I Got All 4 of My Wisdom Teeth Out
Day 2: Things are alright pain-wise. If you didn't read my day one experience, I'll say again that my teeth were pretty deep down, so the surgery to get them out was about as intense as it gets. (Naturally, I slept through the whole thing xD)
So anyway, the point of today's post is to make a few observations on pain, swelling and side-effects of my meds. My pain is fine. The most pain been in so far is when I woke up around 6, but even then it felt like a dull throb. Enough to be a pain in butt and keep me up, but it really wasn't very bad. Throughout the day, however, my swelling has been really huge. I've had ice on me pretty much all day, but my cheeks are still HUGE. It's kinda awkward, and I'm glad I'm not in school.
As for side-effects of my meds, I feel pretty loopy and have a tough time remembering things from yesterday. I'm pretty out of it. Otherwise, I don't feel very hungry and I went pretty much all morning without eating, until my dad got home and got pissed at me for not eating lol.
So yeah, once again, day 2, no pain, no problems. If you're getting your wisdom teeth out soon, don't worry. There are lots of horror stories out there with people saying "oh, it was terrible! I was in so much pain etc etc", but the honest truth is, so long as your keep track of your medications, it's really not bad at all. In fact, if you get pretty serious medications like me, it keeps you a little high too so I've been in a good mood all day. It's really not very bad at all.
However, being high has taught me some really interesting lessons. I'm glad I've had this opportunity to actually be high, and learn a bit about what it's like as I never plan to be high ever again, unless I am required to for any future surgeries/medical reasons.
Yes, being high makes you pretty happy, but it's not that great. You'd have to be in a pretty bad headspace to want to take drugs solely for the purpose of getting this happiness. Yeah, it feels good, but I've had much happier days drug-free.
Then again, the drug I'm on I assume is made with pain-killing in mind, so I'm sure it's supposed to keep you as sane as possible. Still, it is a pretty serious drug so the other mainstream illicit ones can't be all that different. It has made me very loopy, and I can obviously see that it impacts the performance of my physical and mental state. I cannot react as fast as normal, even though I feel like I can react faster. It also makes me VERY narrow-minded. I have difficulty thinking about multiple things at once. I can only really focus on one thing at once. While I do whatever I'm focusing on with almost normal proficiency, if someone asks me a question, it takes me several seconds to answer.
As a result of what I've learned about my experiences being high, I can easily say that it's simply not worth it. If I had the opportunity to take drugs for non-medical reasons, I wouldn't. It simply compromises what I can do too much for it to be worth it.
So anyway, the point of today's post is to make a few observations on pain, swelling and side-effects of my meds. My pain is fine. The most pain been in so far is when I woke up around 6, but even then it felt like a dull throb. Enough to be a pain in butt and keep me up, but it really wasn't very bad. Throughout the day, however, my swelling has been really huge. I've had ice on me pretty much all day, but my cheeks are still HUGE. It's kinda awkward, and I'm glad I'm not in school.
As for side-effects of my meds, I feel pretty loopy and have a tough time remembering things from yesterday. I'm pretty out of it. Otherwise, I don't feel very hungry and I went pretty much all morning without eating, until my dad got home and got pissed at me for not eating lol.
So yeah, once again, day 2, no pain, no problems. If you're getting your wisdom teeth out soon, don't worry. There are lots of horror stories out there with people saying "oh, it was terrible! I was in so much pain etc etc", but the honest truth is, so long as your keep track of your medications, it's really not bad at all. In fact, if you get pretty serious medications like me, it keeps you a little high too so I've been in a good mood all day. It's really not very bad at all.
However, being high has taught me some really interesting lessons. I'm glad I've had this opportunity to actually be high, and learn a bit about what it's like as I never plan to be high ever again, unless I am required to for any future surgeries/medical reasons.
Yes, being high makes you pretty happy, but it's not that great. You'd have to be in a pretty bad headspace to want to take drugs solely for the purpose of getting this happiness. Yeah, it feels good, but I've had much happier days drug-free.
Then again, the drug I'm on I assume is made with pain-killing in mind, so I'm sure it's supposed to keep you as sane as possible. Still, it is a pretty serious drug so the other mainstream illicit ones can't be all that different. It has made me very loopy, and I can obviously see that it impacts the performance of my physical and mental state. I cannot react as fast as normal, even though I feel like I can react faster. It also makes me VERY narrow-minded. I have difficulty thinking about multiple things at once. I can only really focus on one thing at once. While I do whatever I'm focusing on with almost normal proficiency, if someone asks me a question, it takes me several seconds to answer.
As a result of what I've learned about my experiences being high, I can easily say that it's simply not worth it. If I had the opportunity to take drugs for non-medical reasons, I wouldn't. It simply compromises what I can do too much for it to be worth it.
22-25, M
