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Owlnuggets
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Hi everyone!
I've been reading this forum for a week in anticipation of my surgery yesterday. I am 30 years old and had all 4 teeth deeply impacted...got them removed with IV sedation. I got lucky with having a great surgeon and team who were all calm and soothing and encouraging. It was really scary for the 5 ish minutes they set me up especially cuz I have tiny deep veins that are notoriously a hard stick. But they got it after 3 tries and none of them hurt more than a little pinch. The valium they prescribed me 30 mins before surgery Def helped. For the pain afterwards I'm only on 600mg ibeuprofen. I woke up from surgery feeling good and giggling and excited that everything was over. When I got home I napped with the gauze in for a couple hours. I was somewhat numb for a good 4-5 hours. The worst part is biting on the gauze and being numb for that time. At that point I stopped with the gauze and I was able to eat some pudding and cold mashed potatoes. Man I never thought cold mashed potatoes would taste so good haha. Today is day 2 and I feel really good. I took my dog for a walk and really don't have much swelling compared to what I expected. I'm just trying not to open my mouth too wide at this point and do everything how I'm supposed to so that I heal up quick! Good luck everyone....the anticipation is worse than the procedure at least in my case.
Kristina
I've been reading this forum for a week in anticipation of my surgery yesterday. I am 30 years old and had all 4 teeth deeply impacted...got them removed with IV sedation. I got lucky with having a great surgeon and team who were all calm and soothing and encouraging. It was really scary for the 5 ish minutes they set me up especially cuz I have tiny deep veins that are notoriously a hard stick. But they got it after 3 tries and none of them hurt more than a little pinch. The valium they prescribed me 30 mins before surgery Def helped. For the pain afterwards I'm only on 600mg ibeuprofen. I woke up from surgery feeling good and giggling and excited that everything was over. When I got home I napped with the gauze in for a couple hours. I was somewhat numb for a good 4-5 hours. The worst part is biting on the gauze and being numb for that time. At that point I stopped with the gauze and I was able to eat some pudding and cold mashed potatoes. Man I never thought cold mashed potatoes would taste so good haha. Today is day 2 and I feel really good. I took my dog for a walk and really don't have much swelling compared to what I expected. I'm just trying not to open my mouth too wide at this point and do everything how I'm supposed to so that I heal up quick! Good luck everyone....the anticipation is worse than the procedure at least in my case.
Kristina