Today, I had to go to an oral surgeon and have one of my teeth extracted. Number 3 to be exact. They told me I could get gas to help me relax or even sedated so I wouldn’t feel any of it, since I had two teeth pulled in the past and it was quite traumatic for me. Then the insurance girl comes in and says my insurance won’t pay for the gas or sedation so if I want it, I have to pay $85 for the gas and well over $125 for sedation. Being that I have no money I had no choice. I cried, because I am so tired of always having to suffer because I don’t have money. It is not fair at all. I was then brought to another room where the assistant put numbing cream on my right side and then I waited there for a while…
Then the doctor came in and gave me the injections in my gums and roof of my mouth. Holy hell the one in the roof of my mouth was extremely painful. Then I was left there for a long time, in a room by myself. Where I cried some more…
Finally, they all came back in and the doctor got started on my tooth. He clamped some type of metal thing around that tooth and screwed it down tight. Then he began to tug, pull, push and yank on my tooth. I felt it break and I felt the pieces in my mouth. They sucked them up with the device that has suction…
Now he really grabbed on and was pushing, pulling and yanking and then he grabbed my jaw and it was being twisted to where it hurt horribly. I hollered, the doctor just kept saying, “Your doing good”. Then a sharp pain went into my right temple and I hollered some more. I tried hard to hold my jaw back from the pressure he was placing on it. Finally, the tooth was out.
They rinse it out and then had me bite down on a rolled up piece of gauze which they told me to keep biting down on for an hour. I went home, extremely upset. I bit down on the gauze for 50 minutes then I could no longer take the pain in my jaw and released it. The bleeding seemed to be under control. I took my usual medications and I went to bed for two hours…
When I woke I had a sharp jabbing headache in my right temple which is still there tonight. My right cheek is swelling so I have been applying ice. My gums in the area of the extraction are all swelled and hurt pretty bad. When I had two other extractions I never had any of these problems after. I am going to go to bed, even though it is very early. I hurt too much in my usual places, plus now the extraction sight. I feel very tired and extremely bitchy!
I just will never understand why people who don’t have money have to be allowed to suffer and treated so horribly compared to someone with money. I am so tired of being left in pain and being tortured my entire life. I just want to respect and care that someone with money can get. This system is completely screwed up. I used to run my own business and made well over $1,000 a week. I have lived both sides of life, rich and poor. Money doesn’t by happiness, but it makes life more comfortable and easier………….
UPDATE:
Be sure to gently rinse your mouth with sea salt water and I add a drop of clove oil, starting the next day after a tooth extraction. This will help the healing process and keep the area clean. It also helps with the pain.
I have had two teeth extracted prior to this one and though they both were uncomfortable while being pulled, I never had pain afterward. I don’t know what this guy did but it is extremely sensitive and my cheek bone feels like it is broken.
Note to myself: do not go back to that oral surgeon ever again. (Dr. D’Arco on Walton Way Extention.)
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