I had all 4 extracted last summer. Valium was great, it ran me over and I woke up like 6 hours later in my house with enough gauze in my mouth to wrap a mummy in.
The pills were nice, they definately helped with the pain, and 2 days later I was jumping around. Little did I know that exerting myself by jumping around would pop my stitches. With me goofing off, and then messing around on my friends' Kona, I popped all the stitches within 4 days of my operation.
I had no pain from my sockets, no bad breath either, so I just freeballed it and decided not to tell anyone about the stitches. I squirted the sockets with that super-soaker syringe every time I ate something and I made it out just fine, all 4 holes are completely closed up.
Moral of the story- Take your pills and break your stitches, its alright!