A little background. I was recently diagnosed with Hodgkins Lymphoma, and will be going through chemotherapy. However, before I can start treatments, I have to have a lot of teeth removed (20 of them, in fact). The entire top, plus 4 on the bottom (the wisdom tooth + the molar in front of them). I'm bipolar, and went 20+ year with depression, and my dental hygiene suffered. So far, I've had the bottoms done, and the top 8 on the right taken out. And every procedure is more painful than the last. And all this has been done over the course of 3 weeks.
However, my dentist hasn't proscribed anything more than Tylenol 3's, which were fine for the first two extraction the bottom, but after the 8 on the top were just pulled on Tuesday, the pain was so bad I ended up going to the ER for stronger medication, where they gave me 5mg percocet, which has helped greatly.
I have one last series of extractions to be done tomorrow (Friday) and I know it's going to leave me in even more pain than the last. Is there anything I can say to convince my dental surgeon to give me something stronger than just Tylenol 3's? Because I really don't want to have to go to the ER a second time in a week for basically the same problem. That would probably throw up some red flags on their part. I'm not a 'junkie'. I actually hate taking opioids, but I hate the pain in my mouth even more.
However, my dentist hasn't proscribed anything more than Tylenol 3's, which were fine for the first two extraction the bottom, but after the 8 on the top were just pulled on Tuesday, the pain was so bad I ended up going to the ER for stronger medication, where they gave me 5mg percocet, which has helped greatly.
I have one last series of extractions to be done tomorrow (Friday) and I know it's going to leave me in even more pain than the last. Is there anything I can say to convince my dental surgeon to give me something stronger than just Tylenol 3's? Because I really don't want to have to go to the ER a second time in a week for basically the same problem. That would probably throw up some red flags on their part. I'm not a 'junkie'. I actually hate taking opioids, but I hate the pain in my mouth even more.