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[Xantalos]

Had my wisdom teeth out today.

If I take a pain pill I puke my guts out.

If I eat something as solid as jello I puke my guts out.

I try to lay down, I puke my guts out.

Ooh. That sucks. I remember when I got mine out and it was much less worse. I slept for 20 hours, sure, but still.
Whst happened to make you -HHHUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRGGGGGHHHHH- every time you do anything?

Its probably a reaction to being under general anesthesia.

Ah that explains it. I got a numbing pill of some kind, but not anesthesia.

[Sirus]

I got shots of local stuff. I think I would have rather gone under general (been under a few times for other things and never had many adverse effects), but I guess they weren't bad enough for that.

[Fniff]

One of my favorite authors, Elmore Leonard, died.

[Lagslayer]

My wisdom teeth came in very slowly over a period of years. Eventually, it became very evident that they had to come out, denoted by the excruciating pain they were causing. I had the ones on the left side taken out first because they were the first to cause pain and lots of swelling. The top one came out easy, and was just barely under the top of the tooth in front of it. The bottom one, on the other hand, apparently grew in sideways. They had to cut the gums open, smash it into pieces, remove those pieces, and then sew it back up. I had to go to work that night, but lost a bunch of sleep staying up because the wound kept bleeding everywhere.

About six months later, the right side started acting up, and we had to do those. It was the same story, except the bottom tooth was somehow even worse. I actually used the prescription for the painkillers they prescribed because of how much it hurt this time. It was supposed to be the good kind that gets you high (or so I was told), but all it did was make me sleepy. Didn't even get rid of the pain.

Never had problems with throwing up (I had trouble suppressing my gag reflex during the actual dental work, though).

[ChairmanPoo]

Some people have that kind of reaction with opiates. It should ease up over time, if it's that...

[DJ]

I'm rocking a full set of wisdom teeth. They did kinda hurt when they were coming in (went 3 days without sleep once), but now they give me no trouble whatsoever, and I've got something to fall back on when I wear out my molars crushing nuts.

[MonkeyHead]

Wisdom teeth? Got you all beat.

Mine are growing at 90 degrees to the direction they should. Instead of growing upwards, they are growing forwards, pressing on the roots of my molars, slowly causing my toothline to lean and curve inwards. This is mildly painful on cold days for some reason, and at some point when the pain becomes too great I will have to have my jaw broken, have the offending teeth removed from the jawbone, have a retainer of some form to reset the rest of my teeth and have my jaw wired back up to heal. Unsuprisingly I am not looking forward to this.

[DJ]

Why can't they do it without breaking the jaw?

[MonkeyHead]

Something to do with gaining access to the roots - tbh I wasnt paying much attention by that point and it was some time ago. It might have been dislocation rather than breaking of it.

[penguinofhonor]

I'm rocking a full set of wisdom teeth. They did kinda hurt when they were coming in (went 3 days without sleep once), but now they give me no trouble whatsoever, and I've got something to fall back on when I wear out my molars crushing nuts.

Same here, but without nearly as much pain. My mouth just hurts a bit for like a week as I'm teething, but some basic painkillers are usually more than enough to deal with it.

[Lagslayer]

Wisdom teeth? Got you all beat.

Mine are growing at 90 degrees to the direction they should. Instead of growing upwards, they are growing forwards, pressing on the roots of my molars, slowly causing my toothline to lean and curve inwards. This is mildly painful on cold days for some reason, and at some point when the pain becomes too great I will have to have my jaw broken, have the offending teeth removed from the jawbone, have a retainer of some form to reset the rest of my teeth and have my jaw wired back up to heal. Unsuprisingly I am not looking forward to this.

That's exactly what my bottom wisdom teeth did. The top ones grew upright (down, whatever).

[quinnr]

There are few things I despise more than dental work (probably...spiders, maybe?), and this thread is making me uber-levels of sad now. And traumatized. My wisdom teeth are going to just fit in there perfectly, right?

[Lagslayer]

There are few things I despise more than dental work (probably...spiders, maybe?), and this thread is making me uber-levels of sad now. And traumatized. My wisdom teeth are going to just fit in there perfectly, right?

I'd like to give you reassurance, but most likely not. We evolved wisdom teeth to fill in gaps from teeth we lost or were worn down to be much narrower. With modern dental care, we don't really need them so much. But they grow anyways, and there's frequently not enough room for them. If you have been taking care of your teeth, you will, ironically, need to have these wisdom teeth removed.

[Vector]

Ugh, my mom's been a real asshole for the past couple of days.  She says she's getting sick, which I understand, but I went in the kitchen and went all "LOLOL my friend is totally crushing on me ~<3" and she was like "Yes, that's what I thought "

And then she got mad at me because I thought she was angry.  Since she apparently has zero control over her tone of voice and constantly sounds irritated, annoyed, or angry, and then expects everyone else to assume that she isn't and act just as lovey-dovey with this tower of fury.

[Solifuge]

Wisdom teeth? Got you all beat.

Mine are growing at 90 degrees to the direction they should. Instead of growing upwards, they are growing forwards, pressing on the roots of my molars, slowly causing my toothline to lean and curve inwards. This is mildly painful on cold days for some reason, and at some point when the pain becomes too great I will have to have my jaw broken, have the offending teeth removed from the jawbone, have a retainer of some form to reset the rest of my teeth and have my jaw wired back up to heal. Unsuprisingly I am not looking forward to this.

Surprisingly, this is what they're SUPPOSED to do. They're designed to replace the shattered teeth which hominids lost cracking seeds and accidentally chomping rocks in our evolutionary history. Basically, they come in at an angle in order to crowd teeth toward the middle of your mouth (which seals any gaps left by missing teeth) and act as replacement molars.

Anyway, I had the same thing, with the 90-degree angle. Since I hadn't lost any teeth, they had to saw into and permanently remove part of my jaw to remove my wisdom teeth, or it would have really screwed me up. And they did a crummy job of sewing my gums back together afterward, as I now have a pocket next to one of my molars.

Moral of the story: if you take good care of your teeth, you'll need to get Oral Surgery to correct it. :I

EDIT: Hah! I just read Lagslayer's post. Sorry for the redundancy! >_<;

Ugh, my mom's been a real asshole for the past couple of days.  She says she's getting sick, which I understand, but I went in the kitchen and went all "LOLOL my friend is totally crushing on me ~<3" and she was like "Yes, that's what I thought "

And then she got mad at me because I thought she was angry.  Since she apparently has zero control over her tone of voice and constantly sounds irritated, annoyed, or angry, and then expects everyone else to assume that she isn't and act just as lovey-dovey with this tower of fury.

Being around my mom presents similar issues, but half of the time she actually is angry and bitter. She's really confrontational, and doesn't have a lot of self-control; one bad thing (even something as small as accidentally sitting on a book, or spilling something on the floor) can set her off for a day or more... and responding to her irritation with more irritation only causes her to escalate.

Honestly, I think she goes through life looking for excuses to lash out at other people, verbally or otherwise, because she isn't happy with her life at present... but is also unwilling to make the changes necessary to fix it.