A week and a half post op full mouth extractions and I am struggling severely and no one sees.

[millerjessin1994]

I'm 30 years old and have had bad teeth ever since my gastric bypass surgery over ten years ago, that ruined my body. I struggled for years in and out of the hospital and going from fat to pretty to 76 pounds and in the hospital and losing all my hair and teeth. My extreme dental fear and my gripping and crippling anxiety from how others see me, how they see my teeth, how they instantly think less of me, how I talk down and don't make eye contact and have lost all my friends because I'm to ashamed of how I look. Generally hating myself and my life now, but I made the choice to get the remainder of my teeth surgerically removed and that's when the lights went out for me. I've checked out. I feel like I've ruined an already ruined life. The pain was so intense and the bleeding I remember coming home and barely opening my mouth and blood is gushing everywhere and I'm so huge and swollen I don't feel like a person. I kept them in the 24 hours and took them out and kept icing my face and slowly yes my gums are feeling better. Until I put the dentures in. And to make this worse the dentist I don't fucking understand how left tons of my pieces of teeth in my gums. Some right in the front. Now my family just is shaming me and making me feel bad for not wearing them and you need to just do it and we helped pay for them and look what your doing. Disrespectful. So I have no feelings? I do. The huge teeth shards are getting jammed by the dentures and the swollen is down so much now I can't even fake put them in. And my appointment isn't till Jan 6. It's Thanksgiving and I won't be eating. Since surgery I have no taste. I have no want to eat. And I couldn't if I wanted to and like I said if I wanted to it don't taste. Nothing taste the same. I don't eat now. I find myself balling my eyes out writing to myself essentially, I just don't know what to do. I'm so broken. More mentally now then physically that wow this didn't work. My shot to be happy and possibly meet someone again is gone. I'm scared to go back to the dentist because my fear of them doing whatever to my gums and I won't be out this time. Someone please have any suggestions or support
Thank you

 

[dentalnelly]

I wanted to say hey. You shouldn't have been left with teeth shards and they need to fix that. Were you able to call them at all to get an earlier appointment.

The start of denture wearing is very hard for a lot of people so all you can do is your best and keep at it but only after they take the bits out. You deserve to not be in pain.

Just because there is one painful dentist doesn't mean they all are. The dentists on the forum are very lovely so please know that there are good ones around. Maybe try and see someone else at your practice? I understand you don't want to go but like I said you deserve to not be in pain so please at least do that for yourself.