Dry Socket and Birth Control

[queenofdelosers.livejournal.com]

Hey everyone,

I got all four of my wisdom teeth removed last Wednesday, the 9th of August. The extraction went fine, I was in hella lot of pain onces the anesthesia wore off that afternoon. Yesterday and today (Monday and Tuesday) I noticed that the left side of my mouth was hurting a great deal more than my right. And tonight at work, I was in such excruciating pain that I had to leave early, run home, and take a Vicodin that my oral surgeon had prescribed. After talking it over with my mother, I think I have dry socket. And I only have three more Vicodin pills left. I am going to call my oral surgeon as soon as they open in the morning.

What does dry socket have to do with vaginas? Well, I googled dry socket and found this website. According to them, oral contraceptives increase the risk of dry socket and excessive pain. However, I am not on oral birth control. I'm on the NuvaRing.

Could it be the birth control hormones in general increase the risk of dry socket?

I feel like my oral surgeon should I have said something about this. I mean, if I'd known that being on birth control could have caused me unnecessary pain when having my wisdom teeth removed, I probably would have gone off of it for a month or so (since I don't use it for contraceptive purposes right now).

Also, has anyone in the community had experience with dry socket? Do they prescribe an antibiotic to help deal with it? If so, I will get a yeast infection. And that will just make everything ten times worse.

Any suggestions to help with the pain, insight into the BC and dry socket mystery, or general words of whatever are welcome.

Thank you.

Comments

[park-place.livejournal.com]

My dry sockets were awful as well. But my oral surgeon didn't give me gauze with nice smelling stuff. You were lucky! I got gauze with some sort of numbing agent that tasted GROSS, and it caused me to salivate excessively for an hour or so. It was a terrible experience, but I lived! =)