At least you come by it honestly! I've been taking Valium to go to the dentist for, what, a decade. Sometimes I think I inflicted my anxiety onto you via brain waves.
(In addition to the Valium, which, take it a good hour beforehand, I've used some vaguely self-distract-y, self-hypnosis-y mental exercises that have worked to keep the blood pressure down. Like counting to 10 really slowly over and over while thinking about nothing but the number -- or, if you're me, while thinking about nothing but the fact that you're supposed to think about the number and you're not doing that. That worked fine, during my wisdom teeth -- right up until they couldn't get the needle into a vein on the first try. But then the benzo kicked in and I remember nozzing till an hour later.)
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Date: 2009-06-10 01:58 am (UTC)(In addition to the Valium, which, take it a good hour beforehand, I've used some vaguely self-distract-y, self-hypnosis-y mental exercises that have worked to keep the blood pressure down. Like counting to 10 really slowly over and over while thinking about nothing but the number -- or, if you're me, while thinking about nothing but the fact that you're supposed to think about the number and you're not doing that. That worked fine, during my wisdom teeth -- right up until they couldn't get the needle into a vein on the first try. But then the benzo kicked in and I remember nozzing till an hour later.)