I had some periodontal work and a tooth removed this morning. It's called sedation dentistry. They give you two pills to take the night before at your house for some reason. They're not that strong..about like over the counter sleep aids. May be they prep your body for the ones you take for the surgery.
Three more pills this morning 45 minutes before the appointment. I remember very little from 7:30 this morning until about 4:00 this afternoon. I still feel a little groggy, but relatively pain free.
Apparently as the nurses were carrying me to the waiting room in the wheelchair, I told her(my wife) that I thought they had removed my liver, before we left the house, I stumbled around singing a made up song over and over about losing my pants until Cindy made me stop. I remember none of this.
Sounds like me when I had my wisdom teeth removed. Knock you out and when you start coming out of it, the lights are on but no one is home. They tell me I became nearly violent to walk by myself at which point I fell about four times. I too remember none of this.
> Sounds like me when I had my wisdom teeth removed. Knock you out and when you start coming out of it, the lights are on but no one is home. They tell me I became nearly violent to walk by myself at which point I fell about four times. I too remeber none of this.
We must have had the same dentist! I had 4 wisdom teeth out in the same sitting. 2 were impacted. They ran some stuff into me through an IV that would have made Elvis proud. After the procedure in my 'tough guy' bravado I demanded to walk to the car on my own. I stood up and went down face first. My old man laughs about it to this day. I don't remember a thing about it. I was out in the deer woods 2 days later. In retrospect that was not smart. 18 years old, doped up on liquid feel good (pero-something), roaming the woods with a high powered rifle. Thank god I didn't see any game.
Hope you are back in the swing of thing soon Phillip.
Good story, Phillip, I have tears in my eyes, so does my wife, I read it to her.
Don
> I had some periodontal work and a tooth removed this morning. It's called sedation dentistry. They give you two pills to take the night before at your house for some reason. They're not that strong..about like over the counter sleep aids. May be they prep your body for the ones you take for the surgery.
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> Three more pills this morning 45 minutes before the appointment. I remember very little from 7:30 this morning until about 4:00 this afternoon. I still feel a little groggy, but relatively pain free.
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> Apparently as the nurses were carrying me to the waiting room in the wheelchair, I told her(my wife) that I thought they had removed my liver, before we left the house, I stumbled around singing a made up song over and over about losing my pants until Cindy made me stop. I remember none of this.
Sounds like they gave you Halcion. Same stuff they gave me and boy was I loopy! Wendell says it's the best laugh he has EVER had. I'll let him tell the story cause I can't remember it all. I was too dopey. Wonderful stuff, man, but potent too!!! 😛
I have never had sedation dentistry. In fact, my old dentist when I was a kid used to do fillings with no novocaine unless I screamed real loud when he was drilling. Friday night would have been a good time for me to have some major dental work done because I was numb until Saturday evening. (Band practice gone bad).
Last year I had 4 broken teeth removed. Three were failed root canals from 20yrs ago and one molar just split down the middle all the way to the roots.
My dentist ask if I wanted gas. OH YES, I said, a $22 mask and turn the valve on for 20± mins and no pain at all. I remember he had to ask me to shut up so he could do his part.
I drove myself there starving from no food or drink since 9pm and drove myself home with a grin from ear to ear.
Now you tell me!
I knew I shouldn't have listened to Nancy Reagan.
Now you tell me!
My Dentist played football for the LA Rams back in the late '60's; he pulled my left side upper/lower wisdom teeth with just local anethesia when I was about 17 or so...told him the worst part was the crunching noise and come next week for the right side I'd be prepared.
Week later I show up at the Dentists office with a Sony Walkman (cassette tape!) loaded with The Who Live at Leeds. He numbed me up and a few minutes later I cued up "Magic Bus" WFO on the earphones and gave him the thumbs up to reach in with the pliers and get it done.
Unfortunately, when your teeth are connected to your head right near your ears all the Marshall amps in the world won't remove the crunching noise.:-|
Now you tell me!
I wish somebody had told me I needed major drugs to have my wisdom teeth out. They were in sideways too, but all I got was some lousy novocaine.
> I have never had sedation dentistry. In fact, my old dentist when I was a kid used to do fillings with no novocaine unless I screamed real loud when he was drilling. Friday night would have been a good time for me to have some major dental work done because I was numb until Saturday evening. (Band practice gone bad).
As a kid, I use to get my fillings done the same way. No Novocaine... just drill and fill. Grin and bear it. Now, NO WAY!! Gimme the shots!! I HATE dental work!!! :-@ 🙁
(Ok I admit it...I'm a wuss!!) :-$
Now you tell me!
> I wish somebody had told me I needed major drugs to have my wisdom teeth out. They were in sideways too, but all I got was some lousy novocaine.
You got ripped off!!! :-O
That dentist got around.
I had the Demerol, Sodium Pentothal & Nitrous Oxide combo platter when I had my wisdom teeth removed. The dentist had a stereo with headphones in the room and you could bring in you own cassettes to listen to during the procedure.
Had the teeth pulled in the morning to Dark Side of the Moon and still made it to see The Who & The Clash that night at the Kingdome.
Did you have a parasol also?
Just curious,
PS_And I'm quite sure that Spock was still spinning the Dark Side of Moon on the Enterprise.
Now you tell me!
The last time I had peridontal work done I was given a series of pills to take. I remember getting up from the chair in the lobby and sitting back down immediately. An assistant had to help me to the dentist chair. After that they could have stripped me naked, painted my toe nails fluorescent orange, drawn a bullseye around my butt and took pictures of me in a miniskirt for all I know.
Now you tell me!
I was the exact same way. I definitely provided the free entertainment that day for the entire dental office and my husband who still teases me to this day about it the brat!! 😛
I can also see why and where people could get very addicted to those pills. Explains why those "pills" have also been used to slip in drinks as a date rape drug. 😐
Thank goodness they are very tightly controlled via pharmacy (or whoever does the controlling).
Better living through chemistry.
Rick
Yes, Mr Cow
Such pics are floating around on the internet. I just did not know it was you!
