Up at 3:30 am with a tooth ache!

[Cuz]

try pinching your earlobe on the side of the infected tooth-hard. if it helps, you can keep the relief by putting a clothes pin on the lobe. it doesn't always help, but often it does.

Lmao. That actually works a lil bit! Wow

[Loreva13]

I hope you are doing better and if not I hope the antibiotic does it's work fast.

[El Coyote]

Cuz go buy some orajel that they use for babies when they are teething helps to numb the pain

[cricman]

I had an abscess on a molar that was on the gum line next to my cheek. It finally got so swollen and painful that Oragel didn't work. I finally broke down and got a #11 Exacto knife blade, sterilized it and cut open the abscess. Talk about a sweet relief, followed by a horrible taste! I rinsed with peroxide and then a minty mouth wash to kill the flavor. Thank goodness that incident is long behind me, because the pain was intense.


cricman

[Cuz]

Orajel doesn't do anything cause it's up so far above the tooth.



Cricman YOU'RE A BEAST bro! I'll pass...

[Cuz]

Prayers sent that you don't lose your only tooth!

Jeff, if I do lose IT will you chew my food for me?!

[huntingfanatic]

I had an abscess on a molar that was on the gum line next to my cheek. It finally got so swollen and painful that Oragel didn't work. I finally broke down and got a #11 Exacto knife blade, sterilized it and cut open the abscess. Talk about a sweet relief, followed by a horrible taste! I rinsed with peroxide and then a minty mouth wash to kill the flavor. Thank goodness that incident is long behind me, because the pain was intense.


cricman

Did the same thing with a big safety pin. Sterilized the pin and poked the abscess. Broke like a big ol water balloon. And ur right about the taste. Couldn't find enough mouthwash to
get the taste out. Stick to the penicillin

[Buckrider]

Been through all that about 6 weeks ago. Had a root canal done and temporary filling on it till the infection all goes away then will do a final filling after cleaning it all out again. Once I got the antibiotics from the dentist it stopped hurting enough to make me crawl back in from the windowsill but was definitely all better for sure when the specialist did the root canal to relieve the pressure.

[froghunter]

been there done that, it aint fun!

[rocky]

Out 4 months last year, with a botched root canal, second root canal, found out tooth had a linear crack that wasn't visible on X-ray..
Pulled tooth, 4 rounds of antibiotics during all this, a round of steroids, continued low-grade fever, bleeding ulcer from one of many pain killers or antibiotics.
Sick from Sept-January, shortly after turning 50.
I don't want to do 50 again.
Get it fixed, now.

[Cuz]

This tooth has been re-rootcanaled but doc says it takes sometimes up to two years to heal. I dunno, maybe my dentist is not good.
No fever or nothing, on this one, just serious pain for a full week now. **** pocket in the roof of my mouth now though. Uugh

[Swampa]

Meemaw always tied fishing string from tooth to door knob and gave it a swift kick

You want me to come over

[Swampa]

This tooth has been re-rootcanaled but doc says it takes sometimes up to two years to heal. I dunno, maybe my dentist is not good.
No fever or nothing, on this one, just serious pain for a full week now. **** pocket in the roof of my mouth now though. Uugh

I can hook you up with 2 different very good dentists if your interested.

[rocky]

This tooth has been re-rootcanaled but doc says it takes sometimes up to two years to heal. I dunno, maybe my dentist is not good.
No fever or nothing, on this one, just serious pain for a full week now. **** pocket in the roof of my mouth now though. Uugh

If the tooth is cracked, from what I learned after my experience, you will fight infection for a long time, with recurring bouts.
Mine got pulled,(in pieces).

[GR5]

I have a Tooth Ache tree out back. Chew on the outer twigs and your whole head will be numb for awhile. Don't know the real name of the tree, kinda looks like a hackberry, but it has some powerful drugs in it