Healing anxiety
Hi Reddit- I feel like getting my wisdom teeth removed has unlocked a crazy amount of anxiety in me. My search history is just a thousand questions of is this normal and is it bad that I did this. I had all four removed but one was impacted and has had a much different recovery. Huge hole with more pain. I’m on day 6 and there has been a manageable amount of soreness with a gross (but seemingly not uncommon?) taste coming from the socket.
My problem now is that I’ve woken up at 2am on day 6 with much worsened pain on that side. I’ve been trying really hard to not over react and be realistic that the healing process will be difficult but I am very worried that I’m having a complication that I’m ignoring. I am also 22 so I went to stay with my parents to get my wisdom teeth taken out but had to come back home to where I live to go to work on Monday. So I’m 5 hours away from the doctor who did my surgery. I’m just so nervous and need to be told whether this is normal or if I need to find a doctor here to look at how it is healing.