Too much medication?

[ladypurrfect]

I had 4 impacted wisdom teeth removed on Monday with IV sedation. I was given 800mg ibuprofen every 6 hours, vicodin 5-325 every 4 hours. On day 3 I was in excruciating pain with huge hard lumps on the sides of my face that hurt so I went back to the dentist and he prescribed me x2 150mg of Clindamycin every 6 hours. I weigh around 150 lbs, 22 year old female, 5'3. I feel like I might have too much medicine in my system as I am feeling very weak and nauseous, almost like my blood pressure is low and I kind of have the jitters. I am taking everything as prescribed and even take half a vicodin instead of a full one. I also have horrible aches all over my body, especially my back and neck... this all happened after the extraction. I'm scared that I might have overdosed on all of this medicine.

[Jwasylak]

If I were in your position I wouldn't worry about taking that combination of meds for the short amount of time required. Like someone said above, the vicodin could be causing the nausea, but it seems more likely that you have a minor infection, with the body aches and stiffness. Vicodin isn't as addicting as people make it out to be, especially when used properly and for a short time, so I'd also say that if you're in pain you should consider taking the vicodin as prescribed, although ultimately its up to how much discomfort you are in from the procedure.

[kaylee777]

yeah thats good advice ladypuffect you will be in alot of pain from them extractions im a dental nurse and have seen the effects of one wisdom tooth extracted not alone 4, ibuprofen (cut the dose by half if can 400mg ) and anti biotic are the best things to be taken like mhh9 says with yogurts if you do feel so bad with all the meds see your doc/dentist immediately x

[mkh9]

The vicodin will make you nauseated. If you can taper off of it. It is very addictive. You may have an infection so hopefully the antibiotic will help soon. I would stay in the Ibupropin and taper off once the pain is down. I find if you don't taper off of a large dose of Ibupropin you get a major headache. Clindamycin can give you problems as it wipes out the gut bacteria. I would take a probiotic with it or eat two yogurts with live bacteria a day.