Ok, so that was actually worse than giving birth...please tell me it will not be so bad, now

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I just had a tooth out, a back one...it had been hellish for a couple of days but finally was having some relief after super strong painkillers from doctor last night!

Anyway he gave me loads of anaesthetic, but it didn't work, apparently because the infection was so bad. It was really, really not pleasant - but he didn't have to cut the gum, or put in stitches and it seems not to be bleeding too much now.

He is the sweetest dentist in the world, well probably but he said to me as I was leaving, 'I might as well be honest, it is going to hurt a LOT for about 3-4 days'

I know it'll be very bruised with all that pushing and pulling, but he did get all the bits and surely once the infected stuff is out, it shouldn't hurt in that same awful way?

I am quite scared now, because last night I'd have taken the option of being hit with a mallet rather than go through the pain it was causing, and the antibiotics weren't working nearly fast enough in fact I doubt they were strong enough. So just really worried in case after all that, it's going to be desperate hellish pain again.

Hope someone has some positive experience...I was hoping the healing pain would be more bearable, y'know, like when you have a baby or something - a good pain.

psychologically it should be better (like birth) in that the bad bits are out and it is healing pain.

I'd keep on with the maximum painkillers absolutely regularly for a good few days.

I had 2 wisdom teeth out and it did bloody hurt for a few days. Gin helped.

Thankyou very much EG, I like the gin idea.

did you have them out under local or GA? btw

I have had back teeth out and the pain when they were infected beforehand was definitely worse than childbirth. The pain afterwards was not nearly as bad, it hurt and ached but nothing like as bad also you knew it was 'meant' to hurt and itd stop iyswim, so it was bearable!

local. first the top one then a couple of months later the bottom one (which was the one causing the hurt).

Oh thankyou...am starting to panic less now!

I'm sure it didn't hurt that much alst time I had a tooth out. Can't have been so infected I suppose...this one had a crack in the root (I think it happened when Iw as hammering some very hard wood the other week)

so was very bad. yeurgh.

No advice but lots of sympathy.

When I had a tooth abscess it got worse after taking the antibiotics before it got better. I would have done anything to relieve the pain...so much worse than childbirth.

I had the tooth out when the infection was gone though so no pain at that point.

I hope the pain eases soon.

I think the pain now it's out will be different - a bashed, bruised, aching jaw from having to keep your mouth open sort of pain is different from an infection pain. I had an abscess in a tooth, and I understand why you'd say it was worse than childbirth. But I've also had teeth out, and that pain wasn't anything like it!

Thankyou for all the help and support...think maybe I should have kept on with the antibiotics before having it out, but tbh it seemed as though another day or night of that would just have been unmanageable...however once I had the naproxen it would prob have been OK.

Hindsight! I think I panicked, really. But at least the thing is out.

Are you allowed to eat, after - i have been finishing the (fairly soft) pizza from lunchtime, but only eating on the other side. The pain seems fine, now I have had more of the special pills Honestly that stuff is a miracle.