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	onyxnoir 2007-08-21 05:30 am UTC (link)
	No. :( They put me out completely for the extraction, I guess because I got all four done at once. And I'm a big weenie when it comes to pain. For afterwards they gave me tylenol with codine. And codine knocks me out. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	catslash 2007-08-21 02:08 pm UTC (link)
	I got all four of mine out at once too, so I also got knocked out completely. I went under so fast that when I woke up, I thought it hadn't been done yet. Then I got Vicodin. When I was on it, I was all, "I'm not stoned or anything! This is totally normal!" Funny thing is, I don't remember much else about the couple of days following the procedure . . . (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	goblin 2007-08-21 02:11 pm UTC (link)
	...and then the cops showed up... (Reply to this)(Parent)

	onyxnoir 2007-08-21 02:16 pm UTC (link)
	I don't remember the next couple of days after the proceedure either, but that's because I spent most of that time asleep. Like I said, codine knocks me out. Great for the pain, but it's definately not an 'entertaining' sort of medicine. At least, not for me it isn't. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	catslash 2007-08-21 02:33 pm UTC (link)
	I mostly lazed around, since I was at my grandparents', being as no one in my family wanted to leave me alone after the anesthesia since I'd never been under before. The craziest thing that happened was me leaving one or two rather questionable comments in my friends' LJs. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	drhenryjekyll 2007-08-22 05:34 pm UTC (link)
	My mom just took pictures of me when I tried to eat. Mashed potatoes kept falling out of my numbed mouth :( She thought it was hilarious. And then she yelled at me because four hours after I had the procedure done, I drove to school to work on something. (Reply to this)(Parent)

queencallipygos
2007-08-21 02:55 pm UTC (link)

I got all four out at once too, and I totally had the best drugs. I was paranoid about general anaesthesia, because I was underweight then (I had the metabolism of a lab rat on crack), but I didn't just want a local because I did not want to be alert. So they proposed a midground they called "twilight anesthesia," which they described as "we'll use pain killers, but no general anesthesia; we'll just also give you so many sedatives that you may just fall asleep all on your own anyway; and even if you don't, you won't care what the hell we're doing to you."

I said I had just one question: could I bring in a Walkman and listen to Hendrix while they were working? They said yes, and I was sold.

I remember nothing after they started the drugs until I was waking up on the couch back at home and Sleeper was on the TV.

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jat_sapphire
2007-08-21 03:22 pm UTC (link)

I had the twilight thing, too, but I wasn't asleep at any point. I stopped them, initially, because I could feel the teeth breaking up, and I thought there would be pain any minute, and they had to tell me they'd given me as much drug as was safe.

That's how much of a weenie about pain I am--the fear kept me wide awake. And feeling vaguely cheated.

But I guess I was a bit peculiar. At least I hope I would ordinarily have remembered that the friend who came with me (neither of us drive and the place was within walking distance) was allergic to pollen BEFORE I led her through a field full of ragweed.

She forgave me, however, even though I only remember saying "Oh, is that stuff ragweed?" *facepalm*

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magic_lilybean
2007-08-22 06:36 pm UTC (link)

Fear not, weinie. I was a weinie about the *sound* involved in an extraction. I'm pretty tough in terms of pain, or so my dentist tells me (he didn't hesitate to put in my crown without any novocaine when I'd found out I was pregnant), but my hubby had had a wisdom tooth out and said he'd never forget the sound of it.

So... when I needed an extraction, and they offered to knock me out? HELL YES.

I don't remember a damned thing, which is exactly how I like it. Although my husband kindly took a picture of me knocked out because he thought it was funny. Thanks, sweetie!

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	talec 2007-09-03 10:34 pm UTC (link)
	Aw, I got all four out at once, and all I got were novacaine and laughing gas... The gas wasn't even funny. :( (Reply to this)(Parent)

soupspooks
2007-09-10 04:26 pm UTC (link)

I had seven done at once. The four wisdom teeth, and then the three other teeth that had to be removed to let the rest of the stuff in my mouth fit. And, sadly, I still don't have quite enough room on the bottom. :/

The drugs I got for this little bit of surgery were numerous and potent. I'm not only terrified of pain, I'm terrified of needles. So they had to drug me with tranqs to be able to drug me with the stuff to put me under. 8D fun.

I have to admit, though. The little plastic water squirt thingy they gave me to clean out the incisions after I ate was awsome. *played with it for weeks*

-crabapplered

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	heddychaa 2007-08-22 08:01 am UTC (link)
	I got knocked out, too. When I woke up, I just wanted to wave to everybody. My dad was joking about how I was acting like some sort of royal. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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