I am under the freaking weather. Tuesday I visited the dentist and had several implant posts put in my mouth. And they really hurt.
I had to go under anesthetic and stuff and it was kind of rough. But I am trying to get by without using the oxi that he gave me. Just Motrin and food that don't hurt.
It sucks big time.
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Tooth pain! The worst, huh?
I've never had much but I'm expecting to...
Of course, you know you're in trouble if you're going under and the dentist says, "Is it safe?"
I may have to have a wisdom tooth extracted. Not looking forward to this. My dentist says two are usually pulled (top and bottom)
I had the posts put in for a couple of implants. It is where they drill into your jaw and plant a screw.
It hurts like a bitch.
I helped write some patents for some of that implant technology several years ago.
I'd rathet talk about breast implants, but I feel for you. At least you'll know that one day you'll be pain-free.
Imagine how the father of our country felt--then imagine how the blogfather feels.
At least you haven't developed a laudanum habit over it all like Doc Holiday.
Trooper, I tweeted a link to this short 10 min video this morning. It's pretty cool: link
Oh, ouch! I love oxy. Except I think I've only taken a handful total. I got a prescription for 90 pills once for my back and I used them so sparingly because I liked them (so they scared me) that I threw away practically a whole prescription.
Anyway, glad you have them if you need them.
And did someone mention breast implants?? Hit the tip jar, please.
Wait, tiP jar?
Oh, I'd hit it alright...
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More better.
Is that a depiction someone smiling over a new pair of boobs, Allen?
Well done! Hee.
And Trooper will be smiling with some new pearly whites!
They were too close to the chin the first time.
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Now, that would not appear to be the same depiction. lol
Was that below the belt?
Ok, the top line is the cartoon bubble:
8- NO!
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When I went to Wisconsin I had almost all my teeth redone. It costs like $39,000 but now I feel fab.
When I did all the procedures I actually was knocked out.
I can't stand the sound of a drill or any scraping on my teeth and there was this place in Madison that did sedation dentistry.
I took a pill one hour before each procedure and I woke up when they were done.
I didn't get any oxy though-fuckers.
Now I go every three months for checky ups and cleanings and whiteners.
I think I had about 12 appointments in one year.
It's also important for men to keep their bush area trimmed. Too much hair can make the hog look incredibly small. You don't need to do a total wax but at least some monthly pruning.
LOL, Allen.
Listen to this. It'll make you forget your toothache:
http://www.upworthy.com/a-tea-partier-decided-to-pick-a-fight-with-a-foreign-president-it-didnt-go-so-we
It does suck big time. MrM had one implant done and almost went through the roof. It was not an experience he'd care to repeat.
He'd knocked out his front tooth in high school, and cracked the replacement a month before our wedding. My dad, who was a dentist, made him a new one, but when he went to try it on the post, it fit so snug he couldn't get it back off to apply the permanent cement. It stayed on that way for 25 years, until it finally cracked several years after my dad had died, and the new dentist recommended an implant. Unfortunately there was too much bone loss for the implant to take and it turned out not to be the best answer for him (even though I know several others for whom they have worked very well) so he opted instead for a bridge, relieved he didn't need to go through the implant routine one more time.
One of the many things I loved about my dad was his craftsmanship. He'd enlisted in the Army in '44 following graduation from dental school, and served in the medical corp making custom glass eyes and constructing replacement bridge work for the returning wounded. The story of the tooth that fit so well it wouldn't come off is now part of his legacy. Another is this: when the dentist I went to after he was gone first looked at the gold inlays in my mouth, he sort of whistled and said, "I feel like I'm looking in an art museum." That kind of work is rarely done anymore, and his respect touched my heart.
I hope your implants serve you well, and you heal quickly and easily. Nothing done in the mouth like this is an easy or painless process.
I've been especially lucky and grateful. I had my first cavity when I was 50 years old. Since then, I've had two molars capped and the last one, a molar on the top that something went wrong and two years later I had to have a root canal. I still think that there is something wrong with the tooth, and I'm sure that it is affecting my sinus on that side.
Now, I've noticed within the last couple of months as little pain with another molar. Having a tooth capped is big dollars.
Never use all of your prescription painkillers, just enough to take the edge off the pain.
Keep the leftover pills for a time when you really, really need to get some pain knocked down fast.
Long before I met Mrs. Haz I (briefly) dated a woman who had breast implants. They looked nice, but felt very hard.
My sympathies for the dental stuff, Troop. I'm going thru something almost as painful right now.
I'm in my usual spot in the coffee shop and some French dude keeps getting in my space. First he leaned over to reach for who-knows-what on the floor, which left his raggedy-ass mop of '70s disco hair covering half my table. Then he reached across my back to plug in his fuckin' Eurotrash-adapted power cord.
Plus, he's mackin' on some super-hot blonde half his age. It's fuckin' agony, I tell you.
I need some painkillers. About 30 of them, to put in his coffee.
I feel your pain. In the process of having a root canal done myself. So far it is going well and I haven't had to use the Vicodine.....but I'm not yet at the post (or whatever they do to stabilize) stage. Saving the pills for that little slice of heaven coming up.
:-(
Get well and don't get hooked on Hillbilly Heroine.
I have read that looking at tits can relieve pain.
tits.
Wrong.
Blue balls are extremely painful.
The key to pain management, from a person who suffers chronic pain, is to STAY AHEAD of it. Don't wait until the pain is up to 7-8, take the meds when it's under 5. You will use less meds and it works better...no brainer.
I liked the Dennis Quaid Doc a little better. Went to Doc's grave in Glenwood Springs, Co. last April. Folks put cigs, booze bottles, and playing cards on it. Bruce, I looked for laudanum bottles! Is that still manufactured?
For Titus. Or this, if you prefer.
I've had way too much dental work done. At least one cavity on every tooth. Several crowns, blah, blah, blah. Last time I had a filling, I told the dentist to forget the novacaine, just drill. The grooves in the arm rest are still there.
Is that [laudanum] still manufactured?
Apparently so, though it's called tincture of opium: link.
Busy first day of school.
Darcy wrote: I got a prescription for 90 pills once for my back and I used them so sparingly because I liked them (so they scared me) that I threw away practically a whole prescription.
Good for you!
Hey, remember in "Justified" when the "one-armed bandit" was making oxy in KY and then shipping it to Detroit?
MamaM mused: He'd enlisted in the Army in '44 following graduation from dental school, and served in the medical corp making custom glass eyes and constructing replacement bridge work for the returning wounded.
I remember now where you get your "vitreous humor"
Thanks, Bruce.
I could look at those lights all day wind. Thanks for thinking of me. They are actually perfect lights. I think it would be kind of cool to have an entire wall of those lights. Like over 100 of them evenly spaced and then the opposite walk would be an entire mirror-I would probably never leave the house and dance quite a bit.
I have a prescription to Lorazapam and absolutley love it.
I don't take them all the time-maybe once a week-but I get a monthly supply so I am stocked up.
I have trouble sleeping sometimes and those babies knock me out.
I was never into any prescription meds used for pain-all of them made me feel weird.
Xanax-or Lorazapam makes you sleep-you don't get high on them.
Oh, and about that cowboy picture. I didn't know Rip Taylor was ever in any westerns.
Glad you like them, Titus.
I miss Justified, chick! But yeah, that was a pretty creepy season. I still think Maggs was the best villain so far, though.
She won an Emmy for that didn't she? Or was it a GG?
When doesn't Justified start up again?
I heard today on Twitter that Downton Abbey 3 is coming up. Don't know when though.
Can't wait for Justified.
Another show that looks promising from the promo ads is "Elementary" Sort of a riff on Sherlock Holmes and Watson. If they can keep it from becoming politically correct bullcrap.. it might be ok. I'll give it a whirl.
Longmire turned out to be alright. Not so much PC stuff, ok...some with the Indians and the "Res" but all in all not such bad writing and the dynamics between characters was fairly realistic.
When doesn't Justified start up again?
Sorry, I'm extra dyslexic today.
My Navy/ Marine daughter is home now! It was such a joy to see her standing there with her faded dusty looking camies on. She's already got an appointment for a haircut and highlights at her favorite salon, spray tan, manicure, pedicure, she is her mother's daughter, lol.
Sunday will be her belated birthday party, as she was over there, so we got the steaks, the beers, the stuff for brandy Old Fashioneds, which I hate, but my kids like and her favorite torte.
Woo Hoo, Downton Abbey three, can't wait.
Sounds great, Allie!
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