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Oral surgery in early recovery, have experience?

David Wooderson

David Wooderson

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I am going to be having oral surgery next week and am going on my third day suboxone free. I went on a three month taper from being on it for the past 8 years and this is the most successful I have ever been from opiate addiction. Although suboxone therapy wasn't fun it got me to a place where I could finally take an active role in my recovery.

I have an impacted wisdom tooth and am going to be having the other wisdom teeth extracted so they don't end up impacted.
Sure wish there was Obama care when I was a kid so I wouldn't be facing this.

Has anyone been through this and if so how bad was the pain? I deal with pain everyday, but I need to brace myself in some way as I feel raw as it is and I need to go in there having some idea what I'll feel like when I leave. I'm hoping they use gas, but with my luck they most likely won't. Not so much worried about pain meds as I'll be telling the dentist that I can't take them. Should I get it all done at once or not? Hearing from someone who went through this in early recovery would help immensely.

If you have had this done were there any non-opoid pain meds that were not dangerous that helped?

Thanks in advance:)
 
Paracetamol and ibuprofen is all I give patients. It obviously depends on how impacted the roots are, and how much of a pussy you are.

Ice, bed rest for a couple days and avoid smoking and you should be fine. If there is lots of pain a couple of days later, get your dentist to check for a dry socket (which is easily fixed with an irrigation and dressing)
 
Thanks you OTW, finally had it today after waiting for an infection to heal, good lord I never want anther impacted tooth.

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He offered me some pain meds but I was like nah...
 
I had four impacted wisdom teeth cut out and it was really painful. I ended up needing every single one of the 30 Lortab 10s they prescribe me. Hopefully your experience isnt as painful.
 
crimsonjunk said:
I had four impacted wisdom teeth cut out and it was really painful. I ended up needing every single one of the 30 Lortab 10s they prescribe me. Hopefully your experience isnt as painful.
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Hey crimson, 4 impacted wisdom teeth? Good lord, if I had more than one I would have most likely took him up on it, not for the pain but for the trauma of having them break 4 teeth. Yeah I'm a pussy when it comes to unnatural things like that. The pressure of them breaking the tooth was worse then the pain. Plus it took the better part of a half hour. My wisdom teeth came in damn near sideways, so my jaw hurts bad today. Advil is doing the job and I'm very thankful that it is.
 
David Wooderson said:
Hey crimson, 4 impacted wisdom teeth? Good lord, if I had more than one I would have most likely took him up on it, not for the pain but for the trauma of having them break 4 teeth. Yeah I'm a pussy when it comes to unnatural things like that. The pressure of them breaking the tooth was worse then the pain. Plus it took the better part of a half hour. My wisdom teeth came in damn near sideways, so my jaw hurts bad today. Advil is doing the job and I'm very thankful that it is.
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I was under general anesthesia so thankfully I have no memory of that. I had the biggest black eye of my life the day after. It looked like someone hit me under my right eye with a baseball bat. Good times. But I'm glad your surgery is over and hope the pain is minimal.
 
Yup I had four rotten and broken wisdom teeth pulled out all at the same with just local anesthesia and ibuprofen 800 after. I was about 3 months into sobriety. It was a gnarly few days after but IB actually works better for actual pain than you realize when you aren't trying to get high also. I doubt I could go through it right now though.
 
I've relapsed a couple times over the years from being prescribed things when the Dr really didn't need to or over prescribed. While never having an impacted wisdom tooth pulled, I've had root canals & teeth pulled with no pain meds and been fine. I've spent a fortune on my teeth. Heard from many dope & pills is bad for ur teeth.

Better off turning down pain meds. If you really truly need them you can always call your Dr or dentist back later. Once you have that bottle filled, you know there is no turning back.

Maybe he can prescribe an NSAID or something non-narcotic to help.
 
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