to think its ridiculous there's no out of hours dentists past 9pm

[WombatStewForTea]

I've had excruciating tooth ache for 24 hours now. Managed to get an emergency appointment with my own dentist today who treated me. The local anaesthetic has worn off and the pain is back just as severe as before. I can't get through to even make an emergency appointment anywhere til 8am. I'm not sure I can last that long. NHS 111 confirmed nowhere open and just to take painkillers. :(

OP, do you know what kind of tests the dentist did to ascertain it was that tooth that was giving you pain?

ie
xray
tapping teeth in that area
asking you to bite on something
cold test

I had this a few years ago. Had toothache, offending tooth removed, pain still there. Literally the next day I moved 200 miles away and was in agony for almost a month because it turns out that the pain had actually been coming from a rotten wisdom tooth, but presenting itself further along the jaw. Emergency dentists couldn't deal with wisdom teeth so I just had to live with it until I could get a proper appointment.

It was awful. I was taking morphine, tramadol and codeine every day and still in agony.

I remember thinking the same as you, it seems inhumane to leave someone in that amount of pain for a whole night.

Wombat, hopefully you're sleeping now but if not it might be worth giving your out of hours gp service a ring. I did that after I had a very horrible dental operation and was told to take paracetamol and ibuprofen by the dentist that did it. I spent half the night literally climbing the walls with pain before ringing the out of hours, and when I did the gp said that dentists never prescribe proper pain relief, that it was ridiculous that I'd been left in so much pain and that if I got a taxi to A&E (where the out of hours was) he would leave me a box of dhc that I could just pick up and go home with. And so I did. No waiting, no fuss, I literally got out of the taxi, went to the desk, took my lovely lovely painkillers home and that was it. Maybe worth a try? And sympathies - dental pain is all-consuming - I couldn't think about anything else while I was experiencing it. The fucking house could have burnt down and all I would have had in my mind was how much my mouth was hurting.

When I've had an extraction, the dental surgeon sends me home with a black tea bag to wet and put on the site if I have problem with the socket.

Different- she did x rays and lots of tapping.
Cruik- no danger of sleep happening here I'm afraid! That's interesting about gp what worries me is that nothing has worked yet even the strong stuff so maybe nothing will?

Hmmm...and the pain is NO different?

I must say that I had a cracked tooth extracted a while ago & it was a bugger to get out, I was in immediate pain when the local wore off, as a clot failed to form due to the difficulty of the extraction. BUT it was a different pain & it was slightly milder.

A dry socket isn't impossible, but I must say I am concerned that your pain is the same. (dental nurse, not dentist, btw)

Oh & why did she insist on not seeing you until after allergy testing?

I am close to the end of getting an implant on a failed and old root canal from a chipped tooth in my teens. After they extracted the tooth and the local wore off (within I was in severe pain. I went straight from the oral surgeon to my regular dentist so she could check it and give me a temporary false tooth. I was in so much pain I was vomiting and she couldn't check anything until she had prescribed some strong painkillers and they had had time to take effect.

I spent most of the weekend feeling very rough and drugged up to the gills. It really knocked me for six.

Dentists can't prescribe strong pain killers on the NHS. The strongest thing on our formulary is codeine IIRC.

I had vicodin, not sure what that is in the UK. It did the trick and helped me sleep the first day. I alternated with ibuprofen so when it wore off it wasn't as bad.

I think it's dihydrocodeine MrsM (but it then goes on to say it's not suitable for tooth pain).

I'm feeling so sorry for you. Got my wisdom tooth removed a week before Xmas and I wasn't well again till beginning of March!
4 sets of antibiotics, wound getting packed every second day, no sleep, sore ear/sinuses
Dry socket was agony and my mouth wouldn't clot, I got told to stop rinsing my mouth.
I did eventually get an antibiotic from dentist that helped lots (sorry can't remember what it was called)
Think it must have been expensive though as I only got it after 3 lots of amoxicillin type stuff.
I went to a private dentist
Please don't be fobbed off I know how sore you must be I was actually crying with the pain

After having the worst night where the cold water wouldn't even help I must have dozed off for a few hours even sleeping through my 4am painkiller. I woke up with no pain at all and its the strangest feeling. I hope to god that this is it but it seems too good to be true and surely the pain would improve and not just go?!
I just don't get it!

I had an extraction a couple of months ago. Got dry socket. Pain lasted for 13 days. I took a lot of cocodamol which I alternated with Nurofen and occasionally, tramadol. I took more painkillers than I did after any of my C-Sections.

I have every sympathy OP

Wombat, ooh I hopeit has gone!

Cruikshank, what is DHC please?

touches wood I think it's gone! 12 hours pain free! Just aches and some pain. Going to keep on with the antibiotics and painkillers :)
Thank you all for your moral support! It sounds ridiculous but it really helped in those dark early hours of the morning!

Boody hell this thread has given me chills.

Sounds fucking awful OP, glad you are better now. I watched my ex crawling round the living room floor crying in agony over a tooth so I've only seen how people can suffer.