#gotta go tomorrow bc my wisdom tooth still hurts a little

[f1owermoon]

why am i suddenly so scared of going to the dentist 🥲

[autisticshuichi]

teef are gone!!

Alright now that I’m not dozing on and off and I’m feeling pretty okay, here’s some small stories of the Wisdom Tooth Removal(tm). I’ll put it under a cut to save space and for people who might have triggers.

(tw: needle mention, blood mention, very brief mention of eating disorder)

ok first off let me tell yall that when we got there i was thrown completely off-guard by lots of things. At my consultation I’d been told to come in an hour earlier to take some medicine to make me chill bc of my Needle Fear. There was no such thing, but they did offer to give me nitris gas which was nice. (gotta get that laughing gas high. lov the tingly.) Also my mom had to stay behind in the waiting room, which was a huge confidence blow to me because. What the fuck?? I need my mommy???? I am just a large child let me live.

Needless to say I was anxious as fuck walking back there. A nurse called me out on it lmao.

The first nurse there was really nice?? She was chill with my nervous babbling about the iv scaring me, she calmed me down the best she could, told me to keep my eyes on her and talked to me through it, etc.

She also let me hold her hand when the second nurse came in. Which was very sweet because a) i didn’t have my mom and b) holy shit i got to hold a cute girl’s hand.

Did I mention she complimented my nails because she did and I’ll shut up about her now but tl;dr sweet girl I love her

Strangely enough the iv itself wasn’t that bad??? I mean of course my brain hyped it up to be way worse than it was, but it was my first iv ever let me live. They used a numbing spray on my arm beforehand which stung a little, but like in a “cold as hell” way, and with that on I didn’t feel the needle at all.

ok but the nurse was making small talk to distract me and there was one point that was like “Do you have any siblings?” “Yeah, two older half brothers. Like, way older.” “Any younger siblings?” “............................nope none” like I straight up forgot the english language and the meaning of words for maybe 15 seconds there.

I’m gonna be perfectly honest, the time from like a couple minutes after getting the iv until walking from the car to my house is a complete blank. Which is strange because I expected to have a blank from before the surgery, not after it. According to my mom I didn’t do or say anything wild, I was kinda like a zombie being led around lmao.

I’ll admit there’s a lot of blood, but it doesn’t freak me out as much as I thought it was going to? It’s just kind of like “ah. there it is. that’s my blood.” more than “HOLY HECK B L E E D”.

Going on that vein, my mom and i messed up a lil at first in terms of the gauze. What you’re supposed to do is leave it in for an entire hour, since they’ve got tanic(?) acid on ‘em and that helps to form a clot. So it says in the lil pamphlet to keep it in for that long and only take them out if they’re Blood Central. We missed that part so the first couple of gauzes I stuck in there weren’t in there nearly as long as they needed to be. Now I’ve got one in and I’ve been biting down on it for 40 minutes so I’ve got 20 to go before things should be good?? If it’s still bleeding lots we’re gonna try it again with a tea bag because that has lots of tanic acid, but also oozing for the first 24 hours is normal so?? not sure how we’ll tell the difference, but we’ll figure it out lmao.

Strangely enough, the thing that freaked me out the most was the stitches. I first felt one after my short lil naps I think and I demanded my mom come over and look because it spooked me so bad, she did not look, but confirmed yeah that’s normal and they’ll dissolve don’t worry. Now my relationship with them is “hi i can feel you can you please move back to your side of the mouth now”, mostly.

Luckily, I haven’t been having much pain at all! The only time was before I took ibuprophen for the first time, and that was because I’d taken half a dose of he Big Med at first to see if it’d be enough. (I’m supposed to alternate between the two.) And it wasn’t all that bad, just some pain in my teeth that hurt a little worse when biting down on gauze. Overall I’m very surprised at the lack of pain, but definitely thankful!!

For those wondering, so far I’ve been living on a diet of applesauce and chocolate pudding, I kind of miss solid foods, which is ironic given how little I eat normally, but it’s probably more the principle of “I’m not allowed to eat this thing right now” versus “I could eat this thing if I wanted to but I choose not to”. Psychology is wild.

Also in case I never mentioned it before, I actually got lucky with my teeth placement! I only had two, and they were both on the left side of my mouth, so the right side is free for me to do stuff like eat without worry. It’s also nice that I’ve only had to deal with numbness on one side, even if it’s almost entirely gone now. (I’m assuming they used a local anesthetic during the surgery as well as general?)

Anyways, that’s all of what’s been going on for me today in regards of wisdom teeth. I might make another smaller post tomorrow since I’ll be eating warm foods instead of cold and using warm presses as opposed to cold ones. I’m totally up for questions and conversations about it though, so if you’ve got something to say just reblog with the comment or shoot me a message! uvu/