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[pixiecrinkle]

I normally do not like narcotics AT ALL, but I am all happy and fuzzy now because I have taken a Vicodin. I thought I'd give it a shot after the nice endodonist carefully explained how to take the pain pills and such for the next couple of days. And he's right, it works. Go figure.

All in all, a root canal is not entirely pleasant, but there are certainly things I'd hate worse. Like breaking bones. This was definitely better than that.

So now I have extra-huge-strength ibuprofen and generic vicodin to help me through the healing period, then in two weeks I get to go back to my dentist to get the permanent filling and/or crown put on. I wish I could go to this guy. He was seriously the best dentist-type I've ever been to -- very gentle and calming and appropriately explanatory -- and he had all the cool high tech tools. As soon as they took any x-rays (and they took a lot of them) they would pop right up in front of my face on the convenient flat panel monitor mounted on the end of my chair. Cool.

I'm really glad I didn't have the vicodin before the procedure because then I wouldn't have been able to keep from giggling when he held up a dental dam and said, "This is a dental dam -- have you ever seen one before?" I did quite well though (especially given that said dental dam was attached to a weird plastic frame that would be hanging out of my mouth for the next hour or so).

The dental dam was pretty and green. The dental assistant's name was only about two consonents off of "Yakoff Smirnov" and it was pronounced exactly the same way. All of this seemed much less surreal pre-vicodin.

I am happy and fuzzy. I shall now go a-slumbering. Hurrah.

Comments

[hnybny.livejournal.com]

Ahh, the warm feeling in the chest you get from a Vicodin. Problem is with me they keep me up. I can't take one after 2PM or I don't sleep until the weeeeee hours. Hopefully for you (and 99% of humanity) they'll put you right out. Enjoy your slumbering.

[pixiecrinkle.livejournal.com]

Normally they keep me up too -- they make me absolutely wired. But for some reason, last night it didn't go either way, it just killed the pain and made me feel a bit floaty. Woo!

[hnybny.livejournal.com]

Wired! Yup, that's it. I bet more than just a chosen few have that reaction. Seems a "rare" reaction to Vicodin is anxiety. I don't see anything about getting "wired" though so maybe that's very rare, but I doubt it.

[pixiecrinkle.livejournal.com]

I did some reading (and of course, in my haze can't remember where) recently and came across something that indicated many people with migraines are super sensitive to medications, and sometimes get "opposite" side effects, like getting hyper from narcotics and such. That's me, to a T.

My body is so weird.

[hnybny.livejournal.com]

No migranes here but the same opposite effects.