u/juno-to-mars

i am 9 days post op from my impacted wisdom teeth removal (i had 2 on left, 1 on right)

everything was fine and healing well up until the night of day 3, when i started to feel super achey on the right side. thought it would go away, but it got so much worse. from day 6 to now, the pain has felt like a giant rubber band squeezing the right side of my head, pulsating and aching in and out all day, waking me up at 5 or 6 am, and still hurts despite alternating between 800 mg ibuprofen and acetaminophen every 3 hours. the socket itself on the right side hurts a little and feels very inflamed. strange thing is, i have very minor external swelling and no bruising.

two days ago I called my surgeons office in hopes to be seen that day to check for an infection or dry socket as I was in a lot of pain, but neither surgeons were in the office that day and were instead preforming surgeries at the local hospital. the receptionist told me to come in the following day at 2pm. i said okay, and asked if there was anything i could do for the pain in the meantime. she told me to rinse with salt water (something i’ve been doing since post op day 1, as per my post op instructions)

i continue the day in severe pain (7 or 8 out of 10) and end up calling the office, despite it being after hours.
my post op instructions explicitly state to call the office during after hours if you need to by leaving an urgent message for your surgeon and “one of them will ALWAYS be available and return your call”.
well, i never did receive a call back and ended up having to go in at 2pm the next day.

i don’t meet with my surgeon but instead met with an assistant, the one who helped me before my anesthesia and then wheeled me out to my car after my surgery.
i tell her the amount of pain i’m in and she asks my medication regime, then goes to irrigate the sockets.

she says there’s no sign of infection or dry socket as it’s past the time dry socket would occur (despite my pain showing up on day 3), and says it’s just that my right sides sutures have fallen out too early and left the socket wound much more open and exposed than it should be. she gave me a syringe and a round of clindamycin and told me the pain would go in a few days. i have a follow up appointment in 2 weeks.

i can’t sleep, i can’t think, i can’t function, i am beyond physically and emotionally drained.

i don’t know what to do and i feel so dismissed and neglected rn

22 F

last night when i was flossing my teeth in the bathroom, i suddenly passed out/fainted but also woke up kind of instantly when i hit the counter.
when i woke up i started grabbing my things (phone, retainer) and tried to open the door, only to faint again and fall into it, dropping everything in my hands. when i woke up the second time (a second later, still standing), my ears were muffled and ringing and i forgot where i was and what i was doing

i’m not sure if i triggered something by flossing or if if something else was going on and if i should get help lol