Get your wisdom teeth out young!

[travis2]

Ive been in sever pain for a few days now and I went the oral surgeon to have a consultation. I need to have 3 wisdom teeth removed one of which is giving me alot of pain. Dr. was very cool, he wrote me a prescription for vicodin and Amoxicilin. With a 1 refill of the Vicodin if I need it. My appointment is next Thursday and it cant come soon enough. BTW I am 31. One of the wisdom teeth I have is actually coming in at an angle right into a tooth that I had a root canal and crown on. While I am nervous about the procedure and minor risks, I need to get this done.

If you need 3 removed, you may as well go after them all.

[travis2]

Really? It did nothing for my pain and gave me horrible nightmares... different body chemistry, I guess.



Sodium pentathol is truth serum, you mean general anesthetic? There are a bunch of different ones used for different purposes, and yeah, very strong stuff. Cool though.

As for percodan, that's just oxycodone and aspirin (percocet is oxycodone and paracetamol/acetaminophen). The oxycodone is metabolised in your liver into oxymorphone, which is 6-8 times more powerful than morphine. Addictive , no wonder you wanted more!

I'm fine now, it was pre-op when the pain was unbelievable. Post-op is a dawdle.

Percocet also goes by the name Tylox. Had that prescribed once when I got bitten by a black widow. I think I took one...it spun me up pretty badly. After that I decided I could handle the pain better than I could handle the dizziness.

[mrsmaalox]

I had my wisdom teeth removed a long time ago (~25 years). They gave me pentathol too. Nasty stuff...one minute I'm looking at the ceiling...then suddenly I am sitting up and the oral surgeon is pulling the last s ch tight. No dreams, no intervening time, just bang-bang.

Versed hit me pretty much the same way, but was less jolting when I came out of it...and I didn't feel as unsteady on my feet either.

Versed is an excellent drug; I once had a patient tell me he dreamed of beautiful flowers the whole time my colleagues and I stuck sharp things into his heart!! The cool thing about Versed is the amnesiac effect it has.

[ashbeeigh]

I am missing two.

I pray I get to keep all my teeth.

Teeth are good to have! Everyone should have them!

I think shortly after i posted this I felt a missing tooth start to come in (not a wisdom tooth...just some random one I've always been missing). Talk about a strange coincident.

[sa_butta]

was something infected? amoxicillin is an antibiotic...

yes, that is what is causing the pain...the infection.

[sa_butta]

If you need 3 removed, you may as well go after them all.

only 3 showed up in the x-ray, the 4th was not present at all.

[RuffnReadyOzStyle]

Ive been in sever pain for a few days now and I went the oral surgeon to have a consultation. I need to have 3 wisdom teeth removed one of which is giving me alot of pain. Dr. was very cool, he wrote me a prescription for vicodin and Amoxicilin. With a 1 refill of the Vicodin if I need it. My appointment is next Thursday and it cant come soon enough. BTW I am 31. One of the wisdom teeth I have is actually coming in at an angle right into a tooth that I had a root canal and crown on. While I am nervous about the procedure and minor risks, I need to get this done.

I feel your pain... hope the vicodin is working.

As for the risks, they are minor, and you should be fine.

All the best.

[RuffnReadyOzStyle]

Versed is an excellent drug; I once had a patient tell me he dreamed of beautiful flowers the whole time my colleagues and I stuck sharp things into his heart!! The cool thing about Versed is the amnesiac effect it has.

You a theatre nurse, mrsmallox?

[ehz33satx]

mmmm, 19 year old duncan228

This Post Is Worthless Without Pics

No need for pics. To some it all up, he is 27 now. He has finally moved up and out of his mom's house, now living with his grandma and settled in nicely!

[MagnusKrauss]

i remember the time when the neighborhood dentists were pulling out my second wisdom tooth. apparently it was a little beyond their expertise (they were aesthetic dentists). but they already had drilled into the tooth to try and shatter it to make pulling it easier. i had to endure 3 hours of that while the anesthetic wore off. to top it off, they couldn't give me more anesthetic as i already had the limit for the day (5 injections).
to this i curse those two ers for what they did. my mom had to find a dental surgeon after we went home and got the procedure done right (with spinal anesthetic). yippeeee.

after a few more dentists, we finally found one who was very good. turns out those two quacks didn't do the anesthetic injections right (all i needed was 2!) my current dentist told me that the reason i needed all thos injections were because the two ers kept missing the right vein in my jaw. .





eh. and for the nth time, duncan228 is a *female*

[dirk4mvp]

No need for pics. To some it all up, he is 27 now. He has finally moved up and out of his mom's house, now living with his grandma and settled in nicely!

lol

[mrsmaalox]

You a theatre nurse, mrsmallox?

Critical Care/Trauma

[medstudent]

CCU nurses or SICU nurses are always the hottest

[dirk4mvp]

where do u go to school medstudent?

[Sense]

Dude, I used to get all the vicoden and percocet I wanted. I used to live minutes from Mexico and it was cheap as .


Ahhhhhhhh, I miss the Mexican border.

I have to say peewee...

I've recently fallen in love with Shiner...