Having surgical procedures while raw

[damaru]

So I hear that if your body is really clean, putting pain-killers and other numbing drugs into your body will really hurt you. I am supposed to get 3 wisdom teeth pulled soon. I think I'll need pain-killers for that. What is a girl to do in this situation? I've been 100% for about 2 months now.

[T-Bird]

I wouldn't worry at all. You know what - it's not going to be pleasant - no matter how you slice it - but being healthy will help you heal faster.

I just had a root canal. Almost as soon as the tooth got infected - I craved celery like crazy and I really think it helped with the pain - amazingly - that crunchy thing blends up beautifully in the vitamix - not sure about other blenders.

Just be prepared at home with everything you need for 3-4 days of blended food, just in case you can't eat anything. I was off the painkillers in about 3-4 days, although they gave me like a 2 week supply. If they are going to give you antibiotics, be sure to have probiotic capsules and/or cultured food available. I'm loving my cashew sour creme and got advice here to take them in between antibiotics - I feel great.

Are you having local or general anes?

[Living Food]

So I hear that if your body is really clean, putting pain-killers and other numbing drugs into your body will really hurt you.

Hurts you just the same if your bodies clean or not, the difference is that very clean bodies will reject the toxic drugs violently. Their still equally toxic no matter how healthy your are, you just notice the toxic effects on the body much more if your really healthy.

This might be helpful for you, its an excerpt from a book:


Let me give you a good example. I had a friend who needed her
wisdom teeth taken out. This is a good example of when surgery can
be a wonderful thing for our health. The surgeon expertly removed her
wisdom teeth. When she came out of the surgery the doctor said that she
would be in excruciating pain in about three hours after the anesthesia
wore off and immediately wanted to prescribe Vicodin. I told the doctor,
"She doesn't take drugs." He said, "Well, she is going to be in excruciating pain." I said, "Well, is there anything she can take for the pain other
than drugs?" He said, "Well, she can take Tylenol or Advil." I pointed out
that these were drugs as well. The doctor thought for a minute and realized that they in fact were. He said, "Well, I don't know of anything natural to get rid of the pain." I said, "How about the homeopathic arnica and
maybe icing it? And perhaps, using a healing light and some magnets?"
He laughed and said, "Well, they won't hurt, but they won't do anything."
I said, "Great." He also informed me that the bleeding would continue
for at least an entire day and that the pain would be excruciating for at
least three to four days. I said, "Fine." I asked him for a less powerful
prescription in case the pain became too overwhelming. After all, she did have major surgery and there was a good chance that she would be experiencing some severe pain. He then wrote a prescription for Tylenol with
Codeine. This he said would help numb the pain and make her sleep. I
took the prescription in case of an emergency.
She went home and put arnica cream on both cheeks, iced both
sides, and used magnets and a healing laser. To everyone's amazement
the bleeding stopped in just an hour. This was absolutely unheard of.
Obviously, the natural treatments we were using were making her heal
much faster. In addition, she experienced no pain whatsoever. She
slept throughout the entire night without any discomfort. She never
had to take any drugs and she never experienced any pain. The healing was amazingly fast. This is the power of natural cures. Keep in
mind that my friend adheres to most of the items in Chapter 6 of my
book. Her body was clean from toxins and full of super nutrition, so
her body was capable of healing much faster than a person who had
a suppressed immune system, was lacking nutrients and loaded with
toxins. This is the power of natural cures.

[Raw Angel Mom]

Thank you for sharing "Living Food", this was very interesting to read

All the best!

[DebB]

I had 2 root canal teeth pulled last year and honestly - I experienced no pain whatsoever. I took a prescription pain killer before the novacaine wore off and it really upset my stomach. I did ice it. I like the idea of having the Rx in case you need it and then choosing another method of pain relief as mentioned above. Good to know!

[damaru]

Thank you for all the wonderful information! So I shouldn't worry about the anasthesia killing me? (I'm being serious)

[DebB]

Thank you for all the wonderful information! So I shouldn't worry about the anasthesia killing me? (I'm being serious)

Are you really being anesthesized? As in knocked out/ put under for this?

[Bihaku]

I hate to say this, but I don't think the "toxic drugs" theory makes no sense. All drugs can be considered toxic whether if they are OTC, prescription or natural herbs from the health food store.

Drugs can be a wonderful, or bad thing, based on many factors and it is not a one-size-fits-all rule on drugs.

And maybe your friend is "whiny baby" when it comes to pain. Pain is also psychological and people can invent pain not really there, if they assume and expect to be hurt, the brain and make fantasy pain real. I had many people give me horror stories of screaming and crying in pain while having their wisdom teeth taking out and they told me they felt like they were dying. They got me all worked up and scared and never want my wisdom's taken out.

There was a point where my wisdoms were infecting my gums where I gingervitis and my gums were bleeding. Not only did I had two wisdoms taken out, but the dentist had to cut open my lower and upper gums to the bone in order to deep clean underneath my gums. That was heavy duty dental surgery going on. I wasn't in pain not one bit during the whole process and I wasn't knocked out (put under to sleep). All the dentist did was numb my gums with novacaine, then shot my gums with some more numbing "stuff" with a needle and he cut me open with me fully conscious. I was so surprised how easy it was that I thought that all the people who claimed that getting their teeth pulled was painful had to have been the most cowardly, whiny, easily scared, hypochondriacs that just like drama and giving any doctor good grief by acting like adult babies. Some people are just infantiles like that.

After my anasthesia wore off, I had no major pain and I took a Tylenol as suggested. The only "bad" thing that happened to me is that my dentist prescribed an anti-biotic for me to take days before and during my procedure to fight possible infection for performing the dental surgery and the antibiotic caused me to have an itchy, sore and dry vagina. My vagina was so dry, I was NOT excreting any feminine fluids at all and the discomfort was so bad it felt like I was plagued by an itchy venereal disease. My lady bits felt like sandpaper literally. Dry to the bone. I complained to my male dentist - *laughs* - how my vagina felt was trying to kill me after one week of taking the anti-biotics, he laughed while trying to apologized and he gave me a prescription for another antibiotic that didn't mess with the homeostasis of my vaginal region.

[Bihaku]

Go get your teeth pulled and use the medicine the doctor gives you. Nothing will happen to you at all. And I doubt being raw is going to make your body go all weird just because you took medicine. Matter of fact, I think your body on Raw, due to eating very healthy, will help your body heal BETTER with medicine. You will heal much quicker with raw + medicine/surgery.