For most of my friends it was no big deal but for me it was horrible. I basically took pain medication every day until I passed out because no amount of medication made the pain stop. So I spent a week sleeping in a medicated daze. Then by the beginning of the second week I was starting to feel better. I went back to school and took little or no pain medication. But by the end of the second week I got an infection on both sides of my mouth (even tho I was using the antibiotic mouthwash all the time). Since my gums had already healed over they had to cut thru what had just healed and clean everything out. Needless to say that was as bad as getting them taken out the first time and I spend yet another week in a medicated daze/coma. All in all I was pretty messed up for about a month and the pain was excruciating. But most of my friends had very little or no pain when on medication after the first day and were back to school and fine within a week.