Sedatives Question

[Ced 0]

I went into my dentist to get my wisdom teeth pulled last Thursday. I remember them giving me a shot of something and less than thirty seconds later I'm at home reclined in my bed with a mouth full of bloody gauze. I honestly had no idea that the sedatives where in the injection and I was still waiting for them to gas me before I went lights out.

 

So my questions are what the hell did they inject into me and how the heck does that stuff work so quick?

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

They put you totally under for your wisdom teeth? Were they viciously impacted or something? Anyway, ask your dentist if you want to know what it was. I'm pretty sure he's legally obligated to tell you. The second part of the question involves some organic chemistry that I write off as the magic of drugs.

[The Electrifyer 0]

They put me under when I got my wisdom teeth pulled. I liked it though, I never slept better in my life.

[Ced 0]

My bottom wisdom teeth were completely sideways and threatening the roots of my molars so they had to go.

 

The sedatives were scary quick and I have no idea exactly when I went out after the initial injection.

[nl5xsk1 0]

I had an accident when I was 14 and fucked up my mouth something serious. Screwed up the nerves to the point that novocaine and whatnot doesn't work anywhere but the exact place that they shoot it in. And I refuse to be put completely under unless I absolutely have to be. So, for the last 15 years of my life, every bit of oral surgery that I've had has been done with nothing but some white knuckling on the armrest of the chairs.

 

nl5: envious of those that got kick ass drugs to put them under.

[Lord of The Curry 0]

When I got my wisdom teeth pulled back in the summer I was put under. All they used was an i.v needle near the knuckles on top of my right hand. Needle went in, I started to feel really warm and then 5 or 6 seconds later I was out.

[BX 0]

I had an accident when I was 14 and fucked up my mouth something serious. Screwed up the nerves to the point that novocaine and whatnot doesn't work anywhere but the exact place that they shoot it in. And I refuse to be put completely under unless I absolutely have to be. So, for the last 15 years of my life, every bit of oral surgery that I've had has been done with nothing but some white knuckling on the armrest of the chairs.

 

nl5: envious of those that got kick ass drugs to put them under.

Could I ask why you're so hesitant to go under?

 

Anyway, they had to put me under when I got some teeth pulled. They gave me some gas, and the next thing I know, the room is spinning, and all of the dentists assistants are laughing at me.

[nl5xsk1 0]

Could I ask why you're so hesitant to go under?

 

Anyway, they had to put me under when I got some teeth pulled. They gave me some gas, and the next thing I know, the room is spinning, and all of the dentists assistants are laughing at me.

I've partied enough nitrous (socially) to know that I don't like what it does to me. If given the choice of using it or not, I'd prefer to tough it out and not have to deal with feeling so fucked up afterwards.

[The Kid 0]

Yeah you get put under for wisdom teeth. I've gotta get mine taken out in a few months but I'm also scared of being put under. There was a thing they gave to me a few years ago when I got 2 teeth taken out, where you're alert throughout the surgery but then don't remember a thing after...it was sweet.

[Ced 0]

The surgery is no problem. You're in the chair, lights out and thank you for coming.

 

The hours post-op are a fucking bitch. The sedatives and vicadin induced haze made me hate life for a good 8 hours before things got better.

[The Metal Maniac 0]

Being put under rules.

 

They gave me the IV on the inside of my elbow, and the doctor was like "You may feel as if there's cold water running down your arm". I did. I thought that was odd. Then he said "You may feel like you want to cough."

 

I coughed once, and woke up. Now, waking up was the bad part. I dunno exactly what they gave me, but I guess there was some morphine involved, because I seem to recall hearing someone say that I had a bad reaction to it.

 

My reaction I remember very clearly - I totally spazzed; I kinda bolted awake all at once, and curled up tight, not realizing that there was still an IV in my arm, and bending my elbow at the time was not the best of ideas. I think that was the only coherent thing I said for some time - "take it out take it out take it out!" Not that having an IV in bothered me, but when you wake up in a hospital spazzing out and your elbow hurts because there's a needle jammed into it while you're bending the thing, "take it out take it out take it out!" seems to be the only words that come to mind.

 

Then they tried to give me oxygen, and I didn't make it easy on them. I kept taking the mask off, as odd as this sounds, because my nose was itchy beyond belief. Well, I didn't take it off, I just slid it down past my nose so I could scratch it while breathing at the same time. They didn't agree with that, as they kept putting it back on my nose every time I took it off, until someone held it there long enough for me to calm down.

 

Then I had to go sit in a wheelchair in the waiting room and wait for the drugs to wear off more. I remember sitting there, the whole time, staring at my hands, because I couldn't focus on anything that was further away then that. Looking at the walls made my head hurt, they were so horribly out of focus.

 

In conclusion, going under = good. If I should ever need surgery again, I'd choose going under rather then local anasthetic, if only because the time pasSes quicker, and when you wake up, it's a fun game of 'WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH ME???"

[Gert T 0]

Mine was a IV as well. The surgeon wanted me to count down from 50 backwards. I got down to 48. I woke up in the waiting room and proceeded to walk around like a newborn gazelle for the next ten minutes. Don't remember any bad effects right afterwards though.

[Ced 0]

I went out like a light once they put the IV into me and woke up briefly during surgery while they were taking the tools out of my mouth. I remember the sensation of being put into a wheelchair then waking up in my bedroom.

 

I tried talking to my mom and she handed me a pen and paper since she couldn't understand my sedated speech with gauze in my mouth. I remember writing "pudding" then pointing to my cell phone. I somehow took a picture of myself at this point using my phone's camera, but I don't even recall doing this. I remember puking into a bucket since I had been unconsciously sucking on my gauze and swallowing my own blood, which apparently isn't a good combination with vicadin. Everything between 11:30 am (when they gave me the sedatives) and 4 am the next day are hard to remember for me. I just remember alternating between staring at my TV and sleeping for the most part.