Root Canals Hurts? Should I Ask For A Specific Anesthesia?

If it was me I would not let them use the drug

Versed ( Midazolam ) for the procedure.

In fact, many people who use Versed for " IV Sedation,Conscious Sedation" Twilight Sedation, during a procedure are awake for the entire procedure but remember nothing, often believing they were "out" the whole time.

Versed (Midazolam) is an amnestic. It is also commonly used for minor procedures like setting broken bones,colonoscopies,endoscopies, dental procedures like extractions,conscious sedation,twilight sleep, so that patients won't remember pain and discomfort.HOWEVER THAT DOES NOT MEAN THAT THOSE SENSATIONS WILL NOT BE EXPERIENCED!!!!Forgetting does not mean it did not happen!!

I FEEL IF PATIENTS WERE MADE AWARE THEY MAY FEEL PAIN OR DISCOMFORT THEY

WOULD OPT FOR ANOTHER DRUG!!!!!!!Do you think it is ok to erase someone's memory of

what was done to them??

Here is a note from a Dentist Who uses Versed

I've used Versed 1000+ times during oral surgery procedures and I've never had a complaint. It's a miracle drug because it is safe and it causes you to not remember an unpleasant experience. My answer to him is isn't it better to have not experienced the pain than to have forgot it. No wonder you have had no complaints they have no memory of the procedure.....

Here is a note from someone that did use versed for a procedure

I know I was sedated, I don't remember anything.. but I know I was screaming, everyone could hear me.. My thing is how was I screaming if I'm knocked out. I will never consent to amnesia drugs again; I would much rather be put completely out, not just sleepy with memory impairment.

My wife had her broken bone(Femur)set in the emergency room just before surgery to repair it. They gave her versed and I waited outside of the room and could hear her screaming in pain,they did not appear to be concerned as they told me she would not remember anything and she did not. BUT THAT DOES NOT MEAN THAT IT DID NOT HAPPEN AND THAT SHE DID NOT SUFFER

A note from an anesthesiologist

I agree that using midazolam alone in painful situations is wrong. I've heard people getting colonoscopies and screaming, and maybe they remember, maybe they don't.

Amnesia does not take place for all patients!!!!!

Listen carefully when a Doctor tells a patient they should have a colonoscopy they are told you won't remember anything and not you will not feel anything.

My sister in- law had her baby years ago and we saw her after the delivery she complained about

how bad the pain was and had to be restrained.She had twilight sedation with Versed and a few hours later

she had no memory of any of this and thinks she slept thru the whole thing...

For the root canals I've had the dentist always gave the tooth plenty of time to go to 'sleep' and would also say to motion if there was any pain for he would stop and wait a bit longer to make sure there wouldn't be any pain. You said you felt the pain or did you mean you sensed it more than felt it? When they aren't working on the nerves directly they do use a different approach to how they deaden the area. When it's a root canal they change that for they can't have someone jumping out of the chair because of the pain.

It won't hurt; it's utterly painless. I don't know the place the horror stories have come from. Perhaps forty years in the past, anyone had a foul expertise, but there have been huge improvements on the grounds that that point.