Have had mild toothache for about a week. Made an appointment with my dentist for Monday the 29th.
Yesterday the pain was agonising, my cheek was puffy, I'd been awake since 3am and couldn't eat or drink anything so I called my dentist and he brought me in. He brought up my most recent xray and said a filling is sitting right on top the nerve of my tooth and will need a root canal treatment. He didn't have enough time to do it there and then so he drilled the filling away and put some antiseptic/antibiotic stuff in it and put a temporary filling on and gave me an appointment to come back on the 7th of May.
Last night I was in tears with the pain, absolutely cannot wait until the 7th, still unable to eat or drink so I called 111. They made an appointment with my local dentist hospital for 9am this morning.
So I went to the appointment and all they've done is give me antibiotics for an infection I don't even have but they're "anticipating infection" because the filling is temporary. I have no idea why they didn't carry out any treatment as I was sent there for the level pain and antibiotics for nothing aren't going to help the bloody pain!
So I've come home, tried to eat and couldn't and forced some water down which sent me in to floods of tears again. The pain is worse than I even experienced during childbirth, its like someone is sitting on my tooth pushing a knife down in to it and twisting it constantly. I've been taking paracetamol and ibuprofen for most of the week but that did nothing, yesterday I got some solpadeine but that's done nothing either. The pain is pretty much constant.
Does anyone have any suggestions? I'm considering calling 111 again but the only emergency dentist as far as I know is the dental hospital and I'm not sure there's much point going there again! I don't think I can last until Monday to try my own dentist again 