged problem in medicine, that is negligent. I doubt she would win the case, but at the very least it could bring awareness to the issue.

While any of these FMLs might be fake, it is INCREDIBLY thoughtless to say that the OP doesn't know what's going on or that she should be THRASHING ABOUT when they're paralyzed. Since you seem to know so much about pain you should realize that, yea, it had to really ******* hurt, or at the very least was scary as shit. I'm glad that you've decided that since you haven't experienced it, it can't exist.

SHENANAGINS!!! No oral surgeon would say that. As a pre-dental student, I can assure everyone who is now freaked out about the dentist that this is so incredibly fake. -_-

this is where flailing legs solve everything

Sue, that's all i have to say.

local anesthetic doesn't really do much to mask the sensation. you won't feel pain, but you will feel the weirdest sensation of yanking, drilling, cutting, slicing, blood splattering and sewing in the world. my experience was of a dentist rocking back and forth to use his body weight to get the tooth out. after about 5 minutes of that he decided to just cut everything to pieces and take it out bit by bit. so he took one of those circular electric saw things, and start ripping everything up. yes, i saw blood splattering out of my mouth and all over the bib. i felt something pressing against my gums, i knew it was the drill, but it wasn't painful. i had about an hour of that for two teeth on one side. when i got out of the room, i was sitting around waiting for the painkiller prescription. the anesthetic was still in effect, so i started playing with a little clogged pore near my lip. i squeezed it until the skin tore off, but i didn't stop because i couldn't feel pain. left me with a big round scar for two weeks.

I'd cuss him out... and sue him :D