Argh yargh blagargh.

[hroefn]

Had surgery on Saturday. Got my four wisdom teeth removed. The bottom two were lying sideways, impacted -- real potential for damage there, if I hadn't gotten them removed. Anyway, surgery went fine. They stuck an IV in me, I conked out, I woke up with gauze in my mouth. A while later, I went home (my dad drove, naturally -- I certainly wasn't up

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[hroefn]

Yeah, my dentist told me my teeth would probably shift around a bit. The curses of having big teeth and a small mouth... ah well. I can already chew a little, with my front teeth, anyway.

[rmash1948]

*comfles muchly, hands over some orange sherbert*

[hroefn]

Mm, orange sherbert. I'm all out, too. There was only a little there!

[rmash1948]

*chuckles* Poor darlin' *FTPs some more orange sherbert your way*

[keelay]

I had my top two wisdom teeth removed over the summer before senior year of high school. They had already grown out of my gums and were completely sideways, and didn't even really count as surgery I wouldn't think - they applied some local anaesthetic and just popped them right on out, as easily as pulling out a baby tooth that's ready to go. :)

Of course, my two bottom teeth are now starting to move around, and they are growing at a diagonal into the teeth in front of them and are like 99.999% still in the gums. THOSE ones I'm probably going to have to get knocked out for, because I'm sure they'll be digging and cracking and yanking and everything for them.

In any case, even with the ease of my top two teeth being removed, I ended up spitting blood for weeks, and although i didn't swell TOO much, I had to eat very soft foods and such for much longer than the dentist had said I would. But I don't remember getting much in the way of painkillers - I got more of that when I had an ingrown toenail removed. *shrug*

[hroefn]

Yeah, all four of mine were still hidden, not visible at all.

Oddly, I seem to not be spitting blood any more, though. Guess they did good suture-work. Pain's pretty minimal, too. I've only take two of the thirty or so painkiller tablets he prescribed, so far.

[frankenspam]

Oh, honey. ::hugs:: I remember when I had mine out--my face swelled so bad it pushed my eyes shut, it was like, one solid bruise. Eat lots of Popsicles and pudding, and no matter what take the pain meds, even if you feel like you don't need them--trust me, if you miss one, you REALLY regret it.

[hroefn]

Nah, the pain's pretty minimal already. I've not been taking them at all, really. Just one on the day of the surgery, and one the morning after.

And yeah, your swelling sounds a -lot- worse than my swelling is, heh. Then again, they did say it'd be 4-5 days before the swelling got to its worst point.

[simplypip]

Codeine is my friend. Them, and the purple cows they bring.

Hope you get to feeling better sooner rather than later!

[hroefn]

Codeine, pshaw. T3s really don't do anything for me. I don't think my body processes it right. The painkillers I've got are a different opiate, thebaine... certainly seems to work on me, heh. Makes me kind of loopy.

Sadly, no purple cows.