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So this is long, but you other worriers out there will understand, and doctors, please tell me why all this has happened!!!
So, about one week ago on Friday June 1st, I had all of my wisdom teeth out plus all of my 2nd molars for a grand total of 8 teeth. This ordeal has been nothing but hell, and I have had so many complications and question’s I feel like the oral surgeon’s calling center will shoot me if they have to listen to me whine and worry one more time. Let me explain why I have been calling so much…..
Day one I spend bleeding– fine whatever, I just had 8 teeth out it was to be expected, nothing out of the ordinary. Day 2 was actually fine – I was feeling better eating etc... Day 3 intense pain began and my mouth filled with this noxious yellow liquid, which I assumed to be pus. I was already on Cyndamaycin antibiotics, so I didn’t worry too much about it, but I did give the surgeon’s office a call - they told me it might be dry sockets ad I should come in the next day (Monday morning), however I felt bad for calling and thought they had to be wrong because I don’t smoke and I followed the doctors instructions as carefully as possible. So I declined to have my teeth looked at the next day and said I would wait and see if things improved. Monday went alright, so I let well enough alone.
Tuesday evening (day 5 after surgery), I had the shock of my life. I had just hopped into the shower after brushing my teeth carefully and swishing with salt water. I was stretching my jaw and all of a sudden things didn’t feel right. I began to absolutely gush blood out of the right side of my mouth. It was way more blood than I had ever seen in my life and I called the doctor after about five minute fiddling completely unsuccessfully with some gauze. This was at about 10:00 pm. They told me keep pressure on it and only worry if I can’t stop the bleeding in 1- 2 hours. So, I wedged some more useless gauze back there and put pressure not only from my bite but by hand from the outside of my mouth because I could not tell where all of this awful bleeding was coming from. For 45 minutes I bleed and bleed and bleed. Finally it eased up and I took my hand away for a moment to shift (one’s hand does get a bit uncomfortable after being in the same spot applying intense pressure for 45 minutes). The second I removed my hand low and behold tons more blood.
At that point I asked my boyfriend to just take me to the hospital because I was just so scared that I was loosing that much blood. To be blunt I had already soaked through 3 towels and I assumed I had lost at very lease 1 pint or 2, maybe more. He said no one goes to the hospital because of a little blood, you got it to stop once, just put more pressure on it and don’t move. 45 minutes later I finally got it entirely stopped, but, when I took my hand away, new localized numbness of my chin, lip, and lower teeth appeared. I woke up the poor doctor (this was 1:30 am) crying and terrified. He said I was okay, because I had gotten the bleeding to stop and I should visit the office in the morning.
Low and behold, I go in, and they tell me besides indeed having dry sockets on the bottom, everything looks fine. How allllll of that can happen and everything can be relatively fine??? I don’t know. They told me the numbness would subside, put in the clove packing and sent me on my way. So here I am day 8, numb in the chin and SO tired of all of this.
I woke up this morning with stiffness on that same right side and a swollen lip. I guess what I am asking is if there is anything my doctor could have missed? Could there be a serious problem here? A bone spur, some infection (though I am still on antibiotics for one more day), something? Why would my lip swell? Why can I feel a little knob on the right side of the jaw when I run my finger along the outside? (the left is rather fine) Should I be able to open up my mouth all the way by now? Maybe this is all dry socket related, maybe I am just being phobic, but please somebody help me.
So, about one week ago on Friday June 1st, I had all of my wisdom teeth out plus all of my 2nd molars for a grand total of 8 teeth. This ordeal has been nothing but hell, and I have had so many complications and question’s I feel like the oral surgeon’s calling center will shoot me if they have to listen to me whine and worry one more time. Let me explain why I have been calling so much…..
Day one I spend bleeding– fine whatever, I just had 8 teeth out it was to be expected, nothing out of the ordinary. Day 2 was actually fine – I was feeling better eating etc... Day 3 intense pain began and my mouth filled with this noxious yellow liquid, which I assumed to be pus. I was already on Cyndamaycin antibiotics, so I didn’t worry too much about it, but I did give the surgeon’s office a call - they told me it might be dry sockets ad I should come in the next day (Monday morning), however I felt bad for calling and thought they had to be wrong because I don’t smoke and I followed the doctors instructions as carefully as possible. So I declined to have my teeth looked at the next day and said I would wait and see if things improved. Monday went alright, so I let well enough alone.
Tuesday evening (day 5 after surgery), I had the shock of my life. I had just hopped into the shower after brushing my teeth carefully and swishing with salt water. I was stretching my jaw and all of a sudden things didn’t feel right. I began to absolutely gush blood out of the right side of my mouth. It was way more blood than I had ever seen in my life and I called the doctor after about five minute fiddling completely unsuccessfully with some gauze. This was at about 10:00 pm. They told me keep pressure on it and only worry if I can’t stop the bleeding in 1- 2 hours. So, I wedged some more useless gauze back there and put pressure not only from my bite but by hand from the outside of my mouth because I could not tell where all of this awful bleeding was coming from. For 45 minutes I bleed and bleed and bleed. Finally it eased up and I took my hand away for a moment to shift (one’s hand does get a bit uncomfortable after being in the same spot applying intense pressure for 45 minutes). The second I removed my hand low and behold tons more blood.
At that point I asked my boyfriend to just take me to the hospital because I was just so scared that I was loosing that much blood. To be blunt I had already soaked through 3 towels and I assumed I had lost at very lease 1 pint or 2, maybe more. He said no one goes to the hospital because of a little blood, you got it to stop once, just put more pressure on it and don’t move. 45 minutes later I finally got it entirely stopped, but, when I took my hand away, new localized numbness of my chin, lip, and lower teeth appeared. I woke up the poor doctor (this was 1:30 am) crying and terrified. He said I was okay, because I had gotten the bleeding to stop and I should visit the office in the morning.
Low and behold, I go in, and they tell me besides indeed having dry sockets on the bottom, everything looks fine. How allllll of that can happen and everything can be relatively fine??? I don’t know. They told me the numbness would subside, put in the clove packing and sent me on my way. So here I am day 8, numb in the chin and SO tired of all of this.
I woke up this morning with stiffness on that same right side and a swollen lip. I guess what I am asking is if there is anything my doctor could have missed? Could there be a serious problem here? A bone spur, some infection (though I am still on antibiotics for one more day), something? Why would my lip swell? Why can I feel a little knob on the right side of the jaw when I run my finger along the outside? (the left is rather fine) Should I be able to open up my mouth all the way by now? Maybe this is all dry socket related, maybe I am just being phobic, but please somebody help me.