At the beginning of lockdown I managed to get one of the very last appointments at my dentist before everything got shut down as I was having recurring dental pain. They identified that one of my teeth needs to come out but as they don’t do extractions they referred me elsewhere, I was told there’d be a wait so in the meantime I just had to keep popping paracetamol like tic tacs.
I never heard from the other clinic and the pain eventually went away by itself so I just left it.
My dentist appointment in August was cancelled, rescheduled for next week. Last week that was cancelled too.
However in the last few days the pain has come back with a vengeance. Paracetamol isn’t touching it- the longest it has worked for is half an hour. I called my dentist but they’re following the same policy as GP surgeries so I’ve got a telephone consultation what fucking good is that?? on Monday. They gave me the number of the clinic they’d referred me to so I called them (turns out they had my number wrong) and the earliest appointment I can get there is the 15th Oct.
I’m still breastfeeding DS once or twice a day so can’t take anything stronger than paracetamol, which doesn’t seem to be working. The pain keeps coming and going every couple of minutes and when it comes back it really is agony, to the point where I can barely keep still or think straight. I’ve tried swishing salt water which works while I’m doing it and for a minute or two after but that’s it.
What the hell do I do??