DENTAL PAIN!!!

Hi Everyone. I still don't post a lot but I read here every single day and this is such an amazingly supportive group of people.

Okay. So, you know I have chronic pain in my back/neck, etc. I'm in PM for that...Well, I also have TM Disorder and use a bite plate while I sleep. I am currently locked shut but I can open about an inch and my jaw doctor said that I would have to go to a specialist at a university hospital because his bite plate is not working and he is not qualified to treat me. So I have an appointment on Tuesday with another specialist.

That is my med. history in regards to my mouth. Well, on Saturday night I noticed that in the back of my mouth behind my last molar was pain and swelling and I thought that maybe it was because of my bite plate or something that would subside with time. I was wrong. I woke up yesterday with throbbing, awful pain and more swelling. Problem is that I'm allergic to antibiotics--have had reactions to past eight I've taken--true allergy not sensitivity--welts, etc. Docs won't even prescribe antibiotics for me anymore and I have no idea what would happen if it were life or death--I'm sure there's a way...okay..so..

I'm going to call at eight to get an emergency appointment with an endodontist.

I think I have an infection and need a root canal. I'm just venting, I don't think I really have any questions but I do want to say that mouth pain is AWFUL!!!!

Please say a prayer for me if you can. I know that this a very acute situation but boy does it hurt. I can't eat or anything. Any advice on that--like ideas for soft foods, because I have run out of them.

Thanks,

Flower

WOW you are in the same boat I'm in. I just got back from the dentist! For the same thing. I have been up most the night waiting for the office to open. Well I just got back. I will have mine removed next week.

No antibotics!!!! NO WAY I would crawl into a hole and die with tooth pain. What will they be able to do? to get rid of the infection?

Now for me I have to figure out the pain med script. I see a PM clinic but with the tooth pain I would run out of my meds early. So I will be holding onto the script till I get clear details on filling it.

I hope you pain lessens cuz I really know how you feel...

Laurie

Thank you so much for the support! I went to the dentist and I don't have an infection, thank God! I'm so happy. Pain has gone down and swelling has gone down significantly since I wrote:) It was so swollen that I was sure that it was infected. The dentist said that there is a big space there and a cavity and he said it was so painful and swollen because something got stuck there. I feel like a big baby, lol. He said that the tooth is chipped, too. He said that I can wait to get it fixed until I am able to open my mouth more but that there is no guarantee that it won't get infected but that there's no way he can do anything until I am able to open.

BSJaguar-Thanks for the suggestions! I am going to buy some applesauce and Cream of Wheat. I do have Tylenol in my breakthrough meds.

LLPLUV -Oh man, I'm so sorry that you have to get it taken out! That sounds so very painful.
In regards to the antibiotics, basically he said that once you're allergic to three or more it becomes a huge problem. I am going to have to go to another allergist because I haven't been to one in two years and then I will have someone to help my doctors figure out what to do if I ever do get an infection. Last time I went, I was tested and allergic to mostly everything they tested me for--pets, seafood, nuts, fruit (raw only)...but this is something I have been dealing with for years so it's still frustrating, but I am used to it. My diet is extremely limited in comparison to others, but there are still so many things that I can eat. I carry an epipen and inhaler in case it gets bad but since I've been very careful lately I haven't been to the ER in a couple of years.

Wow, thanks so much for your help and for reading my babbling. I really do feel like a baby because it wasn't even an infection...I deal with terrible pain everyday, but any pain on top of what I feel daily seems to be exhausting, draining, and just terrible.

Thank you again! This is such a great support group and it is so helpful to have people that understand chronic pain and what it is like to live this kind of a life.

Thanks,


Flower

Flower, awesome so glad it was not an infection. I do understand the allergy problems with antibiotics. I am allergic to all of the very good common ones like the penicillin and its cousins and several others and we are really limited with the oral ones. I have been on alot of antibiotics since Aug and worry about them becoming ineffective. Need to somehow rinse your mouth several times a day with warm salt water to keep any food particles off of that tooth. Maybe that will help.