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.

@Itsgottobeme
It's to highlight your daft advice. You seem to think that human surgery is equivalent to a car factory line whereas anyone with clinical training knows that there are far too many variables.

This.

How fucking cruel can you be. You sure do know how to highlight not to discuss things amicably.

Sorry what daft advice.

Any tooth pain is horrendous!

I hope they have helped at your appointment today OP

This one. Where you show you have no idea what you're talking about. HTH.

I've got antibiotics and she filed my tooth down which has helped somewhat however still very painful. My whole face hurts after the injection (which was absolutely brutal she just shoved it in) she gave me and the numbing did nothing I was hoping to eat something but no luck 🤣

I'm really hoping this will settle as she says if it doesn't then the tooth will have to come out... 🥺

Which is where your wrong.but OK.

Oh op.lets hope this is the start of it healing. The biotics should kick in in the next day or two. Keep on them. Try get some food in your tum,you need it.to heal and with taking those tablets now.
Can you ha e soft food or blended.
Try to sleep aswell.nothing worse than tooth ache when tired out aswell.
Can you sleep propped up a bit.
Sometimes just having a t-shirt or something soothing can help to hold next to it. We used to advice a cuddly toy,or a item of clothing that smelt of something comforting.
Keep it clean with salt washes if you can.

Go gentle on it.

Hope it settles. Like I said mine took months to settle whilst eating, but it was fine for a number of years before it broke.

You're trying to make this thread about your bizarre understanding of healthcare. I would love to know the KSE you have which tells me I'm wrong after running an OOH clinic for 10 years. Just lay it out or do one, I'm so bored of people with a GCSE in food tech telling me I'm wrong.

@BlüeöysterCunt hopefully this is th oath to peace but... don't hold onto a tooth just bcse you've invested time and money in it. You need to be free of pain and worry. Easier said than done. I'm a dentist and I can't remember when I last had a check up. Life is tough.

@BlüeöysterCunt the path to peace. FML.

I managed some biscuits dipped in hot oat milk - not very nutritious - and my partner is bringing me some soup. Frozen peas for my face. Ugh I really hope this starts improving.

Oh I wouldn't worry my brain is not functioning with the pain and the drugs 😂

You're right though - if this fails then it'll have to come out. As a previous poster mentioned being in dental pain so often is traumatic. Not worth it. You can't even see it when I smile but I was advised to try to save it by my dentist...

hey thats brilliant. its nutritious if its what you could both manage and wanted at that moment. it would do you good. and look how much better that is than before! please dont worry about the content of your food at a time like this. just manage what you can when you can. that will do more good than pushing "nutrition".
and there is not much more comforting than hot dipped biccies hehe.

im not making it about me anything. my posts have been all for the op and you were the one targeted me and my knowledge. and just because i dont wish to share a personal piece of information about me off this board doesnt mean i need questioning or "jog on"
i deff do not have a gsce in food tech but this is offensive in itself to so many people.and neither do i owe you my crudentials. i wouldnt want to help an op with something i new nothing of though. and many practices do things differently or work differently for their service users. i was simpkly adding my own.
it doesnt work all the time. its doesnt mean we dont have to go twenty which ways for each patient,try things we wouldnt usually or work with them for what they can cope with or their life will work with. especially the vulnerable ones but sometimes things work. as an ooh practitioner maybe you dont get the time to do that.

*Itsgottobeme · 18/03/2023 11:07

And start a day of meds by taking both paracetamol and ibrofen together.before spacing. Sulpadene extra I think is the best for root canal. And try co codomol.

For goodness sake! She can't take all of that, Solpadeine and Co-Codamol have paracetamol in them and she'll overdose on the bloody stuff!

this is completely wrong.
the failure rate for RCT is 10-20%. The failure rate for apicoectomy or root end resection which is what's done after failed RCT is much higher, and so some dentists will recommend skipping it if an implant is an option.

An implant is what you get after an extraction; it effectively replaces the root of the tooth. A root canal preserves the tooth so a crown can be fitted (which you'll then need on top of your implant as well). Implants are staggeringly expensive, I had to have one as a 20+ year old root canal failed on a top incisor and it cracked at the root. The entire procedure, including bone grafting, took a year. (I have several other root canals and they're all fine... and even the failed one lasted 20 years, by which time implant technology was also much more advanced.)

When you extract a tooth, the other teeth move around and the matching tooth can grow up or down as there's nothing for it to grind against, causing bite issues. Preserving the tooth is the preferable option in most cases. If you're going to pull anything, it would be the second molar, but you still want to do it in pairs.

Anyway, @BlüeöysterCunt total 100% sympathy from me. I had a lower molar root canal 3 times, reinfection every time and in the end, I just had the blessed thing removed. The final time, I couldn't sleep for a week, even on antibiotics, as every time I moved, the tooth was touched. I couldn't even close my mouth.

You know @MrsMorton is an actual dentist, right? On the other hand you’ve been giving @BlüeöysterCunt dangerous advice about what painkillers to take, can’t spell abscess or root and are going on as if you’re some sort of endodontist but you clearly don’t know what you’re talking about.

You don’t carry out balancing extractions on an adult

That's what I was told by two different dentists, a general dentist and an oral surgeon, when I needed a second molar extracted.

I was offering options
Not to take them together.but go on.youve aimed your laser on me on this thread now.

No dangerous advice.
And you know you can get spelling mistake when typing right.sorry I'm not a perfect typer.fucking hell.go aim it somewhere else yes.
And you don't no my profession so yeh I very much could be.
Noone died on my watch yet so I guess 20 years later,reassuring a number of service users,keeping them steady,sometimes alive ,of different vulnerabilities i thank god might be doing OK.