Agony after root canal treatment

[BlüeöysterCunt]

I've had about four procedures on one of my upper molars. The first root canal I had, I kept getting pain and infections in the tooth and was left in a huge amount of pain after each procedure.

Turns out that there was a canal missed so I had another procedure on Thursday to finish the root canal. Afterwards was mildly painful, not too bad. Yesterday was getting moderate but painkillers were helping somewhat although I pretty much didn't eat all day.

I've woken up in agony. I can't put my teeth together at all without extreme pain in that tooth. Paramol with ibuprofen is not helping. I don't know what to do. I'm sitting here crying. There are no out of hours dentists where I am unless you pay for private which I can't.

I'm so exhausted and have had a shit time with my health recently so was looking forward to this weekend so I could get some rest. This is so shit and I can't believe I've been left like this again. I don't know what to do.

Only if you have an injury I guess being in agony is not enough of an emergency 😞

Thank you for the information - I don't know why they don't warn you that you can be in extreme pain afterwards - I would have just had the tooth pulled out if I'd known. It's not worth this.

I'll try the cold water. I'm sitting up it's still throbbing, nothing is helping.

I've called 111 and waiting for a call back. Not getting my hopes up.

No op you shouldn't be in pain. A root canal treatment should instantly get you out of pain.they are taking that dead or infected nerve.apart from a procedure pain of a dullish pain for say 48hrs you literally should be eased. So something is either wrong or they've not got all the nerve etc etc.you need more help. It needs re doing.opening.cleaning.
I'm so sorry.its the worst pain.

Medical procedures are absolutely never this predictable.

I had a Friday Afternoon job - the dentist didn't even tell me that he was doing a root filling.

I took paracetamol and nurophen plus on the advice of the pharmacist just before the shop closed and it took a good few hours before it had any effect. Taking them all exactly on time worked in the end.

It took a few months before I was comfortable to eat on that side other than very soft stuff.

I had to have it redone eventually when the tooth broke and it turned out that he had missed a root. So I now have a filled root, post and crown and I wish I had never had the root filling (or at least knew what it was, what it was doing and the alternatives).

I've had so many procedures on this tooth and I'm always left in agony - I assumed that because he said the previous root canal was not done properly I would not be in pain after this one.

Why don't they warn you? It's horrific. Paramol with dihydrocodeine in it is not helping with the pain when I bite down. I can't eat ANYTHING even on the other side because that tooth still touches the one below it when I chew every now and then and it's excruciating.

I'm also pretty unhappy that he seems to have done other things in my mouth that he didn't tell me he was going to do I would have liked to know beforehand. He also got a blowtorch out at one point and didn't tell me why or that he was going to do anything like that. I just feel traumatised by this whole thing - I'm sick of being in pain and I'm really trying to get my teeth sorted but it's not inspiring confidence.

It also doesn't feel like toothache in the sense that it's not a nerve type pain it's just any pressure on my tooth is agony.

I don't know if you have already done this but
If you ring your dentists number they should have an out of hours dentists number for you to ring.
This should get at least let you know where the nearest ooh dentist is.

and you can go to A&E for extreme tooth pain.

This is tricky to explain in a post but the nerves inside your teeth are different from the nerves outside your teeth. So it will feel different and that pressure is insane bcse the periodontal ligament has less than 0.5mm to exist. Any swelling there is going to be insanely painful because it's all so tightly bound together. I wish I could help you OP, we are separated by hundreds of miles and the fact the NHS made it impossible for me to maintain my OOH provision.

They can be, should be and often are that's exactly why they do them

Exactly closing our oouh service has had a terrible effect it was ALWAYS jammed with need.

@BlüeöysterCunt sometimes no matter what there is just too kuchen damage and the tooth can't be saved.a root canal has no guarantee. Sadly. This to me.is extraction time.

What's your specialty?

You've actually been so helpful thank you - at least I know what could be causing the pain. I wish they would keep you more informed when you have these procedures.

I am booked in to the dental hospital tomorrow morning - I've always been told that they don't open at weekends but maybe they do for emergencies. Thank god 🥺 I'm so glad the lovely nurse took me seriously I've always been fobbed off in the past.

I hope not - it settled the last time but was getting infected due to not being done thoroughly. Like to save it after spending so much money on it! But if this pain is going to continue they can rip the bugger out 😭

Fwiw I think the blowtorch heats a metal implement to seal the sealant if that makes sense? I'm pretty sure that's what my dentist told me!

Makes sense but would be nice to be informed as it's a little scary when you're basically upside down with your mouth clamped open and you can see a blowtorch then smoke 🫣

I'm so glad your being seen op.wonderful.news.it of course should be in your notes but maybe write down all that been done on it, and how its been for YOU after each.this way they can really make informed decisions.not long now.
Soup for tea?

OP I've read most of the earlier messages. I'm in the middle of treatment for a root canal, in Ireland. Cried the whole way through and made an absolute show of myself. I was given ponstan and an antibiotic after the first part was completed, the drilling and stuffing and temp filling. 2 days later still in agony and everytime I bit down, if my root canal tooth and the one above it 'met' I was nearly lifted off the floor with the pain. The bite was off. I rang them and went back and the dentist filed the temp filling down. That has helped loads. I'm now taking solpadeine and ponstan, antibiotic. Have to go back in 2 weeks to get the whole thing completed, more drilling. The best part? €1500. Hence the crying 😢
I think you need to get your tooth filed down. It sounds like the bite is off. When they ask you to bite down after filling the tooth, it's really difficult as you're so numb. Sometimes there is too much filling left. Worth a try maybe? Feel your pain!

Glad to see you are booked into the dental hospital honestly just get it out it’s not worth the pain but I am fifties and stopped caring what I look like to a certain degree. I’m not ruling out dental implants but at the moment the money is looking like it’s better spent on solar panels! I can see why people have all their teeth out and dentures. The pain in horrific. Dose yourself up to the hilt and get through the night x

Thanks I will ask them tomorrow if that could be causing the pain. The filling is really flat not tooth-shaped which seems weird to me as my other fillings are tooth-shaped.

Oh my god that's so expensive 😲 and I was complaining about £115.

It's really not the aesthetics it's just all the pain I've been through and the money I've spent it would be such a slap in the face to lose it now. It had settled after the previous one. But probably would have caused more problems anyway as there was a canal that had been missed and it was getting infected.

Can't add anything to what has been posted but just to say, I have been in agony various times with this sort of thing and I am rooting (not a joke I promise!) for you. I have had absecces the size of a big golf ball on the side of my face, drains for pus (sorry!), been awake all night with just counting the hours and rocking back and forth with pain until I can take more painkillers etc etc.

Tooth pain is about the worst you can get. I would rather have babies without any help whatsoever.

Good luck

this will be of no help to OP but the Ogden Nash said

Some pains are physical, and some pains are mental, but the one that's both is dental

if youve had this much trouble already sometimes doing another route canal is just more trouble for the future. your trapping more shit in there waiting for it to flare up again. plus they wont seal it properly if its still infected but then if you dont seal and finish you are then actually creating more weakness in the tooth and access for bacteria too! its a really fine line.
dont think of it as a waste. think of it as you literally tried everything and went through so much. so you can say it was in vain to save it. you tried. it might not be the best thing with this one and thats ok. it happens alot.
if youve got tricky routes to begin with that theyve found hard to navigate id say it doesn bode well for future infections either.

whats this supposed to mean.what would you like my answer to be?