It's actually a big relief to hear others find this with dentists, because I started to seriously doubt myself, I just thought ok, me and dentists just don't gel together. I seem to easily annoy them for some reason....I could tell you some very amusing stories with one dentist. Everything that could go wrong did go wrong. And it ended up being so bad it was almost funny.

One was him sending me an email to state what the first consultation would consist of and the charges of the testing, supplements etc.. Well, i was so shocked at the cost of them all, I forwarded his email to a friend and I said "check this out, look at what this dentist is charging???? I am BLOWN AWAY!!! Am I looking at this from a pauper's perspective or what?".

Well, I sent that email and instead of going to the friend, it somehow went back to the dentist himself or it bounced or something (I have no idea what happened). I didn't know this had occured until I got up the next day and found an email from him saying "Dear Rebecca, thank you for sharing your comments with me. I think it would be best if we cancelled your appointment and you can have a good think about what you want to do. Bear in mind, you are not obligated to see me".

needless to say, I felt sick because I had booked a hotel and everything to stay in and was ready to make the trip.

Now if that wasn't bad enough? I did finally see him and it worked out "ok" (although when he shook my hand, he squeezed it VERY VERY hard and had a smile on his face the entire time he was literally crushing my hand). but it gets worse. This dentist does not do any dental work on patients who are not well enough. I realised that my lack of progress was getitng me nowhere and costing me money by the trips to see him, plus the fact everytime I enter a dental office, I get even more poisoned. So my ongoing visits to him, were ending up disasterous due to my problem with mercury vapor and he insists on seeing patients to check on progress when he has them on his health protocols. I was just ending up worse everytime I saw him. So I knew I would have to opt out. He didn't know I was contemplating seeing another dentist.

Well, I faxed another good dentist and told him my situation and asked if he did this kind of dental work and could he see me and do it in one or two appointments etc?

What did he do? He faxed me back and said "Dear Rebecca, I forwarded your fax on to Dr....(The previous dentist I had just been to), as I feel he would be more skilled in this area than I am. Here is his phone number and address".

Try and imagine how I felt? The same dentist who got the erroneous email, now gets my private fax forwarded to him asking another dnetist to "Please help me, I need this and that...etc".

I just stood there reading this fax from this dentist in shock thinking "oh great" .

<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />so yeah, I'm sure he just thinks I'm a real winner.....

(oh and thanks for the compliment anonymous! I think people on this forum probably help save my sanity sometimes, so I'm helped a lot here too). Reality has been disastrous, I think I prefer being online.