Hi everyone hope you and your LOs are well.
I am a first time mum and had a very easy pregnancy physical wise thank God but struggled so hard mentally. I also had a fast traumatic birth and then post partum depression after that.
I at some points had very bad sleep problems, I also on 2 occasions had hallucinations it got that bad and I reached out to Dr and they reffered me for counselling which I'm on waiting list for.
During the duration of the first year of my LO things were really bad and so to block out the mental pain and also physical pain (I was abused when I was 8 months pregnant physically) I overate on stuff which I shouldn't have like biscuits, chocolates, sweets etc. Mainly it was to just divert my attention to the food but also another reason was I wanted to pack some weight on as I drastically lost a lot of weight due to stress and looked extremely unhealthy. Also sometimes on car journeys I needed those fizzy sweets to stop me from vomiting.
Now, it's all caught up unfortunately. I used to avoid any sugary stuff especially during pregnancy as I have horrible teeth (due to depression in early 20s and rough childhood etc and not taking care of my teeth) so during pregnancy I was extremely vigilant as I didn't want to take medicine for tooth pain or any tooth surgeries. After postpartum because of all the stuff I mentioned above I just let go of taking care of my teeth and although I brushed and glossed I have this upper molar which was already severely decayed and since last 2 days I have realised it's sensitive now and also it feels like the teeth surrounding it also hurt and feel dull ache on the left part of mouth. I'm really scared of all this tooth sensitivity and pain.
I can't go dentist now because I'm flying out to Bangladesh tomorrow 😠for a month.
I just wanted to ask, if thee are any dentists here or anyone with experience, the pain and sensitivity I'm feeling, do you think it's just the one molar and maybe the tooth next to it rather than the whole 4 or 5 teeth on the upper set of teeth? is that just me presuming it?
Also, any recommendations for subsiding the pain? I know of salt water gurgle etc I don't want to take much medicines because I'm breastfeeding still. But please let me know anything else I can do.
And lastly, I know I'm probably most likely going to sound so dumb and extreme but will leaving this issue for a linth until I get back to London lead to it becoming so bad that it can cause abscess and lead to infection spreading to my brain? I'm so terrified.
Apologies for the long post.
Any help is much appreciated