Pain...

**chanceyy** · 25th August 2007, 09:55

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** · 25th August 2007, 10:23

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** · 25th August 2007, 10:33

Originally Posted by RantyDave

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** · 25th August 2007, 10:40

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** · 25th August 2007, 10:51

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** · 26th August 2007, 00:08

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** · 26th August 2007, 00:22

Jeebus, that sounds bad.

Dr. Drum recommends more whiskey.

**jrandom** · 26th August 2007, 00:25

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** · 26th August 2007, 01:13

Originally Posted by RantyDave

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** · 26th August 2007, 09:26

Originally Posted by jrandom

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.

**T.W.R** · 26th August 2007, 09:31

Originally Posted by Winter

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

Hypnoveil tablets are the bizz for shutting down body control

Bet you're totally relieved to be rid of the pain

**jrandom** · 26th August 2007, 13:10

Originally Posted by Goblin

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.