Upper and lower, severely impacted lower – no dentist would touch it. Had to go to a oral maxillary surgeon.
Had to go through the side. Lots of gum butchered. Whole thing was violent and I chose to be awake during the surgery to save money. Surgeon advised against it and threatened to stop the surgery if I did not stay completely still.
It was gruesome, I did moan and yelp and I was a bit scared.
He gave a decent strength of codeine prescription afterwards. I went home and well.. I bared the pain. I wanted to see how bad it actually gets before I take anything. I waited until the anaesthesia wore off. The pain was bad. Bad enough to where I could barely concentrate on anything. I had to breathe and walk in circles. I felt like it was engulfing me. I waited until it plateaued so i could look at this beast in the eye and say, yeah – this is bad enough to warrant pain killers.
But i said.. hold on, let’s see how it feels with ibuprofen, regular strength first.
Ladies and gentlemen, that was all I needed.
The pain was bad, yes, but the ibuprofen from the grocery store immediately calmed everything down enough for me to even eat some ice cream. Very easy to get through.
I have a full box of codeine sitting in my pantry. Do you know what I’m going to use it for?
– When I have to have my IUD replaced.
– When I have another severe UTI infection.
– When I have another ovarian cyst. “iTs JuST fOlliCulAR”
– When I have to have another endometrial biopsy.
All of those things were more painful than my wisdom tooth surgery. ALL OF THEM. And yet, in not a single one of those procedures was I even offered a small injection of fucking lidocaine.
I was shaking after my uterine (endometrial) biopsy. I was offered jazz music, playing out of the shitty speaker of the clinician’s iPhone as pain relief.
i am so fucking sick of medical misogyny. How about some goddamn pain relief when I’m pissing blood and … screaming for pain relief?