This begins to look like a conversation! I had (or rather, my husband had, as he was the original wine-maker), a collection of little books on wine-making from English authors--the generic term for the product is "country wines"--those made not from grapes, but from garden fruits, vegetables. I was also actively interested in historic practices, e.g., Lady Eleanor Fettiplace's "Lemmon mead" recipe (I think that was 16th C). A fun note--grapes contain 4 acids (no doubt others, but I'm no chemist) necessary for becoming wine: tannic, tartaric, citric, malic. In these old English recipes (receipts?) one was directed to add lemons, sliced, (the citric), raisins (the tartaric), black tea (tannic)--don't remember how the malic was handled. Perhaps apple slices. I had in mind to make specific herbal wines (lavender, lemon balm) which I would use when cooking. Made those wines, but never got around to using them. Well, a new era of life is now mine, so perhaps once again I will essay this. Also, at a restaurant in St. Andrews (Scotland) in 2002, I had oak-leaf wine--oh, delicious! and wanted so to make it but never got around to it.
Tannins and astringents---decades ago, a bottle of the strawberry soda made from a beyond-bumper crop of strawberries (and bottled in champagne bottles under crown caps) proved to be under way too much pressure when opened. The bottle "exploded"; strawberry delight and broken glass flew up; a a shard right flew right under, and into, my chin. Blood ran freely. Must have mashed a kleenex on the wound, but ran out to the herb garden, grabbed a handful of yarrow, chewed it and stuck the paste onto the wound. Bleeding stopped, right away, if I remember correctly. Husband took me to ER; nurses wondered what on earth was this crud on my chin.....( I think they were a bit scared).
Got another one for you, then. Same decades ago, in my experimental wine-making stage, I made elecampane (root) wine. It was sovereign for bad coughs--and tasted fantastic. An acquaintance accepted a bottle for her father's cough; later claimed it had 'saved his life'. Awful lot of hyperbole there, no doubt, but the point remains. As my life changed from being a housewife/mother (and able to make strawberry or lemon or ginger 'soda', and herbal wines) to being a public school teacher, I lost my medicinal herb garden.....but began to restore/replace it last year.
So glad everything went smoothly, Stephanie, and this was actually really helpful! My dentists have been trying to make me get my wisdom teeth out for probably 15 years now, and I can never afford downtime so just keep ignoring them. They kept threatening that I was going to lose at least one tooth due to its being impacted, but nothing ever happened and I’ve never had any pain, so I will probably continue to pass and hope I don’t regret it. If I do wind up having to get them out, though, I’ll be following your advice as I refuse to be sedated and try to minimize my drug consumption.
Yeah it's a pain in the ass to get it done and I didn't even get into all the food issues. Maybe I'll post a follow-up on that. I'll tell you one reason I just said screw it and got it over with, not to sound paranoid, I have no faith that things are going to be normal in the future and I just wanted to get it done now before SHTF. So that might be a consideration. But the other issue for you is that if the wisdom teeth are impacted then you may need full blown surgery, which I didn't need as mine were all fully erupted, functional teeth.
Thanks, Stephanie, and yeah, I do need the full-blown surgery, unfortunately, so it’s been difficult to get my dentist(s) to consider no sedation. But I think the fact that it’s been fine all these years supports the idea that it’s not as bad as they suspect. Let’s hope I don’t find out the hard way ;-)
For the antibiotics, you may want to consider taking Saccharomyces Boulardii (https://www.mygenefood.com/blog/saccharomyces-boulardii-antibiotic-resistant-probiotic/) during your course in addition to taking a broad-spectrum probiotic and eating fermented foods. If you’re taking antibiotics every 12 hours, you can consume these between doses (just make sure it’s at least 2 hours after/before doses).
When they give you local anaesthetic it can be with adrenaline (epinephrine) or without. I asked for without but later found out my 4th injection had been with, which would have been handy to know at the time as I suddenly felt sick, sweaty and had palpitations and was terrified. The adrenaline helps to vasoconstrict the local vessels so the anaesthetic stays where it’s needed and doesn’t go off round your body where it can affect your heart.
After having just one ( admittedly infected at base of root canal) tooth removed I was very sore and fragile for about 2 weeks and couldn’t do any exercise or bend over without pain. I had to tiptoe slowly round the woods to walk my dog! I was amazed at how damaged I felt, but it all healed eventually just taking longer than expected, so hopefully you’ll be better soon.
OK wow, thanks for that info, I had no idea they were giving me adrenaline but I'm sure that's what it was given how agitated and amped up I was feeling. I have also been surprised at how much this knocked me out!
But also steroids can make you feel like that, they certainly make my heart race and make me feel anxious! I’ve used them twice in the past to clear completely blocked Eustachian tubes (which I seem to have stopped from getting re-blocked by mostly cutting dairy), and I felt anxious indeed!
I am interested to hear more about your own Eustachian tube issues and the treatment suggested? Also, about your Vagal nerve stimulator, please? I also occasionally get sudden vertigo, and I obviously have vagus nerve issues because I have lots of gut cramping (requiring buscopan) and slow transit time.
Thanks for the tea bag wisdom. Our youngest son still has his wisdom teeth. Brave not taking any pain for actual surgery. Hoping you get your balance back. Going to dentist is no one says let’s go to the dentist in Joy, but glad they’re there. Thanks for sharing.
This begins to look like a conversation! I had (or rather, my husband had, as he was the original wine-maker), a collection of little books on wine-making from English authors--the generic term for the product is "country wines"--those made not from grapes, but from garden fruits, vegetables. I was also actively interested in historic practices, e.g., Lady Eleanor Fettiplace's "Lemmon mead" recipe (I think that was 16th C). A fun note--grapes contain 4 acids (no doubt others, but I'm no chemist) necessary for becoming wine: tannic, tartaric, citric, malic. In these old English recipes (receipts?) one was directed to add lemons, sliced, (the citric), raisins (the tartaric), black tea (tannic)--don't remember how the malic was handled. Perhaps apple slices. I had in mind to make specific herbal wines (lavender, lemon balm) which I would use when cooking. Made those wines, but never got around to using them. Well, a new era of life is now mine, so perhaps once again I will essay this. Also, at a restaurant in St. Andrews (Scotland) in 2002, I had oak-leaf wine--oh, delicious! and wanted so to make it but never got around to it.
Tannins and astringents---decades ago, a bottle of the strawberry soda made from a beyond-bumper crop of strawberries (and bottled in champagne bottles under crown caps) proved to be under way too much pressure when opened. The bottle "exploded"; strawberry delight and broken glass flew up; a a shard right flew right under, and into, my chin. Blood ran freely. Must have mashed a kleenex on the wound, but ran out to the herb garden, grabbed a handful of yarrow, chewed it and stuck the paste onto the wound. Bleeding stopped, right away, if I remember correctly. Husband took me to ER; nurses wondered what on earth was this crud on my chin.....( I think they were a bit scared).
Wow! That's an amazing story about the power of herbs! Glad you were OK!
Got another one for you, then. Same decades ago, in my experimental wine-making stage, I made elecampane (root) wine. It was sovereign for bad coughs--and tasted fantastic. An acquaintance accepted a bottle for her father's cough; later claimed it had 'saved his life'. Awful lot of hyperbole there, no doubt, but the point remains. As my life changed from being a housewife/mother (and able to make strawberry or lemon or ginger 'soda', and herbal wines) to being a public school teacher, I lost my medicinal herb garden.....but began to restore/replace it last year.
That's really amazing that you were able to create your own medicated wine. I wouldn't even know where to begin!
So glad everything went smoothly, Stephanie, and this was actually really helpful! My dentists have been trying to make me get my wisdom teeth out for probably 15 years now, and I can never afford downtime so just keep ignoring them. They kept threatening that I was going to lose at least one tooth due to its being impacted, but nothing ever happened and I’ve never had any pain, so I will probably continue to pass and hope I don’t regret it. If I do wind up having to get them out, though, I’ll be following your advice as I refuse to be sedated and try to minimize my drug consumption.
Yeah it's a pain in the ass to get it done and I didn't even get into all the food issues. Maybe I'll post a follow-up on that. I'll tell you one reason I just said screw it and got it over with, not to sound paranoid, I have no faith that things are going to be normal in the future and I just wanted to get it done now before SHTF. So that might be a consideration. But the other issue for you is that if the wisdom teeth are impacted then you may need full blown surgery, which I didn't need as mine were all fully erupted, functional teeth.
Thanks, Stephanie, and yeah, I do need the full-blown surgery, unfortunately, so it’s been difficult to get my dentist(s) to consider no sedation. But I think the fact that it’s been fine all these years supports the idea that it’s not as bad as they suspect. Let’s hope I don’t find out the hard way ;-)
For the antibiotics, you may want to consider taking Saccharomyces Boulardii (https://www.mygenefood.com/blog/saccharomyces-boulardii-antibiotic-resistant-probiotic/) during your course in addition to taking a broad-spectrum probiotic and eating fermented foods. If you’re taking antibiotics every 12 hours, you can consume these between doses (just make sure it’s at least 2 hours after/before doses).
With the surgery I also think the recovery time takes longer, so that might need to be factored in.
When they give you local anaesthetic it can be with adrenaline (epinephrine) or without. I asked for without but later found out my 4th injection had been with, which would have been handy to know at the time as I suddenly felt sick, sweaty and had palpitations and was terrified. The adrenaline helps to vasoconstrict the local vessels so the anaesthetic stays where it’s needed and doesn’t go off round your body where it can affect your heart.
After having just one ( admittedly infected at base of root canal) tooth removed I was very sore and fragile for about 2 weeks and couldn’t do any exercise or bend over without pain. I had to tiptoe slowly round the woods to walk my dog! I was amazed at how damaged I felt, but it all healed eventually just taking longer than expected, so hopefully you’ll be better soon.
OK wow, thanks for that info, I had no idea they were giving me adrenaline but I'm sure that's what it was given how agitated and amped up I was feeling. I have also been surprised at how much this knocked me out!
But also steroids can make you feel like that, they certainly make my heart race and make me feel anxious! I’ve used them twice in the past to clear completely blocked Eustachian tubes (which I seem to have stopped from getting re-blocked by mostly cutting dairy), and I felt anxious indeed!
I am interested to hear more about your own Eustachian tube issues and the treatment suggested? Also, about your Vagal nerve stimulator, please? I also occasionally get sudden vertigo, and I obviously have vagus nerve issues because I have lots of gut cramping (requiring buscopan) and slow transit time.
The ENT wanted me to be on Flonase the rest of my life for the Eustachian tube issues, which I did for a while but have stopped recently. I have some info on vagus nerve stimulation here: https://wholistic.substack.com/p/long-covid-anxiety-vagus-nerve-dysfunction
Thank you!
Now let's just hope the dentist doesn't say something smart-alecky like "oops!...looks like we'll need to put them back!"
Hahaha no way!
Thanks for the tea bag wisdom. Our youngest son still has his wisdom teeth. Brave not taking any pain for actual surgery. Hoping you get your balance back. Going to dentist is no one says let’s go to the dentist in Joy, but glad they’re there. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks, but to clarify, I had local anesthetic for pain, just no general sedation, which is meant to calm you during the procedure.
Braver than I I’d take the nitrous oxide.
I don’t like to hear teeth crunch.
I had all 4 of my wisdom teeth removed under general sedation, still heard that crunching sound.
I was down for 3 days I was 25.
The thought of no general sedation
Well I guess I like being high.
And your
Your welcome.
My jaw muscles hurt so bad from being held open during a root canal procedure so I could believe head ache from your experience.