Hi all, just wanted to check I wasn't being unreasonable and maybe wasting NHS time. So beginning of last week, I developed a headache to just the left temple, this headache has now been constant for 10 days. Sometimes its agony, along with occasional shooting ear pain, which can wake me during the night, rest of the time its constant but some what manageable dull ache. Which even paracetamol/ibuprofen won't shift. I developed some toothache, along with waking up Tuesday which a swollen and droopy eyelid on the same side as pain. And now a slight puffy cheek.
I went doctors yesterday and they're unsure yet, but have suggested for me to be booked in for an MRI and bloods to be done, but unknown when this will be, and have another appointment next week. In the meantime if I get one of the headaches that exceeds my current ones (I said on a scale they are a 6/7 as don't really know my pain threshold, although they are very painful, and the dull ache like a 3/4) on a larger scale to go A&E.
My Blood pressure and heart rate, we're also quite high.
I honestly do not feel myself, probably because of the constant pain, appetite very poor and sleep, look and feel absolutely dreadful. Even though the headache hasn't exceeded what was suggested, would it be wrong to go A&E?
I'm thinking now after the toothache on molar tooth and gum it maybe an infection that may of spread? As symptoms seem to fit. Would this be something A&E can assist with? I'm in between moving to a new dentist so not something they can help with if it is this.
Any advice greatly appreciated if I can not waste NHS time, and especially to help the pain xx