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i'm 40 years old and just had ALL my teeth extracted in one go. The pain is excruciating. Any tips for pain relief? (lemmy.world)

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EDIT; I can't reply to everyone individually but thanks for all the suggestions! Opiates are out of the question, doctors here will only prescribe those in terms of absolutely extreme suffering or end of life care. I also don't particularly feel interested in developing a hard drug habit. Diclofenac and such are available but also only on separate prescriptions, I'd have to visit another doctor for that. I'm well stocked on paracetamol & ibuprofen, and apart from that, lots of ice cream, pudding & soup :)

Also, since a fair few people seem to doubt the veracity of my story, here's the 22 extracted teeth (the other 10 were already gone in previous extractions).

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

idk man, that's been my experience in Finland between the public and private healthcare. The public one is completely free, yes, but it's also sometimes rather shit in some things. It's usually pretty good for most things, and free cancer care and whatnot. But psychiatry, dentistry, eh... not as great.

Buut... the difference between a public and a private dentist is night and day. I have gotten good care in the public system as well, but I've never got bad care from private, whereas I've had horrible experiences in the public system. A few good ones, but mostly bad.

I have free healthcare, but I still dropped a grand on dentistry. For one because the public healthcare wouldn't fix cosmetic issues, and I had a bit of dental calculus in a tooth so it looked like I always had a small piece of oregano stuck on a teeth or something. I was comfortable with money at the time so I payed for laughing gas and to all cavities and whatnot. Good service, pretty expensive. But before that I had avoided the dentist for a few years because of an extremely painful experience with the last public dentist I went to.