It's different for every person. My sister was sore far longer than I was, was more-chipmonk-like, and more sore - but in her case they did have to break her jaw (that sounds harsher than it probably was) because her teeth were so screwed up that one was involved with her jaw bone. Mine hadn't even started to come in, so it was digging and slicing, but I fared better than she.

She and I have different levels of tolerance for medications - she's like Dad - give her anything the least bit strong and she's loopy and out of it for the duration. Me, I get no side effects, and take the strong stuff for my allergies with no drowsiness at all. The stuff I take was given to her once, she took one (Rondec) and has no idea what happened in the next 18 hours. She knows she probably slept much of it, but other than that ... once her head was clear again, she called her doc and said - "Nope, try something else, PLEASE!"

Like I said before, milk it for all the ice cream and goodies you can get!