Can I just give a shout out to amoxicillin

[Pixiesgirl]

Sorry I'm a bit giddy from lessened pain. I have had a tooth infection since Friday and today antibiotics kicked in. I am so thankful to live in this age, people must have suffered so much in the past.

The dentist wanted to do stuff but I wussed out. Sedation ftw.

I have had so many antibiotics in my life I would surely be dead by now if they didn't exist. How did people cope?

They just died, often

They didn't, they died.

It's good to be reminded of the good things about modern life.

Opium addiction was also an option for tooth pain, to be fair

I had the most horrendous gum infection on December and managed to see an emergency dentist. She prescribed antibiotics and, honestly I have never been as giddy with excitement as I was going to the chemists to pick them up.

Glad you're feeling a bit better!

Who can bloody blame them, I would have given it a go at one point

I remember being prescribed antibiotics when I was about 7 and the GP explaining that in the olden days I'd just have had to get better on my own or die. He even had a picture of a Victorian children's hospital on the wall which he used to illustrate his point! My mum made a formal complaint, obviously.

But he did have a point in that antibiotics are bloody amazing! Glad you're feeling better OP.

Queen Victoria in her late 30s early 40s I think, had what sounds like an abscess which affected her ear and neck. She was ill and then in pain for months, despite getting what would have been the best treatment then. It's in her diaries.

I remember thinking when I read it that she'd have been sorted in a week or so with antibiotics.
My dad had a ruptured appendix just after antibiotics were easily prescribed. The daughter of friends of my grandparents died of exactly the same thing in the 1920s.
We are very lucky, as you say OP.

Antibiotics have saved me quickly from a bad UTI a few times, ordered them from Superdrug at 2am before, so grateful when you take the first one knowing they will start working so quickly

Oh yes they are amazing, I have only had them once in the last decade but they worked a treat.

Antibiotic resistance really scares me, as result I get annoyed when people take them unnecessarily (like for viruses!).

I read something about a new potential group of antibiotics, fingers crossed.

Yes you can .. it has saved my life af least twice. !

I had an infection last year that would have almost certainly killed me had it not been for antibiotics, it took a few types to get one that worked. However I got the infection due to a procedure that would not have happened, nor be needed, in pre antibiotics age. They are amazing though.

Reminds me of that bit in Superstore where the manager says to the pharmacist that the best medicine is laughter and the pharmacist says ‘No it’s penicillin’.

I remember being on the phone once to the OOH Dental folks in awful pain, I’d knowingly overdone the painkillers because I was in agony and I begged them to help me because I was gonna jump off the roof if I had to endure it much more.

I absolutely agree! I'm recovering from pneumonia. Feeling utterly wiped out at the moment, but on the way to being fine. My great grandfather died in his 40s from pneumonia, leaving a young family, shortly before antibiotics were around. I'm very lucky.

I can think of no-one in my family who would have been ok without antibiotics, but they need to be used so sparingly in a lifetime. I avoid them, of course, and would counsel everyone to do the same, for the good of our guts (and that's everything!) and the environment.

My dd has just had pneumonia. She spent a week in hospital, on oxygen and IV drip, as they struggled to find the right antibiotic. I never doubted they would - before antibiotics, I guess I'd have been planning her funeral.

About 15 years ago I got bitten by a stray cat (being a stupid townie) and developed a ferocious infection, arm swollen up to my shoulder. It took three courses of antibiotics to sort it, and six weeks without use of my hand.

We are so, so lucky.

Sedation all the way for me too. I despise dental pain more than anything else.

I'm glad you are not suffering now