Wisdom tooth agony

[Clocktickingg]

Anyone up? Currently experiencing the most excruciating wisdom tooth pain that has caused my face to swell and is making sleep impossible. I am currently waiting for a callback from 111 and trying to refrain from cutting my own head off.

Woke up this morning with some discomfort, booked an appointment online for Tuesday at the dentist, dosed up and went swimming with the nephews. Big mistake. By the end of swimming I was crawling the walls of the car, dosed up again when home, phoned the emergency dentist who couldn't see me til tomorrow at the earliest. I've spent much of the evening trying to control the pain. I applied a hot water bottle which I've now learned you shouldn't do so I've switched to an ice pack but I've now reached the max paracetamol for a 24 hour period, I've run out of ibruprofen and I can't cope. Just called 111 in utter desperation and waiting for callback. My face is now huuuge.

Any tips on how to cope enough to not saw my face off?

I've had three children without pain relief. I'd do all three again rather than the pain of an infected wisdom tooth, only time I've paced the floor all night clutching a pillow to my face waiting for out of hours GP. (Long time ago when you could actually get a GP to see you!) You have my sympathy to💐
You really need strong anti inflammatories as this helps take the swelling down which is making the pain worse as opposed to codeine which is just a pain killer. My son just had impacted wisdom teeth (one of which had abscess under) out at the hospital and he used naproxen, which is a stronger version of ibruphren, codeine and paracetomol, you can take all at the same time. (He's a nurse).

You can buy Naproxen from online pharmacies, I had to when I had an abcess during lockdown.

Just popping back with a belated update. I've just got out of hospital after having the tooth out, the abscess drained and a whole host of other bits patched up under general anaesthetic. The infection was so advanced that according to the surgeon the oral antibiotics were 'like using a pipette to try and put out a house fire.'

I have had a lot of drugs, a lot of pain but my jaw looks semi normal again. Would not be keen to repeat this week in a hurry. Thanks all for the advice and sympathy.

Hopefully it will heal up well now @Clocktickingg
Take it easy

So glad to hear you’ve had some treatment now @Clocktickingg . Hope your recovery goes well. Reading what was behind it all, I can’t imagine the level of pain you must have been in - mine was bad enough and that was without any infection! When my tooth was out, they could see there was decay inside that was probably aggravating the nerve and causing the pain.