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Big oral surgery coming up and I am so so scared

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PJB007

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In a coupe of weeks, I have to go in and have a palatial tori removed, eight top teeth extracted, and they will be doing an alveolplasty.
I lost my other top teeth in a freak accident involving my face and a horse's hoof. It was decades ago. I had extensive bone loss and damage to the left side of my face. One tooth was actually knocked into my sinus.
They're doing in under deep sedation. I don't know the difference between that and a general.
I'm so scared. I am having such horrible nightmares that I hate going to sleep.
My stomach hurts all the time and I cry for hours because I can't stop thinking about it.
I've had multiple surgeries to fix things over the years. In one to repair damage done to my sinuses, I lost so much blood that I was hospitalized and had to have a transfusion.
I'm scared of everything about it. Having the surgery, the pain of recovery, having full dentures after living with a partial all these years.
I know it may be unlikely that someone has had all this, but damn. Talk me through it.
 
Hi PJB007, I'm wondering how you're doing and how the surgery went? You've had to endure a lot. It's been quite a while now. I hope you are feeling better?
Best wishes to you:)
 
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