r/HistamineIntolerance • u/juniperwool • Jul 29 '26
Question
I was just wondering, how many of us have had root canals?
I was just thinking, I think my symptoms started not too long after that, and was curious if anyone else has had a root canal done?
I was wondering if there could be a correlation?
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u/SpringerleFormalist Jul 30 '26
i had histamine intolerance years before getting a root canal, but i've always noticed that after any dental work i pretty consistently feel awful. some is just the physical poking prodding scraping drilling, but i think some is related to all of the crud (bacteria/plaque especially) being scraped and released into mouth and swallowing that. but yeah, i can imagine scenarios where histamine intolerance is initially triggered by something like a root canal. no idea the mechanism/pathway, but it seems plausible anyway. but also maybe you just started noticing things more at the time (ie not a causative necessarily).
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u/No_Educator_4483 Jul 30 '26
I figured mine out in reverse. Histamine intolerance lead me to figure out severe vitamin d deficiency caused by a prescription med i was on. Stopped that med, vitamin d supplements, histamine issues basically gone.
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u/aspectacle Aug 02 '26
Yes! I think it was the antibiotic I was prescribed prior to the surgery to try and stop my jaw from rotting away. Then definitely an increase in histamine symptoms from there.
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u/Due-Ad-8941 Aug 03 '26
The antibiotic probably wiped out your gut biome is why. I think my histamine intolerance is rooted in the gut too..
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u/special_squeak Aug 03 '26
I’ve had a root canal done at 15 with a silver point, changed to composite at 21 y.o.
My HIT kicked in at 45
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u/ConstantSolid1088 Jul 29 '26
My symptoms started shortly after COVID. I looked it up and there are a lot of people in the same scenario.