Dry sockets.

7/4/2009 12:10:26 AM

apparently YOU sucked

7/4/2009 12:11:09 AM

Yeah I never had to deal with that.

I threw up blood twice after getting my wisdom teeth out, but the recovery process only entailed a minor amount of suck.

[Edited on July 4, 2009 at 12:12 AM. Reason : The laser tongue surgery was another, more disgusting and more painful story.]

7/4/2009 12:11:46 AM

It was fine for a week. Until today.

The pain just developed overnight, and I've been basically incapacitated all day. Use your gauze, kids.

7/4/2009 12:12:58 AM

i used tea bags and brewed blood tea in my mouth all day

7/4/2009 12:15:20 AM

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7/4/2009 12:15:35 AM

Oh yeah, I was on that gauze like a futhermucker.

But like I said I was bleeding like a stuck pig. I'm pissed as fuck at people who just recovered with no issues. How did you do that? Oh yeah I was eating solid food by the end of the day, lolz. Took me about five days before I could manage to put a minor bit of pressure on my jaw (to chew) without feeling like somebody was driving a screw into my jaw (on both sides).

I really wonder what the fuck they did to get all that blood in my stomach as well. I mean the toilet was just filled with it and I threw up a fuck ton of it. Did the guy responsible for suction just say "fuck it" and go out and smoke for my surgery?

7/4/2009 12:16:22 AM

I had zero pain and have been eating whatever I've wanted since the local anesthetic wore off last week. Until this morning.

I would have preferred a flurry of kicks to the balls over this.

7/4/2009 12:21:21 AM

one of my wisdom teeth has some decay and must be extracted, but now the gum has decided to pour over into the cavity. fun stuff.

7/4/2009 12:26:02 AM

Might want to have that looked at.

7/4/2009 12:27:59 AM

There's nothing quite as enjoyable as a $500+ oral surgery bill.

7/4/2009 12:29:42 AM

Try $2250 for 4 wisdom teeth.

Insurance covered zero.

7/4/2009 12:34:39 AM

It took the third post for me to realize that this isn't a buttsecks thread.

7/4/2009 12:35:27 AM

I think we paid $800 and insurance covered the rest, (doc charged $600 and insurance covered a lot because we had hit a deductible that year or something), but oral surgery is sort of like going to the dentist with an extra free kick to the nuts.

I like the sedation part of going to the oral surgeon though (although I was 100% awake the whole time as he used a laser to cut out part of my tongue and stitch it together again). One bad experience w/ the dentist kinda fucked up that fun business.

[Edited on July 4, 2009 at 12:37 AM. Reason : ^ I tend to make most threads unenjoyable.]

7/4/2009 12:37:22 AM

i'm hoping for an interest free payment plan, nitrous during, and like 90 hydrocodone at the end.

7/4/2009 12:38:36 AM

They gave me percocet, but I haven't taken any of it.

I'm abusing advil, though.

7/4/2009 12:51:01 AM

I was given nitrous, then knocked out with some magic juice through a butterfly IV (only woke up once during surgery and I guess they noticed because I passed out shortly thereafter), and they gave me vicodin and ibuprofen for recovery. I only used the ibuprofen because I didn't want to be a drugged up mess that slept 18 hours out of the day.

Those docs sure do make sure to hand out the good shit though. If I didn't feel like being a tuff guy about it I would've just taken the vicodin and slept for about a week while my body tried to fix whatever the fuck those guys broke.

[Edited on July 4, 2009 at 12:52 AM. Reason : ^ Seriously advil works fantastic on pain from wisdom teeth surgery. They gave me horse pills tho.]

7/4/2009 12:51:33 AM

I also got nitrous prior to the IV. It was the second time I had been given Nitrous, and the first time it didn't have any effect on me. Needless to say, when it actually worked this time, I started laughing and couldn't stop for at least 10 minutes.

I ruined their schedule for the rest of the day.

7/4/2009 12:54:11 AM

I had a dry socket when I was in college. It hurt like hell and the novacaine didn't do much when the doctor cut it open. I drove to Wilmington from home (35 mi) to get it drained and then from Wilmington to Raleigh with it hurting bad and only some ibuprofen for the pain. Not a fun trip.

7/4/2009 1:17:15 AM

You DROVE with this pain?

7/4/2009 1:22:48 AM

yeah, but thinking back it was pretty stupid. I was flying down 40 in a raggedy ass old truck and hurting bad. They told me I couldn't drink from a straw but they didn't say anything about smoking, so I smoked several Swisher Sweets on the way and maybe the nicotine dulled the pain.

7/4/2009 1:30:01 AM

Smoking was probably the worst thing you could have done.

7/4/2009 12:11:16 PM

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7/4/2009 1:06:23 PM