Singing Pain, Pain, Go Away!
It’s been several days since my tooth extraction and I think I’m hurting worse than before. I can’t remember the last time I had a tooth ache or any kind of tooth trauma so I’ve been lucky enough not to know such pain. Well, my luck has run out. This is absolutely awful. Forget about Chinese water torture. If you really wanna hurt someone, just pull out the pliars.
The pain runs through the entire left side of my jaw. Although I had an upper tooth pulled, I can feel it in my lower teeth and even in my ear. The tooth that was removed was actually wedged right behind two other teeth and those teeth had to be jostled around in the removal process so consequently, they are also sore. So, I have two sore teeth and a gaping wound next to the sore teeth so that whole area is just one big pile of ouch. Drinking is excruciating unless I’m taking in something room temperature. Hot or cold drinks are a killer. And eating out of one side of my mouth is getting super old. My right jaw is starting to get sore from doing all the work and basically eating and drinking has lost it’s fun.
I’m really depressed right now because I’m in pain and I think all the soreness is just bringing me down in general. Of course, I eat when I get down and now that I can’t do that, I’m even more down. So, I don’t know where to turn. I think I might try a few more Oxycodone. Dentist prescribed, of course! I took two the day of the removal and all they made me feel was nauseous. In fact, i wasn’t even in any pain because I was still anesthetized but I took them as a preventative measure so I wouldn’t ever feel any pain. Ha! That worked out terribly. In addition to the queasy feeling, they made me incredibly sleepy. At this point, I’m not so much counting on pain relief from those pills. Heck, if they can just knock me out so I won’t have to feel this terrible, that’ll be fine with me.
I’m also paranoid that I’m not keeping the wound clean enough. Although I’m trying to chew on one side of my mouth, food particles inevitably find themselves lodged in the hole. And because the wound is in the upper back part of my mouth, I can’t exactly see it to know if it’s clean and free of food. I’ve been swishing like a madman and just hoping that I’ve irrigated the area well enough. And I wonder if it doesn’t feel better because there’s food trapped in there somewhere or something. I mean, how long does it take a wound like that to heal? The dentist said it would be a few days but I assumed that was a general estimate on his part. It’s been a few days, in fact a few more than that, and it doesn’t feel any better and the hole doesn’t seem to be any smaller. I don’t know. I’m aware that everyone heals at a different pace and maybe I’m just fortunate enough to be a slow healer so I can experience all that seething pain for as long as possible.
If I don’t feel the slightest bit better by next week I think I’ll need to go back to the dentist and ask him what the fudge is up. I feel totally useless. All I wanna do is sleep to escape the hurt and I can’t eat or drink or enjoy anything at this point because the pain permeates everything I do. Haha, I sound like such a whiner and I am. I am a little baby when it comes to pain and I am not ashamed to admit that but dang it, this hurts and I think my whining is justified!!
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