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1iora
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Got the wizzies out - totally proud, but worried about numbness - help please!
Hi everyone,
I stayed awake for my procedure (only decided to stay awake this morning when my boyfriend offered me cookies for breakfast, and you have to be fasting for 6 hours to be asleep). It was a lot less scary than I thought it would be. The anticipation is what got to me. I did long-acting novocain (with topical applied first) with laughing gas. It felt like someone had given me three glasses of wine with the laughing gas. I could feel the novocain going in, and that was the most painful part. They had to add an extra novocain shot for an impacted upper molar because I felt a little bit of sharpness (like getting poked, not like a cut, which is what it actually was), but otherwise I just felt some tugging (not even bad) and a little crunching sound (more like crinkling plastic or something, not like I was expecting). The teeth popped out easy peasy, even the impacted one. They cleaned them off for me and I took them home in a baggy. I fully intend to mail them to my mother. I haven't swelled up at all, and the OS pretty much promised me I wouldn't. I guess because they were easy coming out, and because my auto-immune reactions tend to be minimal in general (no poison ivy or the like, no swelling when I broke my arm).
My OS told me (using year-old x-rays) that I was at very low risk for bottom numbness because of where the roots and the nerve were (he said the roots wouldn't grow more, the teeth were nearly-fully erupted).
It's been about 8 hours and I'm still having numbness. I'm paranoid. My tongue is back to almost-normal, with only the very tip being slightly off-feeling. I'm hoping my taste buds are ok, but I haven't been hungry to test it yet. My front bottom teeth feel numb, my bottom lip feels numb the whole way across and the same with my chin. I can feel some tingling, and I can feel it very slightly when I touch a foreign object to my lip and chin, with varying degrees. But shouldn't the novocain have worn off by now? Is it possible my tooth roots grew into the nerve even though they were about fully grown in when I had the x-ray done the previous year? If there's nerve damage shouldn't just one side be effected?
Thank you! Good luck to anyone getting theirs out - I promise what you imagine is worse than what's actually going to happen =)
Hi everyone,
I stayed awake for my procedure (only decided to stay awake this morning when my boyfriend offered me cookies for breakfast, and you have to be fasting for 6 hours to be asleep). It was a lot less scary than I thought it would be. The anticipation is what got to me. I did long-acting novocain (with topical applied first) with laughing gas. It felt like someone had given me three glasses of wine with the laughing gas. I could feel the novocain going in, and that was the most painful part. They had to add an extra novocain shot for an impacted upper molar because I felt a little bit of sharpness (like getting poked, not like a cut, which is what it actually was), but otherwise I just felt some tugging (not even bad) and a little crunching sound (more like crinkling plastic or something, not like I was expecting). The teeth popped out easy peasy, even the impacted one. They cleaned them off for me and I took them home in a baggy. I fully intend to mail them to my mother. I haven't swelled up at all, and the OS pretty much promised me I wouldn't. I guess because they were easy coming out, and because my auto-immune reactions tend to be minimal in general (no poison ivy or the like, no swelling when I broke my arm).
My OS told me (using year-old x-rays) that I was at very low risk for bottom numbness because of where the roots and the nerve were (he said the roots wouldn't grow more, the teeth were nearly-fully erupted).
It's been about 8 hours and I'm still having numbness. I'm paranoid. My tongue is back to almost-normal, with only the very tip being slightly off-feeling. I'm hoping my taste buds are ok, but I haven't been hungry to test it yet. My front bottom teeth feel numb, my bottom lip feels numb the whole way across and the same with my chin. I can feel some tingling, and I can feel it very slightly when I touch a foreign object to my lip and chin, with varying degrees. But shouldn't the novocain have worn off by now? Is it possible my tooth roots grew into the nerve even though they were about fully grown in when I had the x-ray done the previous year? If there's nerve damage shouldn't just one side be effected?
Thank you! Good luck to anyone getting theirs out - I promise what you imagine is worse than what's actually going to happen =)
. Let us know what happens!