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I still hate the taste of blood.
Non-TMI dental report: IT IS GOING TO HURT SOON (they extracted my tooth).
Anyone squeamish about dental work might wanna wander away
They stuck me about five times. Which was good, because by the time we got down to business, I actually didn't hurt. At all. (this meant I'm now 128 pages into Dancer of the Sixth) Usually, when I have dental stuff, I feel some pain at some point during the procedure. This one? Nada. Of course, if it had gone on much longer, oh HELL YEAH.
So, they stuck me. And I did some waiting. And they moved me to a different room and stuck me again and I did a little more waiting--
Then the surgeon came in and poked to make sure I wasn't feeling anything, then took something else and warned me I'd feel some pressure. I think this is when he popped my crown off, as his next words were something like "fuck, it's cracked," to the assistant. Possibly without the 'fuck'. And then he told me he was going to have to just extract it, since it was all infected and such (and I'd sort of figured that, given my luck and all).
Which meant sectioning it in three and doing a lot of tugging and such. At one point, I was all, "pls to not be pulling my whole jaw out, kthnx"
There was effort involved in the removal. Lots.
And blood. Again, I hate the taste of it. And seeing it on the surgeon's gloves is... disconcerting. I mean, I know I bleed like a mofo when they mess around with my teeth, but, damn.
Then there was suturing. And rinsing.
Now I'm packed with cotton, have downed my first hydrocodone and I'm just waiting for the damned thing to kick in so I can stop going "shit, it's starting to hurt".
Anyone squeamish about dental work might wanna wander away
They stuck me about five times. Which was good, because by the time we got down to business, I actually didn't hurt. At all. (this meant I'm now 128 pages into Dancer of the Sixth) Usually, when I have dental stuff, I feel some pain at some point during the procedure. This one? Nada. Of course, if it had gone on much longer, oh HELL YEAH.
So, they stuck me. And I did some waiting. And they moved me to a different room and stuck me again and I did a little more waiting--
Then the surgeon came in and poked to make sure I wasn't feeling anything, then took something else and warned me I'd feel some pressure. I think this is when he popped my crown off, as his next words were something like "fuck, it's cracked," to the assistant. Possibly without the 'fuck'. And then he told me he was going to have to just extract it, since it was all infected and such (and I'd sort of figured that, given my luck and all).
Which meant sectioning it in three and doing a lot of tugging and such. At one point, I was all, "pls to not be pulling my whole jaw out, kthnx"
There was effort involved in the removal. Lots.
And blood. Again, I hate the taste of it. And seeing it on the surgeon's gloves is... disconcerting. I mean, I know I bleed like a mofo when they mess around with my teeth, but, damn.
Then there was suturing. And rinsing.
Now I'm packed with cotton, have downed my first hydrocodone and I'm just waiting for the damned thing to kick in so I can stop going "shit, it's starting to hurt".
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Good luck. Feel better.
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BUT IT IS GONE. FOREVER. yay. I can't decide whether to do an implant or a bridge.
And this isn't the worst pull I've had, for the record. No, no, that goes to my left-side wisdom teeth, for which I still have nightmares.
Also, I have plugged my phone in for charging purposes.
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I totally understand, I have awful, awful teeth (thanks genetics!) so every trip to the dentist is basically just like this.
Yay for drugs?
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I just. Every time I go to the dentist, I want them to pull my whole jaw and be done with it. Sigh.
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Feel better!
*sends warm fuzzy pain-free healing dragony vibes*
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HEAL FASTER, DAMMIT.
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*snuggles lots*
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...laughter is the best medicine right?
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I have soup. It needs to cool more, though.
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At my follow-up appointment after oral surgery, I whined about the pain of recovery which I characterized as worse than childbirth. The horrified hygienist informed me that I could have called and they'd had more and better painkillers in my hands that day. (The good news was when they performed the extraction two years later, they made sure to not only pump me full of good drugs, but also to press a prescription for wonderful painkillers upon me as I left.
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It's actually hurting less than I'd expected (given how my jaw just ached last week after a simple filling...), and right now, I've just taken the second dose so it's playing catch-up just a bit.
And if I just went and slept... I'd probably be fine.
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But who can sleep now when there's exciting new BSG on the horizon!
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You have the worst luck with teeth. :(
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I had a plain, simple filling last week and my jaw still hurts where they stuck the needle in, five days later. The tooth itself is just fine. What the hell did he hit?
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And thank you =)