Would adults with their wisdom teeth removed check in?

[MrScorpio]

Were those some good drugs, or what?

[Ladyhawk]

1. Not good enough. :(

I got dry sockets in all four holes...hurt for three weeks!

Butthead voice: Huh-huh...huh-huh...she said "holes"...huh-huh-huh.

[MrScorpio]

4. FOUR. DRY. SOCKETS?!?

WTF?!?

Did you eat, drink or smoke something before you were supposed to?

[Ladyhawk]

5. Dunno...it just happened, man.

:shrug:

[undeterred]

2. I had 3 taken out 25 years ago and

one that's gotta go next month. Don't ask me why all 4 weren't taken out at the same time... :nuke:

[supernova]

3. I had 5 wisdom teeth taken out

The fifth was just a little baby stump of a tooth, but a 5th one, nonetheless.

I don't think I had drugs; just a lot of novacaine and the usual tylenol. I don't think I had Vicodin or percoset, or any of the really good stuff.

[AuntieM1957]

30. Me, too - but my 5th was a real tooth - grew in the roof of mouth

but I have the other 4 still.

orthodontist took out teeth when I was a teenager, so there was room

I don't remember any drugs, so they were either:

1) really, really good and I blacked it all out.

2) non-existent.


But does having 5 wisdom teeth make me smarter? I guess if I were really wise, I wouldn't have to ask, eh?

[Harrumph]

6. Definately good drugs...

I lucked out and only had bottom wisdom teeth. Never had top ones at all. Dentist said he was seeing more and more people with only top or bottoms...evolution?

[Gormy Cuss]

16. I had only one upper

Dentist used novacaine only and yanked it out cleanly the first try with no residual pain that an ibuprofen couldn't address. That was my good dentist. Now my dentist emulates Steve Martin in Little Shop of Horrors.

[mainegreen]

7. It took 3 shorts to put me under.

Boy, what a great 5 second rush!

[Gormy Cuss]

17. LOL --- your Maine is showing

People from away spell that 'shots' -- there is no silent R.;-)

[AntiCoup2K4]

8. The pain was so bad before I had them yanked....

That the pain of the empty holes afterwards was actually very manageable by comparison. I ended up using most of the pain pills "recreationally".

[Kire]

9. when I woke up it was like I was being born

I was crying so bad, I don't know what came over me.

very fucking traumatic

[Cush]

10. I never needed 'painkillers'

strange but true, but I didn't have a lot of pain after mine were removed. Well, there was some, but it was never on the level where I needed to be doped up on heavy medication, just an occasional asprin.

The only problem I had was with the bleeding. On the list of things it said to do was to bite down on a teabag. Here's a hint, if you do thatm wrap the tea bag in gauze! Nothing like blood soaked tea-leaves in your mouth....took forever to get them out

I only had three, none were impacted, but I did have them knock me out to do it

EDIT: I had to have 14 teeth pulled just to get braces, my baby teeth wouldn't come out on their own....so I guess I was used to 'pain'

[Lubernaut]

11. It took the oral surgeon

8 hours to extract all four of mine. One was so far in the roof of my mouth he was afraid he was gonna break my pallet (it took him 3 hours just to find it)!

That was 17 years ago and I haven't seen a dentist since! A very nasty experienceto be sure.

[texanwitch]

14. That is the worst wisdom tooth story I have heard, 8 hours.

Mine took only 45 minutes and I was sedated.

I was dental coward but I found a great dentist. Dental work can be painless, just find a good, gentle dentist.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

12. Made me hurl. n/t

[BamaGirl]

13. I had 5 too

My 5th came in after the 4 were removed, and was a regular sized wisdom tooth. I could not believe it lol! Had that sucker yanked as soon as they could get it out. :P Two of mine were oral surgeries and three were pulled. Percocet with all. :D

[LynneSin]

15. All I ever got was Tylenol 3

I was 17 when my wisdoms were removed. They weren't even outside of the gums and the dentist wanted them out because they were already causing me headaches, ringing and difficulty opening my mouth

[texanwitch]

18. You had a good Dentist.

Mine came in very late.

[sendero]

53. What's better..

... than vicodin ? :)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

19. Mine came out when I was 20....

and that was a looooonng time ago...I don't remember any good drugs, either...

Thank God those teeth are gone for good...I had no use for any of them!

I remember being swollen up...but not much actual pain, IIRC...

:shrug:

[asthmaticeog]

20. I got mine out when I was 30...

...and the drugs were BULLSHIT. Lortab? Whatta crock, I wanted something with balls, fuxsakes.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

21. Well my Dr gave me a prescription for Percodan

Didn't really need it past the first day. However I found the Percs were a good sleeping pill.

It's easy to see how Jerry Lewis got hooked on them.

[mitchum]

22. A fantastic liquid Demerol and Valium combination!

If I ever win the lottery...:)

[pitohui]

23. not for me

i had an extremely bad reaction to the drugs, projective vomiting, you name it

i preferred the pain

these were percs, i hope they have something better today

[Nikia]

24. I had them removed at age 23. It was traumatic.

I had two soft tissue impactions and two hard tissue impactions. I was wide awake with novacaine (or whatever similiar drug it was) injected into my gums and pallet. I decided to have the laughing gas after all. They told me to raise my hand if I felt pain. Each time, they startde cutting on tooth two, three, and four I raised my hand in pain and they had to renumb. I am not sure how long the procedure took, but it was disturbing despite the gas.
Afterwards, I was prescribed vicadin, but told not to take it for a few hour. About a half hour later, I was in some serious pain. Despite this, the front of my mouth and tongue were still numb. For the first two doses of vicadin, I was out of pain for about an hour. After the third vicadin, I was vommitting. After that, I elected to forgo the single hour of being pain free per dose and suffered the worst long substained pain that I have ever felt to that point. I did not go into work that next day (had the procedure on a Thursday). I had the pain of open wounds in my gums and the worst substained headache pain all weekend.
I thought that my mother was kidding when she said that having her wisdom teeth out was worse than giving birth.
If I had to do it again, I would elect to be knocked out for the procedure (or at least have what I had for my digestive scopes). I would also ask for something different from vicadin, which made me ill.

[texanwitch]

39. I had a tooth fixed when I was a teenager where novacaine never

worked, even after several shots.

Trust me sedation is the why to go, :hug:

You were brave.

[shanti]

42. one of my sons is like that

his teeth just never get numb, so he's very afraid of dentists. i will pass that tip on.

[Maestro]

25. Not good enough for me either

Just like one of the first posters, I had four dry sockets. Painful to no end even with drugs.

[MrScorpio]

26. I guess I was the lucky one

I had three removed back in '95. I was 34 and living in Germany at the time

The plan was to put me out. I said, "GREAT!"

The worse pain was the needle going into my hand. They told me to count backwards from 100 and before I knew it, I was being helped out of the dentist's chair and into a wheel chair.

No pain at all.

I followed all of the dentist's instructions: No solid food for three days, drink plenty of water and no smoking (No brainer, since I never smoke).

I had no complications, or pain at all... NONE!

On the last day the gauze finally came out and I celebrated by going to Luxubourg City and having a gyro.

Best gyro EVER!

[blondeatlast]

27. Guy, I went into the health jail in June with angina and a sore left arm.

I got MORPHINE for the arm; they said they didn't want me to stress with the arm as it would aggravate the angina.

Good stuff, that.

[RayOfHope]

28. Ahhh, the memories...

had mine out 2 years ago when I was 31. I was sedated by IV so I was totally out (and feeling good from the Valium I had that morning).

Post procedure drug was Oxycodone. Good stuff, that. I think I actually saved 2 of those precious pills for a later date (:

[texanwitch]

45. O yes Oxycodone, I have some big blue ones and some small

white ones. The blue ones are powerful. One of my friends had a filling come out and she was in pain, this was on a Sunday afternoon. I gave her two to take until Monday morning and that woman was high, she was floating.

I didn't use very many because I had so little pain but I am glad I had some to give to my friend.

[C_eh_N_eh_D_eh]

29. wheeeeee........

Ah, the memories...

[Not_Giving_Up]

31. Mine were cut out when I was 16

X-rays showed that they were going to root right into nerves...so they surgically removed them before they had the chance. I remember dribbling everything I tried to drink for hours...drove my grandmother batty!

[Redstone]

32. Dunno about wisdom teeth, but had my tonsils out at 28 years old;

the first ham & cheese grinder after that was a real adevnture.

But was well worth it after almost a week of soup, I'll guarantee that.

Redstone

[bliss_eternal]

33. Two gone--two to go!

:crazy:

weeeeeeeee......

But I had sinus surgery a few months ago. Talk about HIGH! I was loaded for about a week! :scared:

[shanti]

43. ahhhhh!

that is very painful, yes? someone told me about the sinus "reaming" before - gawd. :(

[bliss_eternal]

52. Wasn't as bad as I expected...

The technology has changed so much, they no longer just go in and 'plow down' everything in the sinus path. Now they use endoscopy, which is far more precise. They can actually go in, and operate quite specifically, as opposed to just reaming like they used to.

The recovery process is still a long process--but I feel fortunate that I got this kind of surgery when I did. I've heard the horror stories of those that had it w/out endoscopy. :scared: I'm glad I didn't have it the other way.

[texanwitch]

47. Did you get morphine(spelling),

My niece had some sinus surgery, she was so high we had to carry her to the car. She could have walked on broken glass and not known it.

[bliss_eternal]

51. Whoa--she was really out of it...

I think that I did--not sure. I know I slept A LOT for a few days at least--and felt very little pain. I had no need for the pain meds they offered me.

:hi:

[imperial jedi]

34. not nearly good enough

n/t

[Heidi]

35. My wisdom teeth were pulled years ago . . . very little pain.

I'm basically just posting to say that I'm in love with the talented, honest and outspoken young man in your sig-line. :blush:

[MrScorpio]

37. I knew you'd love the new sig line

He's gonna be around for awhile

[deadparrot]

36. The drugs that put me out were lovely, though I could've done

without the IV.

The painkillers, however, made me throw up. That was a lovely week.

[eleny]

38. Counted backwards to 98 and woke up. Wha? Wha?

Some nice drugs were when I had the gall bladder out last year. Woke up in recovery and the nurses were talking like birdies chirping happy talk and it was the first day of the world. So I went back to sleep like a speckled puppy in a straw basket.

[tedoll78]

40. I had all four out in January.

It wasn't bad at all. They knocked me out with some Valium and Versed. The last thing I remember before going under was me saying, "Hey.. what gauge needle is that?" The assistant told me "21," and I said, "Cool." And then I was out! Haha!

They sent me home with the heavy-duty Vikes. The procedure was at 8AM. My partner got me home by 11AM. The dentist called me around 2PM to check on me, to see if I had any excessive bleeding or pain, etc. I was in pain, but that was because I wasn't taking the Vikes (b/c they make me goofy). He strongly advised me to take them. So I did, like a good boy.

Good times. I have a tiny few left. They're nice for boring Saturday nights.. :P

[billyskank]

41. I had one pulled last year. Does that count?

Just a simple local anaesthetic. Didn't feel a thing. Didn't even hurt afterwards when the anaesthetic wore off. I was lucky.

[Guaranteed]

44. I'm well into my mid-twenties, and I still don't have any of mine pulled.

I need to get the top two pulled. They haven't come in to the level of the rest of my teeth, and it looks like they're pushing the rest of them forward. And at least one of them is decaying, I can tell. They feel hollow and weak.

The bottom ones have come all the way in, and seem okay to me, at least, although the dentist (who I don't entirely trust) tells me that one of them is decaying. I'll probably end up getting them pulled, too.

The problem is that I need some kind of insurance, first. I can't afford the thousands of dollars it's going to take for this.

[texanwitch]

46. Those wisdom teeth can damage your other teeth, and make you very

sick. I was glad to get mine out. I felt so much better afterward.

It is a shame we don't have national dental insurance, so many people need dental work and can't get it.

Don't wait to long, your teeth can get cracked by the pressure. One of my cousins had to have crowns because she waited to long, talk about expensive.

[Guaranteed]

48. It's definitely on my list. nt

[Ouabache]

49. all 4 removed oral surgery when I was 36

they never came in but I was getting pain up in the front of my mouth as they were pushing forward under the gumline. I was told to tell everyone you should have them out by 24, if they are not right.
He did one side one week and the other side another week. One of them hurt like hell for a couple days that was a dry socket I was told.

Vicodin is what I had, and it is ok for me at first but after a couple days it starts messing with the quality of my sleep. I can't sleep for longer than 3 hours on it and the sleep is not good.

My favorite pain med is tramadol (also goes by ultrum). Now that stuff is like weed for a high and NO PAIN. It is a synthetic codeine developed in Germany in the 1970's as I understand it. And, I don't understand why it is not prescribed more than it is? given that it mimics a maryjane high. I am told though that if you have a lot of pain, you really don't feel the high, just no pain. Not that I would suggest taking it recreationally, because I think it would mess with your sleep over a long term if you really were not in much pain.

[SarahB]

50. All 4 of those impacted puppies out when I was 17.

:hi:

[SunDrop23]

54. Me, me, me!!!

I have no more.

:shrug:

[tuvor]

55. Just don't ask my wife.

Her dentist didn't realize they had run out of anaesthesia until it was too late.

As for me, whee!, but the blood-soaked cotton mouth was kind of a buzzkill.

[friesianrider]

56. My drugs sucked.

I had tylenol with codeine and it didn't do nothin' for me. And I was a drug virgin before that...I must have a very high tolerance for all the good drugs or something :(

My wisdom teeth removal was okay though. I didn't have any dry sockets (thank God...ewww) but it was almost a week before I could eat anything other than soup.

[hootinholler]

57. They sucked...

Navy dentist all 4 done in chair under novocain. Gave me a scrip which I filled, and took 2 onthe way home. Took 2 more when I got home, and an hour later I drove back to get a different scrip. I asked him for the non-placebo version. He then wrote a scrip for percocet, and marked my records "High Tolerance"

-Hoot