I had this happen once and was told that it was the epinephrine in the novocaine. I think there are two types of novocaine - with and without epinephrine.You need to get the one w/o epinephrine which has the same effect as adrenaline. I've had novocaine w/o epinephrine subsequently and was fine.
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