Dry Socket... Should be renamed - Hell on Earth.
I had my lower left wisdom tooth savagely removed from my mouth 12 days ago.
This little tooth was impacted and resting on a nerve in my face that could have been paralysed if it all went wrong, and at this moment in time face paralysis is a much better option to the Dry Socket I'm currently suffering.
The dentist sedated me, but the sedation wasn't strong enough to keep me oblivious to the traumatic extraction, of which I remember fully. He had to stop half way through the procedure to give more local as I was most probably screaming at him, but I know I was clawing at his arm! He had to eventually cut the bugger out, and for reasons unbeknown to me, he didnt stitch me up!!!! (wanker)
I didnt spit, swill, suck, swallow (alliteration at its finest there) or do anything really until the next day, as I came home promptly and waited for death to come. I made it through the night, and upon waking was in total agony. I felt like I'd been punched in the face by the Incredible Hulk, but assumed this was a normal level of post extraction pain. It got worse.... much worse.
By the following day I was almost suicidal with pain. They say with Dry Socket the pain is severe, which is utter bollocks, severe doesnt quite cover the level of agony! I have a fairly high pain threshold, but this had me on my knees. Two Emergency dentist appointments at a cost of £17.50 a go to find out that I had a complication called Dry socket. They packed it with alvegyl which barely took the edge off, and told me to rest up. Oh, after they sucked the gunge out and washed it. 5 DAYS LATER.. still in writhing pain, and no better off, despite practically overdosing on my Dihydracodiene, Tramadol, Paracetamol and Ibuprofen. I trawled the t'interweb trying to find ways to help me, and was electronically advised to use Clove oil.. nasty foul tasting stuff. So aside from the usual Opiate cocktails I was using Hydrogen Peroxide to rinse my mouth, Clove oil soaked in gauze to pack my own gaping crater! and yet ANOTHER emergency dentist visit later I was kindly informed that my Dry socket was now infected. Oh joy. Antibiotics.
I was thinking completely irrationally with pain, and upon one visit to my mother who was in hospital at the time, looking from the 5th floor window I was compelled to jump! The pain was radiating from my gland under the jaw around the head, up the face, behind my left eye and directly coming to a zone in my temple where all the pain met up for a party!!! I cried like a baby for 4 days straight, it didnt take much to set me off.... I cried at the adverts on telly, I cried at harry Hill's TV burp and I even managed to find Michael Buble upsetting! I was a mess.
Im now 12 days in, and the throb has gone. I'm left with a sore face still, I cant smile very well without looking like I have suffered some form of Palsy and when I eat I look like a 4 month old baby having solids for the first time, BUT the throb has gone. Yeehaaw.
I will never have another tooth removed from my head while ever I am alive, abscess pain is a walk in the park compared to the Hell that is Dry Socket. I have suffered from debilitating back pain for years, have had 16 hour labour, 2 C-Sections (one whilst awake and feeling everything) Mastitis, hell I have even had a camera shoved into my bum all the way into my colon.... but NOTHING has made me want to die quite like this Dry fucking Socket did!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This little tooth was impacted and resting on a nerve in my face that could have been paralysed if it all went wrong, and at this moment in time face paralysis is a much better option to the Dry Socket I'm currently suffering.
The dentist sedated me, but the sedation wasn't strong enough to keep me oblivious to the traumatic extraction, of which I remember fully. He had to stop half way through the procedure to give more local as I was most probably screaming at him, but I know I was clawing at his arm! He had to eventually cut the bugger out, and for reasons unbeknown to me, he didnt stitch me up!!!! (wanker)
I didnt spit, swill, suck, swallow (alliteration at its finest there) or do anything really until the next day, as I came home promptly and waited for death to come. I made it through the night, and upon waking was in total agony. I felt like I'd been punched in the face by the Incredible Hulk, but assumed this was a normal level of post extraction pain. It got worse.... much worse.
By the following day I was almost suicidal with pain. They say with Dry Socket the pain is severe, which is utter bollocks, severe doesnt quite cover the level of agony! I have a fairly high pain threshold, but this had me on my knees. Two Emergency dentist appointments at a cost of £17.50 a go to find out that I had a complication called Dry socket. They packed it with alvegyl which barely took the edge off, and told me to rest up. Oh, after they sucked the gunge out and washed it. 5 DAYS LATER.. still in writhing pain, and no better off, despite practically overdosing on my Dihydracodiene, Tramadol, Paracetamol and Ibuprofen. I trawled the t'interweb trying to find ways to help me, and was electronically advised to use Clove oil.. nasty foul tasting stuff. So aside from the usual Opiate cocktails I was using Hydrogen Peroxide to rinse my mouth, Clove oil soaked in gauze to pack my own gaping crater! and yet ANOTHER emergency dentist visit later I was kindly informed that my Dry socket was now infected. Oh joy. Antibiotics.
I was thinking completely irrationally with pain, and upon one visit to my mother who was in hospital at the time, looking from the 5th floor window I was compelled to jump! The pain was radiating from my gland under the jaw around the head, up the face, behind my left eye and directly coming to a zone in my temple where all the pain met up for a party!!! I cried like a baby for 4 days straight, it didnt take much to set me off.... I cried at the adverts on telly, I cried at harry Hill's TV burp and I even managed to find Michael Buble upsetting! I was a mess.
Im now 12 days in, and the throb has gone. I'm left with a sore face still, I cant smile very well without looking like I have suffered some form of Palsy and when I eat I look like a 4 month old baby having solids for the first time, BUT the throb has gone. Yeehaaw.
I will never have another tooth removed from my head while ever I am alive, abscess pain is a walk in the park compared to the Hell that is Dry Socket. I have suffered from debilitating back pain for years, have had 16 hour labour, 2 C-Sections (one whilst awake and feeling everything) Mastitis, hell I have even had a camera shoved into my bum all the way into my colon.... but NOTHING has made me want to die quite like this Dry fucking Socket did!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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