RPG Superstar 2009 Top 8
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Hey there all,
I will be pretty quiet here for the next few days due to some emergency dental work. After having a pair of Wisdom teeth pulled, I need a few days to recover. Please play nice while I am gone.
Ow.
Jason Bulmahn
Lead Designer
Paizo Publishing
Wisdom teeth! That takes me back.
Do not combine beer and demerol.
Ouch, It hurts more when you wait to get them pulled. I know from personal experience..
Healing vibes heading your way
Hey there all,
I will be pretty quiet here for the next few days due to some emergency dental work. After having a pair of Wisdom teeth pulled, I need a few days to recover. Please play nice while I am gone.
Ow.
Jason Bulmahn
Lead Designer
Paizo Publishing
So does Mr Bulhmahn has a -2 Wis penalty now? :D
I do hope the nurses are as nice for you, as they were for me ;)
I have -2 wisdom by the way too :(
Or are you on -4 ? at least it'll never become more
Be well
Director of Games
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I do hope the nurses are as nice for you, as they were for me ;)
I have -2 wisdom by the way too :(
Or are you on -4 ? at least it'll never become moreBe well
I am only at a -2 right now. The other two will come out next year.
Time for a nap.
Jason Bulmahn
Lead Designer
Paizo Publishing
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DUDE!
Make sure the pain killer has really set in. When I had mine out one still had feeling. The dentist put more Novocain or whatever it is in... but I could still feel it clearly...so he RIPPED THAT SUCKER OUT ANYWAY WITH ME SCREAMING IN AGONY!
I was thrashing around and the nurse was trying to hold me down. I sounded like a terrified Moose in heat or something.
It hurt.
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RPG Superstar 2009 Top 8
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DUDE!
Make sure the pain killer has really set in. When I had mine out one still had feeling. The dentist put more Novocain or whatever it is in... but I could still feel it clearly...so he RIPPED THAT SUCKER OUT ANYWAY WITH ME SCREAMING IN AGONY!
I was thrashing around and the nurse was trying to hold me down. I sounded like a terrified Moose in heat or something.
It hurt.
Ouch! Don't tell him that. You'll scare him. ;-)
When I had mine out, the dentist turned the drip on the anaesthetic down real low so I could enjoy the feeling. Then he gave me lots of demerol and I was in lalaland for a week. Until I made the mistake of drinking while on it. The only time I've ever not remembered what I did the night before.
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It hurt.Ouch! Don't tell him that. You'll scare him. ;-)
I worked really late the night before getting my (severely impacted) wisdom teeth broken into tiny pieces and removed splinter by splinter (the bottom ones were resting on the nerves that controlled my jaw, and all of them grew in sideways, crushing not only the teeth next to them, but the next teeth past those as well!), and slept through most of it, waking up occasionally as they broke a tooth for bit-by-bit extraction as it sounded / felt like rock-crushing explosions happening in my skull (which, technically, they were).
I never felt the slightest twinge of pain, either during or after the process, which, I'm told, is insanely rare (my so-called friends regaled me with horror stories about the torments of hell). I ended up with a bottle of percocet which I never opened (I figured I'd wait for it to start hurting), which I'm pretty sure that one of my druggy roommates stole.
Meanwhile, a friend went in for a simple painless crown or cap or something and the dentist got some of the adhesive on the metal tool she was using to hold his mouth open. When she yanked it out, it had bonded to his gum and ripped off a chunk the size of a skittle... I still cringe at that one.
4 impacted wisdom teeth removed at one time a lot of years ago. I looked like a black n blue chipmunk for a few days.
Rest well!
yeah I had to have a few cut out. Take care and don't let em infect.
I don't know what the big fuss is. When I was 15 (too many years and miles ago), I had all 4 taken out in the morning and was able to deliver my afternoon paper route. It was no big deal.
PS. My sister on the other hand was green from her neck down.
PPS. Of coarse, I don't take shots or gas when I have a cavity filled either.
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I have had one out so far (the others are pending an improvement in my bank account).
The extraction was perfect.
About a month later, a bone spur started growing out from the empty socket through my gum. It was slightly painful, and cutting my tongue, so I went back and the dentist filed it down. No real pain from the treatment, though the sound of the drill very disturbing, and the stitches were annoying, but other than that it went well.
OTOH, my first root canal was a horror. The second was better, but I cheated by taking a vicodin that worked fine until the plugs were inserted. That felt like putting a sheet of paper into a fresh paper cut and wiggling it around. Those made me scream out loud.
Then there were the stitches when I was kicked over the eye at a tournament. No pain, but I felt the needle passing through each time.
That guy was lucky I needed the stitches or he would not have survived the process.
Wayfinder, PaizoCon Founder
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LOL!
This thread is SOOOOOOO not helping Jason....
I had my 3 Wisdom teeth (yes, I only had 3) taken out the Friday before Labor Day this year. NO issues, just a little achey for a week. I hated the painkillers. Made me unable to stand up without feeling sick. I limited taking them to bedtime, and slept like a rock.
Still, stories of dry socket scared the crap outta me, so I was very cautious not to spit, and straws were forbidden to come near me for a week!
Hope you're feeling better soon, Jason.
I lucked up and had no pain whatsoever when I had mine pulled.
Best of luck, man.
Wisdom teeth Suuuuuuuuck! I had all 4 taken out at the same time. The bottom two had to be CUT into smaller pieces as they would not pull.
Whatever you do... don't eat Campbell's chicken noodle soup without STRAINING it first... those little pieces of chicken WILL find their way into the holes!! You don't want that, EVER!
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Please play nice while I am gone.
Ow.
Jason Bulmahn
Lead Designer
Paizo Publishing
Perfect! Time to start the food fight in the cafeteria! Kobold Fighters are overpowered!!!! I say Nerf 'Em!!!
On a more serious note, I did the dry socket thing, just avoid that, get lots of rest and while you are in lala land dreaming I want you to think about just one thing....Paladins still need work...err I mean rest lot's of rest.
What do we do in case of lost wisdom? Quest to get it back! Everybody gear up!
LOL!
This thread is SOOOOOOO not helping Jason....
I had my 3 Wisdom teeth (yes, I only had 3) taken out the Friday before Labor Day this year. NO issues, just a little achey for a week. I hated the painkillers. Made me unable to stand up without feeling sick. I limited taking them to bedtime, and slept like a rock.
Still, stories of dry socket scared the crap outta me, so I was very cautious not to spit, and straws were forbidden to come near me for a week!
Hope you're feeling better soon, Jason.
This is nothing. We'll really freak him out if we ever get on the topic of vasectomies.
Don't believe them when they tell you about the guys going for a jog afterwards! The cake is a lie!
*assumes the fetal position as the post traumatic stress sinks in some 14 years later*
Still, stories of dry socket scared the crap outta me, so I was very cautious not to spit, and straws were forbidden to come near me for a week!
I had dry sockets, too. The first dentist said nothing was wrong, so I went to a different guy who packed the open area with some kind of seaweed stuff. I felt better within seconds.
Just remember: Dry sockets = seaweed stuff. The dentist should know what you're talking about.
Get better soon Jason
Old School remedy: slosh some warm salty water around every so often...
Here’s one for ya. I broke a tooth at the gum line in Army Basic Training and since I didn’t want to be recycled (start the program over again) I waited for it to be fixed until after I finish OSUT (One Stop Unit Training),so I had to wait for 4 months. The problem is that since I broke it at the gum line they had to operate. The surgery was botched and they destroyed my gum and also put a hole in my sinus cavity. It took me six months to be able to drink through a straw again and to this day I have Chronic Sinusitis (frequent sinus infections :(
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Serious and non-ironic "#@(%! Condolences, man!" here. I've only had to have one out, and it wasn't a pleasant experience.
Admittedly it wasn't a horrible one either, when it was just one. What I didn't expect was that they would be crushing the tooth while it was still inside my mouth. That combined with the numbing juice made for a downright alien experience.
Oh, and then the bleeding just wouldn't stop. I could taste cotton for a week afterwards.
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My experience of having my wisdom teeth removed:
"I'm going to put this mask on your face for a few minutes, and tehn I'll be back."
::minutes go buy::
::how did I managed to float all the way up to the ceiling?::
"Hi, I'm here to give you your valium drip. You may feel a slight prick."
::prick::
::I feel floaty. hee hee::
"Now I'm going to count backwards from 100. 100. 99. 98."
"How are you feeling?"
::mumbles vague question about when the operation starts::
"We finished up twenty minutes ago. Just give your head another few minutes to clear up, and you can get out of here."
Get well soon Jason!
Luckily, I have not yet had to undergo having my Wisdom teeth pulled...
Saw yesterday's post about the new feats . Glad everything went well with the surgery.
I'm slightly horrified by the number of posts which refer to being only on a local anaesthetic during the procedure. I had 4 wisdom teeth removed at age 16, and you can be darn sure that I was completely out on the Novocain!
Of course, I looked like a chipmunk for almost a week afterwards, had to take Tylenol 3s, and stayed in bed reading novels of questionable literary value. And those stitches sure felt strange in my mouth.
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My wife and I got our Wisdom teeth out on the same day, at the same dentist, but had vastly different experiences...
She woke up after 45 minutes, in the chair, and was able to walk out and go home comfortably.
I woke up, groggy, in a bed with cotton stuffed in my mouth, unaware that 1.5 hrs had passed. Additionally, I was still loop and tired from the meds.
Turns out her teeth were a cinch to remove-- standard procedure and all.
Mine apparently involved the first time the dentist had ever needed to use a chisel... a literal chisel... to pry the teeth from my mouth as they were growing in toward my upper palate on the top.
Only time my iron-hard teeth have served to cause me trouble...
I'm slightly horrified by the number of posts which refer to being only on a local anaesthetic during the procedure. I had 4 wisdom teeth removed at age 16, and you can be darn sure that I was completely out on the Novocain!
Of course, I looked like a chipmunk for almost a week afterwards, had to take Tylenol 3s, and stayed in bed reading novels of questionable literary value. And those stitches sure felt strange in my mouth.
My mom wouldn't let them do a general anasthetic for me because of a family history of nasty side effects, so I had only local for removing four impacted wisdom teeth. And it turns out that the gas makes me mtion sick so I was vomiting through most of the operation.
And then my parents made me go back to school the next day even though the Tylenol 3s made me totally drugged up loopy. It was beautiful. Oh, and did I mention that huge portions of my mouth can't be numbed no matter how much novocaine you put in them? Yeah, I'm a freak. With a really high tolerance for pain.
Ah Wisdom teeth
Had all 4 of mine out in 1 day in 1999. My sister's were taken out the same day. I went in, hello laughing gas (knocked out for the procedure) and then woke up and jumped (well, not literally) out of the chair and helped my mom carry my sister (who was still very groggy from the anaesthetic) down to the car. When we got home we both took tylenol-3s. Tylenol-3s contain caffeine and I was up for a week straight pretty much. My sister was basically asleep for most of the week. Between tea bags and gauze patches, the openings healed fairly quick. Swift recovery for all who will eventually have their wisdom teeth removed.