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[François]

It's mostly infection and aftercare fears.

I had dry socket after mine once. It hurt like hell, but I just went back to the dentist right away, and he put in this wad of stuff with what I assume was clove extract (given that everything I ate tasted like cloves for the following week). I was in and out of there in like ten minutes and I didn't need any other sort of painkiller or medication. If that's one of the things you're worried about, you can probably cross it off the list. (Unless you really hate cloves I guess?)

[Catloaf]

Getting my wisdom teeth out was like teleportation/time travel. Just, DING! In a different room, hours later with blood in my mouth, and my wisdom teeth didn't come along for the ride. I could talk and walk on my own and everything!  Then the next week or so really sucked.

[Malikial]

I don't take pain medication so I just waived the prescription I was given, but they even tried to give ME Vicodin. Sooo.

[Mongrel]

Huh. They just told me to take extra-strength Tylenol. I didn't really need it... so I guess I was just lucky?

[Nickasummers]

When I got my wisdom teeth removed they gave me 14 Vicodin. I still have 13 of them. I took one when I got home because they told me like 5 times id regret it if I didn't. I used Advil some days and nothing other days. All in all it was no big deal. Not sure if I got lucky or if all the horror stories I've heard are just trolling.

EDIT: Just checked my numbers were off by 2

[Brentai]

I think it just depends on how far out those teeth have grown and why exactly they need to be removed.

[Mongrel]

My dad's in the hospital right now because he started throwing up straight blood. After he got there he threw up a literal bucket of blood. Waiting for an update now.

He had a lot of heartburn when I was a kid (due to very large, very late meals and stress), but not in a long time because he's been running for the past 10 years or so and he's actually in much better shape than me now. Other than this buckets o' blood thing.

[Büge]

I hope he's okay. That sounds awful. :S

[Mongrel]

Yeah, he's gonna be alright. He tore the connection between his esophagus and his stomach somehow.

[Classic]

... If it weren't so horrifying I'd say that was kind of cool. In much the same way that I've been conditioned to treat any feats of actual or potential self-destruction as cool.

[R^2]

I'd heard about that sort of thing before. It's not really a "how did this get torn" sort of thing, as I understand it, it's more a "tissues generally degrade until they can't handle day-to-day stresses" sort of thing.

(I've had similar problems in my large intestine.)

[A²]

I find out if there's a 50/50 chance that my cancer risk skyrockets to "Consider where you want to be buried in a few years" in a few days.

[Brentai]

I'm not sure I'm reading that sentence correctly.  Are you saying there's an undefined chance of half a chance of a good chance of cancer?

[Niku]

Actually, that's a fair point.  Lyrai, I feel super feels for you and your situation, but you post cryptic and impossible to parse stuff in here an awful lot.  I'm not even sure WHAT to be worried about most of the time. :(

[A²]

I'm slightly unclear as to the situation myself, but from what I can parse from my parents -

The doctors are suddenly worried about my mother's breast cancer, which (so far) has been in remission. Apparently she may have some kind of gene or genetic marker for it, so they took her in for blood tests today (I got to play chauffeur, wheeee). I have no idea as to the chance of this being there or how they even begin to look for this.

If she does have it, genetics says that I have a 50/50 shot of having this same gene. Which, to my understanding, increases my cancer risk to uncomfortably high levels.

[A²]

Actually, that's a fair point.  Lyrai, I feel super feels for you and your situation, but you post cryptic and impossible to parse stuff in here an awful lot.  I'm not even sure WHAT to be worried about most of the time. :(

For some reason ranting about it (in this case, general bad things, not this situation) without acknowledging it directly helps me feel better. Give me a few days and I can give you a psychobabble readout but that's the gist.

Other times my brain literally just fucks itself inside out midtype.

[Brentai]

Well, part of my point is that you're a few layers of abstraction away from needing to worry here.  There's a 50% chance of an 85% (at worst) chance of a 30% chance of being in any real danger, and that's assuming you're over 50.

I'm sure it's not anything resembling comfortable to think about, but don't start regarding your life as a ticking clock just yet.  I mean, moreso than usual.

[R^2]

Hey, that reminds me, I'm two years overdue for the checkup for my increased cancer risk.

[Niku]

Yeah, Brent's got the right of this in this case.  And I know saying "don't worry about a thing!" is not a saying that has ever made anyone stop worrying about a thing ever, but in cases of things like genetic cancer risk all you can really do is ask a physician what you can do to minimize your risks, since so much of that is out of an individual's hands in the first place.  Super healthy people dying of cancer, etc.  Statistics about accident and death likelihood have never stopped people from being afraid of shark attacks if they're already afraid of shark attacks, but try not to let statistics bum you out either unless it actually becomes a Thing.

[Mongrel]

Well, perspecive is important, but I can certainly see where Lyrai does not need extra toppings on her shit sandwich.