Wisdom Tooth Surgery

It’s crazy. My wisdom tooth did not give me any problem except for some slight sensitivity once in a blue moon but I am quite afraid of the consequences it will bring in the future so I went for the surgery in KTPH myself. I extracted 3 at one go under GA.

I had two impacted ones at the bottom and one fully grown on the top left corner of my mouth. I immediately regretted the decision to extract it when I woke up after the surgery after the effects of GA wore off. It was so crazy that I had tears in my eyes and I had to pop Codeine every 3 hours. I even woke up at 5am due to the pain. The worst part was staying at home. Although I was given 8 days of hospitalization leave and 1 day of MC, I couldn’t remain still at home. I went out on my 3rd day for a while to run some small errands with the annoying pain, climbed up and down the house searching for stuffs to do, blogs to post etc. It was super boring.

The nurses told me that my face will start to swell on the next day but I experienced swelling 6 hours after the surgery.

After 24 hours..

It was worst after 40 hours. I had a square jaw and I looked so fat.

I skipped my meals on the day of surgery itself and only resumed eating porridge for lunch and dinner on the second day. On the third day, I realized that I do not have to take Codeine anymore because the pain was bearable and maybe just a little annoying so I tried rice. The first few spoons were nightmares. It was so painful because the grains of rice would make their way to the wounds and stay there. Gargling would help get rid of them but still, they hurt too much. Imagine the flesh and stitches swimming here and there while you gargle. No thanks!

It’s Day 9 today and I am heading back to KTPH for post surgery review. I can still feel the stitches in my mouth and the ears are still blocked. Gahhh.

Let’s hope the doctor will be able to address my issue with the ear block and blue blacks later.