wisdom tooth and vicodin.

the wolf

So I had my last wisdom tooth pulled on Monday, and the good dentist gave me a scrip for vicodin.

Thank you kind sir !

anyway, I'm sitting at my desk today and go to dump one on my desk and one of the penicillian too cause its time for both. and i look and it seems like there are waaaaaay more of the vicodin than last time when i had the other wisdom tooth pulled. i counted them and had 21 left of the vicodin. looked at the label and was only supposed to get 16 total !!! looked at the penicillian and was supposed to get 28 of them.

the pharmacy fucked up and gave me 28 of both i think.

so much for it being "controlled". :roll: good thing i'm not an addict yeah ?

decides2dream

i'm sorry...what's your complaint here?


(tho really, i do get it...but sure, lucky you!)

the wolf

decides2dream wrote:

i'm sorry...what's your complaint here?


(tho really, i do get it...but sure, lucky you!)

i dont know, i'm high on vicodin !

iluvcats

Drive home safely, ok.

I'm curious as to why they pulled your wisdom teeth out at your age. I was 24 and I had all 4 pulled at once.
Yes, I wanted to die. I was not told proper follow up care.

the wolf

iluvcats wrote:

Drive home safely, ok.

I'm curious as to why they pulled your wisdom teeth out at your age. I was 24 and I had all 4 pulled at once.
Yes, I wanted to die. I was not told proper follow up care.

i think i was probably supposed to have them out years ago and for some reason didnt.

but anyway as far as taking them out now, they just started bothering me and had a freaking hole in the side of them.
i freaked out cause im a freak about brushing my teeth, but the dentist said that they eventually just go bad and decay no matter how well you take care of them.

decides2dream

"at your age"...............ouch!
hahahahahaha.



btw - you were supposed to get 16, and instead received 28......i will happily take those extras off your hands...



and sure, seriously....many people still have their wisdom teeth. my sister, 45, still has at least half of em. if they cause no problems, they let them be....and then down the road if issues rise, sure, then they take em out!

libragirl

I wish they gave me vicoden. They gave me tylenol and codeine and I got deathly ill from it. :(

mensane

i am 35 and still have all of my wisdom teeth.

i honestly thought they had never come in because i never felt them. (my dad never got his). at the dentist, i said i didnt think i had them. they took xrays and were amazed. they said they had never seen wisdom teeth that had grown in as straight as mine and that i wouldnt need them removed...

iluvcats

decides2dream wrote:

"at your age"...............ouch!
hahahahahaha.



btw - you were supposed to get 16, and instead received 28......i will happily take those extras off your hands...



and sure, seriously....many people still have their wisdom teeth. my sister, 45, still has at least half of em. if they cause no problems, they let them be....and then down the road if issues rise, sure, then they take em out!

I have been recently teasing him that he is old I am lots older, I thought it was ok?

iluvcats

mensane wrote:

i am 35 and still have all of my wisdom teeth.

i honestly thought they had never come in because i never felt them. (my dad never got his). at the dentist, i said i didnt think i had them. they took xrays and were amazed. they said they had never seen wisdom teeth that had grown in as straight as mine and that i wouldnt need them removed...

see, you were were fortunate. I had a crowded mouth and they were growing in every direction. The worst one stuck out of the side of my upper gum. My husband is older than you are and he has his, no problems.

mca47

I'm 28 and have all mine.

Guess I just have a big mouth! hahahaha!

TravisTheSky

iluvcats wrote:

mensane wrote:

i am 35 and still have all of my wisdom teeth.

i honestly thought they had never come in because i never felt them. (my dad never got his). at the dentist, i said i didnt think i had them. they took xrays and were amazed. they said they had never seen wisdom teeth that had grown in as straight as mine and that i wouldnt need them removed...

see, you were were fortunate. I had a crowded mouth and they were growing in every direction. The worst one stuck out of the side of my upper gum. My husband is older than you are and he has his, no problems.

I'm 36 next week, and my wisdom teeth are still 'on the grow.' I had the top left one pulled by a regular dentist about a decade ago. Both of the uppers had grow in beautifully, but were pushing the other teeth forward. The other was too close to an artery and the dentist felt uneasy about attempting to remove it.

On the lower jaw, the left wisdom tooth grew in during my teens and sits in a neat row with the molars. It's the right side one that causes most of the problems: It has always been diagonal, almost sideways. A tiny point of tooth pierced through the gum many, many years ago allowing bacteria to get in. It has slowly surfaced a little more each year, cramming the other teeth together. Now on the lower jaw, the front teeth have been smooshed so closely that one is now behind the others, with two teeth sealing the gap and making the back tooth not visible from the front. The middle two are fighting for space, and the the left front will soon be forced behind the right front. (I used to know teeth numbers by location. Sorry, I've forgotten.)

On the top jaw, my lone wisdom tooth is one to many: It's exerting pressure so that the teeth on the right have slid forward. I'm becoming buck-toothed as the right incisor slips behind the left.

I have a tiny, underformed jaw. My teeth don't fit. When I was younger, I assumed it was bad genetic luck. As I read up on the issue this decade, I learned that it was probably due to being raised on a modern western diet. Jaw growth is a "use it or lose it" phenomenon. When we are weaned onto solids, our mouths need to be challenged with whole grains. Notice that many people raised in traditional cultures have strong jaws with wide smiles and plenty of room for all of their teeth. With a natural diet, their jaws grew to the full genetic potential. Once a child is about 7 years of age, his jaw has been formed.

.....Anyway, I'm crap out of luck now. I no longer have dental insurance. I can only have teeth pulled if they cause a serious medical emergency with my health.

the wolf

iluvcats wrote:

decides2dream wrote:

"at your age"...............ouch!
hahahahahaha.



btw - you were supposed to get 16, and instead received 28......i will happily take those extras off your hands...



and sure, seriously....many people still have their wisdom teeth. my sister, 45, still has at least half of em. if they cause no problems, they let them be....and then down the road if issues rise, sure, then they take em out!

I have been recently teasing him that he is old I am lots older, I thought it was ok?

its all good, i know im old

update: had to stop taking the Vicodin yesterday. :( i was getting a little jumpy, and my whole body was itching like you wouldnt believe !! oh well, it was a fun mellow 3 days. fun while it lasted.

decides2dream

the wolf wrote:

iluvcats wrote:

decides2dream wrote:

"at your age"...............ouch!
hahahahahaha.



btw - you were supposed to get 16, and instead received 28......i will happily take those extras off your hands...



and sure, seriously....many people still have their wisdom teeth. my sister, 45, still has at least half of em. if they cause no problems, they let them be....and then down the road if issues rise, sure, then they take em out!

I have been recently teasing him that he is old I am lots older, I thought it was ok?

its all good, i know im old

update: had to stop taking the Vicodin yesterday. :( i was getting a little jumpy, and my whole body was itching like you wouldnt believe !! oh well, it was a fun mellow 3 days. fun while it lasted.

sure, of course it's ok...anything you say cats is ok.
it was just funny, thus...my comment.


and....bummer for you man.
*PMs address*
thanks!

bigbadbill

I suffered a lower back injury last December. I've had injections (facet block and epidural), and I go to P.T. once a week. I also have a prescription of vicodin's generic form hydrocodone (7.5/750) - I just call them 750's. I also take norco (which is in the same family as vicodin).

MrMerkinball

iluvcats wrote:

Drive home safely, ok.

I'm curious as to why they pulled your wisdom teeth out at your age. I was 24 and I had all 4 pulled at once.
Yes, I wanted to die. I was not told proper follow up care.

I'm 35 and geting 4 pulled in November. Not looking forward to it.

katellis

iluvcats wrote:

I'm curious as to why they pulled your wisdom teeth out at your age. I was 24 and I had all 4 pulled at once.
Yes, I wanted to die. I was not told proper follow up care.

i had all four pulled a few years ago when i was 21.
i was told proper follow up care, and i followed all the rules.
despite this, i still got dry sockets on both sides of my mouth. the pain of the dry sockets was about a hundred times worse than the pain from the extraction itself! :(

decides2dream

katellis wrote:

iluvcats wrote:

I'm curious as to why they pulled your wisdom teeth out at your age. I was 24 and I had all 4 pulled at once.
Yes, I wanted to die. I was not told proper follow up care.

i had all four pulled a few years ago when i was 21.
i was told proper follow up care, and i followed all the rules.
despite this, i still got dry sockets on both sides of my mouth. the pain of the dry sockets was about a hundred times worse than the pain from the extraction itself! :(

OUCH!

i don't exactly recall when i had mine done, i just remember it was early in my marriage - so say 24 or 25.....b/c i had the medical coverage to pay for it then. i had mine surgically extracted, best way to go imo - not that i had a choice in any case. so the procedure itself, utterly pain-free. woke up, the teeth were gone. the only pain i had was.....could not get my pain meds from the pharmacy fast enough! however, once medicated again, all was well. overall, i did follow all the proper follow-up, tho i do admit...i did still smoke tho was told not to for the whole dry socket thing. thank bejeebus i had no issues!

iluvcats

I got the dry socket and I did not mention it in my response b/c I didn't want to gross out The Wolf.

it does sound pretty nasty. I wonder if the cure is the same as it was in 1984 (oil of clove).

_Crazy_Mary_

I had all four removed and didn't take ANY of the vicodin prescribed to me. Also, I took nothing for the pain during childbirth.
Man, I'm an animal!

norm

i had mine out when i was 15

i don't think vicodin had even been invented...probably got a couple aspirins and a smile :twisted:

Lizard

norm wrote:

i had mine out when i was 15

i don't think vicodin had even been invented...probably got a couple aspirins and a smile :twisted:

hahaha--- i think i got Percocet
(and i am way older than you!!)

norm

Lizard wrote:

norm wrote:

i had mine out when i was 15

i don't think vicodin had even been invented...probably got a couple aspirins and a smile :twisted:

hahaha--- i think i got Percocet
(and i am way older than you!!)

i'm an old soul :P

iluvcats

_Crazy_Mary_ wrote:

Also, I took nothing for the pain during childbirth.
Man, I'm an animal!

you are an animal! last night we watched "the other boleyn girl" and I thought my husband was going to faint, Scarlett Johansson did such a good job of looking like she was being electrocuted during child birth.