They were wrong.
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The spacers were painful, I could hardly eat and they gave me a constant headache so that I couldn't sleep. OTC pain meds did NOT help.
I had 4 teeth extracted which was awful itself. It hurt like HELL and the people made me feel like it was no big deal and I was being sensitive. By the end I was shaking, crying, covered in sweat and in pain and bleeding. When the freezing wore off, I was in agony and the pain hasn't stopped.
Two days later I go to get my braces put on. The spacers come out and she goes to put on the metal loops around the back... OWWWW! She gave up when all 4 back teeth couldn't take them. She puts on all the bracets and tries to put in the wire..... nope! Hurt too much. She's able to put wire over my front teeth and over to one side only.
So now I have bracets, 4 holes in my jaw and a lot of pain. I run out of pain medication in 2 days (codine) and I don't know what I'm going to do after that. I can't function if I don't take them because the pain returns and shoots up into my brain.
I can't eat anything that is not totally soft. I've lost over 5 pounds in 2 weeks and my body is in starvation mode.
My questions:
My two front teeth are being pulled one way and are now very tight together. I can't floss. Will they be pulled apart again when the wire goes to the other side?
On one side I have 2 teeth that don't meet properly, and it hurts to close my mouth so it has to stay open all the time. Will this be fixed? Is there something I can use so they don't meet so hard?
I've accepted this pain is here to stay for a while. Is there a way to explain to these people working on my teeth that I'm NOT a wuss, but this hurts and doesn't stop? Right now they don't seem to care and look at me like I'm acting like a baby.
Thank you for reading my long post, I'm sure that in a few months I will have a much better outlook on things, but right now I am pretty upset and down. Any advice I will be greatful for
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