I just won a $200 gift card to Whole Foods! Booyah!

But it will be closed by the time I get out of school tonight.

By the time it opens, I can't eat or drink anything because I'm about to get all 4 of my wisdom teeth ripped out tomorrow at 2:00 pm.

How long must I wait before I can taste victory?



I'm on day 4 of extreme pain, and each day I wake up and I can feel that my jaw has ever so slightly changed shape in my sleep. My teeth are starting to tilt and rotate and do crazy shit. How long does this surgery take? Will I be able to watch a free sneak preview of Choke at 7:30 pm tomorrow (even though it should suck like the book did)? Or will I be in bed all day mumbling and drooling and bleeding and battling demons in another dimension? And how long should I wait until I buy $200 of organic ice cream?



(Oh, and I saw a sneak preview of Burn After Reading on Thursday. It's amazing. Go see it.)



I'm in the library watching my homework, which is these 12 minutes of heaven from 1993:

Passage à l'acte by Martin Arnold:

So when they take out your wisdom teeth, do you get dumb?

Jesus, all four?! Ouch!

Its gonna be even worse pain because you waited to get them out...you probably won't be able to drink for two weeks...but watch the fuck out for sodas especially or smoke, that shit will give you dry sockets in a heart beat.

Your experience will greatly vary from that of the next person based on your condition and dentist.

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I had mine removed, yet I still get occasional jaw pain. It was about 7 years ago and it was a cinch for me. Not much pain, minimal swelling and bleeding. Unlike the last time I had a gum transplant (removing gums from your palate to strengthen receding gums from your teeth) because I got an infection that caused my mouth to smell like a horse died in there.

You might not like my trick (which I have little scientific backing for): wait a day so that the wounds are somewhat sealed, then chew (EDIT) and swallow 1 garlic clove or 2 before bed (you might need to have tomato juice in your mouth so it doesn't burn you). I think the antiseptic properties of garlic will prevent infection. You have to wait a day though because garlic also reduced blood coagulation. As an added bonus, it will fend off vampires (friends and a family too).

Yes definitely.  Both the operation and the drugs they give you afterwards make you retarded.

The 2 on the right are insane right now, but I've known for a long time I'd need to take out all 4 eventually.  The 2 on my left side aren't painful yet, but they are crowding my whole jaw and one of my front bottom teeth is almost sideways because of this.  They just all push inward and rotate the front one.

I rarely drink soda and I never smoke, so I think I'll be fine regarding the dry sockets.  Those scare the shit out of me.  I guess I'll live on a diet of pills instead of booze for a while though.  It should help me deal with the election madness.  Might make me type funnier too if I can crawl to the computer.  I could use a break from booze though.  I took 49 days off last year and felt like a million bucks.  Then my back went out when I was moving and I went straight back to hugging the bottle like it was the Bible.  Oh man my back is shit.  Wii Fit's really helped it out though, I shit you not.

Little scientific backing?  I think it's pretty much proven that garlic is a magical cure-all.  I will definitely do this.  Thanks.  I hope it makes me stink bad enough.  I told my wife if she tries to kiss me tomorrow I'll just eat all my pills at once.

Well I just ate a huge farewell feast, and won't be eating for 14 hours.  I'm gonna go play FF4DS until I pass out.  Good night everybody.

And watch that video in the OP.  I was supposed to write 750 words about it for school.  Seriously.  That's what I study now.

Oh man I can't feel a thing. So much blood. Must... find... camera.

I only got 3 removed.

Turns out my bottom left one is safely impacted fully under jaw bone, so it shouldn't come back to haunt me, and it's really touching a nerve, so if they remove it I can permanently lose feeling in the left half of my lower lip. So I left that one in.

How much does that hurt??!!??

Be timid around the area in yout mouth and get ready to take some painkillers cos if its anything like when i had my toe operated on its gona hurt like a bi**h when the local wears off. It was seriously one of the most horrible experiences of my life cos it lasted like 12 hours.

I feel for you man. I had mine out in June and even though only two hurt a lot (and only one was totally crazzy), it was not fun. Hope you recover soon....