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Having wisdom teeth removed tomorrow. Very scared
OMG. Having my wisdom teeth removed tomorrow. 
Feeling very scared, and apprehensive.
I'm going into hospital to have them out. I hate hospitals soooo much. Lol
Will it be very painful afterwards?. 3 of them are impacted.!!!
Also what is a general anaesthetic like ? This is my first operation
Very scared.
Feeling very scared, and apprehensive.
I'm going into hospital to have them out. I hate hospitals soooo much. Lol
Will it be very painful afterwards?. 3 of them are impacted.!!!
Also what is a general anaesthetic like ? This is my first operation
Very scared.
Reply 1
there was a thread on this a few days back but here is my experience from earlier this yea - check out the older threads for other peoples opinions
you goto hospital and the nurse will prob give you a bed in a ward - you change into a gown.
the anaesthetist wil lcoem around and ask you questions about your health and if you drank/ate anythign before you came - make sure u don't = mine wasn't too happy when i said i had a sip of water
next you will be taken to a theatre and given a jab - they wil ltell you to do something like count to 10 and you will fall asleep
a few hours later (hopefully) you will wake up wodnering wtf is going on. you mouth will be swollen where the gum are. someone will have to pick you up and take you hoem - and probably pay for some prescription pain killers
the drugs will make you feel tired and groggy all day so the besy way to get rid of that feeling would be to goto sleep as soon as u get home - make sure u use a cheapo pillow inacse ur mouth bleeds and keep somethign to puke in next to the bed.
buy loads of soup and entertainment such as books/films
first few days you will be sore i nthemouth - i wasnt in pain but it was a massive pain that my mouth was feeling weird...it gets better after about 5 days but not perfect but good enough so you don't really feel much.
the first few days will be the first so fidn things to keep busy with.
they give you 2 treatments to do at home
a mouth gauze which is like a piece of material you push down your gums onto and it absorbs the blood and helps stop the bleed
the other oen is to wash your mouth out with warm salty water to remove any leftover food and stuff.
you goto hospital and the nurse will prob give you a bed in a ward - you change into a gown.
the anaesthetist wil lcoem around and ask you questions about your health and if you drank/ate anythign before you came - make sure u don't = mine wasn't too happy when i said i had a sip of water
next you will be taken to a theatre and given a jab - they wil ltell you to do something like count to 10 and you will fall asleep
a few hours later (hopefully) you will wake up wodnering wtf is going on. you mouth will be swollen where the gum are. someone will have to pick you up and take you hoem - and probably pay for some prescription pain killers
the drugs will make you feel tired and groggy all day so the besy way to get rid of that feeling would be to goto sleep as soon as u get home - make sure u use a cheapo pillow inacse ur mouth bleeds and keep somethign to puke in next to the bed.
buy loads of soup and entertainment such as books/films
first few days you will be sore i nthemouth - i wasnt in pain but it was a massive pain that my mouth was feeling weird...it gets better after about 5 days but not perfect but good enough so you don't really feel much.
the first few days will be the first so fidn things to keep busy with.
they give you 2 treatments to do at home
a mouth gauze which is like a piece of material you push down your gums onto and it absorbs the blood and helps stop the bleed
the other oen is to wash your mouth out with warm salty water to remove any leftover food and stuff.
Well Isabella, I have never actually had my wisdom teeth removed but a friend of mine has and it seemed OK, it's like having any other tooth extracted only it takes quite a lot longer to heal. You will have to eat sloppy food for a while and they will pack some kind of erm...I'm not sure what it is but they'll put some kind of white cotton wool stuff in the empty spaces to absorb the blood. You will need round the clock painkillers (that sounds scary doesn't it?) but as long as you take the painkillers recovery won't hurt that much. As for anaesthetic, it's your friend! You'll be very thankful for it, local anaesthetic is highly effective, seriously you won't feel a thing (you will feel the injection going in but that's only for a few seconds) and general anaesthatic is wonderful, it's like going to sleep. There is a slight possibility that you will need a few stitches since the wisdom teeth will leave such a deep hole but stitching techniques are pretty advanced these days, they might even give you stitches that dissolve after a while so you won't need to have them pulled out 
But anyway, you won't feel the stitches because of the anaesthetic. I don't know how much that helps but I don't want you to worry, the dentist will do every thing he/she can to make it as painfree and easy as possible.
But anyway, you won't feel the stitches because of the anaesthetic. I don't know how much that helps but I don't want you to worry, the dentist will do every thing he/she can to make it as painfree and easy as possible.Reply 3
I've had wisdom teeth out under local anaesthetic and a hernia operation under general
anaesthetic: this really is stress free, modern anaesthetists are very good. The anaesthetist will come and see you first so you get to know him/her and get put at ease. They put a catheter into the back of your hand through a needle which just feels like a scratch as it goes in, then you can't feel it. First they put something through the catheter to start everything flowing, it just makes your arm feel a bit cold but doesn't hurt. Then they put something which makes you go all chilled out but isn't the proper anaesthetic, while he's talking to you. Then he gradually introduces the anaesthetic until you drift off, but the good thing about intravenous anasthesia as opposed to a gas mask is you don't feel like you are "fighting" against feeling sleepy or anything, you just kind of feel all chilled out and really relaxed and then you don't actually remember drifting away.
When you come round it feels like a Sunday morning lie in, ie you will wake up, look around a bit and think "wahey, its over", and then can't be bothered getting up so nod back off to sleep again for a bit, then wake up again, then nod back off again (this goes on for a few hours so you do get some good sleep). I remember feeling a bit rough, just as though I had had a rough night the night before and couldn't be bothered doing anything other than sleep, but after a bit of extra nap time that goes off.
Now as for having the teeth out, mine were under local, and the main hassle I discovered was that they did bleed for a bit, but it wasn't really painful. Obviously it depends on how complicated the extraction is, if you have upper ones out you won't notice them, lower ones are a bigger job and if they are impacted the dentist will have to work harder to get them out, so it might ache a bit and feel sore although they do give you painkillers for this. The good thing about teeth extractions is your gums have a very good blood supply which means they heal faster than anywhere else in the body. It is difficult to predict how much post operative pain you will have, I literally had no pain, I got the train back home straight after having them out, walked across town, was watching a film that evening and forgot about them. A security guard at the place I worked had his wisdom teeth out and was on painkillers for the rest of the week because they were quite sore.
I'm not sure if you're having them out because they've flared up in the past but, if you have wisdom teeth flaring up because they are infected, thats more painful than having the extraction. I actually had an abscess developing under one of mine when it came out - literally from the day it came out the abscess pain stopped.
Don't worry if you are feeling nervous, its natural to be a bit stressed about the unknown but modern medicine is pretty good and designed not to stress the body - you will more than likely come out of it thinking "hey I could handle that pretty easy"
anaesthetic: this really is stress free, modern anaesthetists are very good. The anaesthetist will come and see you first so you get to know him/her and get put at ease. They put a catheter into the back of your hand through a needle which just feels like a scratch as it goes in, then you can't feel it. First they put something through the catheter to start everything flowing, it just makes your arm feel a bit cold but doesn't hurt. Then they put something which makes you go all chilled out but isn't the proper anaesthetic, while he's talking to you. Then he gradually introduces the anaesthetic until you drift off, but the good thing about intravenous anasthesia as opposed to a gas mask is you don't feel like you are "fighting" against feeling sleepy or anything, you just kind of feel all chilled out and really relaxed and then you don't actually remember drifting away.
When you come round it feels like a Sunday morning lie in, ie you will wake up, look around a bit and think "wahey, its over", and then can't be bothered getting up so nod back off to sleep again for a bit, then wake up again, then nod back off again (this goes on for a few hours so you do get some good sleep). I remember feeling a bit rough, just as though I had had a rough night the night before and couldn't be bothered doing anything other than sleep, but after a bit of extra nap time that goes off.
Now as for having the teeth out, mine were under local, and the main hassle I discovered was that they did bleed for a bit, but it wasn't really painful. Obviously it depends on how complicated the extraction is, if you have upper ones out you won't notice them, lower ones are a bigger job and if they are impacted the dentist will have to work harder to get them out, so it might ache a bit and feel sore although they do give you painkillers for this. The good thing about teeth extractions is your gums have a very good blood supply which means they heal faster than anywhere else in the body. It is difficult to predict how much post operative pain you will have, I literally had no pain, I got the train back home straight after having them out, walked across town, was watching a film that evening and forgot about them. A security guard at the place I worked had his wisdom teeth out and was on painkillers for the rest of the week because they were quite sore.
I'm not sure if you're having them out because they've flared up in the past but, if you have wisdom teeth flaring up because they are infected, thats more painful than having the extraction. I actually had an abscess developing under one of mine when it came out - literally from the day it came out the abscess pain stopped.
Don't worry if you are feeling nervous, its natural to be a bit stressed about the unknown but modern medicine is pretty good and designed not to stress the body - you will more than likely come out of it thinking "hey I could handle that pretty easy"
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