No, its not that bad
THE PAIN!!!! It’s hurts so damn bad.
Severe tooth pain makes you want to perform unsupervised amputations. Crying and screaming while rolling around in your bed now seem more probable. You don’t even care about the same – so much so that you are that close to using that pair of pliers. To hell with all the blood you will need to clean off your baisch floor.
Because of bad habits as a kid, and did I have a lot of bad ones – like rarely taking care of my teeth, let alone brushing them, my mouth is filled with various cavities and now two broken teeth just waiting to act up. I have a few teeth extracted and it looks like more will follow.
Thursday night was bad, but I snuggled up under my blankets, and slept off the pain. Friday night I was not shown such mercy and no amount of Ibuprofen was going to make that pain go away. I was going to need something stronger. More on that in a second.
Cavities and broken teeth don’t make you go, “Oh that’s beautiful!”. Good people recoil in shock and horror at such nastiness. You now know why I never show my teeth when I smile. Seriously, I don’t show my teeth unless I’m drunk and I’m not aware that my pearly yellows are exposed to shocked onlookers.
A previous dentist actually thought I was doing drugs because of the amount of cavities. I can remember her saying, “Cmon, what is it? Meth?” Nope, just rarely brushed teeth that stand to make you a considerable fortune. No, I’m not a meth head, tobacco chewing addict from the Appalachians and I don’t intend to give that impression off smiling with a toothless grin.
Why can’t getting dental work done – that expensive stuff like root canals, crowns, etc have a similar approach you’d find at a hospital. There, even if you can’t pay and have no insurance, they still treat you. Sure you’re medical bills will be insane and your credit will be screwed for life, but that flashy smile will land you a gig showing others their teeth just aren’t white enough.
Like most millennials, I should blame my bigoted ist and ism parents who don’t check their privilege enough – specifically my mom. Well, it’s not her fault. She tried and I just got lazy. Maybe I wasn’t disciplined enough for my bad hygiene, but hindsight is hindsight.
Over the last 3 days the pain I mentioned has been excruciating. I couldn’t even sleep at a point. I now understand why people commit suicide – something I have no intention of doing. The pain can be that terrible.
Currently, I have a cracked tooth as well as an impacted and decaying wisdom tooth that causes terrible pain for the left side of my mouth. I’m rough and tough and wait these things out, but Saturday it was too much. I went to the ER, got a referral for a dentist, and got some Percocets which I’m currently on right now.
Tuesday came around and I got that extraction. Now I’m on hydrocodone to manage the pain of it. The older wizened dentist extracted my wisdom tooth in about 3 minutes after he shot my mouth full of lidocaine or whatever it is.
Honestly with my teeth having been killing me these last few days, I’m still lucky. How’s that?
My mom is staying with us for about two months to help us out with our two sons. Them being 10 and 1/2months apart is the primary reason. I’m lucky I didn’t have to get up in the middle of the night to do a feeding for our 6 week old son Nehemiah with my teeth in such pain I can barely stand.
My sons should never feel this pain. I won’t let them. From a young age I’ll make sure they are brushing thoroughly so they never have a mouth as ramshod with cavities as their old man.
For years I’ve pushed off my dental issues – usually due to a lack of money or dental insurance to pay for it, but I didn’t bother to use mouthwash daily and be brushing constantly to stave off even worse dental wrath.
Don’t be like me kids. Watch those horrific cavity videos and recoil in fear and horror at those google images. IT can happen to you! Except you won’t get pregnant and die. Lessons must be learned.
1. Discipline from a young age forms good habits
2. Don’t relent. Your kids will thank you when their teeth aren’t killing them every night.
– Tales from a cavity survivor in pain.
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