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fullofself
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[I am sure there are about 1,000,000 posts on here about wisdom tooth extractions.]
Here's my (not so unique) story in a nutshell:
4 wisdom teeth have been causing me trouble, soreness, headaches, earaches, etc. The teeth are all coming in straight, and the ones on the bottom are just slightly angled and "clipping" part of my second molars, pushing them in just slightly. But nowhere near horizontally impacted. The top two teeth are coming out of the gum a little bit. The bottom two are still slightly underneath the gum.
I am going in on Monday to get all four extracted. The doctor said it was an "easier than average" extraction, which made me feel a little better-- but I am still going under IV sedation because of my SEVERE anxiety.
My fears are:
1) Conscious sedation-I don't know what their "cocktail" is or what they use. And now it's Friday night, and I won't know until Monday morning--what if they use something dangerous? I read another post on here of a girl saying she told them to stop what they were doing, while under the sedation! I don't want to do that! I just want to be numbed up perfectly and sedated perfectly, and not be aware of anything going on--while at the same time, I am totally freaked out by that concept. I don't want to have a reaction to anything. I have hardly taken any medicine (antibiotics maybe 4-5x in my life, Motrin every now and again, and 1/4 Xanax maybe 4-5 times ever), so I don't know what I'm allergic to!
I am also scared of going into a complete psychosis or not being able to come out of the drugged up fog. I dunno.
2) Recovery - I am scared my recovery is going to be terribly painful. In my head, I imagine the Percocet making me extremely ill and violently vomiting for days into my sutures, making them hurt super bad, getting vomit chunks stuck in them, not being able to eat and therefore not getting the nutrients to heal properly, and then getting dry socket, and meningitis, and dying. Yes, I am a true HYPOCHONDRIAC, which is terribly embarrassing--but I can't help thinking this way.
Honestly, if the nurses there are really reassuring and holding my hand and stuff, I probably won't be as scared. Everyone keeps telling me it'll be fine, it'll be a breeze, it'll be super easy--but the reality is, I'm the only one going in for this surgery, and I am going to be all alone... I am having four huge parts of my bone forcefully yanked out of my head, and that will leave four huge holes in their place. It just seems so unnatural to me.
Any comfort would be really helpful.
Thank you, so, so much in advance.. 
Here's my (not so unique) story in a nutshell:
4 wisdom teeth have been causing me trouble, soreness, headaches, earaches, etc. The teeth are all coming in straight, and the ones on the bottom are just slightly angled and "clipping" part of my second molars, pushing them in just slightly. But nowhere near horizontally impacted. The top two teeth are coming out of the gum a little bit. The bottom two are still slightly underneath the gum.
I am going in on Monday to get all four extracted. The doctor said it was an "easier than average" extraction, which made me feel a little better-- but I am still going under IV sedation because of my SEVERE anxiety.
My fears are:
1) Conscious sedation-I don't know what their "cocktail" is or what they use. And now it's Friday night, and I won't know until Monday morning--what if they use something dangerous? I read another post on here of a girl saying she told them to stop what they were doing, while under the sedation! I don't want to do that! I just want to be numbed up perfectly and sedated perfectly, and not be aware of anything going on--while at the same time, I am totally freaked out by that concept. I don't want to have a reaction to anything. I have hardly taken any medicine (antibiotics maybe 4-5x in my life, Motrin every now and again, and 1/4 Xanax maybe 4-5 times ever), so I don't know what I'm allergic to!
I am also scared of going into a complete psychosis or not being able to come out of the drugged up fog. I dunno.
2) Recovery - I am scared my recovery is going to be terribly painful. In my head, I imagine the Percocet making me extremely ill and violently vomiting for days into my sutures, making them hurt super bad, getting vomit chunks stuck in them, not being able to eat and therefore not getting the nutrients to heal properly, and then getting dry socket, and meningitis, and dying. Yes, I am a true HYPOCHONDRIAC, which is terribly embarrassing--but I can't help thinking this way.
Honestly, if the nurses there are really reassuring and holding my hand and stuff, I probably won't be as scared. Everyone keeps telling me it'll be fine, it'll be a breeze, it'll be super easy--but the reality is, I'm the only one going in for this surgery, and I am going to be all alone... I am having four huge parts of my bone forcefully yanked out of my head, and that will leave four huge holes in their place. It just seems so unnatural to me.
Any comfort would be really helpful.

