Well my year anniversay was up April 25th. It's a day I will never forget.
When I left my office April 25th 2007 I can remember the girls saying, wow you're not even nervous to get your wisdom tooth pulled? I WAS NOT nervous. I had on two other times had top wisdom teeth pulled, no problems, the worst was maybe getting a piece of rice stuck in the hole! This one being pulled was my lower right side.
Little did I know what I was in for. I went in for my appointment, did the freezing and it began. By the end of it, I felt as though I had been 'assaulted'. I went home in tears. My doctor had told me it was tricky. Hammer needed to be used, my lower jaw felt like it kept on popping out of place. The root was 'stuck', and he did get it out, it fell on the floor or something?I woke up in the middle of the night, still feeling 'frozen'. In the morning I took my daughter to the dentist (she had an appointment) The nurse said she was surprised I would be able to go anywhere. I told her and the receiptionist that it was wierd but I was still frozen! I'll never forget the look on their faces!
In any event, I got the 'bad' news. Went through about 4 months of not a lot of anything - the 'creepy crawlies' on chin, the water feeling like it's draining down your face, the vice grip, some times very painful feeling on the chin and lip.
It's strange describing it to people who've never been through this before, but it did give me some comfort that there were other people out there like me with the exact same descriptors.
I found this site shortly after the injury and visited it frequently.
It wasn't until around mid September that I started having major improvement. Some days though, it felt like I was getting worse then a few days later, it would be better again.
In October I pretty much had a 'melt down'. I took 3 weeks sick time from work. I feel the whole 'incident' caused me to go into a depression. I couldn't cope, etc.
Now at 13 months, I would say I am about 80% back to normal. I do have some strange sensastions on my chin, my lower teeth are still in a semi vice grip feeling.
Around the half way mark I told myself if I didn't get any better from that point on I could at least live with myself.
I pray that everyone out there heals. I do pray for you all.
I know how much a person can suffer from this.
Debbie
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