Headaches 10 days after tooth extraction

[WishIWasAWalton]

I had a back lower jaw tooth removed 10 days ago, and since then i seem to be suffering from headaches that start midday, everyday. The gum itself seems to be healing ok, but there is obviously new pressure on the teeth that are left to do the work. IYKWIM. Could this be causing the ache? Will the other teeth/gums get used to being relied on?

I've also had a cold since around the same time i got the tooth out? Wonder if its sinus's? It hurts on the tooth side, and i seem to be a little light sensitive at the same time.

Any toothy people out there that can shed any light on my pain. I hate taking painkillers every day.

TIA

Hiya,

no advice but sympathies.

I had a lower back tooth removed Monday morning, Im still oon painkillers every few hours

No headaches but its bloody awful and I just want to stop the painkillers but If i leave them even 30 minutes late it starts to throb!

Am on antibiotics now as it was getting a bit yucky in there!

i had to take painkillers for about three weeks on and off after i had my tooth out. it takes a while to heal, headaches are normal (or were in my experience!).

Sorry to hear that Disenchanted, i was pretty miserable all last week because of it, but, to turn it into a positive, i started a weightwatchers diet because i could eat very little anyway! I lost 3 pounds!

Those saltwater mouthwash made me boke!

Hope you feel better soon.

Southeastastra,
That's what i wanted to hear. I was beginning to turn into a bit of a hypochondriac. The dentist didn't even mention taking painkillers afterwards, just scared the shit out of me about 'dry socket'.

PMSL @ drysocket, I read that on here and freaked too!

Warm salty water first thing in the morning is definatly not good! yuck!

Hopefully you will feel better soon.

Im starting to wish I had left the bloody thing in there!

omg, I want one of my teeth taken out - can they not just whip them out (is also a lower back one)? It's just a problem tooth, nothing more I don't think.

Did you have it done at the dentist?

They didnt just 'whip mine out' thats for sure... I wont go into details ... lol

No, do go into details (unless it upsets you!). I think I need a tooth wake up call.

Am seeing dentist tomorrow morning and am fed up with this tooth (if it is this tooth causing me to writhe in pain)

i know the feeling wishiwasawalton i googled myself mad.

Lol, OK...

Went in and had anestetic (sp) firstly its not just a hand held needle its like in a gun thing (cue me shitting myself!!) so she injuects my gums about 5 times (ouch) and I wait in the reception, dribbling and slurping!

I go back in and she stabs my gums to check im numb.

Cant feel anything UNTIL she shatters my tooth with what can only be discribed as a screw driver

I tell her I can feel it...

another 3 gum injections and me sat out side dribbling blood this time with smashed tooth.

I went back inside and she proceeds to smash my teeth to pieces and remove each bit, I was in there 40 mins!

She said that tooth was supposed to have 2 roots but i had 4!

The last one she couldnt get out and she was swearing in russian or something itt really was stuck.

she got a scalpel and my mouth filled with bloood and the last piece cam out,

then she had to give me stitches with a fish hook, lol.

After that its just agony, throbbing, consatnt bleeding and infection.

Well is for me.

See not so bad

lololol

ok, it's not funny but OMf'ingG

are your teeth really close together? I'm worried if they came at me with a tooth smashing screw driver, I'd go out with only 4 teeth left in my mouth.

I was picturing a pair of pliers and the dentist kneeing me in the chest to hold me down while they yanked it out but your version is FAR worse lol

I think she smashed mine in becasue it was already partly broken.

One side had broken away months ago so I dont think she could 'grip it' with the pliers, so it had to be smashed.

Im sure if your tooths 'whole' it would just get pulled out.

It must be a real art because she was really smashing it and putting great force but never slipped or hit another tooth ect.

OK so you'd like some tooth pulling details....i'll give you mine. My tooth had pretty much crumbled away, and it was a choice of out...or the cost of a small car to do pretty painful root canal and a crown. Because it was a back tooth i eventually (after months of temporary fillings falling out) decided to have it out.

Mine was pretty much whipped out, but she prepared me for the worst, she said it could take anywhere between 1 min and 10 mins to take out, i would hear crunching (OMG!) but not to worry!!! I was completely numbed, so i didn't really feel anything, but when she asked her assistant for the forceps and then told her to hold my head, i nearly ran for the door.

Foxinsox, mine was a problem tooth too, it came out in 30 secs, it's not the tooth that's the problem, it the great big gaping hole afterwards!!

mine came out really fast. dentist didn't even give it to me .

yes, Wish, that's the problem with mine.

This ONE fucking tooth has cost me (over decades) almost £3000 (lived abroad where I had to pay for dentists and now there are no NHS ones here grrrr) and I have had enough of it. If it wasn't for this tooth, I'd never have had to do anything other than smile at the dentist twice a year but this tooth causes me endless problems.

Now, I am in complete agony and I can't locate where it is coming from but the whole side of jaw, under my ear and a bit in my mouth where this tooth is, is killing me so I have an emergency appointment tomorrow at 8 (I still harbour some hope of it being a weird ear infection thing but it probably is this bastard tooth).

This time it is definitely going!

OMG Disenchanted, that sounds like a total disaster, you poor thing. keep necking those painkillers if i was you. My experience was a holiday compared to yours. Sorry but i feel so much better now! Foxinsox, how are you feeling?

Funny we both had female dentists.

yes, I should have said, I'm sorry you are both suffering. I am trying to ignore that bit lol .

I have a man dentist. Perhaps he will have forceps/pliers.

Foxinsox, sorry x posted. Get it out. I'm glad i did, is just these bloody headaches, but i reckon they'll disappear soon. I already can eat again on that side and hot and cold drinks no longer cause any problem.

It kind of made me feel old though, my 18mo dd had her first molars come through the same time as the first of mine to go.

thanks, I am determined now. I want it gone. I hope they will do it tomorrow.

Hope you both feel better soon.

Best of luck Fox, let us know how you get on.

I've just come home and must run off to work but it was hideous.

They took X-rays and said OH MY GOD I DON'T BELIEVE IT and I said 'what is it WHAT IS IT' and they said 'don't panic, we'll just take the X-rays again, we're sure it's an anomaly' so I breathed a sigh of relief.

And they did the X rays again and they said OH MY GOD IT's TRUE and I screeched WHAT IS IT AARRGHHHH and they called other dentists in and they called a surgeon and I shouted LOOK, I AM HAVING A SHIT WEEK TELL ME WHAT IS HAPPENING NOW BEFORE I BURST INTO TEARS AARGGHH

and they gathered round the chair and they had sympathetic looks on their faces and they said 'you have totally destroyed one of your teeth - there's a huge crack going through it. That's not unusual in itself, what is unusual is that the crack is incredibly far down, deep down into the bone just above your jaw, just next to all the important facial nerves in a place that's hard to get to AND you've cracked the next tooth. You will need deep, intensive surgery. We will have to drill into your jaw. We will have to drill into your bone and cut some away. The pain won't go away till we can do this. You need a surgeon to do it so we can't do it now AND the surgery will be pretty horrific so you have to take a week off work because you will be in agony'

HOWL.

I can't have a week off work now so that's out the question. They are trying to get a surgeon for tomorrow because I'm in so much pain now.

I want to cry actually but I feel like also laughing hysterically because life is such a huge fuck up at the moment that this happening almost feels entirely predictable.

Sob

Right must go to work.

oh fox sorry about that, you poor thing

Fox, that may well be the crappest thing to be told before 9 in the morning. But just think that in a week, the terrible pain you have been putting up with, not really knowing where it was coming from, will have been dealt with.

Not only will you have worked out what it was, but you will have dealt with it completely. The only pain you'll have will be a tender face (and maybe a headache) which you'll be given nice fat prescription painkillers for.

They'll be sure knock you out and you won't really feel it. The recovery sounds like the hardest bit, but make sure that they give you plenty of pills...and take them. You'll then be on the homeward stretch.

It sounds like you've been putting up with a lot of pain already, for a while, if you've managed to do that much damage. That can only be making everything else in you life seem so much worse.

Just imagine, what it will feel like not to be carrying this burden. Pain free. No looming dentist/doctor/some other dreadful diagnosis. The shit time your having will start to feel more manageable.

The quicker you can get this surgery done the better. Don't try and put it on the long finger. Think of this tooth as the cause of all your shitty time at the moment, and as soon as it's out start looking for improvements to everything else.

Poor you, but you can do it!!

oh no!!

What a nightmare, thinking of you & keep us updated.

Oh GOD Fox!!

Poor poor you, that's horrendous!
Thank goodness you went today though. What on earth was it that you ate that was so hard? Have you been eating rocks again?

Oh dear, and what are you doing going to work in all that pain?

Ok - at least it'll be done quickly - and a week off work won't be the worst thing - you will just have to take mega pain killers and try to relax and do nice restful calming things. Oh dear. xxx