For The Love of Painkillers

I went back to the dentist last week b/c I was still in pain and thinking I should be feeling better after a week. Yup, I had a dry socket. It must not have been that bad b/c my doc cleaned it and stuffed if full of that horrible garlic/clove tasting stuff and said I didn't need to come back unless things weren't improving. I'm one day shy of two weeks out and I feel much, much better. I can't say I'm pain free, but I'm close. I still have gaping holes in the back of my mouth and I can't eat anything with sharp edges (like chips), but I feel a million times better now.

My dentist gave me a script for loritab right after the surgery. Boy, that stuff really knocked me on my ass. I stopped taking it after a few days b/c I really had a hard time functioning. The motrin, on the other hand, helped a great deal w/ the pain, but didn't get me so high. You would think I would have enjoyed the loritab more, but not so much. I hear street value of these things are pretty high...maybe I could make some easy money w/ the left overs...

The dentist prescribed me some more 800 mg motrin and started me on antibiotics after the dry socket incident so I started doing a little research on all the drugs I was taking. I wondered if taking all the meds would affect my (dusty) eggs. I couldn't really get a good answer to my questions, but I imagine pumping my body full of these meds isn't helping matters.

From what my body is telling me, I should be ovulating w/in the next 48 hours. After trying to get pregnant for several months, I started using the first response ovulation detectors earlier this year. It helped me figure out my cycle b/c prior to I was assuming I was ovulating when I really wasn't. Even w/ the detectors though, it took me five months to get pregnant. I really hope it doesn't take that long again. While five months really isn't that long in the grand scheme of things...it feels like forever for us. My husband originally said he thought it would take three months after the miscarriage to get pregnant again. I hope he was guessing one month too long.