Regarding your wisdom teeth: when I had mine out after graduating from high school, the orthodontist just plain put me under. Gas first, then an IV, and I'm told there were quite a few shots of Novocaine after I was out. I didn't feel anything during the procedure, and then was in very little pain until about 12 hours later (but by then my prescription for pain medication was also filled).

But yeah, most people don't have room for them. I don't remember how bad mine were, but they definitely needed to come out!

I was in a similar situation, sans the IV. I highly recommend sleeping most of the day with ice on your face. Eat a lot of ice cream and pudding. Don't drink milkshakes through a straw. These things, in conjunction with the drugs they give you, will make you a happy person with very little pain.

It's been 17 years since I got my wisdom teeth taken out, but I had five (yes, I got a bonus one!) plus two other teeth that had to come out at the same time (since, during the years I didn't get my wisdom teeth out because I couldn't afford it, two others got beyond saving), so I had seven out in one day. That was on general anaesthesia though.

I would also recommend sorbet, which has a lovely icy quality.

Don't forget froyo!

My school blocked everything fun on the internet, including every single forum I know and even email.

At the worst time possible, like its not hard enough pretending to actually care about the subjects that do not interest me in the slightest, and the subjects that -do- interest me are far too uncommon, even though I picked this line of education SPECIFICALLY to limit my exposure to stuff so mind-numbingly uninteresting that I would absorb a minimum amount of knowledge from it.

My wisdom teeth are just peachy and coming in fine.

Before you hate me, though, I have a problem with rapidly decaying tooth enamel. I have to use special strength toothpaste and make sure I brush my teeth at least twice a day just to slow it down. What does this mean for poor intensely needle-phobic Allyson? It means my teeth aren't very white and pretty at all, and I have 20+ cavities and about 15 fillings, six of which are along the fronts of my front teeth. All but those six I've gotten done without any sort of numbing. It really only hurts if the cold water gets in while they're cleaning it out!

But those six took two years to finally get worked on, all at once. They tried giving me Valium to relax me so they could numb me with a needle. Didn't work. I punched my dentist in the jaw (sorry) during my berserker phobic freakout*. So they tried giving me enough Valium to knock out a 250-pound man for a few hours, which seemed like it was going to work since I was about as coherent as a vegetable leading up to the appointment, but once that needle came into sight the adrenaline snapped me right back into that aforementioned berserker phobic freakout mode. Same with the gas, which we tried later. And then my dentist got really angry and told me I was frustrating and hopeless, and that made me Very Upset and I spent about 30 minutes crying outside of his office. Eventually we found a dentist that had the equipment to just completely put me under for it. The whole ordeal was very tiring and Not Fun.

So uhhh.

Just sharing my dentist woes since all the cool kids were.


*behaviors during a berserker phobic freakout include (but are not limited to): screaming, sobbing, muscle spasms, shaking, cowering, and punching.

I'm about 30 minutes into my much-needed nap when I get a text that just says "Pizza night." I respond with "Huh?" and then the phone rings. I answer. "Hey, you're getting pizza with us. But before that we're going to do things. What kinds of things do you like to do."

And I just sit there trying to think of things I like to do and just sort of go "I...don't know...?" and get the response "see that's why we're having pizza night."

Noooo. Nooooooo. I don't want to do things. I don't want pizza night! I was going to stay home, and make some spaghetti. Maybe pet my cats a little. Now I'm being forced into pizza night.

After coming up with plans to go to Dave and Buster's for tonight, I get called into work when I was half-asleep and would agree to almost anything. So I ask em if we can go tomorrow. They say "oh well so and so has to work tomorrow" I then saw a message on facebook pop up saying that they're going anyways without me. Needless to say, im quite pissed off at my 'friends'

I know the feeling, but you'll feel good after some interaction with 'real' people. At least I always do, but maybe I'm more of nerd than you.

I have crappy enamel too. Don't have as much trouble as you, but ever since I've been addicted to trident (to keep me from emptying the vending machines at work) I haven't gotten a single cavity, compared to 1 or 2 a trip before. Dunno if its related or I just brush better now that I'm older, but maybe worth trying?

Being stuck in 34 degree weather in the middle of downtown Baltimore outside my friend's apartment building alone while I wait for other friend to "just get his car from around the corner". For 15 minutes. Not cool. At least I'm home now...but so tired...

But in reality, what if those people were like "Heh, look at that girl - pretending that she didn't to get her dressing for the salad. What an idiot."

I started playing Minecraft.

I just spent the past two hours digging in a fortress, frustrated that in the whole time I've only been able to find two blocks that had iron. Two! I'm not...even sure what I'm gathering this stuff for. I just want it. I want all the stuff.

Key note: you need coal to get coal.
coal.

Also, I require a reason to continue functioning as a human being. Otherwise, I am perfectly content to just not care about anything.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at_f98qOGY0

That's all I got.

I've been forced to go back to school.
I wanted my year off.

Thanks dear. <3

I have a crapload of coal. Coal flipping everywhere. I dug for about 30 minutes straight through pure stone and eventually broke through to a huuuge underground cavern system with lava and a gigantic waterfall pond though, and there's little bits of iron down here.

I know this feeling, no matter how much you spend on special toothpaste and the fluoride rinses it just keeps happening. I have the same problem and I will say it is comparable if not worse than yours. though my wisdom teeth were bad too heh. I had ONE at one time that was growing in, I was in the middle of driving between where I live and where i used to love (total distance from point a to point b is about 750 miles) and half that wisdom tooth snapped off out of no where.

Anyways, I have had one root canal and I have 8 full crowns now and my dentist will continue to crown as my insurance will pay for it. They almost will not even fill my teeth anymore because their drilling, even where there are not cavities, the tooth just crumples and breaks. I have found that laughing gas actually helps a LOT and I am not sure if there is a general price but in PA (at my desist) it costs costs $50 (there is also a medicine they can prescribe before the appointment that reacts with the gas that basically puts you out without actually putting you out). I hate needles too, there is nothing worse than getting shots in your mouth, especially in the front and in the roof.

heh and to compare freak outs and bad dentists, I had one try to seriously sneak a shot on me, I had not clue I even needed it! I clamped my mouth shut and he told me to leave and never come back. The.. the first time I had any serious work done (4 shots total compared to like the 8+ I get anymore) sent me into a seizure. Scary stuff that.