Nitrous Oxide, Anyone?

I've never had much (or any) experience with "drugs" and "trips" or anything like that. I've never really been interested in going down that road. However, I do insist on Nitrous Oxide whenever I have to have anything painful done on my teeth...I am very much a wimp when it comes to pain and the voluntary inflictions thereof.

So, today I had my first root canal done and they were considerate enough of my emotional state to put the mask on my face when I first entered the "room"! After a while they asked if I was feeling the effects and I replied that I wasn't sure so they turned it up. It wasn't long before I really was at the maximum and really was feeling the effects...and it was great! Everytime I started becoming a little too concerned in my mind, I made sure to take serveral deep breaths and the concern just "went away"!!

I remember thinking a bunch of thoughts, at least I thought they were a bunch of thoughts, and thinking that I need to remember this when it is over. Like, how it felt after several really deep breaths...very much like being on a merry-go-round when you are hanging on with all your strength and the world is going round faster and faster and there are little colorful globes floating around in the air! Or like, trying to keep track of what was actually going on and at the same time asking myself if I really wanted to do that. Or wondering, did that hurt? Or what was that?

Then suddenly, it's over and the dentist is asking if my head is clear yet, and I realize that it actually is...at least as much as usual.

Anyway, it was great not really being there for the whole ordeal. I recommend it to anyone.