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[alexseanchai]

It is 9:15. I got out of oral surgery I'm not quite sure when but it was definitely before 11. That makes it more than ten hours since I came out of the anesthesia.

My lower jaw is STILL NUMB. I mean, it has advanced to tinglyness, and it moves properly, but I am not getting tactile sensation with the same intensity as from, say, my cheek.

And okay, probably not a bad thing, because pain? But it's irritating.

(I very badly want to not go to work tomorrow. If I have to take an oxycodone after 10:30 tomorrow morning, I am definitely not going, because narcotic.)

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[monksandbones]

Do you know if you had freezing as well as anesthesia? I didn't have oral surgery with my wisdom teeth, just a standard removal plus sedative, but I vaguely remember the numbness lasting a lot longer than I expected.

In any case, I hope you heal quickly (but not until after it's too late to go to work)!

[alexseanchai]

I have absolutely no clue.

Thanks!

[untonuggan]

<3

*sends good thoughts*

I think I remember from my wisdom teeth that I had to take narcotics for two days and after that moved on to extra strength tylenol. still looked like a chipmunk and was on soft foods and the stitches were *really annoying*, but it suddenly got waaaay better. YMMV of course, but hoping it is a similarly short timeline of narco-brain.

(I had them out in two batches too, as one was impacted so emergency surgery squeezed into oral surgeon's schedule, and then a couple month's later I had the other three out. was roughly the same recovery time for me both times.)

[untonuggan]

oh! and for the second one I think(?) he had to dig around a bit because I have a tiny mouth and one of the teeth shattered. So yeah, still had a similar recovery time. <3 best of luck!

(I think this is why I'm partly like "why is the laproscopy taking so looooong!" because most of my adult pain-med post-surgery experience is not "you have stitches in your abdomen and someone scraped biopsies off your insides," so I keep feeling like this is taking too long)

[alexseanchai]

Thanks. The numb finally started wearing off at nearly eleven, so twelve hours later.

Mom has already told me I'm not allowed to go to work today, because narcotics. I am okay with this.