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[evilive]

Ok, so my cheek started to swell up a little and I'd had toothache now and again so I though I'd best go to the dentist..went..was told I need a root canal, was told to come back next week and for now was proscribed Amoxicillin (apparently to decrease the swelling).

Anyway this was on Friday..got worst over the weekend so went back in yesterday to be told there was no other time I could see a dentist apart from the date of my appointment..a week today.

So for a week longer I'm going to look like Quasimodo (hopefully an exaggeration) and have one of the most annoying, constant pains I've had the pleasure of experiencing..especially at night..

I was just wondering if any of yous have had the same experience and know of any home cures to try and make the abscess go down and maybe less painful..at the moment I've been rinsing my mouth with warm salt water a few times a day, taking Ibuprofen, Co-codamol and the Amoxicillin. I've also just started today Oil pulling..dunno if that works..but I'm willing to try anything..At the moment I've restrained from bursting the abscess..but it's tempting..especially at night..

Any suggestion appreciated..

[monkeh]

I never found a painkiller that could touch the pain last time I had one of these, I ended up getting a 5th year dental student to pull the tooth.. it still hurt afterwards but painkillers actually helped, and after a few days all was well. Hope you find something that works, or you get an appointment quick!

[kermo]

Oh hell yeah. I kept waking up in the middle night in tears, resorting to ridiculous methods of distracting myself in order to get back to sleep.

[pdxsteve]

[yingwenlaoshi]

Yeah, I've had one. I was given pain killers and penicillin (this was back home quite a while ago) to take the swelling down and alleviate the pain. Seemed to work, but I wasn't allowed to drink alcohol which would render the penicillin useless. Crappy because it was during Christmas.

If it's a molar, just get them to yank it out. Screw root canals. You can eventually get a bridge. I don't know about nowadays, but I remember at least one of my root canal operations being botched and having to have it done again. Eventually ended up with a bridge. Pretty pricy. Can't remember about the other one. I think I might not have had a root canal done, but I had a huge toothache. Believe that was the one that gave me an abscess. Just told them to yank the fker out. The dentist was so disappointed in me (bye, bye money). My wallet didn't seem disappointed though. Still have nothing there.

Both were bottom molars.

Dentists are rip off artists.

[chris_J2]

I had the same dental problem in Australia, when getting root canal work done. After the abcess appeared & persisted for a week, I went back. He drilled out the entire amalgram filling & sterilised the infection, then repeated the entire process of reconstructing the amalgram. Pity he didn't get it right 1st time. I lived on paracetemol for a fortnight. In contrast, my dentist in Ilsan, Korea (Trueden) fixed 2 infected teeth & root canal work, & no infection resulted. Plus the cost was half what I paid in Oz.

[evilive]

Thanks guys, for your input. I'm in England and currently at university so I get health care free, so avoiding root canal because of the price doesn't really apply here..Its just the weeks way until then that sucks

I'm hoping that I might accidentally burst the abscess, Its about time it did..its been pretty big for a few days now..

[tfunk]

What did they do in the old days...before painkillers?

[chris_J2]

Deliberately bursting the abcess is not a good idea. It may allow additional infection or even septicaemia (toxic blood poisoning) & death.

Go see a specialist asap. They can lance it with sterilised surgical equipment.

[tfunk]

[evilive]

[tfunk]

[evilive]

haha

[nautilus]

[thebomb]

Dentists, and Doctors in the U.K are c rap, I once had an infection in a wisedom tooth and I was in agony, I was told that under the NHS I would have to wait 2 1/2 weeks to be seen, so I asked about going private, "yes, of course you can sir, we can schedule you an appointment next week"

I ended up going to a chemists and explaining the problem and he gave me all the pain killers and mouth rinse he could legally give me. It tied me over to the following week.

The morale of the story is that the NHS sucks something cronic.