Omg these past three days- holy shit. Uh warning dentists, tooth stuff, hospital/ER, needles, blood, vomiting mentioned⚠️
Okay so first of all I hate going to the dentist or the hospital. When I was six my dentist told me to shut up because I was scaring the other kids. Rude. Hated him. And when I was a kid getting my shots I had to be held down, at one point by five people. Still have to tbh, my mom helps me. Anyways, I’m 21, haven’t gone in years, and two of my teeth had chipped at one point. They were both decaying inside now. One of them didn’t hurt, the other I’ve had for over a year and had just started hurting like really bad, like 8-9/10 bad, like couldn’t sleep or stay asleep cuz it hurt so much.
It started either Saturday or Sunday at work. The lower left tooth was starting to hurt. Nothing major just a little annoying, like a 2/10. Come Monday it goes from like a 3 to like a 6. Monday night I slept after taking some pain meds. Tuesday afternoon, unbearable pain. Couldn’t even eat my Mac and cheese on the opposite side of my mouth. It was so bad. Went to a new dentist for an X-ray just to see what was going on. Now I have a lot of tooth problems. This is the main and worst one. I have two teeth that are decaying, the decay is inside the tooth, it’s spreading, the other teeth around are not as bad thankfully. Not extraction bad anyways. (Was crying while my mom drove me there btw.) Technically this place closed at 4pm but they still had a patient and were willing to see me. Everyone there was so nice and understanding. They explained everything. It was amazing. I was still panicky because of mean dentist from my childhood. But they were so kind and made me feel comfortable. They faxed the X-rays to an orthopedic surgeon to get the two teeth out as soon as possible and even tried calling despite the place being closed, but they said it would hopefully be tomorrow. My dentist prescribed ibuprofen and Tylenol for the pain in the meantime. Went to target to grab some soft food, then went back to the camper. Btw we are at the lake for the week, so we just went to the town we stay at. The pain just kept getting worse. So I took 3 ibuprofen and 2-3 Tylenol every 3-4 hours…from I think like 5pm to 8am the next day and uh. The 8am ones did not stay down. I ended up throwing up about 7 times in 1-2 hours. So we went to the ER Wednesday (today 6/17) morning. Again, anxious as fuck but the pain and puking were so bad. Hell the last 4 times were just bile. Yellow, acidic, disgusting aftertaste. Mom wanted to make sure I didn’t accidentally overdose or anything. They had to do labs and an IV. Thankfully they only had to poke me once. They used the IV to get blood for the labs. Everything came back as expected and I received fluids through the IV. Ibuprofen and Tylenol are not very good to take on an empty stomach. Never doing that again. Only did it because I wasn’t supposed to eat or drink 6 hours before the surgery. Got discharged pretty quickly and went to my tooth extraction appointment. I was able to get in early at around 2:15pm and got the laughing gas. I didn’t even know when they put me under. One minute I’m feeling all tingly, the next I’m in the observation chair. I left in a wheelchair cuz omg I could not walk holy shit. Walking up to the camper from the car was hilarious, my sister recorded it lol. My mouth feels so much better now though omg :D
