That is definitely good news about playing the trumpet! The dentist and I haven't discussed what is going to happen beyond the root canal. Do you always need a crown for a tooth that has had a root canal? I want to make sure all is done so that my son will not have recurring tooth problems. Thank you for asking this, as now I know to inquire about this with our dentist in case he doesn't bring this up.
Hello I am 18 and have been playing the trumpet for about 8 years. For the majority of those years i had a very very bad technique which involved a lot of pressure. Basically the trumpet mouth piece would crush my lips and be pressing against my teeth whilst playing.
To give you an idea of the pressure involved my little finger would turn red at the point where it contacted the trumpet due to it applying so much force towards my face.
It sounds more like the Sonata is causing this, unless this is something you've been taking for awhile, as these are common side effects of it. I doubt the B complex is causing the problem, but I wonder, when are taking it and when are you taking Sam-e?
My last refill for percocet was 10/19 and 12/09 for ambien and that was my plastic surgeon. My surgeon refused to give me anything else. He told me to find a PCP and I did 12/17 but this FNP isn't addressing my pain/insomnia effectively. On 12/17/10 she wrote me a script for indocin and benadryl. This didn't work so on 12/23/10 she wrote a questionable or I'm not sure who wrote it for sonata, percocet, and dicflonac.
I agree about talking to the doc. You might consider melatonin, though. It's OTC, safe, and works well for some people. I've been using that off-and-on throughout treatment. Go with the lowest OTC dose, though. It's a natural compound and if the body gets too much it just ignores the signal.
Also, talk to your doc about Ambien (lasts roughly 8 hours) vs. Sonata (lasts about 2 hours).
I've got a discomfort in my neck, somewhere between my thyroid cartilage and hyroid bone, about 1 inch off of center. I'm a trumpet player and may have torn/streched something down there while playing a long strenuous passage of music about 10 months ago (Finale of Stravinsky's Firebird ballet)str. The discomfort is always present and is often greatest while playing the trumpet. The sensation is a dull tightness, as though there is a lump in the area or someone is pressing on it.
The Z sleep meds, (Ambien & Sonata) can be hard to taper off due to their relatively short half life. Talk to your doctor about using a Dr Ashton style taper where you switch to valium & taper off that which should help minimize the side effects you experience.
Your GABA receptors have become tolerant to these drugs & it won't get any better if you continue with them but you should be able to taper very slowly using valium without too much discomfort.
Hi , a few years ago i played a trumpet for about 2-3 years. Since then my skin around the lips has gone really dry. The rest of my skin is fine. Every time i wash my face it shows up really bad and red. In less then 5 minutes the skin drys out and starts to crack but doesn't turn red. So i use vaseline and it helps a bit but i still have to constanly use it or it would sometimes randomly come up red and lumpy.
My pain lasts all the time and I wear my orthotic (it's basically a night guard worn all the time) every second of every day. However, my pain still continues. Every time my mouth opens I get either a single pop or a double pop. Pain flares up in my entire jaw, though I only have the TMJ disfunction in my left joint. The pain also flares down badly into my neck and my shoulders. I have gone through physical therapy and am still going through massage therapy.
Im getting terrible withdraw symptoms which affects my day to day dealings. I play jazz trumpet and I teach trumpet lessons on a day to day basis. The only break I get is on Sat and Sun. My plan of attack was to go cold turkey and hopefully the (2) day break I get would be suffice in terms of using those days to detox....umm yeah right!!! I really need help! I need to get off of the suboxone so that I can completely get my life back.
Anyway I have been with this replaced doctor for a yr and a half, I had been explaining to him that 2 vicaprofen in a 24 hour period is not sufficient he by the way had taken me off the motrin and changed my Xanax to Ativan. I also have been on sonata 10 mg for all these yrs. I was given a urine test which is pretty normal, before I took it I told him that there would prob. not be hydrocodone in it as we had been discussing that I needed more pain relief.
I have a real problem with insomnia I went to the doctor last week and got Sonata for sleep and I asked for clonadine because I knew that I would be out of pills this week and would be having w/d sysptoms. He did not want to give me that he gave me klonapin instead.. I have not told him I have a problem with pills. The sonata is not working for my insomnia so I have made an another appt to see him this week to see if I can get the clonadine.
Dr. Tsang I do have a question that I have been wondering about for sometime though, my wisdom teeth have been coming in for a while and I have hesitated to get them out because I am a musician who uses my mouth and I am going to have to take of a month from playing and I just have not had the realisitic possibility to do this in the past 3 years but my bottom wisdom teeth have bothered me because I tend to bite my cheek with them and it just hurts.
Have you tried Ambien or Sonata? I take Ambien (have been on it for about 4 years) - some nights it works well and others it's like I've taken a tic tac - but there are nights when nothing short of getting hit over the head with a hammer is going to help me sleep! I used to be on the CR version of the Ambien, until my insurance decided it wasn't going to cover that formula any longer, so now I'm back to the 10mg dose.
About 4 years ago I woke up one morning with an extrememy sore throat that felt really low in my throat. Speech was painful, but I spoke anyway. A few weeks later I laughed really hard, then woke up the next morning with my current problem:
Whenever I speak, the right side of my face gets so tight it is indistinguisable from the numbness induced by novacane.
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