I have always had trouble getting my teeth drilled. No matter how much novocaine they give me, I can still feel it...and it sucks.
I had to get a new dentist, and he did all the usual stuff...give you the shot...wait...drill, and...I could feel it, hurt like Hell.
So he repeats with another shot...same thing.
And again.
Then he says “You can’ possibly feel that.” Indeed, the side of my face felt like it had a stroke. But I could feel it.
Then he says...I’ll give one more. And he put it in, and...voila! It didn’t hurt when he drilled!
He said I had really strange nerve configuration in my lower jaw. Now, in the few times he has had to drill, he gives me one shots and it kills the pain. I think of all those years of pain...but I don’t blame them. How would they have known?
I am similar. The first time I had a tooth drilled as a child, the pain was unbelievable - I think he did it without novocaine. I didn’t believe such pain possible, but I was a ‘good child’, and didn’t think my parents would put me through this unless it was necessary, so I bore it without complainaing. But I was terrified of the dentist for years after that.
Eventually I learned about novocaine, and though the dentist sometimes had to give me multiple shots before it worked, drilling never bothered me again. For pain after dental work, like having a tooth pulled: Beer!
I can’t stand the way pharmaceutical pain meds make you feel; my brain would get so fuzzy I couldn’t do anything productive on them.