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After a lifetime of struggling to brush my teeth cuz of my autistic sensory issues and OCD... I'm gonna need to have one of my wisdom teeth extracted... big sad tbh I'm quite scared of the extraction procedure and I had some co-codamol prescribed for the pain and it didn't relieve it as much as I had been told it would (though on the upside at least cuz of that I'll prob just end up using regular paracetamol and ibuprofen, and not run any risk of getting hooked on opiates, silver linings lol). I'm struggling to sleep and will prob book another appointment at the dentist to get the tooth extracted in the next couple of weeks with just numbing, unless I decide to look into private options that offer sedation as well as the NHS waiting times are 6 months... I'm rly sad for anyone who has to deal with this type of pain without painkillers or can't get treatment cuz they haven't got money it's not fair, I'm finding it incredibly difficult even with some pain relief. My best wishes to everyone here, hope you're all doing ok, I am enjoying the warmer weather now it's spring and Friend C visited yesterday and helped me w the dental appointment and getting my prescription and my boyfriend messaged w me a lot to offer comfort and support, I do feel very blessed in terms of human connection these days even if my teeth won't stop aching, and I think this might finally get me to override some of the unkind things my brain tells me and take better care of myself physically in some ways that I haven't been doing so well with so that is good too :)

(BTW sorry if this is the wrong place for this or anything like that, I just thought if people were wondering why I haven't posted on here as much/how I'm doing this would explain it a bit).
 
RadFemHedonist said:
After a lifetime of struggling to brush my teeth cuz of my autistic sensory issues and OCD... I'm gonna need to have one of my wisdom teeth extracted... big sad tbh I'm quite scared of the extraction procedure and I had some co-codamol prescribed for the pain and it didn't relieve it as much as I had been told it would (though on the upside at least cuz of that I'll prob just end up using regular paracetamol and ibuprofen, and not run any risk of getting hooked on opiates, silver linings lol). I'm struggling to sleep and will prob book another appointment at the dentist to get the tooth extracted in the next couple of weeks with just numbing, unless I decide to look into private options that offer sedation as well as the NHS waiting times are 6 months... I'm rly sad for anyone who has to deal with this type of pain without painkillers or can't get treatment cuz they haven't got money it's not fair, I'm finding it incredibly difficult even with some pain relief. My best wishes to everyone here, hope you're all doing ok, I am enjoying the warmer weather now it's spring and Friend C visited yesterday and helped me w the dental appointment and getting my prescription and my boyfriend messaged w me a lot to offer comfort and support, I do feel very blessed in terms of human connection these days even if my teeth won't stop aching, and I think this might finally get me to override some of the unkind things my brain tells me and take better care of myself physically in some ways that I haven't been doing so well with so that is good too :)

(BTW sorry if this is the wrong place for this or anything like that, I just thought if people were wondering why I haven't posted on here as much/how I'm doing this would explain it a bit).
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Hope you manage to get through the dentist, it's never a nice thing to think about.
Fortunately, I've found a friendly one with small hands. 🥴

I only know you from the forum and you come across as a lovely person.
 
RadFemHedonist said:
After a lifetime of struggling to brush my teeth cuz of my autistic sensory issues and OCD... I'm gonna need to have one of my wisdom teeth extracted... big sad tbh I'm quite scared of the extraction procedure and I had some co-codamol prescribed for the pain and it didn't relieve it as much as I had been told it would (though on the upside at least cuz of that I'll prob just end up using regular paracetamol and ibuprofen, and not run any risk of getting hooked on opiates, silver linings lol). I'm struggling to sleep and will prob book another appointment at the dentist to get the tooth extracted in the next couple of weeks with just numbing, unless I decide to look into private options that offer sedation as well as the NHS waiting times are 6 months... I'm rly sad for anyone who has to deal with this type of pain without painkillers or can't get treatment cuz they haven't got money it's not fair, I'm finding it incredibly difficult even with some pain relief. My best wishes to everyone here, hope you're all doing ok, I am enjoying the warmer weather now it's spring and Friend C visited yesterday and helped me w the dental appointment and getting my prescription and my boyfriend messaged w me a lot to offer comfort and support, I do feel very blessed in terms of human connection these days even if my teeth won't stop aching, and I think this might finally get me to override some of the unkind things my brain tells me and take better care of myself physically in some ways that I haven't been doing so well with so that is good too :)

(BTW sorry if this is the wrong place for this or anything like that, I just thought if people were wondering why I haven't posted on here as much/how I'm doing this would explain it a bit).
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Sorry to hear you're struggling with the pain, hopefully the extraction will help to alleviate that. I needed to have two extractions last year, and opted to have them both under local only under the NHS and fortunately they went well, with the second one having a longer recovery time but in the long term no issues. So for what it's worth, in my experience they weren't so bad so hope that you have a positive experience overall. I opted for it under local without sedation, and it was all okay, but if you need to I believe they should be able to offer that option in the NHS as well
 
I had four teeth recently removed using just local numbing, and it wasn't a bad experience at all. Two of the teeth were back molars (I had all four wisdom teeth pulled in my early twenties) and they did take a little more effort, but still not bad, so I would think a wisdom tooth would be similar. I was really surprised at how little pain I had for recovery, I didn't really need to use an ice pack much at all, only on the first day, then it was just salt water rinses for a couple days.
 
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