[black]

had all 4 of them taken out on fri morn....

Wow. Pain isnt hat bad but holy crap is face giant and my lymph nodes swollen to almighty goodness.

I have to go to work on monday and realy dont wan to go oin like that.. ice packs arent helpin..the bleeding stopped on fri night essentially

I just dont want that dry socket and I definitely want the swelling to go down.... its fooking scary.

taking the antibiotics and only on of the oxys so far. i dont seethebig deal so far of the oxys.. all they do is make me sleepy and take the edge of pain like super duper strength Advil PM.


So how long till the sweelling to go down...

[GNTurbo6]

I was out of commission for 4 days when mine were taken out because the teeth hadn't surfaced so they had to cut into my gums.

Oxycodone never really did much for me for pain, it's more a recreational thing for a lot of people.

[black]

yup they cut into the gums....
i could work. but i look like hell
my breath is bad (not horrible ) so i'm owrried about dry socket...
he lymphnodes though holy hell!!

So why out 4 days??? just couldnt move? the pain?? I could have gone to work the next day i just would have looked like hell

[ZX-12R]

I'm lucky to have a genetically advanced body. My x-rays show no signs of wisdom teet at all!

[union]

I had mine out on a Thursday and I was back to work on Monday. It does suck. Three of mine were impacted and one was really deep so they had a lot of digging. I remember sitting in the chair the doc asking me a question and then waking up in a different room. I did have to go back a second time because part of my jaw bone was poking through. It was a weird feeling to have someone filing down you bone.

Oh two days of jello and I had enough. Went to burgers by Sunday

[GNTurbo6]

I just felt miserable the whole time and slept a lot.

[97BladeRider]

I only had 3 wisdom teeth. (guess I'm not very wise) I ended up developing dry sockets in two of them post-removal. Talk about pain, not even the percs took that away. I ended up going back to the ortho who did the surgery so he could stuff the sockets with novocaine.

[black]

how fast did you know you had dry sockets????
that's my biggest concern

[R1slowflyer]

I have 2 questions.

1
one were you awake for the procedure? (if not you missed out on one of the creepiest times of your life, I fucking loved it. nothing like hearing the sound of your teeth being crushed with pliers and laughing your ass off)

2
if you have to get a root canal in the next 3 days i might have sympathy for ya. nothing says fun like a root canal 4 days after you get all 4 wisdom teeth out.

do yourself a favor save as many of the script as you can, the first few days suck, but its worse when you have to go back to work and it starts acting up. give it about 2 weeks and the pain will subside.

BTW - dry socket does suck, you dont want that shit!

[R1slowflyer]

Originally Posted by black

how fast did you know you had dry sockets????
that's my biggest concern

dude you know. its worse than the pain of having them removed.

I had morphine patches in my sockets for a week.

I had one of my wisdom teeth grow almost at a 90 degree angle from normal and they had to break the jaw bone to pull it out.

dry socket hurt a shit load more! than anything ever, its just a constant pain. it feels like its throbbing throughout your entire body an i was on about 30 percs a week and 15 vics.

[97BladeRider]

Originally Posted by black

how fast did you know you had dry sockets????
that's my biggest concern

Not even a day. When the pain became really unbearable.

Originally Posted by R1slowflyer

1
one were you awake for the procedure? (if not you missed out on one of the creepiest times of your life, I fucking loved it. nothing like hearing the sound of your teeth being crushed with pliers and laughing your ass off)

Damnit, I was out like a light.

Originally Posted by R1slowflyer

2
if you have to get a root canal in the next 3 days i might have sympathy for ya. nothing says fun like a root canal 4 days after you get all 4 wisdom teeth out.

I had one root canal and to be honest, it wasn't that bad. It was a lot better than the dry sockets that I got after having my wisdoms pulled.

[R1slowflyer]

Originally Posted by 97BladeRider

Damnit, I was out like a light.

I had a nurse holding me down and another nurse with the morphine drip button and anytime i would even look her way she would press the button.

I used to be a junkie and i can say with all honesty it was the most fucked up i have ever been in my life. i was giggling the entire time, at one point the dr. told me to keep it down it might "disturb" the other patients.

Originally Posted by 97BladeRider

I had one root canal and to be honest, it wasn't that bad. It was a lot better than the dry sockets that I got after having my wisdoms pulled.

the root canal alone wouldnt have been so bad if i didnt just have my jaw cracked and 4 teeth ripped from my face!



it also took about 4 hours. its bad when you see the person whos working with a drill in your mouth shaking like a leaf. she waited until the end to let me know she has never had to drill so much the roots were almost impossible to get.

dental work sucks, but i could think of at least 10 other things i am now more afraid of than a little dental work.

[Dianne]

When my wisdom teeth came in, I was preggers and there wasn't a dentist that would touch me. So I had to deal with them until after I had the baby. By then, they had completely grown all the way in but there were only 2 of them (top). Still no sign of the bottom ones.

Any news on they dry socket situation? Heard of it many, many times and from I gather, it totally sucks ass. Hopefully this is not the case and the bad breath, etc. you were describing were just normal side effects to this kind of procedure.

Some good info here... Dry socket (alveolar osteitis) - What are symptoms of dry sockets? What are the treatments?

Good luck and heal up soon!

[Devil1]

had mine removed. 3 were impacted. (sideways) two 3 hours to get them out. Then an hour later the clotting ruptured and I was bleeding soo bad I couldn't shut my mouth. 2 hrs later bleeding stopped. Within the next few days I had 2 dry sockets. NOw that sucked.

[Manny]

Originally Posted by 97BladeRider

Not even a day. When the pain became really unbearable.

.

Was not dry socket then, probably just pain from the extraction.

Dry socket occurs after a clot has formed and is then removed/lost thus exposing the bone and nerves to the air. This would start 3-4 days after the extraction or longer....

Just follow the docs orders, no straws, sucking or spitting. These actions dislodge the clot and make dry socket more likely. Don't smoke.

[black]

they knocked me out for it.... right now it looks like the swelling is going down a bit. maybe...
i just ate some ravioli i dont know what wil or wont dislodge the "clot" i'm having trouble brushing the teeth as well.
They say to rinse with salt water 6x a day..... i just dont want dry socket.

How long til i feel normal who knows..... i just want to feel normal.

[LuvDog]

I got lucky... they pulled all 4 of mine on Thursday... I was kind of sore and grumpy for a day... but by the weekend I was fine and was back to work on Monday.

[black]

yeah but how did you look???
what were you eating etc????

[jnm988]

have you taken an anti-inflammatory? Oxy is just for pain, not swelling, I believe. You'd probably be more comfortable if you took ibuprofen.

When I got mine out, I got percs and they also told me to take ibuprofen for the swelling. I was ok after 2 days.

[black]

Took about 4 advil a little while ago... swelling seems to go down...
theinside of my mouth looks like a sick twisted nest of stitches
i just want to brush my teeth.... yes i'm whining.

[jnm988]

Rinse with 50/50 Listerine and water. Keep taking the advil. Quit whining.

[R7]

I had all 4 of mine at at once as well...when I was 13 No swelling and I was eating normal the same day. They never bothered me but I I was getting braces and at the time the orthodontist would not guarantee any thing if I didn't have them out.

A couple years ago I had a root cannal on a moler...that was the SECOND worse thing I have ever felt in my life...The WORST thing was when the root cannal failed (dentist was a real turd) and I had to go get the thing yanked out. Wide awake, a bunch of shots to numb it, then hearing that tooth crack and shatter as they pull it out...not to mention it felt like someone was pulling on the back of my eyeball. No real pain but it was awefull sounding/feeling

[MissTwisties]

Bunch of pussies. Had 2 (or 3?) of them pulled at same time, I survived and didn't make a thread about it.

[R7]

Originally Posted by MissTwisties

Bunch of pussies. Had 2 (or 3?) of them pulled at same time, I survived and didn't make a thread about it.

Probably because they didn't have internet back then? Just sayyin

[MissTwisties]

Originally Posted by R7

Probably because they didn't have internet back then? Just sayyin

Eh...wait...wait a second. Did you just call me an...OMG...an OLD FART?!!