the chiro did say it would get worse before it got better

[tielan]

Now that the gum swelling has gone down, the stitches have appeared and are starting to annoy me. Usually, this would not be a concern seeing as the surgeon would take them out in a week.

Unfortunately, the surgeon has gone on holidays from today and won't be back until June. Sooo...either I find another surgeon, or live with a mouth full of stitches for a month. And that's assuming that my surgeon isn't so idiosyncratic with his stitches that someone else can't unpick them and remove them.

It may get better.

However, today I started getting the head twinges again - back right scalp. I don't see the chiro for another week - they advised a break during the week of the surgery. I do have a massage booked for tomorrow, the difficulty might be persuading her not to go above the neck. (Sometimes the more alternative massage practitioners seem to take 'please don't touch X' as a directive that they should specifically work on X instead of avoiding it. Has anyone else noticed this?)

The chiro I saw while mine was on a break said "don't be surprised if everything gets worse for a while, but then clears up once you get the tooth out". So I'm holding out that this is temporary and not the next stage of worse.

*sighs and digs in*

Comments

[heliopausa]

Hoping for you. (When in June?)

[monanotlisa]

Good luck --

Can you just pull your stitches yourself? You can definitely tell when stuff is fine again. I have done so for my last couple of surgeries; couldn't be bothered and didn't have the time to trundle back to the doc.

(I will advise that I have no recollection of doing so for my 4x wisdom teeth surgery; gums may be a little different from skin on the outside of your body.)

[tielan]

In the teens, I believe. If things need urgent attention then it's either emergency or another of a couple of oral surgeons a little further out.

Mostly it's just going to be the irritation of the stitches, I think.

[tielan]

I think the tricky part is working out which stitches to pull where! Although I have a bit of an idea, maybe. We'll see how bad it gets next week...

I vaguely recall my wisdom teeth being dissolving stitches (apparently those are a thing).

[heliopausa]

:(

[tielan]

As someone else pointed out, I might be able to remove the stitches myself...it kind of depends how they did them...

[beatrice_otter]

Oh, eek. Hoped for a better outcome--here's hoping that as you heal things will get better.