Bah...

[missroserose]

I've always been a pain wuss. Almost everyone who knows me can tell you that. I avoid pain whenever I can.

Unfortunately, now that I have pain that I have to deal with, period, I don't really know how.

I've mostly been downing painkillers, which helps temporarily, but there was one extraction site where the tooth was really nastily impacted, and even a Percoset (which I'm trying not to overdo on) only gets it to quit for about an hour. I must have gotten up about five times last night to grab more ibuprofen.

I'm about thisfar away from taking three ibuprofen with a beer or something. I know it's not good for my liver, but if it lets me sleep through the night, fine. It can't be that much worse than extra-strength ibuprofen all day, can it?

...no, I'm not really going to do that. Maybe the doctor will have some ideas when I go in for my followup tomorrow morning...

Comments

[arison.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid that I've trained myself to ignore it over the years so I'm not of much help on this score. Ibuprofen works well, but do be careful (I managed to get a nasty addiction to it a few years ago so it makes me a little edgy).
Hopefully the doctors do have something that'll work.

In any case, I wish you the best of luck, and you have my sympathies.

[karenetaylor.livejournal.com]

Ibu and alcohol together do a great job of killing pain. And there's nothing really wrong with using the two on a temporary basis.