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Good news of the day...
Aug. 22nd, 2005 08:31 pmMy jaw does not ache.
The tooth that was broken was deemed non-salvageable by the dentist and so he pulled it. No real big surprise because I knew it had damage from a bad wisdom tooth pull many years ago.
Anyhow, the extraction was quick and not too painful. Once the numbness wore off it was pretty good -- only occasional bouts of throbbing distraction. However, Friday night it started to be more annoying and Saturday and Sunday I ended up taking more Advil than I like in order to make the pain tolerable. So today I called up and the Dentist said that I probably had dry socket and that I should go in and they would medicate.
It was a case of the cure being worse than the malady, however. When I went in the jaw wasn't really too sore, I mean, I could go for quite a while without thinking about it. When he cleaned it out, I had my first hint at what was going to happen. Then he took this wad of medicine and packed it into the hole where the tooth had been.
And by "packed" I mean jabbed it into my jaw with what felt like sharp knives.
*whimper*
I can usually handle a little pain. I can box it up into a little part of my brain and forget about it if I have something else to concentrate on. But this... OW. Serious OW.
I came home and laid down. Slept for about an hour.
Woke up to blessed non-agony. Still not sure if the initial pain was worth it but, right now, I am enjoying the normal feeling of no pain. I'm really hoping that this one treatment takes care of it because it's not a treatment I want to suffer through again.
The tooth that was broken was deemed non-salvageable by the dentist and so he pulled it. No real big surprise because I knew it had damage from a bad wisdom tooth pull many years ago.
Anyhow, the extraction was quick and not too painful. Once the numbness wore off it was pretty good -- only occasional bouts of throbbing distraction. However, Friday night it started to be more annoying and Saturday and Sunday I ended up taking more Advil than I like in order to make the pain tolerable. So today I called up and the Dentist said that I probably had dry socket and that I should go in and they would medicate.
It was a case of the cure being worse than the malady, however. When I went in the jaw wasn't really too sore, I mean, I could go for quite a while without thinking about it. When he cleaned it out, I had my first hint at what was going to happen. Then he took this wad of medicine and packed it into the hole where the tooth had been.
And by "packed" I mean jabbed it into my jaw with what felt like sharp knives.
*whimper*
I can usually handle a little pain. I can box it up into a little part of my brain and forget about it if I have something else to concentrate on. But this... OW. Serious OW.
I came home and laid down. Slept for about an hour.
Woke up to blessed non-agony. Still not sure if the initial pain was worth it but, right now, I am enjoying the normal feeling of no pain. I'm really hoping that this one treatment takes care of it because it's not a treatment I want to suffer through again.
