I just got my wisdom teeth removed

[super-smashman]

Thank science for painkillers.

[Zosima]

Wow, now I'm scared of getting my wisdom teeth removed.


And another thing, I didnt lose my last tooth until i was 13!! lol.

[super-smashman]

Oh if I only had a camera now...

They're twice as swollen but they don't hurt as much.

[psychic25]

Oh wow, that sucks.

I had all four of mine out this year. Nothing nearly as traumatizing as forgetting painkillers, but there was copious bleeding and pain when the IV wore off.

Bummer- hope you recover soon! (Within about a week or two the swelling should go down and you'll look fine. And yes, it WILL all be over.)

[church_pk]

Yeah, 4-5 days and you should be all fine again. Just keep an ice pack on and it will go down 1.5x rate XD

[Belgarion]

I had my wisdom teeth out in mid-February, all four of them. The bottom two were impacted, so my dentist had to break them apart and pull the pieces out of my mouth, then sew up the sockets. I was prescribed Darvocet for the pain, but I only took one thanks to the wonders of Procaine, Novocaine's longer lasting cousin.

The only advice I can give you is to try and stay away from solid foods as much as possible; drink soups, juices, things like that. The first day with the bloody gauze is the worst, however, and after that it should be smooth sailing.

p.s. Take ALL of your antibiotics.

[businessman07]

Originally Posted by super-smashman

Apparently it takes the ****ing pharmacist 20-30 minutes to COUNT the number of pills I get. After hearing this I started crying.

You get some strange looks when you're in the parking lot of a grocery store and you have blood soaked gauze pads all over your lap and in you mouth and you're crying.

sadly I lol'd when I read this.

P.S. I feel your pain

[ckj846]

I had mine taken out last summer. Well only 2 of my wisdom teeth were impacted and they were on the same side so I didn't go through quite as much pain as you have. Well actually I endured very little pain.

I get to the oral surgeon or whatever they are called and then he showed me a little video of blah blah you might die from the anastesia blah blah sign this form and so forth. Then he gets an emergency patient so he has to go tend to him before me. The oral surgeon gives me a bunch of sleeping pills and leaves the room. I take them and when he comes back, he asked me if I was getting sleepy. I was a little bit but being the little pussy I was I lied and said I wasn't so he gave me even more sleeping pills. He puts in the IV and I am knocked unconscious. Apparently I was sleeping/knocked out for almost 24 hours and that is where it seemed you had the most pain. After that, I took pain killers and I had ice on my cheeks to help with the swelling. The swelling does get a little worse but as it does you can swallow without as much pain. I lived off of smoothies/jamba juice and jello for 2 weeks because I'm a slow healer =/ Good luck with that, I feel your pain.
O_o

[emptiness]

i still have to get mine.

[super-smashman]

Almost all of the stitching in my gums has broken apart but nothing is really healed yet. So now I have huge holes on the back of my of mouth. Keeping up with the antibiotics and pain killers is really making this bearable though.

Oh, and they're swelling more and more each day lol.

[Swoop]

Im getting my back molars(not wisdom. These are before) in and it hurts on and off. Some times it bleeds and i hate they taste of my blood. Then little chunks of dead gum skin comes off.Kinda like when u shed from sunburn but on a smaller scale. Not even close as bad as you Super-smashman.I feel bad for u.

[businessman07]

This is what I do in my spare time. with all the pics I had too. sorry.

[MCRenaissance]

Lol, that's ****ed.

[180digi]

wtf man

[Hr2]

I got mine out a few weeks back and yeah they hurt quite a lot but I have super high pain tolerance and I had a bottle full of painkillers so it wasn't too bad. I had what they called an "empty socket" which means extra pain due to exposed bone and nerve, but I didn't really notice it.

My face swelled up aswell, but I'm so thin that it just made it look like my face was normal sized haha.

[Cj_leonine]

smile? jk.

My wisdom teeth are coming in but they don't hurt they're just pushing my teeth togther and it's not pretty. I'll probably need BRACES!

[Shadow_God_10]

ugh I need braces as well, after all I do look like Draculas heir.. as for mr.Chipmunk (smashman) goodluck with recovery....

[esupin]

Be sure to clean out your sockets. Mine were ultra deep or something, so I had to use syringes to shoot water into the sockets and get out the extra food stuff. Owwww.

Getting wisdom teeth taken out is alot painless than it was 20 or 30 years ago.

[XXXsmittyXXX]

I got mine taken out last year and it sucked.
All of my bottom teeth were crowding so they pulled them bitches.
I Slapped some morphine patches on my cheeks when i slept.
Worked pretty good.

[super-smashman]

Alright, so it's a few days later and they've almost completely healed.

After all the blinding pain, I'd say that the worst part about all of this was not eating any food for the first, like, three days. If I didn't have those four boxes of popsicles I likely would have starved to death.

God it feels good to be able to close my mouth completely.