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10-04-2007 22:57:34
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Re: O/T Got wisdom teeth chopped out today in reply to bradk, 10-04-2007 18:21:48
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Had mine out about a month ago, all 4 wisdom teeth. I had a very good experience, I opted to be put to sleep, and the funny thing is I don't even remember really feeling all that sleepy, the next thing I know is they are telling me its all over. They put an IV in my arm, and some sort of "sneaky oxygen" as my oral surgeon called it to my nose, and shortly before I went out, he gave me a shot in the IV line of something. I did bleed a lot afterwards, I had a mouth full of gauze, and had to keep changing them as they kept getting soaked until the bleeding stopped, which took several hours. I then had some Jello when the bleeding stopped and could only eat very soft foods for a couple of days. Be careful not to eat anything with little seeds in it or anything that could get down into your incisions causing infection. I'd imagine you got a paper with instructions on it to mix up salt water to swish around to help clense and heal your mouth quicker. It wasn't too bad, the pain wasn't that bad and I mostly managed it with Ibuprofin. I didn't get back to myself for about a week, and I found that much physical activity would put me in pain and don't let your pain get ahead of the medicine!, I did that a couple of times right after surgery and the pain comes back pretty quickly and it really hurts for about half an hour until the medicine catches up. I didn't trust myself to run equipment or drive for a few days since I was on pretty heavy doses of pain medicine, even though I felt alright everyone thought it would be best if I didn't, heck I thought I had done a pretty good job of walking out of the doctors office after my surgery since I was out the door within 5 minutes of waking up, but I was told I was walking pretty tipsy and a nurse had guided me out. I didn't sleep afterwards though like everyone thought I would. I came home and surfed the web in a vikoden and Ibuprofin cocktail stupor, even wrote a few posts, but I guess I did alright since nobody questioned them.
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). The nurse said to count backwards from 100 - I think I made it to about 98 ...
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