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Ouch, horrid toothache : ( please tell me I'm not going to die.

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FlightHattendant · 12/08/2009 16:28

Sorry to whinge.

It's been hurting for a few days but thought it was another tooth, so when I went yesterday he didn't do anything, just gave me pills for the other one (which is coming out)

The other tooth has got really bad now - I can't touch it without it killing, can't eat, feel sick, the pills don't seem to be doing anything. I'm scared it's going to spread into my whole face or something...please tell me this is me being over dramatic, and it can wait till the emergency people open this evening...or tomorrow morning if necessary?

I'm sure half the battle is feeling so anxious. I hate having something that needs treating and I can't get it sorted iykwim

Also the tablets are nasty and I need to eat to take them - and I can't.

Boo hoo.

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K999 · 12/08/2009 16:46

You're not going to die!! Although it may feel like you are....there is nothing worse than toothache so you have my utmost sympathies....

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FlightHattendant · 12/08/2009 16:53

Thanks...

Everything seems to be going wrong today!

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K999 · 12/08/2009 16:54

It probably just feels like that because you are in agony and its always harder to deal with things when you feel like that...

Pour yourself a glass of wine...

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FlightHattendant · 12/08/2009 16:56

I can't! I'm on metronidazole!!

Thanks though, you are a great comfort

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mummyplonk · 12/08/2009 16:57

oooh I feel for you, toothache is the worst, you just want to pull your whole head off to stop the throbbing.

If it gets really bad, I once was being sick/felt faint and was in more agony than childbirth (honestly) with an absys (sp?), I went to the local hospital at 2am to the drop in centre and they were really good and gave me some kind of really strong sedative/painkillers until the dentist opened in the morning. These really worked and completely knocked me out.Hope you feel better soon.

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FlightHattendant · 12/08/2009 17:10

Thanks, that's good to know! Swift blow to the head with a mallet might be welcome right now...actually no, it's intermittent, I mean it hurts all the time but the really bad bits aren't constant...so I think I can survive till this evening. I'm more concerned about getting it sorted - have heard horrible things about infection spreading to your brain etc. so not keen on that really.

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FlightHattendant · 12/08/2009 17:14

Plus I'm hungry

and my ear keeps hurting too. This is all a bit unnecessary I think.

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2girls2love · 13/08/2009 14:58

ooooh I feel your pain, am sat here with an icepack on my face as it hurts so much, and counting down the minutes til I can take more painkillers - haven't slept in 3 days. Mine is an abscess so on antibiotics same one as you I think and I'm longing for a really large glass of wine!

I think I'm at the mummyplonk where I do want to rip my head off - or maybe just pull the tooth out.... ow ow bloody ow!

2girls2love · 13/08/2009 15:00

also am absolutely starving - been on soup for two days.

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FlightHattendant · 13/08/2009 16:19

Oh poor poor thing
Have you had it treated yet, or are they waiting till it's calmed down a bit? I read that the a-b's don't actually fight the infection inside the tooth, just when it's gone beyond iyswim...so they have at some point got to drill it and put in a dressing inside the root. Once they do that it's bliss - had mine done last night, and feel almost human again if a bit zonked out.

Sorry you're still in the midst of it.

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K999 · 13/08/2009 16:21

Can you have that glass of wine yet??

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FlightHattendant · 13/08/2009 16:50

Well I could stop the a/b's in theory but it still is sore so am going to carry on with them another day or two...just cut the course a bit short probably, the dentist said stop them if it's feeling better. But I don't want to risk it coming back - oddly he said it'd be Ok to take the rest if it flared up again but still, anyway...

maybe next week, going to a party on 22nd so might have a glass then

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2girls2love · 13/08/2009 17:15

Really glad you're feeling better Flight, it really is the most awful pain (after childbirth of course!)

I've already had problems with this tooth, had root canal and all that malarky a few years ago. The only option I've got now is to have the tooth out and then pay £800 for a bridge!!!!

Just have to grin and bear it at the moment -not much grinning though

2girls2love · 13/08/2009 17:17

Mind you, have lost 4 pounds so it's kickstarted the diet, clouds and silver linings and all that!

My lo's teething as well, makes you realise just how sore it must be for them.

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FlightHattendant · 13/08/2009 17:48

Oh blimey...yes this was one of my last without an existing root canal, it was always on the cards...

Has your dentist mentioned an apicectomy? They can refer you for a small op (awake) where they cut a little into the gum, and take off the end of the root. They do this when you've had a failed RCT, it doesn't always work but can save the tooth sometimes.

I was facing one with my front one (he thought it was that one the other day) but as I am a pessimist I have opted to have it out and a plate made (already got a couple of other gaps at the back, which they can apparently put onto the same one, brilliant! Here we come, super poligrip)

I really hope you are better soon. It's so horrid. I think being hungry makes it all seem so much worse, too.

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2girls2love · 14/08/2009 14:12

Problem now sorted Flight, had an emergency appointment at dentist this morning and they've pulled the bugger out. Xrays showed that really there was no option cos the infection was on a bit of bone as well so he had to cut some of that! It bloody hurt I can tell you, but at least its done now. Still not able to eat much but have bought some chocolate mousses cos I thought I deserved them, mind you the girls have spotted them, so don't know whether there will be any left.
Here's to both of us having that glass of wine v soon!

Jumente · 15/08/2009 16:37

Oh golly, you POOR thing (tis me btw!)

I'm sorry it came to that but at least it's OUT now, that's best totally, it can start to ehal...well done, brave brave girl

Yes hide the mousses! Hide them in a packet that says 'medicine' on the outside, I think that will work xxxx

Jumente · 15/08/2009 16:38

heal, sorry! Being attacked by ds2!!!

Jumente · 15/08/2009 16:41

Oh this was yesterday, how are you today?

bellavita · 15/08/2009 16:43

Get some CLOVE OIL from the pharmacy - costs about a £1. Dip a cotton bud into it and then roll over the painful area. It numbs the area, it does work, honestly, I have tried it.

Jumente · 15/08/2009 18:01

Thanks Bella, I have actually got some in the closet...however, when I put it on my gum, it stung - and I found it says on the box don't let it touch the skin directly, which totally confused me!!! I must be missing something I think. Do you just apply it to the tooth?

Grandhighpoohba · 15/08/2009 19:27

If it happens again, get a bottle of cheap whiskey, take a large swig and hold it in your mouth over the sore tooth for as long as you can. Then spit it out. (no problem with the antibiotics, you're using it as very strong mouthwash) Kills the pain. Its wonderful.

Jumente · 15/08/2009 20:15

You mean, out whiskey in my mouth but NOT DRINK IT????

No, no, can't possibly mean that.

Jumente · 15/08/2009 20:16

Put! Put! Why is my P always an O?

candyfluff · 15/08/2009 21:36

you musnt mix metrodiazole with alchol at all -it will make you violently ill
do recommend clove
tastes rank but is so good for toothache