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Let me tell you, I am glad I was married by the time I got my taken out, because she went above and beyond to take care of me afterwards. She got me a new star wars book and tshirt that I ended up puking on later.
Reading "The Making of Revenge of the Sith" and playing video games for two days!

Kendall wrote:

IV's and being knocked out for wisdom teeth?

Here you get a couple needles of freezing and you hold onto the arms of the dentist's chair!

No. We go under. Much easier.

Woosies.

In the Army they give you novacaine, and pull the suckers, pack cotton on them and send you back to duty. Then 3 weeks later, I went back and had the two on the other side pulled. Rinse and repeat.

I'm not a fan of needles, and had never had a IV before...so they gave me valium to take the night before, and then again the morning of the surgery. I remember stepping off the porch like "whoaaaa" (sorta felt like how you feel after getting new glasses). Surgery was ok, had all 4 out (oh this was during spring break in college), and I think I was either talking and/or snoring coming out of anesthesia. Got home, and was wired. Everyone told me I would be so wiped I would sleep the rest of the day, but I wound up cleaning. About a week later, (not sure if it was the valium) made me sick. I was at Church..and all of a sudden I felt pretty lousy. Barely made it out the door, and barfed. And then again by the curb...and then again by someone's car....fun stuff...

dv wrote:

Kendall wrote:

IV's and being knocked out for wisdom teeth?

Here you get a couple needles of freezing and you hold onto the arms of the dentist's chair!

No. We go under. Much easier.

You obviously didn't have this guy. I spent longer getting novocaine shots than losing teeth. Though I must say I was feeling no pain when he was done.

I have no idea but probably it is linked to the reason his office is two blocks from the inter-coastal waterway and he lists a few watersports as hobbies on his about me page on the site. Then again things like dolphins, fish, and nautical gear are standard decorations in a lot of businesses here in Palm Bay & the harbor city.

heh
was 18 when mine were pulled. reached out and fondled the nurses ass when i was doped up.
ate steak that night.
was big fun.

then two days passed and oh smurf it wasn't comfortable.

one word.....


Vicodin.

I had two wisdom teeth out right after high school. Only one was impacted (it was practically sideways) but the dentist said that it's always best to pull opposing top/bottom wisdom teeth.

Anyway, this is when I found out that I react badly to narcotic painkillers. As soon as I got home, I vomited. Projectile vomiting of not much food and no small amount of blood is unpleasant enough, but having that rush past brand new stitched sockets is really awful.

Then we tried this folk remedy where they say to apply teabags to the surgery site to stop bleeding after wisdom teeth removal.
I'm fairly certain that the direct-to-gums-and-blood infusion of caffeine plus the residual bad feelings from the drugs are what made me particularly unhappy and pissed off the rest of the day.

Mine ached, but I must not have had whatever pain it is that people talk about having, because it was ignorable without medications.

Took me a day and a half to sleep off whatever they pumped into me though.