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Why is it that when most of us become adults, we automatically seem to hate going to the doctor? Actually, the truth is that for most of us, this strong dislike for doctors begins when we are very young. From the first time that we receive a shot in the arm for an immunization and feel that pain, we tend to associate doctors with inflicting pain upon us. The same can be said of dentists and other types of specialists.
All four of my wisdom teeth had been in for a while, and they had never bothered me. However, according to my dentist, because of the location in the very back of my mouth, my wisdom teeth were extremely difficult to reach and were starting to decay. It was set. I had to make an appointment with an oral surgeon to have all four of my wisdom teeth removed. Immediately, I was anxious about it. All that I could think about were all of the horror stories that I had heard about having your wisdom teeth removed. In one specific situation, I remember when my roommate from college had all four of her wisdom teeth removed. Afterwards, she was incredibly sick to her stomach for days after the operation.
Things like this make the rest of us shudder whenever we hear news or are reminded that we need to make a doctor's appointment. What we tend to focus on is the negative versus the positive, which is that most doctors really are trying to help you feel better. There are people I know who haven't seen either a dentist or who have had a physical in a number of months to years simply because of their deep seated fear of doctors. One person in particular hasn't been to a dentist in over three years due to the fact that he had an awful dentist/dentist experiences when he was growing up as a child.
What we need to realize is that at the end of the day, all that doctors are trying to do is help us feel better. Whether this is through the use of needles, X-rays or some other procedure that we may need to have done, the end result is always the same: to make us healthy. Think about all of the people who never visit with a doctor until they don't feel well or until something is bothering them. This is definitely not the sort of proactive behavior that they should be doing. On the other end of the spectrum, you don't want to overdo it either by visiting a bunch of different doctors every time you have the sniffles. Prevention is better than cure. This is what you need to remind yourself of every time it gets near to making a doctor or dentist appointment. Most of us would much rather know about any issues ahead of time and make a full recovery while it is still relatively uncomplicated to do so.
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