This time it has been incredibly awful. I'm taking more advil than is good for me, just to keep it down to a dull throb. It has been waking me up in the middle of the night, I actually set my alarm for a few weeks so I'd wake up before the pain started and take more advil. I even got my pharmacist friend (who can prescribe now) to prescribe me some penicillin...
I finally relented the other day and went back to the dentist. He cleaned it out, did some weird filing thing, packed it full of medicine and put a temporary filling over it...I also have even more penicillin to take.
It hurts more than ever now. Advil isn't helping much at all, and I can hardly talk at times. Work is painful (how can you keep a crowd of 30+ dogs playing well if you can't tell them to be quiet, or stop humping.... :o) ). My good old stand-by trick of drinking water, lots of water...doesn't work anymore because the coolness can't get to the tooth because of the filling.
I am really hoping that the pain goes away soon. The dentist said it may take a few days or even a week. On the plus side it's a pretty good diet plan...eating is difficult at best and I have to avoid extreme temperatures...
Thanks for listening to me complain. My tooth has stopped hurting briefly. I might even try to eat some yogurt or something...
oh, and vito wants to tell everyone that I lied, and he's in a perfectly fine mood....
5 comments:
Oh, ow ow ow ow!
I've been there and it's horrible. SO sorry.
The weird filing is them cleaning out each root. That's why it hurts so much; the dead nerve tissue had to be scratched out of there and it KILLS afterward if the tooth was infected.
From bitter experience (the tooth thing I had hurt worse than my births, and I mean that), I am sorry from the bottom of my heart.
oh, that so sucks that you are in so much pain.
I hope you get some releif soon!
I hate tooth pain! I've had one tooth that took 3 different attempts at a root canal, I got so tired of the pain I just had them pull the tooth. I still have phantom pain!
Thats horrible. Didnt they give you real pain killers? You need it. I hope it gets better. Diana
I've never heard of a partial root canal. Why wasn't it finished? If the dentist didn't fix it, why not go to another one? Why did you let this go so long? I have so many questions prompted by your great pain, I couldn't stand something like that for even a weekend, let alone week after week!
I agree that if the pain is that bad, they should be offering you real painkillers to ease the pain while it supposedly gets better.
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