I hate it when good things change like that! ExpoTv was like that for a while. They still do things that P@$s people off but its still worth it in the long run. Good luck!....
ARG! Where do you keep coming up with these cute smilies that I feel compelled to steal!???
I should try yoga. I keep hearing such good things about it. I have never heard anyone say they don't like it, it didn't do anything for them, or they got hurt practicing it.
Ok, here is the story on the DDS....

gather 'round children:
I had been having terrible pain in a lower tooth and I finally decided I needed to get a root canal because I didn't want to pull or replace it. Around here, they send you to a "specialist" to do root canals....I don't know why....but, of course, it costs more! But, I digress....
I went in to do the root canal (and it is through a gold crown, too) and he can't find the final canal. He digs around in there for a long time and he just can't find it so he gives up and I have to make another appointment. My jaw hurt REALLY bad after the numbing wore off and he had told me he had done enough of a root canal that the pain should have subsided. It kept getting worse and I finally went in and saw my regular dentist.
He took an x-ray and didn't see anything. He questioned me that I could have allergies or a sinus infection and I didn't have any of those symptoms. He finally asked me if I had ever had any problems or pain from keeping my mouth open for long periods of time during dental work. Now, I have had ALOT of dental work done and I had never had anything like this. My left ear was even hurting!!
He told me he had had a patient that had muscle problems holding her mouth open for long periods of time and she didn't tell him about it. He said she ended up going to physical therapy after one of his appointments! WHAT!!???

He said the muscles in the jaw and face can get inflamed and you need to take anti-inflammatories and ice it to get the pain under control.
He gave me a prescription for antibiotics, just in case there was an infection in there, and told me to lay down with an ice pack on that side of my face. I was in so much pain by then that I was sleeping on an ice pack. But, over a period of 3 days with almost constant ice on my face, the pain was subsiding.
So, now, I go back to finish this root canal yesterday and I have my mouth open for almost 2 hours! Here we go again! I swear the guy must use needles the size of bamboo canes to numb my mouth! Then, he puts a dam over the tooth and he must have dug the base of it beneath the gums. Yes, I love dentistry!
I should have slept with an ice pack on my jaw last night but I wanted to see if the pain would subside on its own. Nope. I even tried drinking, last time, as a muscle relaxer and, trust me, it doesn't relax
those muscles.
So, today will be ice pack day all day long. Just when you think you have heard or seen it all, something else comes along. I really hate that about life. I want whatever I learned in my 20's to be it! I knew it all in my 20's and I want it to stay that way.
