For the second time in my life I have been anesthetized. My needle phobia seems to be improving needle by needle

They only removed the right two since the left 2 are fully in without problems (although the guy still wanted to remove them even though there was no reason to ). The top one was all the way in, too but he said if the bottom one goes the top one should so it has a place to rest.

Anyways....

Anesthesia is really cool. I remember the guy stabbing my inner elbow and saying I should be out of it soon. Next thing I know I was biting down on gauze. I've been home about 90 minutes. Half my face is still numb but otherwise I feel great (no post-anesthesia nausea ).

How long before pain kicks in?

Another update....

My 12 hours of alternating ice every 15 minutes ended at midnight finally (that sure was a hassle!). I set an alarm for 3AM and 6AM so I could continue with my medication schedule (I know, I'm crazy).

For those that fear I'm a drug addict, I have been cutting back on my meds since my pain remains nonexistent. At midnight I took 400mg of Ibuprofen rather than 800 followed by another half a vicodin at 3AM. At 6AM I took 300mg of Ibuprofen and when I woke up at 9:30 I took 1/4 Vicodin. I'll probably do 200mg of Ibuprofen at around 1 followed by 1/8 of a Vicodin at 5 and then no more Vicodin after that assuming pain remains the same.

Shouldn't pain have kicked in by now?

I do salt rinses after every meal starting 24 hours after surgery. Still no pain. My mouth sort of feels weird but it doesn't hurt. Yesterday I only took 1/4 Vicodin and a total of 400mg of Ibuprofen. I doubt I'll take anymore drugs.

They say I can start using mouthwash if I want, but I'm kind of scared to try. I might use heavily diluted mouthwash and slowly work my way up to normal mouthwash over the next few days to a week.

Also, I normally work Thursday-Monday but my boss figured I'd be in a lot of pain and needed to take some time off work so I took 3 days so I'm off until Sunday! I still get paid since I get ample sick time. I might have more teeth removed to get more 5 day weekends :haha:

I remember when I had my wisdom teeth pulled. I was about 16. Not fun.

I enjoyed mine. Never got any pain or swelling...mostly. About a week later my jaw (or more precisely temporomandibular joint) was sort of sore. This was probably from chewing only on one side and shifting my mandible to the left constantly. That's now resolved. Getting time off work was fun...and I still got paid.