Hi. I saw a dentist on 26th March due to a very sore gum between my top two back teeth that was causing pain into my cheek and ear. He xrayed, said no abscess, no filling needed, no periodontal disease, just an inflamed sore gum due to a small gap that was hard to clean (I don't floss as much as I should but since then have been meticulously flossing, using interdental brushes and used corsodyl mouthwash for a good two weeks after it cleared up). The X-ray also showed an impacted wisdom tooth which he said may or may not come through although I am 40. I was also given a 3 day course of 500mg amoxicillin which I completed. He also gave me a further course of 4 days penicillin to keep in reserve in case it came back. A few days later all was well.
10 days ago this started up again except the soreness was more on the gum at the very back of my last top tooth. For the first two days it was horrible sore and painful and couldn't open my mouth much to access. Upped the cleaning regime even more, started back on salt water rinses and it eased off a bit with ibuprofen and paracetamol. Since then the soreness has remained, yesterday I felt a little off and noticed minor pain in my ear again, cheek and lymph nodes in my neck all on that side. Since I had been given the reserve antibiotics I started to take these again yesterday and am 24 hours in. Not really noticing much difference yet.
The pain isn't awful, I have had an abscess and experienced the indescribably awful pain of that - this is a sore gum with a heavy ache in my upper jaw and mild pain into my ear. But having had an X-ray and been told my actual teeth are fine, I don't know what else I can do at the moment.
Any dentists around? Is this likely to be my wisdom tooth playing up? I had trouble with the lower impacted ones and had them removed but it was 20 years ago so although I think this feels like that, it's hard to remember now.
Massively grateful for any advice.