You guys asked me to let you know how the wisdom teeth extraction went, so I thought I’d let you know… I don’t remember a thing! One minute I felt like I was being filled with helium and the next minute I’m laying on a couch listening to the nurse tell my husband what do do with me. I started talking right away… “What happened?”
She’s like, “You’re done.”
“No way!” I just couldn’t believe that 30 minutes had passed. I almost felt like she was putting me on, heheh.
Anyways, Dalbert Fear did a very fine job. He said I had the beginnings of an infection going on with one of the partially ruptured teeth, so it was good I got them out when I did–it could have been ugly. Now I have to take antibiotics as well as the pain meds.
The most uncomfortable part was just all the nausea I felt afterward, and it was hard to get rid of the nausea because it was hard to shove food in my mouth without choking on it. The numbing is receding, the pain is coming out to play, but it’s okay because my meds seem to be working great. I also have everything from chocolate ice cream to chocolate chip cookie dough to soup to popsickles to indulge myself with. And catered to by Mr. Olives–the best part of all.
Yayayayay I survived! Thanks for caring, you guys are the greatest!
I was going to suggest in your other thread that perhaps you might have had some kind of infection going on with your wisdom teeth (because I did) and this might account for some of the loss of appetite. Even a low-grade infection that you don’t notice can affect you. And perhaps your insomnia had to do somewhat with the anticipation of this event.
In any case, it’s good to hear that things went well, and here’s to hoping that the insomnia and appetite problems might dissipate somewhat as well.
If they don’t, after you get well, I have some other ideas from what you said about what could be causing additional stress.
Oh, I forgot to mention in the other thread that when I got my 4 wisdom teeth taken out, I also had another 4 extra teeth in my mouth pulled out at the same time. 8 teeth in one 30 minute sitting and I was concious the whole time!
The weird, or possibly good thing, is that I didn’t feel much pain. I didn’t even need any pain medication afterwards during my recovery. It probably helped that I ride bicycles a lot and learned how to withstand pain when going uphill. I asked the surgeon to weigh my teeth so I know how much weight I lost. He told me he didn’t have a scale. :rolleyes:
When your sockets have healed a bit, remember to use the plastic syringe the surgeon should have given you. You’ll have to clean out the sockets of food for a while until they heal over. I was amazed at how much food got stuck in my sockets, I was like a chipmunk. I could only get it out by spraying the sockets with water from the syringe.
You’re supposed to get a plastic syringe when you’re done? My surgeon just told me not to get food on the stitched area PERIOD. Man I drank about a case of Ensure and two giant Costco-sized bottles of apple sauce.
olivesmarch4th, you are so lucky you got the fun foods! My mom wouldn’t let me get ice cream or pudding because “you’ll get fat if you eat just those for a week”. Be sure to enjoy them and make sure the hubby is around to be at your beck and call.
I’m 32 and I still have all of mine, and none of them have errupted. I’ve apparently always been a bit slow in the tooth development area, losing my last baby tooth when I was in high school, in the chewy caramel of a Rolo while bouncing along in the back of a bus on the way to play volleyball or basketball somewhere.
Whenever I get new xrays taken at the dentist, they say something like “Yeah. Those need to come out.”, but I’ve been hearing that for over 10 years now, and they never do anything other than sit there. No pain, no pressure, no causing pushing/crowding with my other teeth.
I and my dentists are perpetually distracted away from my wisdom teeth by all of the cavities, root canals, and crowns that I need.
Anyone else still have all of their’s slumbering below the gumline, but old enough to apparently know better?
At Penchan: Why were you stitched up? My sockets were left open so I needed to clean them. The plastic syringe is common, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisdom_teeth
At ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies: Some people will have pain/dental problems from their wisdom teeth and some won’t. I got mine taken out as a preventative measure since I have braces and don’t want erupting wisdom teeth to whack my smile out of alignment. Perhaps you should ask your dentist why he thinks you should have your wisdom teeth taken out. But from the fact that you say you have quite a number of “cavities, root canals, and crowns”, I would wager a guess that your dentist is worried you are going to have problems with your wisdom teeth down the road. It is hard to clean the area where the wisdom teeth pop out and thus they will more likely decay. Also, if your wisdom teeth only partially pop out and have a layer of gum tissue covering them, food will get stuck underneath that tissue and cause decay. If you don’t mind me asking, why do you have so many “cavities, root canals, and crowns”?
Also, I think that everyone reading this thread should look at http://www.doctorspiller.com/Tooth_Decay.htm . This site is best enjoyed with an ice cold Coca Cola in your hands
All joking aside, that site freaked me out. It’s a good thing I don’t normally drink pop. However, I use Gatorade on my bicycle rides that can last up to 4 hours. What am I suppose to do? Take a drink of Gatorade from one bottle, then swish mouth wash with the other bottle?
I got stitched up too. Just had the sutures removed yesterday. I’m frankly shocked to hear you weren’t. Maybe it’s different if your wisdom teeth have already erupted (mine weren’t).
ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookie: I got mine out because I noticed some jaw clenching during sleep. But if they don’t bother you, you probably don’t need to extract them. Ask your doc why they need to come out.
Soft enamel or somesuch. My mom has had the same issues all of her life. From my dad’s side, there’s a significant amount of procrastination (actually, I get that from both sides :smack: ) and a general stubborn dislike/distrust of doctors and dentists. Thankfully I didn’t inherit my dad’s philosophy, but it is worth mentioning. He never once went to a dentist at any point in my life up to his death in 2003, but I heard rumors that he had gone once or twice prior to my birth.
Aside from non-tongue-in-cheek-genetics, I don’t see dentists enough, don’t have the most consistent of oral care habits, and I eat/drink my share of yummy stuff that is bad for me.
Wow, I never even thought the two could be related before! I know in October when I saw the dentist, he didn’t mention any sign infection (though I did have a honking huge cavity in one of the partially-ruptured ones.) I hadn’t been able to afford the dentist in 6 YEARS… I thought it was cool I only had the one cavity. So if the infection did start between October and now… then yes, maybe it has been contributing to my appetite loss… and maybe my lack of food somehow affects my insomnia, I dunno.
If things don’t improve once the infection’s taken care of, I’m going straight to the doctor.
Wha? I never got a syringe. But you mentioned the sockets being open? I have stitches… but they’re the kind that fall out on their own after a while. I had to brush my teeth today… that was quite an ordeal… but preferable to the “dead cat in my mouth” feeling.
Overall I guess I’m doing all right. The nausea has improved, and I have mild pain but am taking a low dose of the painkiller they gave me… the higher dose messes with my stomach. I have had some swelling but keeping it down with the ice headband.
I’m trying to go to my best friend’s graduation open house today. It’s at a theater (her family rented it to show the films she made as a film major in college.) I should be able to sit down a lot.
So slowly but Shirly, I’m coming around.
To those wisdom-teeth procrastinators: watch out! The first thing my surgeon said when he looked at my x-rays was: “Well, good news–we won’t have to break your jaw like we sometimes have to do with older people who wait too long.” shudders
When my wisdom teeth first got noticed below the gumline, the dentist said they were growing toward my tongue and had to come out. But somehow they straghtened themselves out and all came in fine. Now I just get the hygenist grumbling about how hard it is to get back there to clean, and I have a couple of tiny filings back there. On the whole they’re working out.
