getting wisdom teeth pulled out??!!!
matamatic
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My dentist is saying I need to get it done and that it's no problem to go to work the next day. They were like sign this and we'll go ahead and do this now. I said nope just clean my teeth today. Anyone have any thoughts/advice on this? It's bad enough I have to do this but work the next day? HAH!
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I was junked up on painkillers for a week after
hahaha, i said "compacted" you said "impacted"!! something makes me think, you are right!!
The only weirdness was when the dude smashed my impacted tooth with a Thor hammer and chisel. I didn't feel it, but the crunching sound in my head is something I can still recall clearly.
Work the next day shouldn't be a problem.
It took them 45 minutes to get the first on out, a little over 2 hrs for all four. and between the anesthetic and being nervous, I started to picture him putting a foot on my chest for leverage with the hygienist pulling at his waist from behind like in the cartoons or something. I broke out into a couple of laughing fits. "Uh, no one has ever reacted like this before."
Obviously everyone reacts differently, but I was fine in a couple of days.The worst part after the freezing had worn off was the huge painful cut in my lip I got when I was still numb and bit down too hard. The codeine made me real sick so I wasn't on anything more than over the counter. I also kept the teeth - they are HUGE!!!!
Good luck!
Get it done on a Friday so you have the weekend to recover. I didn't feel any pain and was fine the next day but I've heard of people needing a day or two to recover. It's really not a big deal. They knock you out and you wake up minus some teeth.
All 4 of my wisdom teeth were impacted and I had them removed in one day (holy shit I'm glad I didn't look that up before I had it done
Truth.
I was in a vicodin cloud for 3 days after and can't imagine otherwise.
Dry socket(ask somebody) is a mutha.
i went to the hospital and had this done (no dentist), i was put under and when i awoke threw up blood that i swallowed during the procedure. lots of fun.
percs were given to me for the pain, but since you cant really eat, and percs make you constipated it wasnt the most fun.
at one point i thought tooth pain was the worst pain known to humans.
until i found out the joys of kidney stones.... i had a 9mm size rock.
one of the doctors i saw was a woman who had both children, and kidney stones.... was shocked i lasted so long with no real painkillers.
told me i experienced pain worse than giving birth.
that pain is something i cant describe. i also was touring while this was happening. shit was crazy. i learned my threshold for pain is quite high.
ill part of all of that is.... 2 weeks after my kidney stone surgery, amir and i were spinning at apt. and hes like "yooo... i dont feel right".
he keeps drinking beer... next day he goes to have a kidney stone removed !
some cosmic shit right there.... we couldnt believe we both had them at almost the same time... as if he caught that on tour like a cold.
stoners.
Damn, not looking forward to this... And Kon, holy shit... Sounds like something no one should go through.
I have been very lucky that my wisdom teeth have grown in fine. Problem is since they're so far back and difficult to clean thoroughly, I will eventually get cavities there and need them extracted.
Anyway, my wife had her wisdom teeth pulled 6 months back and she had dry socket.
The pain of dry socket is so intense that she threw up a few times and she had to REALLY load up on the pain killers, which only took the edge off. She gets bad migraines on the regular, but the pain from dry socket was totally next level.
Basically, where her tooth used to be, you could see an opening and if you look in with flash a light, you could see her jaw bone is exposed.
I felt bad for her. She couldn't eat anything solid for almost 3 weeks.
Her story is definitely an exception, but it does happen.
Whatever you do, DO NOT use a straw to suck drinks back because you could open up the sutures and end up with dry socket.
Make sure you talk to your dentist about dry socket and tips to avoid it.
Good luck.
That's the truth. After getting mine out, I was using a straw to drink something, but a voice in the back of my mind told me maybe it wasn't a good idea. I called the dentist's office to ask if using straws was a no-no and they were like, "Yeah, we told you that right after you woke up from the anesthetic."
Awesome technique. Give the patient important instructions while they're groggy and still trying to figure out where they are.
Yo Kon,
Have you had any more than the 1? Curious kidney stone veteran.
i still have 2 on my left side, not big enough to do anything to yet. not really trying to have it get to 9mm either.
i had no appetite for a few days and just had miso soup and tea and i was fine. no drugs necessary though i was prescribed percoset but my so-called friend whom i will call 'method-dan' stole them which was fine with me.