thanks for this. i need to get mine done, but now, let them bitches rot in my head. you saved me tons of agony.

For what it's worth, my wisdom teeth extraction was the most horrible experience of my life too. I had friends who went back to work the next day. I figured it'd be no big deal. Not even close. Try Anacin, after five days the Vicodin didn't do much anymore and on a lark my dentist said some people had luck with Anacin. It's a miracle drug. Honest.

i had mine out on saturday (it's thursday morning), and this is the first day i've woken up not in agonizing pain. the percocet had just stopped doing its job, so i got the horse pills of ibuprofen, which made me ill all day. i've switched to aleve, and it seems to be helping quite a lot.

i made the mistake of trying to eat a salad on tuesday evening, which hurt so badly i spit lettuce all over my friend. which she deserved for laughing at me. bitch.

Yikes. Some people have real issues with this. I had mine removed on two occasions. The first was to remove just one because it was decaying as it came in. Then 2 years later the other three started doing the same, so I had them all removed at the same time.

I never had any issues (other than one during the surgery) I literally came home, took a couple of asprin, and took a nap, the next day I was eating solids and back to work with no pain.

Not to rub it in your face or anything ;)

I had mine removed and had no problems. I took the following day off from work, but was back at work the day after that.

From the people I have spoken with who have had their wisdom teeth removed, it seems that the only ones who had problems following the surgery were people who used sleeping gas to sleep during the operation. I was awake during the operation and had no problems. If you're gonna do it, I'd recommend not using sleeping gas.

TOBY SAYS: I could not be kept awake during the surgery because two of the teeth were impacted. I was given general anesthesia through an IV.

I had general anesthesia and I had no problems getting all 4 removed, except for some dry heaving from the anesthesia post-surgery. I was pretty good to go the next day.

It took me three weeks to recover. I ate broth and pudding for three weeks.
Good luck with the rest of the recovery. It's a bitch of a surgery.

Just think, removing those 4 teeth will indent your cheeks and make you look like you have bigger cheek bones.

It's kinda like getting your ribs removed to look thinner.

you should write about what you asked the nurse when they first brought you around after the surgery and how you wanted me to buy you some monistat-7 and some tampons (which could substitute for gauze should we have needed more) when we went to fill your prescription.

i stressed for years about having my wisdom teeth extracted, and it turned out to be the biggest non-event. i had all four removed at the same time, and they were all bone impactions. i nearly had an anxiety attack before i went in because i had seen my siblings come out of their surgeries years before bruised and bloody. but afterward, i had no blood, swelling, no bruising, no pain at all. i am absolutely convinced it was because of the quality of the surgeon--a former military guy, very blunt, scary, never once struck me as someone who would be gentle--was amazing.

I was looking forward to the inability to eat and losing 10 pounds. No such luck. I was eating steak later that day with no pain. They did same thing they did with you, knocked my ass OUT! I'm curious to know what I was saying because my mother (who was my ride) very hurriedly and with much urgency, told me it was time to get up, now. I still wonder what is was I was saying but I don't have the nerve to ask her.
Oh, one other thing, $600 is cheap compared to the $4,700 I had to spend on my braces after my teeth kept crowding. I hope your's stay in place. I mean, that would so suck if you couldn't get your Tobygainer and had to live on macaroni and cheese and ramen noodles.

Eh, I had mine removed junior year of high school and actually went to class the next day. Okay, now while all of that is true, the following happened the night of the surgery:

1. I probably broke the attending nurse's hand as she had me hold it and squeeze it if the pain got too severe.
2. the novocaine didn't do much of anything to prevent me from hearing and sorta feeling the teeth crunching and breaking while being extracted.
3. asking my mother and anyone present to kill me after said novocaine wore off, stupidly swearing off taking the Tylenol 3 which was prescribed for me. That was the last time I was a purist when it came to prescription drugs.

Basically, I'm saying just hang in there. Good to see you posting again, even under these circumstances.

Thanks for the ranting post.

I had surgery when I was 14 and apparently went on at length about an attractive orderly. Most unrepeatable and a source of embarrassment to my parents who were there. I'm in my 40s now and they still refer to it and laugh hysterically at me. No one will tell me what I said. They just blush and start laughing again.

I think you should tell us what you uttered as you exited the general anesthesia.

Thanks.

Sorry to hear about your difficulties. I actually had the opposite experience. About 10 years ago, I wound up having 5 (yes -- 5, I 'm a freak!) wisdom teeth taken out. I was under minor anaesthesia and was entirely alert the whole time, although I didn't feel a thing. After the procedure (which took around 45 minutes or so), I felt so good that I went grocery shopping. My friend who came along with me to accompany home was sort of disappointed that I wasn't more out of it, so he could actually do a good deed. When I got home, I took one painkiller and went to bed early.

When I woke up in the morning, felt fine. No swelling, no bruises, no pain. I basically resumed my regular life again.

Apparently I had a very good surgeon, and even though he was very young, he had a really good reputation already at the dental clinic with people having no problems after their wisdom teeth were taken out.

Hope you are downing lot of protein shakes right now. Don't worry about the lost weight. It will come back quickly once you started eating regularly and working out again.

You're so lucky you had drugs.

I didn't.

I can still feel the pain.

I didn't get dry socket but had a really rough time of it. I was swollen for three days, than accidentally slammed the side of my face into a phone, swelled up again for three days. Thought i had dry socket cause it hurt so bad but it was just a slow healing process for me. I hated soup by the time i was done though.
It's a bitch when they heal slow hope you get back to the gym soon!

omg, tell me about the shitting and sex drive...i thought i was alone.

jeeesus-fucking-christ!