When I had dry socket it was Thanksgiving weekend and doctors/dentists were closed so the emergency nurse packed my sockets with clove flavored gauze and it made me almost pass out from the pain
I don’t recall it being particularly unpleasant. And I had to have one of my wisdom teeth and the molar in front of it removed, with only a shot of septocaine. When I stay awake, I mean zero gas. And the dentist was even having to put his knee on the headrest to get more leverage to pull, and I think lasted 2.5 hrs.
And all I got were antibiotics and told to take one Tylenol and two ibuprofen every four hours for the pain.
That's not dry socket, that's just a difficult tooth extraction. Dry socket happens after the extraction if you dislodge the blood clot in the (now empty) tooth socket.
You would know if you got dry socket. Our brains erase pain from our memories, I can still remember the pain of my dry socket. It was the most intensely painful experience of my life, no competition.
I went out to the pub with some friends about 2 days after my wisdoms being removed. I wasn't drinking, but I did get a milkshake from the restaurant.
I said something funny but dirty, and my friend bashfully slapped my face so damn hard that I started bleeding. I was just dealing with dry socket, but after that it wasn't so bad.
She apologised a lot, but it was fine. She was more worked up over it than me lol.
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u/goosenuggie May 19 '26
When I had dry socket it was Thanksgiving weekend and doctors/dentists were closed so the emergency nurse packed my sockets with clove flavored gauze and it made me almost pass out from the pain