I Hurt!!!!

[Dumke]

Ya sorry I am a little late on thisissue. But ya your not suppose to spit at all. I had local anestetics and had all 4 pulled and 2 had to be broken which was fun. Didnt hurt but man my head is apparently attached to my jaw. He yanked and pulled and head came with lol but finally teeth came out and I was done. Well I was thirsty had myself a route 44 sonic drink YUM! Apparently I couldnt hit my mouth but wasnt feeling straw so I jabbed and jabbed. All of a sudden I feel this wet spot on my shirt . I guess I missed my mouth lol a few times. Anyways back to my point. I did like you did with the whole spit methond because I wasnt going to swallow the blood. Well I got awhole bunch dry sockets and they hurt like a son of a gun. So what ever you do refrain from spitting.

Worm I dont see how you didnt get them with the drinking because they gave me a list of "do nots" and that was one of em.



Vicatin?? WtF.. i get the crap. I only got hydrocodone <sp>

[WormGod]

Nope, no dry socket. Thought I had one a few days later but it turned out that it was just a bone splinter from a broken piece of one of the teeth weening through the gums. The dentist just told me no big deal as it would work its way out.

Ya, I was drinking, smoking, running around like your typical college punk. Basically doing all the Do Nots. Guess I was just lucky.

There is always a pay off though. Dentistry is any 1st world country's best friend. Feel good, look good, and eat good, as long as the choppers are taken care of.

After my accident in my old dragon Green years ago, I had to have the 6 front upper teeth in my mouth fixed. I jarred my mouth shut on impact I guess and my bottom teeth won the fight, leaving the upper teeth 0-1. My insurance wouldnt cover it citing it was "cosmetic" dentistry, so it took me a few years to save up the $9k it was gonna take to fix them. I walked around for a few years with some picket fence upper teeth. But, in the end, I had them filed down and they were fitted with some perfect veneers. I was afraid I was gonna look like Matt Dillon in Something About Mary....



....but they are about as natural and better than the originals as you could get. STRONG buggers too. Makes me want to get ALL my teeth done now, heh.

[VXIRONwoMAN]

Well... hopefully the top ones stay where they are, leaving the rest of my upper jaw alone. It would suck to have to get this done twice!

[mdwyer]

Vicatin?? WtF.. i get the crap. I only got hydrocodone <sp>

It depends on how you look at it... Vicodin = Hydrocodone + Tylenol

In other words, you can take higher doses of hydrocodone before your liver goes walkabout. Vicodin is a preferred drug because it is more difficult to abuse, and so isn't quite as controlled. Anyone ODing on Vicodin is likely to end up dead.

Yes, friends! You, too, can become a cancer care-giver and learn more than you ever thought to know about narcotics!

I'm stuck with my stupid protein shakes for now. They are tasty when you mix them with ice cream though...

Ugh. Those are the worst. They taste like chocolate-flavored agricultural runoff. Pain is one thing. But gross food is the number one reason to get better soon.

[vxDAKINECHICvx]

Hey wow, that is what I do for a living! Oral surgery rocks!

Sorry to hear you are having so much pain though, thats no good at all. If you have any other issues dear please pm me. (and same with the rest of ya's) I'll try to help you out best I can with ideas. Sorry so late on the reply though, I've been away. Feel better soon!!

By the way, impacted 3rds with local.....way to go girl! Most don't even begin to try it that way.

[VXIRONwoMAN]

Hey wow, that is what I do for a living! Oral surgery rocks!

Sorry to hear you are having so much pain though, thats no good at all. If you have any other issues dear please pm me. (and same with the rest of ya's) I'll try to help you out best I can with ideas. Sorry so late on the reply though, I've been away. Feel better soon!!

By the way, impacted 3rds with local.....way to go girl! Most don't even begin to try it that way.

I am fairly tolerant to pain... but I reserve the right to whine. LOL Especially when I still can't chew! I really want flamin' hot cheetos, pretzels, steak... LOL

[MSHardeman]

Cece,

I'm right there with you. I had all four wisdom teeth removed (two where impacted and where taken out by the dentist putting his knee in my chest for leverage), and had periodontal surgery all in one sitting about eight years ago. I hadn't been to a dentist in a VERY long time, and my teeth started to hurt so I made an appointment and found out that I had bone loss in my upper and lower jaw around my teeth. During the surgery they make an incision in your gums on the back side of your teeth and basically pull the gums down until they hit bone then stitch them up (I'm sure dakinechic will know what I'm talking about). That leaves a LOT of exposed tooth root so now even tap water it just too darn cold for me. The moral of the story is; no matter how freaked out you are by the dentist...GO and go often (now I go four times a year). Also...floss like there's no tomorrow.

One funny story did come out of all this. About a month after the surgery I headed down to New Orleans for Mardi Gras and my teeth where still uber sensitive, but I wasnt' going to miss out on the party so I ended up microwaving my beer to heat it up to the point where it was tolerable for me. The looks that all of my friends gave me as I was zapping my beer was almost worth all of the pain.

With all of that said, your wisdom teeth should heal up pretty quickly and you'll be back to eating flaming hot Cheeto's in no time.