I had a filling done in an upper incisor almost 2 years ago. It was all a bit odd as I'd have a clear check up 6 weeks before. Anyway, decay seemed to have started on the side edge of tooth and had spread under the gumline. So had the filling done, all fine that evening, anaesthetic wore off as normal.
The next morning I had a migraine aura and mild headache. Up to this I'd had around 3 migraines my whole life and I'm in my 50s. As well as the migraine I has slight numbness in my lip right beside the tooth. The following weeks I continued to have vague mild headaches on the same side, the slight numbness in lip and sometimes tip of nose. And a ache in the tooth itself. Also some mild vertigo, again something I don't ever suffer from.
I went back to the dentist after the migraine and pain and following an x-ray they said all looked fine. 6 months later the nerve seemed to be dying as I had strong sensitivity to hot things. Dentist did root canal treatment. All the other symptoms continued, headachey, slight numb spot on lip, ache in tooth. Sometimes heat in palate and most of the pain coming from there there too, around the tooth root I'm guessing. So off to an endodontist. Had x-ray. Decay found under the original filling.
So back to dentist to have the filling changed and decay removed. Symptoms continued. Back to endo. X-ray showed a periapical granuloma. They said I needed the RCT redone. Had that done. Next day all those symptoms were 100 times worse but eased off back to normal levels of niggling and sometimes getting worse so I needed Ibuprofen. Sometimes so mild I hardly noticed them. Had 2 months when it all seemed to be finally getting better until BANG! Another migraine, bad pain, tooth sore to touch. Heat in palate. Yet another migraine. Back to dentist, a new one, strangely I lost confidence in the old one! X-ray showed the granuloma is as good as healed, they don't know why I have these symptoms which have been here now for a couple of months, sometimes easing sometimes worse.
So why all these symptoms after a filling?? Could something have gone wrong during the first filling that might not show up on an x-ray? Could it be fractured?? Anyone ever had anything like this? I'm really done with this tooth now having had so much done to it and still I'm in pain. But dentist says as it looks ok so don't want to extract it. Would a cone beam CT scan be helpful? I'm desperate at this stage.