Posted on 09/19/2014 9:37:30 PM PDT by Vendome
The freedom from pain now is indescribable. I was living in pain for years before the root canal, and now, I can chew pain-free again. It’s such a relief!
If your dentist recommends a root canal, don’t hesitate—get it done right away!
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From what I’ve been told, the procedure for doing them now is much better and quicker than what they used to be.
I had a crown a year or so that my ‘tech’ could NOT seat. I caught it with my tongue three times right before it fell down my throat. And delivered it back to the tech each time to try seating again.
Dentists are rich... they are not subject to zerocare or any other .gov intervention and they get lazy. Considering the impact of dental health on the entire body, they *should* be part of the medical equation, but they have successfully insulated themselves from scrutiny. Not that I’m saying they should be socialized right along with healthcare, but they sure are unconcerned, as a lot, and I’ve never used one I’d recommend.
Is it safe???
tooth pain sucks, period. i sympathize.
if you can get some cloves, they help with pain.
anbesol or any oral item with lidocaine or benzocaine could help.
Drat. It was a picture of a boy with a string tied to a tooth at one end and a door knob on the other.
As long as you don’t drink it by the bottle. Dab it with a q-tip around the affected area. It may burn at first, but it will give you relief...
I’m surprised the Dentist didn’t give you Vicodin, or Tramadol, but maybe he did, you didn’t say. If you have taken these pain meds over a long period of days or weeks, the best ones, I mean the strongest ones with Codeine, could be producing a reaction in your stomach . I know a little about pain med maintenance, have been in pain daily with flat foot problems and tendonitis in one ankle every single day for the last four years. I’m scheduled for surgery in late October for the Tendonitis. I’m hopeful.
So, a few times a week, I make sure to eat a little something, something simple before my medication. I eat a small snack like a banana with cottage cheese, or peanut btr and jelly sandwich or a baked potato with a dot of butter, this seems to help protect my stomach from that clutching, clawing sensation that I can get after lots of strong pain meds day after day. These meds can slow down digestion a lot, causing constipation, so you should eat something fiberous to ‘help guide’ them out of the body after a few days.
Doing some basic exercise like stretching or stationary biking helps me to keep my circulation more active. This active circulation seems to make the pain less concentrated, less of a lasers’ burn. That’s important, since I’m the type who likes to sit on his duff and type letters like this one.
You can even use good Bleu cheese for penicillan.
If I had this sort of problem I would use an electrical stimulator like a TENS unit for some relief.
One adhesive electrode patch under the chin, close to the tooth.
A cotton ball saturated with conductive jelly held on the tooth by using a non-conductive piece of something rubbery...something similar to the texture of those rubbery ear plugs. Between the rubbery thingie and the saturated cotton ball I would use a small piece of conductive carbon tens pad material connected to the stimulator.
I’m pretty sure this would provide relief but I have never tried it.
I have all those items here because I once designed FES devices (Functional Electrical Stimulation) and still have large jugs of the blue electrode gel and several models of stimulators. I would use a low-voltage bi-lateral pulse chain with very little time gap between pulse reversals so the nerves would have trouble recovering sensitivity. (no refractory period)
I hope you get to the dentist SOON and get relief!
You may have missed the oblique reference to a classic movie scene...........
You reminded me of the barber who had customers place a rubber ball a little smaller than a ping pong ball in their mouths so they could stretch out their skin and get a really close straight razor shave.
“Hey,” said a new client, taking the ball out of his mouth.
“What if I swallow it?”
The barber replied, “Just bring it back in a day or two, like everyone else.”
Pain can certainly focus the mind. Like nothing else.
They handle this sort of thing often and can give you meds for the infection as well as the pain.
The pain is bad enough but the infection can kill.
You have a genuine emergency.
Get rid of your Dentist. get the Mercury out of your mouth.
You need an “ Environtmentalist Dentist”, at least that’s what they were called a few years ago.
No Metal!
My current dentist is great. When I had a filling come out he re-did it for free saying that any failure in the first year means that HE did something wrong.
There are plenty of dentists out there, there is no reason to stay with one that is incompetent.
I hope you’ve ruled out the beginnings of heart attack. Serious jaw pain in back can signify heart attack. Tummy ache is odd if it’s just your tooth.
There used to be something named, ‘tooth pellets’. Ask the pharmacist. Instant relief and I do mean instant!
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