Question of The Day. Saturday 26th of March.

[Norachan]

Good Morning. Happy Saturday and Happy Easter to those of you who are celebrating.

What scares you the most, going to the doctor, going to the dentist or going to the hair dresser?

For me going to the hair dresser is the scariest of the three. I quite like going to the dentist. That reclining chair is so comfy and my dentist puts a warm towel over your eyes while he checks your teeth. I've dozed off so many times.

The doctor doesn't bother me at all, but going to the hair dresser is unbearable. I'd much rather keep my hair long and colour it myself at home than let anyone else touch it.

How about you?

 

[sivyaleah]

Dentist, I'm always having some kind of problem.  It isn't so much fear as resignation. 

I love going to the hairdresser. It's relaxing, "me" time.  I've been with the same person for gosh, IDK at least 15 years I'm sure.  It's chit chat time for me.

Doctors, meh, but not so bad. No pain involved (usually).

 

[blueyedgirl5946]

I dislike going to the dentist. My teeth are in good shape and I seldom need anything but cleaning. But I don't like laying back, even in a reclining chair, and having somebody else's hands in my mouth. Plus I don't like the vibrating tools they clean with, or the pick things they gouge around with.

 

[foxxycat]

Thats a hard one. I don't like any of them.

The hairdresser never listens to me and always cuts my hair the same on each side despite my cowlick..and I love the washing and brushing but hate the gels and crap they put in my hair..i prefer natural. I havent been to a hairdresser in 6 years. I cut my own bangs and the back as well. I have a friend who fixes the opps if I dont get it completely right.

The dentist is very uncomfortable. My gums have issues and despite daily floss/pick/brush they always hurt realy bad after-I dont like having that bright light in my face and never had a towel over my face. Maybe thats a good idea. I have good teeth and usually a cleaning is only 15 minutes so why bother? I should go as its been 3 years but I am meticulous and do my own stuff at home.

doctors don't bother me but often they don't have answers to why I have issues..or they want to make me take drugs that cost money and have side effects..at this point I won't go again unless I get sick enough to need help. we have a yearly blood check here at work and my numbers are always super low and no issues. So I don't bother.

Did i meantion that I dislike strangers??? I love online chitchat-but hate face to face.

 

[sivyaleah]

 
Thats a hard one. I don't like any of them.

The hairdresser never listens to me and always cuts my hair the same on each side despite my cowlick..and I love the washing and brushing but hate the gels and crap they put in my hair..i prefer natural. I havent been to a hairdresser in 6 years. I cut my own bangs and the back as well. I have a friend who fixes the opps if I dont get it completely right.

The dentist is very uncomfortable. My gums have issues and despite daily floss/pick/brush they always hurt realy bad after-I dont like having that bright light in my face and never had a towel over my face. Maybe thats a good idea. I have good teeth and usually a cleaning is only 15 minutes so why bother? I should go as its been 3 years but I am meticulous and do my own stuff at home.

doctors don't bother me but often they don't have answers to why I have issues..or they want to make me take drugs that cost money and have side effects..at this point I won't go again unless I get sick enough to need help. we have a yearly blood check here at work and my numbers are always super low and no issues. So I don't bother.

Did i meantion that I dislike strangers??? I love online chitchat-but hate face to face.

I dislike gels and stuff too.  I just tell my hairdresser not to use them; natural is fine for me too..  No reason to apply product you don't like.

 

[raysmyheart]

GOOD MORNING EVERYONE!

The one choice that scares me the most is the dentist!  Not because of physical pain, but I have always had problematic issues with my gums receding, it leads to other problems and it is the FINANCIAL PAIN of dental work that is scary to me!

I wish everyone a beautiful day and Happy Easter to all who celebrate! 

 

 

[micknsnicks2mom]

i don't mind the dentist or the hairdresser. and it's not that i'm scared of going to the doctor's either. i rarely go to see a doctor anyway, only when there's actually something wrong that i can't deal with myself. i get really annoyed and frustrated because i always (always) have to wait over an hour past my appointment time in the waiting room, then into a room to wait another 10-20 minutes for the doctor to appear and i see the doctor for no more than 15 minutes -- often about 10 minutes. i have better things i could be doing than wasting that time, and i don't understand why the doctors don't allow for their permanent 'running late'. then there's the new(er) thing that totally annoys me and in my book is just wrong, which is that there's a charge just because the doctor you see is affiliated with a hospital. to me that's just a(nother) way to rip us off. okay, off of my......

 

[donutte]

Dentist. Most definitely, the dentist.

 

[Kat0121]

I hate them all. The tools the dentist uses seem like they are from the dark ages sometimes. Those picks are horrible.

The hairdresser rarely listens. I do color mine myself. I HATE it when anyone washes my hair. I always wash it right before I go in. Then they can just wet it.

I hate the doctor the least of the three. I will not go to a male doctor unless there is no other option as they also rarely listen and most have terrible bedside manner. I WILL NOT go to a male gyno. Not because of modesty (giving birth made that go away a long time ago 

)  but because they are men. They are incapable of empathizing with you when there is any kind of issue. IMO going to a male gyno makes about as much sense as going to a mechanic who has never owned a car. I wouldn't do that either.

 

[Columbine]

Dentist is the scariest, but I HATE the hairdresser too. If I want colour I do it at home, and I just let my hair grow rather than get it cut....then when I do finally make it to the hairdresser I have a lot cut off. It's not unusual for me to go a year or more between haircuts!

I'm fine with seeing my regular doctor, but I hate seeing new ones or specialists.

 

[acats88]

Finding a new hairdresser is the scariest for me but going to the dentist consistently is scarier. Once I have a hair dresser I like it isn't so bad. 

 

[jenny82]

I love going to the hairdresser! My dentist is also very good. So for me it is the doctor! I hate medical tests.

 

[miagi's_mommy]

My dentist is awesome, but I still get nervous going. The novacaine makes me shaky. And I hate when they drown you in the process.

 

[denice]

Definitely the dentist  I am not crazy about going to the doctor either but the dentist bothers me more.  I don't mind going to get my hair done.  I do get antsy when I get it colored because I get the foils with high and low lights and it is time consuming.  I don't go to the same person every time but they have a card with the color mixes to use.  Some are definitely better with the foiling then others but with the cards I know I won't end up with a strange and/or unbecoming color.  

 

[MoochNNoodles]

Doctor!  I have that "white coat syndrome" where my blood pressure goes up and because I know that I get even more anxious.  

  Last fall I told the nurse that when I had to go to the walk-in because I was sick.  She took my blood pressure with the mechanical one and it was CRAZY high!  Then she said "wait a minute....let me do it this way!" and she took it the old fashion way.  Don't you know; my blood pressure was not only perfect she said it was "clear as a bell."  

  This was immediately after the machine told her it was so super high.  I had to go back there a little over a month ago and when I told them about my previous experience there; they just took it manually again. And it was fine.  

I would really like to hear an explanation for that!  

The dentist isn't so fun either; but I love my dentists staff.  I've been going there for over 20 years now.  The receptionist has been there that entire time and knows us all by sight.  "They are so kind. The first time I had to bring my kids with no help to watch them both kids walked out with at least a dozen stickers and DD got a pencil.  We've got such a nice routine with them; they just go ahead and schedule my mother and I back to back so Mom is there to sit with the kids during my appointment.  My dentist has saved a few teeth for me too.  Apparently my mouth is odd.  I have retained a few baby teeth (Mom has also), I never got my wisdom teeth and my rear molars are "not fully erupted."  All that has led to crowding and I've broken the tip off 2 or 3 molars.  Somehow my teeth are still straight.  But my dentist did great saving those molars!  He also knows I'm sensitive to the drilling so he just goes ahead and numbs me extra well to begin with.

  I'm going to be sad when he retires. 

My hairdresser is great!  I'm there for my son every 6-8 weeks but she also does DD's hair.  I just had about 13" cut off a couple weeks ago.  That has been an adjustment.  But she is SO great with my kids.  Especially my wiggly little boy!  Both kids get excited to go there; even if it's not their turn.  I don't get my hair cut often and DD only does maybe twice a year.  

 

[allmykitties]

Definitely the dentist--the financial side of it is terrifying (and this is with decent insurance, too).  It always seems like they quote me one several-hundred dollar figure, and then my insurance didn't pay what they estimated, so I have to pay a few hundred more ... every time.

 

[LTS3]

Hiar dresser. I had my hair done professionally twice before at a place my Mom dragged me to (I was a kid) and absolutely hated the end result. The first time I just wanted my bangs curled but the hair dresser barely spoke English so I wound up with this poofy thing at my forehead and a weird thing going on behind it

The second time I wanted a simple French braid type hair style because I was going to a wedding later that day. Again, the hair dresser did not speak much English so a cousin who was with me had to translate. Something must have gotten lost in translation because I ended up with little braids starting at the forehead that ended in a poofy bun thing at the back of my head

I really like my doctor and am quite comfortable talking with her

I haven't gone to a dentist in awhile but that never scares me.

 

[DreamerRose]

I've got a hair stylist I like and a doctor whose inattention I've learned to deal with. But the dentists! I've got two of them, who are nice people, but I don't have insurance. Last year, I spent $10,000 on dentists. Only good things about are that my teeth won't fall out and I got a nice tax deduction.

 

[Mamanyt1953]

This is actually hard for me.  I have dentures, so the dentist is a thing of the past.  I haven't had a professional touch my hair in at least 12 years, and I adore my doctor.  He's funny, he respects my ability to understand what he tells me, never dumbs things down, and we laugh a LOT.

I guess, tho, that I've had more bad haircuts in my time than the norm.  No one believes me when I tell them I'm "hairing impaired," and that I need a wash and wear style.  INVARIABLY they'll get done with the cut and say, "Now you just take your blow dryer and..."  and I say, "WHAT PART OF WASH AND WEAR ESCAPED YOU?"  I am fundamentally  incapable of getting a hunk of hair, a brush and a blow dryer in the same place at the same time.  Every roller I've ever put in my hair has unrolled and fallen out within 10 minutes.  The ONLY "style" I am capable of carrying out is to braid my hair into 16 sections, wash it, let it dry, and unbraid it.  Lovely ripples.  All "aging Hippie" and stuff.

 

[Norachan]

 
My dentist is awesome, but I still get nervous going. The novacaine makes me shaky. And I hate when they drown you in the process.

I've heard that the reason you get shaky is because they have adrenaline in the Novocaine to make it work faster. They're supposed to carry some without adrenaline for people who have a bad reaction to it. It takes longer for it to work though, so most dentists don't bother to offer it to you as they want you in and out as quickly as possible. Ask your dentist about it next time.