When I was a kid my dentist would put that goopy flouride stuff in the trays and have me sit there while it did its thing and it always made me feel like I wanted to throw up. I hated it.
When I grew up and moved away, I told my new dentist that I hated the flouride treatment so we didn't do it. And then the said they had a liquid thing you could swish instead so I tried that but even that grossed out my stomach so I avoided it.
When I last switched dentists, I figured I'd give it another try (as I'd like to stop getting cavities and stuff thank you very much!) and so I've been doing the swishy thing at the end of each cleaning and while I don't love it, I can suffer through a minute of it. Ick.
Last time I had a cleaning the hygenist recommended a flouride rinse for home (as I was getting some discoloration she said was "normal" with age but that this could help prevent it.) So I bought some. I didn't use it as religiously as she suggested but I did start using it. It was ok, not as intense as the stuff in the office for sure.
Related.... (and even more so of late) I brush my teeth with an electric toothbrush (usually when I'm on my couch watching a show at the end of the evening when I know I'm done eating) and I figured that I should probably also brush with toothpaste for whatever reasons toothpaste is important. Protection and stuff.
Now toothpaste, most of my adult life has causes me mouth sores and ulcers (seriously) so the only one I've found I can comfortably use happens to be a kid's toothpaste. (No, really.)
So for the last few months I've been brushing as usual but then also using paste to brush right before bed and every few days using the flouride type rinse. Yay me, good, healthy teeth!
Except a few weeks ago I started noticing I was getting nauseated as I was going to bed.
I figured it might be the "sleep helper" medications I take right before bed but I've been taking them for ages without issue so maybe something else?
And after thinking on it for a few days I started to wonder if it was something in the mouth rinse. And I then kind of confirmed this suspicion by using the rinse after a brush right before bed and nearly needing to take something to stop the nausea. Not good.
So, I stopped with the rinse. Sorry teeth.... hopefully you got some good coverage there for a while, but I need a break!
And then the nausea still happened after I was brushing my teeth but just less intensely. Hmmm... do I have some sort of "allergy" reaction to either the flouride in the rinse and the toothpaste or some other ingredient in them both? And... what do I do!?
I feel like I'm still supposed to use a paste on my teeth even after using the electric brush, but the stuff I've been using upsets my stomach!
So today I bought "natural" toothpaste. SLS free and flouride free. I don't know if there's any real point in using it without those things in there that are supposed to do whatever they do, but I really really don't like nausea and also feel like it's a signal from my body so I'm trying to listen to that.
I'll ask my dentist (or hygenist) when I go back in a couple of months and see what they have to say but as of right now I'm taking a break from both "regular" (albeit kids) toothpaste and the rinse. I hope my teeth are ok without them!
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