SarahofBorg

Yesterday I went to an oral surgeon to get 3 wisdom teeth removed. I had nitrous and a cocktail of 4 different injected drugs that should have made me completely unaware, relaxed, and forget the entire experience.
The nitrous worked in that I had terrible coordination and was half-awake, but I was NOT relaxed and I'm positive I remember the entire experience very clearly. There is a very dark bruise on my arm where they injected the meds, so I strongly suspect they completely missed the vein. I recall every moment of the entire proceeder, from when they started working, when they pulled out the teeth, when they stopped working and when they got me to get up and somehow walk to a chair to relax when it was over. I recall yelling from the pain when they were working on me, so they gave me an insane amount of novacaine which stopped the pain. When I was finally able to relax in the other chair I cried and was shaking very badly.
They insist that the meds work and they don't believe me when I say I was awake the entire time. I often had my eyes closed but I made sure to move my arms and legs to get their attention, but they didn't notice at all. I knew moving too much would botch things so there was only so much I could do.

What do you think? Is it possible they completely missed the vein and the only thing that worked was the nitrous? And I've had nitrous once before, and before it worked fine on it's own, and I was able to relax and not feel pain without any trouble, but it was a different dentist many years ago for a tooth-pulling. This time that clearly wasn't the case. I kind of think I didn't breathe it in hard enough, they didn't tell me to do that so I didn't and just breathed normally.
Or is it just possible the stuff they gave me just didn't work for me? Any ideas?