I had my wisdom teeth pulled the other day.

[Twillig]

I have discovered that having them 'pulled' makes your fingernails grow faster.

I've also found out that ice cream, much like Vicodin and a beer, counts as a meal.

:-)

Please share any of your discoveries.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

1. I had all four out at once, a long time ago

Discoveries:

Demerol is a pretty cool downer. But a real time-waster. I leaned down to tie my shoe at 7am. At 8:30 I started on the other shoe.

"Dry socket" is a beyatch.

Thanksgiving dinner can be eaten with a blender and a straw. It tastes like bean&bacon soup. Not bad!

:hi:

[applegrove]

2. I had three out. And found the stitches so painful I cut them out myself.

Hated the anesthesia.

[Twillig]

3. Did you have the nitrous oxide?

That was a pleasant experience for me.

It was balanced in a negative way by the crunching sound of the extraction process.

I don't want to hear that again anytime soon.

[applegrove]

14. I got a shot of something. Then I was confused when I woke up because

it seemed like only seconds had passed. I asked when they were going to do the operation as they moved me into recovery. Then I threw up on the way home behind a tree.

[stuntcat]

4. PULLED?

PULLED??? omg :scared: :hug:

[harmonicon]

5. how's it going?

How many days until you're not swelled up and doped up? I need to have mine taken out this summer, but I'm afraid that I won't really have enough recovery time with all of the other stuff I have to do. Does it/did it hurt like all hell?

[Twillig]

6. I'm pretty fine.

Did it hurt like hell? No. There was a little sharp pain as the Doc seemingly pushed the damn teeth down into my jaw. (see reference to crunching sound) but that was mostly only the one (really)bad tooth that got me into the office in the first place.

I experienced more discomfort as the hygienist took off the tartar with the ultrasonic dealy during the cleaning/exam appointment.

I haven't been doped up at all, actually. I haven't taken enough vicodin at once to really feel it like that. I must say that I was in more pain in the previous weeks before the extraction. The wisdom tooth that precipitated my visit broke up and that really got me used to mouth pain.

I guess.

So, afterwards I was icing my jaws the first miserable 12 hrs. My mouth was stuffed with gauze and I had to change it every half hour at least. I was able to walk down to the safeway to fill my prescription, piece of cake.

Later on, after sleeping I had things to do, but thankfully they weren't any heavy physical stuff or deep thinking.

Not to mention talking. If I had to talk, fuhgeddabout it.


Today bleeding is over. Still, there's soreness, and I don't want to chew anything.

ANYTHING.

I should have done this 20 years ago, and it would be 20 years behind me, and I wouldn't have had the unpleasantness of a tooth breakup.

[harmonicon]

7. I should have had mine out 10 years ago

I would have fewer problems now, and insurance would have paid for it, but I was creeped out by the idea of having surgery for something that wasn't a problem. Can you even drink anything with gauze in your mouth? I've heard that smoking is also out right after having wisdom teeth out... I can imagine getting through it with a little vicodin, coffee, whiskey and lots of chain smoking to kill the time.

[Seedersandleechers]

13. It all depends on whether or not they are fully erupted

or horizontally bone impacted.

[Elidor]

8. Are you perchance related to Brillig?

And the Swithy Toves?

[Twillig]

9. Incidentally

by way of Don Delillo's novel Ratner's Star a way out there novel featuring mathematics.

Indeed, it's my theory--which is mine--that if you (literally) remove n 'er's' from the title, n=1 in this case, then you have the palindrome 'Ratstar' the point of which is I don't know what.

Anyway, the novel has many elements of Carrol's Alice in Wonderland in it. (lots of exploring of holes). So thy Swithy Toves figures somewhere I have to think.



Twilig is a character in Ratner's Star.


Twillig was, in the novel, supposedly a 'stage name' of sorts (for a 14 y/o nobel prize(yes, first in mathematics) winning mathematician) which is formed by removing 2 (n=2) instances of 'er' from Terwilliger.

I would say, after all this, that it's Delillo's most out there novel.

I don't pretend to understand it. But I like it.

[Elidor]

10. .

Indeed, it's my theory--which is mine--that if you (literally) remove n 'er's' from the title, n=1 in this case, then you have the palindrome 'Ratstar' the point of which is I don't know what.

I'm glad to see they gave you some good drugs for your wisdom teeth. :D

[JTG of the PRB]

11. I had all four pulled/cracked when I was a junior in high school.

They decided to use an IV of anesthesia since it would be a bit of a procedure. They had to poke me with a needle 14 times. 14. FOURTEEN - four in each arm, three in each hand before they finally found a vein in my left hand. Needless to day, it was not a good way to start the day.

After that, however, everything was fine. I recovered pretty quickly, and I was eating semi-solid foods three days later.

[Lil Missy]

12. Wait..... What???

I had 4 wisdom teeth pulled many years ago. All I got were some candy jawbreakers from a smart ass friend.

I don't recall anything about growing nails??

It was so long ago, and I don't recall if I had pain pills or not. I probably did.

[sarge43]

15. I discovered that sodium pentothal is great shit. n/t