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For Anand Lal Shimpi

Damn, dude, talk about a crappy Christmas present.

Word of advice:

Percocet is your friend! Take 'em two at once, & the world will be a brighter place.

Viper GTS
 
viper you take enough, the world will be bright with all your hallucinations 😉

Anand, good luck with the wisdom teeth recovery. Mine took me about a week before I could eat solid food. I had two friends who were able to eat after 2 days, so it definitely seems to vary from person to person.



late.


TDP

 
Good luck Anand. The best thing to do after you get your wisdom teeth out is go to sleep. Also Tylenol 3 (sp?) wouldn't hurt 😉

Be well and get well 😀

Cheers,
Aquaman
 
I'm with you Pepsi. My parents tried to force-feed me a Percoset and I promptly puked it back up. I was up and about the next day (after sleeping off the anesthesia).

My sister, on the other hand, looked like she had been mugged and beaten to within an inch of her life. She was bedridden for nearly a week. hahahahaha!!! Makes me laugh! 😀

amish
 
I ignored the doc's orders to stay down for a couple of days and keep it iced, and on the third day I literally looked like a chipmunk.

But all in all, pretty minor ordeal.
 
I was lucky, i took the pain medication once, though I did not need it. I didn't no like the way it made me feel. To funny feeling I suppose. I was back at work the day after having them pulled out.
 
I got off easy and made out like a bandit. 2.5 days off work. I was in so little pain I took only one tylenol 3 and I was eating a hamburger either the next day or the day after that. It was a sweet little vacation.
 
I ate pizza before the anesthetic had even worn off... 🙂

I'm STILL recovering from the extractions in SEPTEMBER...after a full week I was still in some pain, but it was getting better, and the surgeon said it didn't look bad, it was just due to the amount of work they had to do to get them out (they had to grind them out, not just break them) and all the gum cutting that had to be done. Plus I was rather numb in the area of the socket, but not the numbness that can be caused if they damage the major nerve in the lower jaw.

Two weeks later I was back in the office with him debriding the socket (flushing pure water into it by lifting up the gum covering the socket, which WAS starting to heal) to clean out a bone chip that had gotten lodged in my gums and was infected. Of course that also means it washes out any of the body fluids that were in there to help healing. Then on the followup a week later when it was hurting and numb still, he said it was due to the beating it took to debride it, AND there was still another smaller bone chip which wasn't causing infection and was near enough to working itself out that he didn't want to debride it again.

A week later, it wasn't hurting too badly, and Advil helped mostly, but it was still pretty much numb. He said that may have been due to the surgery and subsequent debriding having damaged some of the nerves in the gum, and that they should heal within not too long a time.

It's now near the end of December, and that part of my mouth is still numb, still hurts a little bit, and the tooth in front of that extraction site seems to be loose and hurts occasionally. I'm guessing it might be dead by now. Once the year turns and insurance cycles, I'm going to go to a different dentist to have him/her look at it.

Oh, and no I don't think the pizza caused any of the problems. I didn't cut up my mouth, and I only ate a little bit because I'd had to go without food for for over 12 hours plus the time since the surgery, and the surgeon didn't think that caused any problems. I didn't violate any of the rules meant to prevent dry socket.
 
I think my brother has everyone here beat. He got his wisdom teeth out in the morning, and by night time he had driven himself to his friend's party (I sure do hope the anaestisia (sp?) had worn off...I was too young to remember). He partied all night and came in at 4am then went to work at 6am...didn't look like anything was wrong with him at all.

-GL
 
I got mine removed in the morning and I went to a punk rock show that night. I even moshed in the pit. In retrospect that probably wasn't the best plan, although nothing went wrong and I was eating normal food a day later.

KingHam
 
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