I had four removed. I went under, no way I was about to be awake for that. Usually day 3-4 are the worst. The day of and after arent to bad, you are still doped up from the anesthetic and pretty out of it. Then the soreness really sets in, but you should be ok taking some vicodin or w/e they gave you.
But OP, I experienced something kinda similar to yours. I had dissolvable stitches to btw, and they just come out on their own. Anyways, after a little short of a week everything was good, swelling/bruising was down and was getting back to eating regular, except for one of my incisions. Well, we had a follow up and when we got there turns out that my mom goofed the days and we came in 2 days early. Since we were already there the Doc said he'd see me anyways. Well, turns out one of the incisions had gotten infected, which was causing all the soreness. If I hadn't accidentally came in early he said it could have gotten a lot worse and they might have needed to go in there and clean it out. But I just got some antibiotics and a vicodin refill (probably bad idea looking back) and was good as new a week later.
Just make sure you cleaning and rinsing out your mouth good. And follow Dr.'s orders, no sucking through straws, smoking, etc. Its really not a bad procedure, its over before you know it, but it is definitely not something that you want to make worse by getting infected, dry sockets, or w/e else cuz then its a B!