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To be or not to be a gatchamaniac - that's the dilemma!

Awwww.

Why is it we always hear such horror stories about having wisdom teeth removed? Are they such a "pain" for everyone? Or is it, like airplane disasters and car accidents, we only hear about the bad and never the good?

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Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.

Same as when you have tonsils removed. Yum!

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Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.

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Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.

My brother claimed that having his wisdom taken out (I think he was 18) was no big deal, and I have no recollection of him lying around in bed groaning in pain, or anything like that -so I guess he had it easy.

I think for many people who haven't given birth or had kidney stones, wisdom teeth removal is the most painful experience they've endured (that's certainly my case).

RI that's almost cruel

Wisdom teeth are supposed to come out?

Um, codiene. It ain't all it's cracked up to be. Three C-sections, only needed it at night for the first two (probably could have used advil just as well, but the perscription was free through the discharge pharmacy). Except for that time two weeks after the second, I crawled into the middle of the mini-van next to the car seat, so that my father-in-law could sit in front as we drove to Occidental to see my sister-in-law and her first born.

The third one however, considering I was chasing an 18 mo old, I needed it every six hours, but still think advil would have worked just as well. Never made me loopy or anything.

And why do people smoke pot to curve nausea? All the damn stuff does is make me want to puke and I don't even have to smoke it for that, just be around people who are.

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I only had bottom wisdom teeth and my older sister had top - together we had a set!

Prior to having mine out in college, I'd been hit in the jaw in softball with a line drive while running from first base to second. It dislocated my jaw. I was told it could only be repaired by breaking it - I said no thanks. To this day jaw, if I open my jaw wide, it pops.

I don't do well with dental procedures but they wouldn't knock me out when I had mine removed. They were impacted and it took forever. I had trouble closing my jaw after and swelled up so bad I could have given a chipmunk loaded with nuts a run for its money.

The codeine made me sick, so I worshiped the porcelin god for hours and then went to sleep. When I woke up, I coudn't open my jaw.

The doctor in the emergency room said the muslces had temporarily locked and gave me a muscle relaxant. I spent two days trying to suck water, milkshakes and liquid jello (which actually isn't so bad) through a straw through my teeth.

In contract, my husband had his pulled a few years ago and was up and running within 6 hours.

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Hope you're feeling better, Ste!

Maybe you can be as fortunate as my mum was with it ... Dunno how it happened, but when she got kidney stones ... she threw them up...

Saved her having to pass them the other way ...

Big huggies to you, babe. hope it all goes well for you.

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Sighhh

Why do men snore when lying on their backs?
Because their balls fall over their butt holes and they vapour lock.

Here's something good that happened concerning the dentist -my son finally got over his phobia! Now they don't have to dope him to the gills!

Ste, I sincerely hope you're feeling better. It's a pain to be between... um, better not say it.

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