If you’ve seen me or conversed with me in the last week, you know I’ve been suffering from intense wisdom tooth pain. Unfortunately, due to my work schedule, I wasn’t able to see an oral surgeon until today, Saturday. As I type this, I’m sitting in front of my MacBook feeling exactly how I felt all week, awful. Why, you ask?
Apparently another medication I’m taking suppresses my body’s ability to heal, so I’m unable to have my inflamed mouth operated on for four or months or more. Great! Fortunately, I was prescribed a medicated mouthwash to help my mouth, and I should be back to ‘normal’ in a few days. Unfortunately, somewhere around Winter or Spring break, I’ll have to go have oral surgery on four wisdom teeth at once.
Moral of the story? I suppose everyone should be hyper-aware of the medications they’re taking.
Funny, I had massive wisdom tooth pain a while ago.
I went to the dentist and spent massive $$$ so she could tell me to wait it out and take a Tylenol.
Dentists : my dentist :: Teachers : english teachers
So I used the plastic toothpick in my Swiss army knife to tear the gum over it & it stopped hurting, but it was bleeding & throbbing. Eventually the tooth decided NOT to emerge & the gum healed.
Wisdom teeth are a bitch.
I got all mine out in June. I’m lucky in that I clot really fast, so I was eating actual food that night. The process doesn’t really hurt, just get yourself some sedative. I didn’t need the vicodin, and I’m glad, because opiates flip me something fierce.
I’ll remember such advice until I’m actually able to get them out. *sigh*
Just don’t use an ice-skate…