Pain...

[Winter]

I have the most crippling toothache! argh

I've god nearly finished this thing of nurofen, I've had a bunch of asprin too, and 4 glasses of whisky, and this pain is still so much that i can't sleep.


suggestions?

[Goblin]

Oooh poor you!
Get it pulled asap. The pain will ony get worse if you dont....unless you get a root canal and they're not much fun either.

[Winter]

nearly two hours later.. It hurts more, and I'm wide fucking awake

I'm about to drive myself to the A&E, i hope they can give me something

[babyblade250rr]

yes i've been through that beliiieeevvee me!! and it does'nt get any better till it's repaired or eliminated.

Get yourself over to a dentist asap mate the relief is phenomanol

[Flatcap]

Get yourself over to a dentist asap mate the relief is phenomanol

Phenomanol? - Is that a new dentist-only pain killer?

[gijoe1313]

Ow ow ow and again I shall say... ow. Yep relief from visiting the dentist is a good thing .. :doctor: And failing that oil of cloves from your local pharmacy will go a long way to relieving it if you haven't got yourself sorted yet!

[dogsnbikes]

You can just use a clove by biting down on it the taste isnt that great but it will deal to the pain

good luck

[T.W.R]

Get the offending tooth/teeth whipped out ASAP :yes:
Anything else is just a temporary form of relief and the longer you leave it the worse it gets :sick:

[Maha]

Get the offending tooth/teeth whipped out ASAP :yes:
Anything else is just a temporary form of relief and the longer you leave it the worse it gets :sick:

Good advice T.W.R.... I had the same problem in Wanaka two years ago...had just arrived there for the night and the pounding started...found a dentist the next morning, he could fit me in, in one hour...it was a wisdom tooth and was out in less than 30 seconds once the injection kicked in...$120 well spent...

[Nasty]

Good advice T.W.R.... I had the same problem in Wanaka two years ago...had just arrived there for the night and the pounding started...found a dentist the next morning, he could fit me in, in one hour...it was a wisdom tooth and was out in less than 30 seconds once the injection kicked in...$120 well spent...


Exactly what I have had done ... but a good side till you can deal is oil of cloves or toothache drops from the pharmacy.

[James Deuce]

Go and see a DENTIST.

Hairy-arsed motorcyclists, generally speaking, can't help.

Going to A&E isn't going to help either, unless you REALLY like waiting.

[T.W.R]

Good advice T.W.R.... I had the same problem in Wanaka two years ago...had just arrived there for the night and the pounding started...found a dentist the next morning, he could fit me in, in one hour...it was a wisdom tooth and was out in less than 30 seconds once the injection kicked in...$120 well spent...

Yeah I found out the hard way too :sick: but my incident involved being snowed in and not being able to get anywhere for 3days, drained the household of all forms of pain relief and zero sleep over the three days :shutup: getting the buggers taken out was better than winning lotto :woohoo:
Had a incident earlier this year to where I had to get a couple of teeth taken out but I had a couple of days feeling really crook & then a abscess came up over night and it was into the dentist asap.

[RantyDave]

Going to A&E isn't going to help either, unless you REALLY like waiting.
You will note that the A&E plan was posted at 2am. Would probably, therefore, involve less waiting than going to the dentist.

Dave

[Goblin]

Yeah I found out the hard way too :sick: but my incident involved being snowed in and not being able to get anywhere for 3days, drained the household of all forms of pain relief and zero sleep over the three days :shutup: getting the buggers taken out was better than winning lotto :woohoo:
Had a incident earlier this year to where I had to get a couple of teeth taken out but I had a couple of days feeling really crook & then a abscess came up over night and it was into the dentist asap.Ouch! Ooow poor you! Toothache is a killer innit? Couple of years ago I had toothache start on Good Friday when everyone was on holiday. Used up all pain relief in the house and the neighbours. By Saturday I thought I was going to die from the pain. The only dentist that would help me was a little Iranian lady, Waffa Madi, and she has hands of velvet! Thank Allah for Waffa!:not:

[T.W.R]

Ouch! Ooow poor you! Toothache is a killer innit? Couple of years ago I had toothache start on Good Friday when everyone was on holiday. Used up all pain relief in the house and the neighbours. By Saturday I thought I was going to die from the pain. The only dentist that would help me was a little Iranian lady, Waffa Madi, and she has hands of velvet! Thank Allah for Waffa!:not:

Ha yeah with the pain involved in toothache you can understand why pulling good teeth is used as a form of torture

[chanceyy]

gawd the pain ... nods I remember it well .. only the once but man that was enough .. yup have it pulled ASAP said to dentist before he started .. you hurt me you die .. he did an awesome job did not feel a thing ..

wisdom tooth totally rotten other than that my teeth as hard as nails .. whewww

the only other time I had pain was recently with sinus, the pressure really hurt my teeth & could not sleep at nite .. that was not pretty & really tempted to have them pulled then as well .. thank gawd I didn't ...

[imdying]

Get it done. You don't want a jaw infection, and you don't want to lose other teeth as a result.

If money is a problem, it is common for dentists these days to organise time payments :)

[James Deuce]

You will note that the A&E plan was posted at 2am. Would probably, therefore, involve less waiting than going to the dentist.

Dave

And you'll note that Hospital dentistry depts shut at 5pm on Friday. The only thing they can do is give him morphine and that would require being admitted and that isn't likely to happen for toothache.

[yungatart]

Oil of cloves - available at a health food shop or chemist that specialises in natural remedies...should tide you over till you can get to the dentist

[Nasty]

I always look up Emergency dentist in the phone book. I tried for Auckland and there are a huge number, to me this means there will be one in your area. if the tooth has already absessed they will give you antibiotics for a few days before pulling it out anyway .. son't want an infection to develop when its pulled.

[Winter]

Just thought I'd give you all a follow-up post.

At 4am, after waking up the street with my girly crying, I got in the car and went to the a&e at greenlane. She gave me 3 pills to take then, and two different ones which was a 'backup' - to be taken in an hour if the others hadn't done their thing.

I got home and immediatly chewed down the backup's. It didn't improve untill around 5am, whence I managed to sleep, for two hours untill i had to get up for work at 7.

Getting up was fun, felt like my whole body was numb. I was all warm and had this inate sense of happyness!

Wen't to work, explained situation to boss, rung my dentist at home, explained situation to her, went to see her.

Infected nerve beneath an old filling. Said something about the old filling not being sealed properly or something. Good thing it wasn't one she had done.

She drilled through the filling to have a look, and said it 'geysered with puss' (exact words she used).

So half a root canal later, I feel OK. Still on some copious amounts of codine and paracetamol, but ok. Put me on antibotics and told me to come back monday so she can do a proper job of getting it all sparkly clean.

$1100 later.

[Drum]

Jeebus, that sounds bad.

Dr. Drum recommends more whiskey.

[jrandom]

I had a very similar situation with a wisdom tooth, last year. It had come through and been niggling for a while. I kept meaning to go in and get it sorted out, sugar/heat/cold would make it twang, so it had obviously started to go bad, and then one day, WHAMMO, too late, endless searing agony.

Swallowed pain relief like there was no tomorrow, just like Winter describes. Did no good. Got to the dentist the next day, yup, there's a hole and the wisdom tooth has an infection under it, extraction required, oh and while we're in there there's a mostly-healthy molar on the other side that you've chipped and isn't repairable, we'll have to extract that, too.

Gave me painkillers and a single antibiotic dose overnight before my appointment the next day. Curiously enough, it was the antibiotics that suddenly relieved the pain.

Took 50 minutes to get the molar out from the other side with various scary-looking tools, looked like it extended halfway up into my skull, strong as an ox, nothing bloody wrong with it, just chipped and not enough left to rebuild it with a fililng, so it would have eventually rotted away.

Then he put three shots of local in around the wisdom tooth. Each very, very painful. And then a tiny, tiny tweak with the extraction tool and I still bellowed and just about hit the roof. He then tried to inject local directly into the nerve down the hole in the center of the tooth. Motherfucker. Smashing my left thumb into several pieces in a highside last month was nothing compared to that.

Anyway, that didn't work either. He still couldn't go near the tooth without me howling and making as though I was about to punch him in the nose.

That was my appointment time used up, so I had to go home and wait another day.

The following day, they had the nitrous oxide ready and waiting, and I think that all the prodding and wiggling had relieved the swelling, because the tooth popped straight out that time, about five seconds after he started.

The pain of a rotting tooth is the single most compelling argument against 'intelligent design' that I've ever experienced.

[Mekk]

You will note that the A&E plan was posted at 2am. Would probably, therefore, involve less waiting than going to the dentist.

Dave

You would think so, but not always.

I was stabbed in the throat a year ago and walked into A&E with blood pouring out of my neck at 1am. An hour and a half of waiting and I got it cleaned, another hour in between that and it was dressed and probed to find out how deep it was. Finally got the stitches half an hour later but wasn't able to leave until 6am due to paperwork and "resting" I needed apparently.

That was considered reasonably high priority at the time too, or so they said. I'd imagine a toothache being far lass.

[Goblin]

I Smashing my left thumb into several pieces in a highside last month was nothing compared to that.
Heh! I squeezed out a 9lb 6o and a 9lb baby with no pain relief whatsoever and they both had nothing on toothache!


Good to see you got it sorted Winter. Although it looks like it may have hurt the old wallet too. :pinch:

[T.W.R]

Getting up was fun, felt like my whole body was numb. I was all warm and had this inate sense of happyness!



:banana: Hypnoveil tablets are the bizz for shutting down body control :niceone:

Bet you're totally relieved to be rid of the pain :msn-wink:

[jrandom]

Heh! I squeezed out a 9lb 6o and a 9lb baby with no pain relief whatsoever and they both had nothing on toothache!

Yup, I was there when both my kids were born. Bad, but not off the scale. Conscious thought was obviously still possible.

Although I wasn't talking about the toothache alone, there; I was speaking of the pain of a metal probe being jabbed through the hole in a rotten tooth into the abscess below.

[Her_C4]

Heh! I squeezed out a 9lb 6o and a 9lb baby with no pain relief whatsoever ...

:eek5::eek5::doctor::apumpin: hells teeth!!

[Mekk]

This thread makes me feel like flossing. Or something.

[Karma]

$1100 later.


Fuck that...

*starts looking for medical insurance*