Tinnitus Worse After Tooth Drilling

[object16]

I just got back from yet another endless trip to the dentist. I must have chipped a filling, except he said two were chipped and needed to be repaired. I could only handle getting one fixed. There was a lot of drilling, way in the back, where the bone transmission to the ear is intense.

They already know I have severe suicidal tinnitus and try to be as minimal as possible. But now that I have taken my bedtime sedative and laid down, it is immediately obvious that things are much worse.

For situations like this, I have a tiny amount of morphine from a very old prescription. I just took half a tablet (2.5 mg). I have been down to 0.25 mg of Clonazepam, but I took an extra 1.5 mg along with an extra 50 mg of Seroquel. If that does not work within another hour, which I doubt it will, I will take maybe 3.75 mg of Imovane. Anything just to get to sleep.

When I am asleep, I do not hear anything. If I cannot sleep, it spirals. And I am just so frustrated, like, it is bad enough dealing with what I already have, so why do my teeth have to be crummy too?

 

[Michael1122]

Take another sedative—or not. Read the bottle's instructions.

Tinnitus is really mind over matter. It truly is. I recommend finding a calming agent, whether it's Xanax or something stronger, to help take your focus off the tinnitus.

 

[RunningMan]

Take another sedative—or not. Read the bottle's instructions.

Tinnitus is really mind over matter. It truly is. I recommend finding a calming agent, whether it's Xanax or something stronger, to help take your focus off the tinnitus.

Xanax shouldn't be taken along with the large doze of Clonazepam he took, which is also a benzo, with a much longer half life than Xanax.

Mind over matter might work for stable mild to moderate tinnitus.

 

[object16]

I'm thinking about just pulling my teeth and going with dentures. It seems very drastic, but it's 2:30 in the afternoon, and I'm still in bed.

Before the dental work, I was actually starting to do alright. My Clonazepam was down to 0.25 mg, but now I'm at 2 mg, plus Lyrica 225 mg and Seroquel 125 mg—everything has been pushed up. I didn't take Morphine last night since that's a nuclear option.

Having crummy teeth that need constant repairs for chipped or worn-out fillings is frustrating. In the old days, metal fillings were durable, but now it's this white material that chips easily. One piece of unpopped popcorn, and you're suffering for it.

 

[object16]

I'm now reading about dentures, and I don't like that idea either.

I'm thinking a mind-over-matter approach might be best. I see a lot of people here with severe tinnitus that sounds just as bad as mine, if not worse. I think I'd rather die than have all my teeth pulled, go without them for months, and still have to work in a job where I need to speak for a living.

No, I think I'll just keep getting them repaired. I went back and read my "introduce yourself" post from 2013, and it was really, really bad—I was sure I was going to end it all. But now, 12 years later, nothing that drastic has happened. Plus, I'm 68, and my wife has a 100% survivor benefit on my pension. Sure, my family would prefer me to be alive, so I think I'm just going to stick with Clonazepam.

 

[Pinhead]

Was it the drilling? I am having a tooth pulled on Wednesday and I am terrified.