Some Thoughts:
- When you have a tooth ache everything else takes second place.
- Oh, and the tooth ache always happens on a bank holiday weekend, to ensure maximum pain, and remind you to go to the bloody dentist more often!
- Vodka, rubbed onto the infected gum/teeth is a god-send for pain relief. It lasts almost 3 hours and it’ll let you get some measure of rest at night.
- Have an understanding partner who’ll take care of you and fuss over you.
- Brush, floss and see your dentist more often.
- Brush, floss and see your dentist more often.
- Brush, floss and see your dentist more often.
- Brush, floss and see your dentist more often.
I’ll probably have to get a root-canal next week, the tooth is dead so hopefully it won’t be too sore. (I’m not too hopeful though..)
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I’m a dental student in the U.S., studying at Tufts to be a dentist. I found this site after doing a search to see how many people are suffering from their teeth, and was amazed to see so many. I just want to let everyone know that dental treatment has come a long way from the scary stereotypes of old, and that no one should be ashamed to go to the dentist because of the condition of their teeth. Believe me, they have seen it all and that it what they are there for. There are tons of gentle, compassionate dentists out there so if you don’t like one definitely go to another. RateMDs.com is a terrific site for reading patient reviews of doctors including dentists so you can look ones up in your area and see how others made out with them. They also have sedation dentistry now as well.
I’m sorry to hear there’s so many people out there in pain. I wish I was licensed and operating my own practice, so that I could treat you all, and help you take care of your teeth!
the vodka worked. I bought a real cheap bottle of Gimely’s from the corner store on Sunday on my way over to a friends birthday party. the guy behind the counter paper bagged it for me, so once I got outside I cracked open the bottle down and commenced down a side street, took a sip and swished my mouth with it, making certain that I got it to concentrate in the far right corner. I felt the alcohol numb the pain, as a soft pulse ebbed into silence. I then thought, while the vodka was still in my mouth, why not just drink it. I mean, why not?
so, the following morning I wake up on the couch of one of my friends with a bit of a headache from the vodka, and the numerous other beverages I consumed, to find that my tooth, though still a bit raised, was no longer emitting any pain signals to my brain. I tested it a few times by gently applying pressure, just a little tap of the teeth, then a nice firm bite down, and nothing, no pain. now all I had to deal with was the pain of the party from the night before, which however unpleasant it was, could no where near touch the pain of that damn possessed wisdom tooth that had sent me sprawling about the bathroom medicine cabinet searching for any residue that resembled anything close to aspirin.
so, I canceled my dental appointment, am still planning on going to get it taken out, but when its a bit more viable economically.
I look forward to continue visiting this sight and reading some of the tragic, humorous, morose stories. take care of your teeth people, and if its to late for you, make sure your children are well informed about the pain of tooth decay, and the modes of prevention.
After suffering waves of intense, nuasiating pain, I tried the Vodka and cool compress suggestion. I was ok with trying the vodka since I don’t drink and there was no chance of me getting drunk on it. It didn’t really work for me, but I tried it. After the Vodka, I made a cool wash cloth and held it over my cheeks where my teeth hurt. Since both sides of my mouth hurt it was kinda hard to breath
Finally, after waking up every hour, the treatments helped. Instead of waking up every hour, I slept 3 hours. Neadless to say I woke up exhausted. But I think the cold compress really did the trick (maybe the Vodka helped too) 
I just tried putting salt on my tooth and it really worked. Later I am going to try the vodka. For now thank you whoever found out about the salt thing!!
Just want to say i had a chip tooth for about 2 years now and I been using cloves and whiskey.. along with ibroufen and vicodin and seems to work very well, can’t afford another bill from the dentist!! call me crazy.
I am in such agony right now I cant even describe it! All I can say is that I have given birth with no pain relief and been in hospital for months on end after 2 brain haemorrhages (one required brain surgery)all within the last 3 years and I have NEVER felt pain like this!! While I was in hospital 3 months ago with the last brain haemorrhage I was grinding my teeth a lot in the night due to stress, this caused 2 of them to shatter, one is extremely painful
I feel for each and every person here, I really do! The pain is persistent and agonising. I’m dosed up to the eyeballs on pain killers, Ive tried everything I can think of to relieve it, I smell like a bloody clove and feel sick cuz I think I swallowed some of the clove oil and Im almost certainly being driven mad…I’m now having conversations with myself about why this kind of shite always happens to me!!!
I have an appointment with the dentist at 11.45 today so hopefully he will be able to do something for this pain. Im terrified to go though, its only been 12 weeks since my last brain haemorrhage and im worried that this may disturb something again. The pain is so bad that I have no option but to take the chance.
Good luck to everyone else that is suffering with toothache at the moment
Choked severely (thought I would die) on a piece of food 2 days ago, it must have dislodged something in a broken tooth…in agony with all of you, am finally getting 2-3 second long respites from pain. here is what I did, after no sleep for 36 hours:
NO solid food…ate mushy fruit cocktail, smashed banana, runny scrambled eggs.
SWISHED heavily salted water after eating and on HOURLY basis, as warm as I could stand.
Aleve – nothing…seriously thought it made it worse
Advil – marginal help
Vicodin – just made me crazy
Ice – thought it helped until I nodded off, wanted to shoot myslf as I awoke when blood returned to the area.
I credit my relief with the salt water plus taking 1GRAM Vitamin C (2 500mg capsules, ester C
EVERY 2 hours…yes that’s right, 12+ grams per day…for infection.
(Toothache trumps diarrhea)
I hope this helps someome. I know dentists can’t do anything until the nerve/infection calms down.
thanks for this blog~
i have had my teeth breaking for several years now. at the moment i can hardly stand the pain, and i have a VERY high tolerence for pain but not this type. im 44 years old , i cant afford a dentist and i do not know how to get rid of the pain. almost makes me want to put a gun to my head. crying ,moaning,yelling etc.its is unbearable.nerves are exposed and my face swollen immensley. please help
get Listerine and keep a good amount on the tooth that hurts for 30 sec. it does not cure the pain but it does sooth it.dont rely on advil or any other amphetamine because they fix one thing and ruin another (like you stomach will get ulcers).
im feeling the pain because my dentist damaged my tooth witch led to the damage of my pulp.
greattttt
Wow, Its good to know I’m not alone but sucks that we have to meet under such painful circumstance! If you found this site like me, its because you were looking for anything that might help ease the pain of a tooth!!!! Well, after reading a hundred or better posts, I’ve come to the conclusion that we’re all f**ked! One person mentioned sucking on the tooth to remove any infection and spit it out….., well, if it doesn’t work….. you’ve just turned exscrutiating pain into ultra-excrutiating pain! I should know, I’m there. Just took 6 tylenol and 3 aspirin and it seems to have helped a bit but now my stomach feels like sh***. I haven’t read that anyone used pliars or something though and I’m seriously considering it since its a back molar and I had the tooth in front of it pulled a few years back so its pretty accessible to grab onto “I think”. I’m only afraid that if it doesn’t go as planned and the tooth breaks or something and I can’t grab onto it, I’ll probably have to kill myself in order to survive!!!!!! Anyway, my outer gum around the supposed rooted end of my tooth is swollen and sticking out a good 1/8th inch or so….. Does anyone know if maybe I could stick a pin way in there and maybe relieve some pressure from infection build up or something. I’m gonna try something tonight if it persists one way or the other…. I don’t have insurance and a hospital will cost mega-bucks for a little procedure, so if I’m gonna have to go I’m gonna make’em earn their money!
USE HEAT!!! In desperation in some wee hour of the morning, because all else failed after a full day and night of pain, I grabbed my heating pad, wrapped it in a towel, turned it up as high as it could go and held it against the affected part of my face. Next thing I knew it was morning and the excrutiating pain was gone. I was swollen and there was pain, but it was very tolerable with just some Tylenol and Ambesol. I went to see my oral surgeon and he told me that was the best thing I could have done and it probably caused the infection to drain which in turn stopped the pain. When an infection is present, it’s usually the pressure of it that causes the excrutiating pain. The Dentist told me to continue using heat to help the infection drain and he gave me a week’s worth of Amoxicillin. If you know for sure that you are not allergic to any form of Penicillin and you can get your hands on some, TAKE IT. If you don’t know if you are allergic to it, DO NOT TRY THIS. Penicillin allergies can be DEADLY. Amoxicillin doesn’t work immediately but it has worked for me several times. Hopefully I’ll have enough money to get these darned teeth pulled soon.
I found that luke warm water near a heater helps “it seems my tooth hurts more at night whn its cold”
i went to an endontist and he said my VERY back tooth was infected( the pain was so bad that it spread making all of them hurt.)By the time i visited him i was in the worst condition possible; swollen face, nerve dead, and not being able to eat. He did 55% of a root canal which was $800. He is gonna finish it next week but my tooth is already feel 5 biliion times better.
P.S. Don’t pull out or break your tooth because the bacteria in the root will spead and infect your jaw and mouth.
P.S.S if you can’t get a root canal get clove oil immediately and put it on the tooth. it feels soo good and it kills the bacteria.
Try Clove oil but never swallow it because it can kill you.
Wow-The pain was unbearable-I recall being told by my doctor 7 months ago that I needed a root canal but i was like MEH-i dnt need-Actually-over the last 7 months felt nothing until Christmas day.The pain has been excruciating and i felt like yanking the tooth off with a pair of pliers.So i called the doctors and there was no one-its Christmas GUYS
Took some Tylenol but worked only for 3 hours-had to go for an emergency the following day.
Now-the dentist cleaned my tooth,and put me on antibiotics-I am to see him again after 9 freaking days as I await the antibiotic to do its job-This SUCKS
iN THE meantime-I wake up in the middle of the night and feel like someone iS HITTING MY HEAD WITH A Hammer-but its the tooth.The antibiotics make me feel like not taking food and leave my mouth dry-but i will still face the PAIN FOR ANOTHER 2 WEEKS.
People-if u have any pain-get to the source-Only the dentist knows what to do-and remember-it will come to pass-i just didnt know that nerves can get THIS MAD
Oh For God’s sake. I got better, For a FEW freaking months I got better… NOW my dumb ass has to go back again and this time it’s WORSE. Been to the hosp and the best they can give me after telling me ice was a no go was toridol… BIG FUCKIN DEAL. please. But it stopped it for a sec or so. Now they put me on antibiotics and stuffs, it’s been DAYS and it’s NOT ANY BETTER. I mean, hey I lived large and got a damn hamburger, and paid for it for DAYS. Sigh, I am facing the fact that I’m gonna have to go and get it pulled, hell if this will stop the pain I’d get ALL OF THEM PULLED, right now, if they had affordable plans, like not the ones that take 50% of your salary and your first born. AUGH. This shite SUCKS!!!!! I HATE HATE HATE dentists, ESPECIALLY THE SMART ASSED ONES….
*whine, bitch, moan and complain, waaaaaahhhhhhhh*
Oh and hey did I FORGET to mention this thing STARTED on Christmas Day? The day of the birth of the Blessed Christ Child? Who wants to suffer on HIS BIRTHDAY??? THIS SUCKS SO OUTRAGEOUSLY I can’t even begin to fathom it. ARGH.
Yep…its just happened to me too, broke a piece off my back tooth!!! im working all day tomorrow and cant even phone to get an appointment till wednesday…which is the last day that the dentis is open before new year!!! Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh why do these things happen only to people like us!!
Well here I am at 8pm, bank holiday (new years day)
on call doctor can’t be arsed to look at it or give me meds cos it’s not his freakin area. Thank god I have left over Anti-biotics and 2 dihydracodeine. It’s a wisdom tooth aswell.
Had some oil of cloves earlier and it made me puke. Great start to the new year.
OH MAN I HATE THE CLOVES… Just the smell now makes me sick. I have childhood memories of cloves on oranges hanging around smelling all nice and fresh, and clove smell in sweet potato bakes, and in teas that taste Oh So Good, and now when I smell them ALL I WANNA DO IS BARF. It reminds me of EXTREME sickness, EXTREME PAIN and vomiting up my toenails, all from the no caffeineated 3 days I could keep nothing down. I want my happy childhood memories back. waaaaahhhhhh. Or dentures. YEAH dentures, then I would NEVER EVER HAVE TO GO THROUGH THIS AGAIN. Sounds GROSS, no doubt, but then again with THIS kind of pain and or sickness, who CARES what other people think???
Holiday teeth pain SUCKS.
HEY….. and WHY is my bug there (Avatar) so GREEN, FAT, and UGLY??? LoL.
all these comments helped me make it through the night….Got 2 teeth pulled today and feel much better hope everyone else getpain under control.
I haven’t been to the dentist since I was in foster-care (yes I know, stupid me) because I couldn’t afford it. So now I have several cavities that are heinous. However there is one in particular that is causing my problems today. I had a filling in my first pre-molar, and it fell out about a year or so ago. Since then, I have been feeling this hole grow ginormous in my tooth. And now the pain in unbearable. I can feel in all over the right side of my face, in my ear and in my neck. It’s too hard to sleep and I have never dreaded the thought of eating before. I am in constant agony. As I talk to you, I have a dry teabag in my mouth, against the tooth, because I was told that it would bring out the infection. Anyways, I am a college student, so I have pretty much nothing. No money, no nice job that has benefits. So I am going into the dentist on Thursday, so they can take an x-ray of the tooth and give me antibiotics, and hopefully painkillers too. And then maybe when my job starts up again in February I will be able to afford to have them just take the thing out.
Anyway, I have to go take some more ibuprofen, so god bless everyone, and hopefully this excruciating pain will go away soon.
can eugenol toothache get you fucked up?
aggh, have tried clove oil, painkillers, whiskey, salt water, ice pack but nothing works,
have appointment this afternoon, if i havent died by then! this is the worst pain, have had 2 root canals before. reckon need another one, i look after my teeth, so why is this happening, damn you teeth! wanna have em all removed and use false teeth…
i have an exposed nerve in my wisdom tooth at the back on my bottom row. im in so much pain i decided to go to the hospital where they told me i would have to be put on a waiting list and have to wait 18 months………….lol 18 months with pain like this …..i dont think so.
im in a mess cos im needle phobic and need sadation.
im taking 400mg ibuprofen and co codamol which does nothing for the pain at all.
not one dentist in dover kent does sadation only injections.
PLEASE HELP
i went to four different dentist,because i was unsure of them all (look up boards.ie and the dentist blogs,in the republic of ireland they are rip off merchants and as far as i know from experience they are no different in attitude and manner since the 1970’s)the worst dentist i went to was on noonan eamon t, he ripped me off and my mouth open!!
my son went to him also and he apparently needed 2 fillings,anyway he had a bad experience with him and WE ARE NOT GOING BACK.
most of his clients are medical card holders,but he ripped me off completely in the end i payed out nearly over 1000 euros and one tooth had to be redone as he did not scoop out all the decaying material.If this happens sometimes it can result in an abcess which is exactly what happens to me.
in future my only advice to you would be to book in advance dont let it get too late,at the first sign of tooth sensitivity see a well recommended dentist and save up because there are many great places up north,i would reccommend appletree or anywhere in co.down to be quite honest!interesting blog,it is almost like a dentist wrote this *LOL*.
Just get them pulled if the pain is too much. I did end up doing that and it still took another month before the pain was gone but its gone
well im back again and with good news.
i went to a private dentist and he was wonderful, he talked to me all the way through.
i had the injection (needle phobic) twice but didnt feel a thing, he was so gentle with me.
i had it pulled on friday 16th jan and i held it together quiet well.
i did get the sweats and sick feeling but got through that.
my advice is have the lot out…………………no more tooth ache
i have 7 teeth left on my bottom row which im going to have taken out.
NO MORE PAIN
good luck everyone.
julie. xxxxxxxxxx
I am so glad i found a site that actually helps. These posts are great and ive laughed at a lot of them which makes the pain go away slightly for a few seconds. The pain is disgusting, and ive gotten barely any sleep cause of it. I went to the dentist and he said he didnt see anything but he thinks its sinus putting pressure on the tooth. Its the worst pain in my life and i told him to just pull it if when i come back next week and its not better. Tylenol worked nicely for the first day which the pain was very little. But it has got much worse. The second night i couldnt sleep and apparently kept my parents up. I went downstairs to go on the computer to find remedies but my dad flipped on me and i was shit out of luck for the night. The third day i went to the dentist and he said blah blah blah the sinus’s and gave me a script of Darvacet (which sucks ass and doesnt do a thing). I just put kettle one vodka on a cotton ball and stuffed it in my upper right gum near the back. In the process the vodka dripped all over the place and hopefully when my rents get home they dont flip and say ive been drinking. Ive been miserable for the past 2 days and cant wait until next week when i go back to the dentist. Ive tried ice, ice water, sea salt, salt n pepper, onions, hydrogen peroxide, vodka, pulling on it to easy the pressure a little, advil, tylenol, aleve, asprin, dayquil sinus, dayquil cough and cold, standing outside in the snow for 20 minutes for no reason hoping the pain will receed. The pain is terrible and i have to work today which sucks cause i have shed tears from the pain. Yesterday i took my frustration out on my couch, punching it and jumping up and down and flinging my arms and body everywhere, screaming into blankets. I would be embarrassed to have anyone see me doing this. Im about to take 2 1/2 100mg Darvacet and hope its not lethal cause the normal dose does shit. I looked it up and websites say its no enough to OD. I can barely eat cause the tooth hurts like nothing else. Thank God there are posts from all you guys describing your pain. It made me laugh at a lot of the things you said, hopefully youll find this one somewhat funny too. Going to take my pills, Peace and good luck.
Hey Michael,
Try raw garlic cloves pressed hard around the gum of that tooth, or if you can, bite down on them for 5 minutes or so, but get the gum all around it soaked good. Might burn like hell, but it worked a little for me after everything else didn’t. If that doesn’t work, have you contemplated suicide? Only joking…., good luck bro!
Rudy
Thanks Rudy, ill give that a try. I did end up taking that 2 1/2 Darvacet and the pain absolutely went away. In the process i became quite euphoric, which i don’t care i was just happy the pain was gone. If it returns ill try the garlic clove. I don’t want to do over the recommended dose of Darvacet again cause i don’t know what its doing to my liver or the rest of my body. Anyway thanks a lot, Peace.
Seriously…worst pain in my life…I dont know what to do…my ear is killing me, I feel like my body is shuting down. I am so tired as I didnt get any sleep last night. I am sat in bed with a bottle of luke warm water, my salt shaker and a jug to spit into. I get mild relief when its in my mouth but as soon as I spit it out it hurst so much. I have spent the past hour looking at websites about pulling out your own teeth…I have considered it but the tooth is broken and I know it wont all come out, probably do more harm than good. I will attend the walk in center tomorrow (I am in England by the way) and see the nurses there although they are no dentist. I am going to beg them to get this tooth out. I need it out now. Shit my ear is hurting so much. No pain killers working…Oh my god I dont know what to do, I have tried every ‘home remedy’ Garlic clove rubbed on, warm teabag, salt water, vodka. Nothing is helping. I just have the most rancid taste in my mouth. Anyone know how I can shift the ear ache as well as dealing with the tooth? I Need help NOW!!!
Possibly had the worst night of my life last night, the pain in my tooth was un bearable, and my ear also hurt like crazy…no pain killers helped at all. scanned the web all night looking for home remidies just to ease the pain a little..I spent the night rubbing cloves of garlic on my tooth and gums which apart from making me stink provided pain relief for no more than 30 seconds…I used vodka which stung like hell and i found the only thing that worked was warm salt water rinsing around my mouth but as soon as i spat out the pain came back almost instantly. so i didnt get a moments sleep…just repeated that process all night.
I went to the chemist this morning and got some orajel extra strength stuff….it does work! almost immediate relief, my pain is so bad it did not get rid of 100% of the pain but enough that i managed to fall asleep for an hour. I do reccommend it. It says you should only use it for no more than 4 times a day due to the anastetic in it…I must admit I have exceeded that already but not used it in a few hours so I am hoping that will be it until the dreaded night time comes. Going to beg the emergency dentist on monday to pull this cracked tooth out…I honestly though I was going insane last night through the pain. Never had anything like that before…I have already got anxiety thinking about what tonight shal bring!
Lisa,
Try to put some cotton soaked in the warm salt water over your tooth like a bandaid. If your tooth is so sensitive that it is causing the pain to make your ear ache this might help by keeping the nerve ending not exposed. Good luck…
I hope you feel better sooon…..
It’s almost four in the morning and I’m wide awake. I want these damn shards of rotten tooth *OUT*! I haven’t had dental insurance for *years* and this tooth has gradually been breaking apart and falling off in pieces. My entire gum needs to be like cut open and they need to get every last bit of this tooth outtttt. A couple weeks ago, I managed to pull a chunk out with tweezers. I tried the tweezers again, but I just got blood and it hurt like a mofo. My psychiatrist place has a dental room on the first floor and after my appointment tomorrow I am marching in there and asking them to get me in like INSTANTLY, numb the hell out of my mouth (and general anesthesia or sedation or WHATEVER…for my ulcers they “sedated” me with “anesthesia,” but I was wide awake and they kept saying, “Is she getting sleepy yet?”). I want this sucker out. I hope I don’t have any more cavities. My gum hurts like hell, I’m trying not to touch it and aggravate it any more. I need to get thsi taken care of and Ive been Googling Medi-Cal. It said they cover dental, it damn well better.
Oh, and i know that I sound like some kind of moron, but I’ve barely had Medi-Cal a month an my back and mental illnesses have taken priority. BBut still I should have gotten this taken care of sooner.
Hope everyone gets better and nothing’s too serious. God bless.
my tooth broke as i was eating a starburst. my mom said u know ur tooth is going to start hurting. i said to her no it wont well its been 2 weeks and it has satrted to hurt. it hurts so bad i feel like everything is in slow motion. even the music i am listening to seems to be slower than usual. pain like this isnt fit for humans. i have no insurance so i will try orajel please wish me luck.
If its taken 2 weeks, it may be the start of an infection. You may want to consider a regiment of anti-biotics if it is. Anyway I wish you luck! Toothaches and earaches are the worst!
hi why me
orajel is no good for the pain your experiancing.
im petrified of dentists and i have coped with pain that bad for several months, believe me dentist is best.
my husband came with me and stayed all the way through the extraction. if you feel your mum could take you my advice to you would be go to a dentist that will listen to you and your fears.
i was frightend to walk through the door but if you see your doctor first for some tamasapan they will calm you down and make you feel less frightend.
please let me know what you decide.
good luck
julie
Toothaches suck! Even though I blame not having money to fix may teeth — that is the reason I let them go so long……..I Lied……I didn’t get my teeth fixed because I was so f***ened afraid of the dentist….So I let some of my teeth just go..break in pieces…….they when it was too late, I would go to the dentist…….Oh well the only solution to my problem was to get the teeth PULLED. Why??? Because I did not go in and take care of the problem 2 – 3 or 5 years ago, stupid me….Now I have to chew with my front teeth……
because I WAS AFRAID OF THE DENTIST………stupid me…..no teeth left in my mouth….well I have a few – but not enough to do the chewing with….so very f*****en sad!……..don;t let your teeth go as long as I did.
At the first sign of a problem go to the dentist and get the filling fix, a route canal, whatever you need to save your tooth……don’t let your tooth get to the point it has to be pulled … please.
this is the wort pain ever im stay up to go to the dentist early im in nyc so i have alot of choices but i cnt take this pain no more i feel like crying:(
man!!!!!!!! my jaw is killing me
its like pulsating pain coming over and over again on my tooth in waves, each getting worse by the minute
i feel like taking pliers and just yanking it
My tooth is killing me and i have the sorest mouth ever.
half of my tooth fell out ages ago and it was alright but the other day i was eating something hard and it started to woblly so i justate of the other side but no then i was eating starbursts and a little bit of my filling came out and now every time i eat on that side i get really bad toothache and now i dont know what to do because by other tooth the half that is left is digging into my gum and everytime i push it back up to where it is meant to be it just forces itself bac down and i am only 12 and i have got to go bac to school on monday and it is really really hurting and i waould really apprectate it if someone would help me by telling me a way to get it out without any pain because i have had enough pain and i really dont like my dentsit much so please someone help me.
thank you
P.S please help i only have 3 days to get it out
hi
you should try a private appointment with a dentist who will listen you.
i did this and it only cost me £80.
he was wonderful and im needle phobic…..
hope this helps
If its a baby tooth, or even an adult tooth that is that loose you can move it back and forth a lot, maybe buy some ambesol, soak the tooth and near by gum with it, wait a few minutes ’til it numbs up good and try to break whatever remaining roots are still attached and just yan it out. I wouldn’t do it though unless you are determined to go through with it since it may bother you more if you don’t succeed. Good luck with it either way!
no denest saturday my gums all swallown and my tooth absesees help
Last night, and now tonight I am experiencing a terrible toothache. I have a large cavity in one of my teeth that is causing pain. I could actually feel my heart beating in my tooth. It is one of those things where the only thing you can think about is the pain, and you uncontrollably rock back and forth in pain. It is terrible!
My toothache is subsiding somewhat after 800mg Ibuprofen, 2 pills of Excedrin Migraine, and topical application of peppermint extract and vodka. I hope the relief lasts enough to get some sleep!
HELP!!! This pain is unbearable! This tooth has had a cavity before, was filled, and then the filling fell out (all when I had good dental insurance). The tooth then broke in half….never bothered me. Half of the filling fell out a long time ago and didn’t bother me so figured the roots were just dead on that tooth. Now the other half is feeling like it wants to fall out and man does it hurt. It hurts the entire right side of my jaw. Problem is that now I have crappy insurance, no money saved up because of this stupid economy lowering our salaries making us use up our savings, live paycheck to paycheck because of economy cuts, and yet make too much to get any type of aid…go figure. My insurance will only pay for cleanings, cavity fillings, and about 80% of pulling teeth. I went to a dentist that a friend highly recommended…only to find out that my tooth cannot be pulled. He wanted me to try a root canal….which insurance won’t pay for. They only pay 10% of a root canal and I have to pay the other 90% which was about $800.00. My husband and I barely make ends meet right now without having a dentist bill to add to the equation. I asked the dentist about pulling the tooth….guess what…it cannot be pulled. It would have to be surgerically removed…WHICH my lovely insurance won’t pay for. I don’t have any vodka in the house because we are non drinkers and don’t allow it in our house. My husband has some Vicodin left from his car wreck that he never took….he hates taking any kind of pain medication at all…so I’m using that for now to numb the pain. Only problem is…what will I do when it runs out??? I can’t bear this pain. I can’t afford to have it removed or saved. Does anyone have any suggestions or know of any places that might help someone in my situation? PLEASE HELP!!! I’m almost ready to go start a fight with someone so they will hit me in the jaw and hopefully knock the thing out of my mouth and I’m not even a violent person or a fighter.
My suggestion would be to see a different dentist and demand that they pull the tooth. And don’t tell the new dentist what this dentist said or he’ll agree with the other dentist. The only reason why this dentist won’t pull it is cause it’s much less money. These dentists are scams. They’re worse than the AIG executives who are accepting bonuses while the company goes under. Trust me. I’ve been to enough of them that I know. And don’t let them put you in fear by saying that your whole mouth will shift if you have the truth extracted. It’s nothing but hogwash. I’ve had two teeth extracted already and my mouth and eating are doing just fine. Dentists use the fear method in order to get you to do more expensive treatments.
In reply to MRD. Get online and check to see if there are any dental schools and free dental clinics around your area. The schools charge hardly nothing, because once again it is a school, but the people who actually do the work are pretty good and they always have an instructor with them during most procedures. Free dental clinics are mostly area dentists that volunteer their time to help people in the area. There are no income restrictions most of the time and they normally give one free service. Also, if there is anything left of the tooth, most of the time they can still pull it out without surgery. Hope this helped atleast a little. Good luck
Tell the dentist to get stuffed! Get another one and have the tooth extracted.
There’s something the doctors should know (I heard this from a doctor himself). It’s the patient and not the doctor who decides what’s urgent and what’s not.
I understand that dentists want money but not helping people who are suffering, just for the sake of the profit makes me sick!
Try some clonixin pills, anyway.
i have Horrible teeth 6 cavities and im TERRIFIED of the dentist i know their there to help but im SCARED…one of my bottom teeth MIGHT be loose and im in pain please ANYBODY JUST HELP ME!
(IM 13)
omg!
this is the worst pain i ever felt in my life.
i fractured my arm. and currently have a cast on.
that fractures nothing compared 2 the tooth ache.
my left top tooth 3 to the last counting the molar hurts like hell.
im freaking sick cause of iht.
i heard this pain causes fever which i have atm.
i feel like killing my self.
i use ibuprofen which take the pain away for a while then i come back with a fever.
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god help me.
anyone does root canals hurt?
I know exactly what you are going through!!! I have had 3 root canals. I had 2 done by exceptional dentists and one done by a dentist that was awful(didn’t realize it until she started doing the work). The dentist that I currently have, she done one of my rcs and she said that if a rc hurts then the dentist isn’t doing it properly, that a rc shouldn’t hurt at all. My new dentist, lets call her Rose, had to go in and extract the tooth that the bad dentist worked on b/c it wasn’t done properly, became abscessed, and had to remove it b/c it couldn’t be saved at that point. Dont be afraid to ask the dentist how long they have been doing dentistry, and all that stuff. But trust me, if you are worried about a certain dentist, see someone else. But once again, rcs don’t hurt when they are done properly, which most dentists do. If your tooth is abscessed, which it probably is from the sound of it, they will more then likely drain the infection, give you a oral rinse and schedule you for an appointment at a later date. Most dentists don’t like to work on someone who has an infection because it causes more problems then necessary. Plus an abscess is harder to numb because it is an acid and anesthetics are also acids, so it makes it a lot harder to numb. Anyways, good luck, and remember don’t be nervous but if you are extremely nervous you can always ask them to put you to sleep while they do it. A lot of places do that now.
GOOD GOD ALMIGHTY I AM IN HELL.
OH MY GOOD, I HAVE THE SOLUTION TO THE PAIN,,,, AFTER DAYS, EVEN WEEKS OF SEVERE TOOTHACHE I FOUND A PILL THAT JUST SWEEP AWAY THE PAIN, IT’S INDEED IBUPROFEN AND I KNOW THAT FOR SOME OF YOU JUST DIDN’T WORK I DIN’T FOR ME EITHER, BUT I BOUGHT THIS MEDICATION IN MEXICO AND I JUST DRIVE AWAY THE PAIN. IS A DIFERENT FORMULA I GUESS, HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
I take real good care of my teeth and see the denist often. My back lower tooth broke a small piece off a couple of months ago. No pain at all so I didnt rush to the denist or anything, then finally last week I went in and he is working on it and he is rebuilding the toooth with pins and stuff. I leave the denist and am fine that night, then the next day the most unbelievable pain sets in, just feels like a knife grinding with no let up, the pain was crippling and brought me to tears. It was so excruciating my left arm was going numb. I called the dentist and he prescribed me Lortab, which takes the pain away but makes me sick. So it has bee 3 days and is now the weekend and I am still taking these pills, last night the pain set in so strong it brought me to my knees, I cant take it anymore. I am going back to the denist Monday morning, before I go crazy, I have already missed 2 days of work.
Update:
Well I couldn’t wait though the weekend, woke up in pain again last night, called my dentist this morning and he agreed to meet me on Easter Sunday in a couple of hours.
I feel for all you guys on here, I know how bad tooth pain can be. One thing I would like to say though, and that is you guys really need to do what ever it takes to get to the dentist. Teeth problems do not clear up on there own. I just had an implant put in for $1700 and I dont have any dental insurance. I just wanted to keep my teeth nice. Do whatever it takes to get to the dentist, they will work with you on payments, but look at the alternative.
I was 32 and had tooth problems and had not been to the dentist in many years, and was embarrassed about the condition of my teeth. But after some unbearable problems I went to the dentist and he was very kind and put me on a treatment plan that spanned over a couple of years due to cost. Now 2 years later with a lot of work and 1 implant and 1 bridge later, I have very nice teeth, but I am still subject to getting a bad tooth ache (obviously), but because I have such a good relationship with my dentist he is meeting me on Sunday to help. Good luck folks, that is just my story.
OMG RELIEF,
Met the dentisit yesterday at 12:30 and he got to work on my tooth, turns out it was infected with pus, he spent and hour and cleaned it all out, made a drain and prescribed me anitbiotics.
I feel SOO relieved right now I cant tell you guys. I slept so good last night. If I had not went to the dentisit I would be in unbearable pain right now, because these kinds dont fix themselves, also because your teeth are so close to your brain you have to be really careful about that.
Nost importantly do not be afarid of the densist, they are there to help. they want your business.
I have a fractured nerve. I pain $2000 already for the dang dentist to try and figure out what happened. He pulled my molars out, said I had a dry socket and then put a new cap on my tooth. The tooth that he capped is the one with the fractured nerve. I have waited almost a year and cant get it taken care of. My chest is starting to hurt, my left arm is so sore as well as my neck and shoulder. I am in so much pain!! I am a mom to two small boys and am afraid I might not wake up in the morning due to the tooth. I was able to get on Care Credit but the dentist maxed out the card with everything he did to my tooth. I dont know what to do…I dont want to die. Im only 30 years old. :<
I have called dentists about payment plans…there are none that accept.
Hey Guys, i feel for each and everyone of your if your haveing to put up with the pain ive had to just these last 2 days, seriosuly.
ive got some self diagnosed absess/gum infection over my bottom left cainine area, it batters like hell… i was in so much pain last night i thought i was going to overdose on the amount of painkillers i had to take just to get 45mins sleep every 2 hours. ive got a emergancy dental apointment in 30mins… im pritty scared, i dont want my teeth pulling im only 21.
its been some time since I posted on here… I can recall when the molar in the back of my mouth was throbbing, streaming with pain from some unknown realm of being. I kep putting it off, saying I’ll have enough money to get it pulled next month, and it seems that perhaps was a mistake. I now have a swollen face, the right side of my lower jaw swells outwards like a plastic bag full of water ready to topple off a table. I went to the doctor the other day to grab some antibiotics, hopefully they start showing signs of working within the next few days… wish me luck folks:)
peace in the middle teeth!
harvey tooth banger – I don’t know where you live, but here in the U.S. (Michigan), a tooth extraction is usually no more than $200 if you go with a general dentist, and usually not more than $300 with an oral surgeon.
A root canal is usually $700-$800 if you go with a general dentist, or $1,000-$1,200 with an endodontist. Then the core build-up is usually $250. Then if you get a crown after the root canal it’s usually anywhere from $700-$1,000, depending on the dentist.
With that being said, If you don’t have insurance and you can accept not having a few teeth missing here and there, the extraction would be the way to go. The main benefit is it’s about $200 for the extraction compared to $1,800-$2,200 for the root canal, core build-up, crown. You also never have to worry about having another toothache there again. The bad part is you then have to get used to chewing your food with out that tooth.
Then you have the possibility that the crown won’t last if you get tooth decay under the crown, if you go that route. That would mean you would need a new crown for another $800. Dentists are notorious for saying you need a new crown when the one you have on is doing just fine. This is the reason dentists are getting extremely rich off of our pain. It’s also the reason why dentists don’t like to extract. If they only did extractions, dentists wouldn’t get rich.
But if you know the extraction is the way to go for you, I would just go and get it done. Plus, taking those antibiotics all the time isn’t good for your health. Repeated antibiotic use can really mess up your intestinal bacterial flow over time, which can cause many other health problems such as candida and yeast infections. Dentists don’t seem to mind giving out antibiotics, just as long as they get to do the root canal/core build-up/crown so they can get rich.
Absolutely right!! My tooth (rests) started aching last week. Not really bad. Yesterday I had it extracted. Fortunately I know the dentist. No bullshit of root-canal or those things for millionaires. No time for keeping on pain. The problem is when one is young. If you don’t take care of your teeth by then, forget. At this age, I’m 45, I prefer not to have a tooth then be continuously in pain. No one knows the future but abscess and pain from that tooth, no for sure.
grave i have a great teeth it was horable its devastating its crook and a lot of tartar and its so yellowish and i have a horable bad breath.to all the chics out there a got a message to all of you plzzzzzz…..!!!!!!!!!!! kiss me plzzzzzzzzzzzzz…………!!!!!!!thanks hahahahahahaha heheheheheheheh hohohohohohoh..
Well, I know this has nothing to do with technology, but I thought I’d share some tips I’ve learned in the past 2 days.
My first tip won’t ease your pain, but it will save you some. I’ve seen it on forums that you should put aspirin on the tooth where it hurts and hold it there. I mean this is just stupid. Aspirin doesn’t ease your pain like numbing sprays. It is meant to be ingested and works in your bloodstream. If you hold aspirin to the inflammation, you will however get a cool aspirin burn, next to which your toothache will be of secondary importance. Whatever you do, swallow the aspirin, don’t rub it on.
The single most helpful thing I did, which was almost the only thing that could ease my pain was salt water. And I don’t mean go to the ocean salt water (although that’s ok too), I mean the almost as much salt as water type, truly disgusting stuff. Just sip some in your mouth (try not to vomit, you’ll get used to it after the 30th time you do this) and rinse it around where it hurts. My pain could not be relieved by the medication, but salt water in 90% of the cases completely dissolved the pain. As you would guess there is a downside. In the better cases I needed to do this every 20 minutes, but sometimes I needed to repeat every 5 minutes. Near the end, my experience was that neither the medication nor the salt helped, but if I took the medication the pain remained, but the salt water could ease it. Go figure. Apparently there is no danger to this, although I am no doctor, but believe me, it is not pleasant. Sure beats the pain though. Oh, and yes, it does sting your mouth and tongue, just rinse with water afterward.
The third tip is also a prevention type tip. Whatever you do, don’t pick at it. Sometimes its tempting, because a nudge here and there with maybe moves your tooth in such a way that the pain will be better. No it won’t. You could cause an inflammatory reaction which is very, very painful. Rinsing is fine, but don’t touch or try to move it ever.
i got three dead molar in lower left mouth. two of them are decayed to jaw bone and the other is decaying as i write. my gums are sore. i know i got infection because my jaw is swollen slightly. i got no money, no job, just finish spring semester. i cant not sleep, but i can eat on other side of mouth. need all three removed now. why did i wait ten years to have them decay. last time been at dentist, bad experience.. they make fun of you, belittle you, make fun of your teeth. 5:34 am and my left jaw bone feel like i have in the ring fighting. puffy and sore. im going to take paper towel and sook of some scope and ram it on the check and gum area… ipry ot works…..
I can understand the pain you are going through (Three Dead Molars). I have just returned from the dentists 4 hours ago. My first time in 30 years. Last week one of my teeth became abcessed. I held out as long as I could, but it was unbearable. I am so glad I went
Like you I had Molars down to the gum line. I thought they would have to be cut out.
To make a long story short.. This Dental office was the best.. They calmed all my fears and took away any enbarassment I had.
All my lowers were removed today under a light IV sedative. Very minimul pain if any .
Even if you do not have all the money now.. You should go and get that infection cleared up.. It will only cocst for the vivit and Antibodies. If you go further with treatment , many have some kind of Financicng.
I wish you luck and hope that pain goes away.
Dan
I am in agony with my top tooth at the back, had a fillin in it that fell out ages ago, didnt do anything about it, it was a bit sensitive but not to bad, then last week some sharp twinges in it,….then yesterday full blown pain, and today the tooth cracked and now i am in agony no-one could tell how much pain im in, i feel like smashing my fist through the window to have something else to think about!!!!
dont go to the dentist till thursday and its only monday i have no idea how ill survive i really dont im so scared of this pain!
I can mos def. feel your pain Craig, I also have a fillin that fell out in my left back molar, and so I made a appt. for today and the dentist agreed to see me. I went into the dental office around 2pm and they took my xrays and found out the reason why this fillin is hurting is because my wisdom tooth is crooked and pushing on all my other teeth. I asked the dentist if they were able to extract the teeth out today knowingly that the receptionist told me that they would be able to today. So, the dentist told me that he could do it only if he had time.. Im in the chair like WTF im in pain and you worrying about your damn time isnt this what you get paid for.. To make a long story short he said that he didnt have enough time and that he has to reschedule me for Thursday. They did prescribe me some tylenol 3 which has codeine in it and it works a little but I just ran to Walgreens and picked up this little bottle of miracle ointment called “Red Cross,” this ointment is working miracles and I think it will hold up until Thurs.
Good Luck
Never GO to the dentist wearing a suit. Make Sure your Dentist has a big stick but two good ears. Nothing worse than a great book knowledge dentist who’s great on cadavars but can’t setttle the pre & post UFO’like Jitters
U know when the guy says ahahahahahahaah,,soory, not ha hah ha ha but aha aha aha
then runs out the door two minutes after a failed extraction & leaves the fat lady at the front to explain why you owe $100 for a prescription for penicillin.
He toook one look at my nice suit and ran. When I explained to fatty that I wasn’t paying for shyt she said you only owe thirty dollars. I said I’m not giving you thirty cents. She said do you have a credit card. I said “WHAT?!”
and not a Stone Cold “WHAT, WHAT, WHAT?” but maybe it should’ve been
Then Fatty said “Don’t worry its tax deductible”
If fatty were a man he would’ve got a stunner which woul’dve left him in the chair & then after a quick extraction & a flurry to the Solar Plexes He’d find his pants around his ancles & I’d preform a root canal on him,, i’d say”It’s OK Fatty, Time for your root canal! U want the good news or the bad news first” to which fatty would reply ” A BLUUUUUU BLUUUUU” oh ya forgot i’ve got one of them Alien lookin’ things prying his mouth open…then I’d say “OK Fatty the Bad New’s is you’r not gettin’ any Novacane for this root canal” However the Good News is You’re Gettin Vaseline” Then As I’d prepare to stick in my drill I’d hit turn Fatty’s Bosses Drill on for sound and then Fatty’d get a drill of my own, Its not a Black’nDecker its an All White’Pecker! LMFAO
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I had an abcess, had no sleep for 4 nights, the pain was sending me absolutley crazy, the pain was every 10 secs continuasly ,I couldnt get into see a dentist so the receptionist told me to take 2 paracetamol and 2 co-codamol ,omg it knocked me out it was great, id even been to the hospital and the tablets they give me didnt work
hey right now iv tryed everything to get the pain to go away but its just not working please help me are there any around the house remmedies that i can use say like if you rub vegiemite on an oulcer the pain goes away xxx thanx
Hi, I had my first abscess 6 months ago, it was horrendous, went to the dentist and he gave me some antibiotics, and told me for root canal it would cost £500 or for £100 he would pull it out for me!! Anyway took the pills and it went away so I thought, about a month ago I got this pimple which appeared on my gum right next to the abscessed tooth, it was disgusting just like a spot, went back to a NHS walkin centre, and the pimple was lanced which was foul, given some more antibiotics but the pimple never went away. So this Tuesday went in for root canal, now the good thing about an NHS walkin centre, it doesn’t cost a thing, expecially if you got an exemption card which I had. Anyway root canal was absolute agony, so after half an hour I pleaded with them to pull the tooth, which they did, my gum is still a little painful, feels a bit swollen, but I am going to go back next week and ask them to check it for me. So some advise for my fellow brits out there, if you are in pain phone up the NHS direct helpline who will give you a telephone number for an emergency dentist, NHS usually they will be located in a hospital, and the most you will have to pay is 45 pound, if you have the worse case it will be about £180 for a full set of dentures!!!
I just got my molars yanked today..it hurt, especially when it was being numbed, however I had unbearable pain for days beforehand. The best way to deal with it is very warm salt water rinses and ice packs on the hand, web between the thumb and index finger, it really worked for me.
Jesus. I lost a filling and feel like shooting myself in the face. I’d rather crap out 100 giant cactii than have this kind of tooth pain. I might go to dental school one day just to help people who need a tooth pulled and can’t pay right now or can’t wait days to see someone.
If a moth lands on me again I’m going to freak out. It’s going to be a terrible weekend if I can’t get in today.
all of u guys seem to have very much pain but im an 11 year old and ive had my tooth ache for 2 days i have been trying to go to the dentist but i have to have this very bad pain in my teeth intill monday cause the dentist is not opened on weekends!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! gosh ive took 2 advil pain and i whet to this party and the water there is amazing it heals my tooth ache for like an hour but at night i have this afual stomach ache! anyway im muslim and am fasting today
so i think ima like die O.o!!!!! try dealing with That
Hello Folks! I am amazed by the amount of people had/are gping through the same shite as I am right ow. The pain is awful and I cant stand it anylonger. I went to the dentist acouple of days ago and had an x-ray the doctor said take these antibiotics and then I advice you to have a root canal that is your only option. So luckally my insuance plan will cover this in October but of course this has to happen in september and having to wait for another monh roughly is no fun at all. And No I dont have a credit card or any other ways to pay in full. Anyhoo I have been taking my antibiotics for about 2 days now and getting fed up because I see no improvements yet, as i am a very impatient person esp when having to deal with horrendous pains. I find what help is Ibuprofen 600 mg 4 times a day.(spoke to a nurse who said that was fine)It lasts for about 3- 4 hours and just as the pain starts coming back I take a half of an advil so on and so forth.
Anyways I cant wait for this pain to go away. And Thanks for a great Forum:o)
-Patrick
I grind my teeth when I’m stressed out. A month ago, one of my molars developed a HORRIBLE tooth ache. My dentist said my ligament was swollen and would probably need a root canal/crown, but didn’t seem too worried about it when I saw her last. She even looked at my xrays from my last visit and made me confident the tooth could wait to have work done. Since then, my tooth stopped hurting and I assumed the tooth died. I scheduled another appointment 2 weeks past my last root canal in a different tooth. Since then, my tooth developed an abscess but hasn’t hurt too bad. I figured I could wait until my scheduled dental appointment to have treatment but yesterday, I woke up clenching my teeth and experiencing the worst pain felt in my molar in the whole world. I am at work today, still feelign this horrrrrrrible pain. I only ate soup and took about 6 Tylenol – which refuse to work. I have 1 more day until my appointment. I just hope I can handle this pain. It’s the throbbing that is the worst. Infection is disgusting and horrible. I am just so surprised how quickly this all developed. I just saw my dentist!
I’ve been kicked, punch, bashed, gang-bashed and even yelled at and even humilated in front of 300 people by my ex-girlfriend, by telling me “i was dropped! because i was too poor for her”. BUT, there is nothing WORSE than a “THROBBING TOOTH”. The pain is so unverable that i am on my “bended knee” in PAIN!!! I am even asking GOD OUR HEAVENLY FATHER for forgiveness, because i generally thought, i was going to die. And the worse thing was, this was Saturday evening, there is no Dentist until monday. Anyway, on Tuesday the Destist eventually told me, that i needed 3 “root-canal” done, for the price of AUD$1500 each. I told the Dentist to get stuff!!! How the hell i was goint to get the money, when my whole family are poor? So, the Dentist left cotton balls on 3 of my teeth. 15 years later, those teeth are now gone, and so are my other 5 teeth. However, i been lucky enough to visit home my mother birth country the Philippines and while i was there realised the Dentistry (American Teaching) there are 70% cheaper than the USA, Europe, Australia etc; this is due to the low Pesos value. So, i eventually decided, that i will get my teeth “CAPS” which will only cost me around AUD$75 each tooth. CAPS tooth will last for 25 years, and the only negative thing about it, while in operation’s the Destist might damage your sinus nerves etc., For me, CAPS tooth sounds good, because it is better than having denture and taking them out all the time. Unless with CAPS they are screwed in my mouth…good luck to you guys and MAY GOD OUR HEAVENLY FATHER “EASES THE PAIN THAT WE ARE GOING THROUGH NOW” IN THE NAME OF OUR SAVIOR “LORD JESUS CHRIST” AMEN!!! You can PUNCH ME! YOU CAN KICKED ME! YOU CAN BASHED ME! BUTTTT PLEASE, DO NOT GIVE ME A “THROBBING TOOTH”!!! I LOVE YOU GUYS!!! PEACE OUT FROM AUSTRALIA!!!
o wow i havent laughed this hard in a whilee. you described EXACTLY what i been goin threw. My teeth are a mess right now. Im 23. didnt have dental for a while so jus didnt go went to the dentist a year ago and it sounded like a goddamn bingo game with all the numbers they were calling out that needed worked on.Year later so far 3 teeth pulled. 4 rootcanals. and jus went i thought it was done. 2 nights ago i was in the worsttttttttttttttt pain. my girlfriend gets so madd cuz she tries to be helpfull and kiss me and cuddle me but i jus DO NOT want to be touched talked to anything.im on some medication that blocks any pain killers so that doesnt help. granted i still eat them like there m&ms because you never no right? lol but anyways what i been doing is
a.gargle salt water
b.put hot cloth on it
c.VANNILLA EXTRACT!!!
trust me it helps..thers natural pain killers in it or somethin
wow im 13 and i have screwed up teeth ive been to a dentist but got so scared they couldn’t finish (i was put out and after they told my mom to come back in 6 weeks but I COULDN’T)i might be loosing one of my bottom baby teeth but it hurts and all i can do is bite on my lip IM SO SCARED OF DENTISTS WHAT DO I DO?
PAIN IS ALL I CAN SAY!!!! HAD A FILLING AND NEED A ROOT CANAL!
I’m joining y’all in the club here with the tooth pain. A month ago I started having pain on both my upper and lower left side which caused a severe headache as well (I assume because the nerves are all connected together), and I had experienced that before a year ago, and the dentist at that time had said I had gingivitis so a hygienist cleaned my teeth and the pain had gone away, so I went to my new dentist and scheduled an appt for a cleaning thinking that was what it was again. The pain did go away – for a few weeks. But now its back, and its different. It is concentrated in my upper left wisdom tooth. I’m 30 and haven’t had them pulled yet. The doctors are wanting to do a re-treat for a botched root canal first, but that tooth doesn’t hurt. The one that hurts is this wisdom tooth, its throbbing, I can feel my pulse in there. I can’t close my mouth all the way, it hurts too much to touch the tooth. If you poke the tooth with a finger, then smell your finger (I know, ew, right??) it smells… rotten and gross. When I was able to brush it (now I’m not, it hurts too much) I kept spitting out yellow stuff. Pus, I assume? So I made another appt with the dentist and told them that I need an emergency extraction of my wisdom tooth. You know what the lady on the phone said? She said I first have to have the dentist look at it, then I will be referred to the oral surgeon. So how long is that going to take? Seriously, give me some pliers, Jack Daniels, a couple percocet and the lidocaine that I have, and I’ll do it myself!
Wow i have found a website forum that helps us get through this unimaginable! off the wall! cant put into words!.. Pain! its now 1.19am and im counting down the next hour until i can have 2 more cocodamals! had my first 2 at 10pm and slept from 11pm till midnight! havnt known what to do with myself i am in such awful pain, the right top and bottom half of my jaw is killing me! the pain throbbing through my ear and up the side of my head! i just need somthing to do, hense writing this and desperatly wanting time to pass by quickly! its now 1.23am please time pass quicker all i want to do is get my sorry tired self back to bed and sleep till morning when i can actually run to my dentist for hopfull releif!!! i dont know what really has caused this!?!?!? did have a hole in my back top tooth that i thought was about time it got sorted.. saw the dentist today at 4pm.. i am 12 weeks pregnent so no xrays allowed.. all she did was fill the hole and ever since 4pm i have had an ache that i thought i could cope with until 9pm when the pain was so great i cryed and moaned for help! with 15 mins left until the out of hours would close i desperatly ring them with no answer! i am so upset and angry at this stage!.. what do i do where do i turn now! i go to 2 hospitals feeling so confussed i dont know what to do for the best! the hospitals are packed out! i manage to see a GP who prescribes me cocodamol.. i am in tears just wanting the pain to disapear, my hands wondering all over my face to my legs, im looking down at my shaking feet then my hands again holding my face.. i swear i look like im going mental! at 10pm i finally get to take the 2 cocodamals and within 15 mins the pain starts to ease, its amazing the pain is slowly slowly slowly giving me some hope, hope i will be able to face the next few hours! this is bliss. im am in bed and manage to sleep until midnight, i am woke up again in absolute terrible pain!.. sitting up it does not ease..now crying i again dont know what to do sit up lay down sit up again, i walk down stairs and have a cigarette outside in the cold.. i have not had a cigarette since finding out i was pregnent 7 weeks ago! i feel so guilty but seriously dont know what to do with myself!!! i am finding comfort in writing this knowing that some poor poor person is going to be reading this when they are in immense toothache pain and i just hope for you reading this i am helping pass the time as the others posts have done for me right now!.. its now 1.33am, finally i am now counting down the next 30 mins! please plaese pain go away i cant take this anymore! i never ever thought a toothache could seriously be this excrutiating! sorry for my spelling! its the last thing on my mind.. 1.35 pm.. please hurry! just read this back and its as acurate as could be.. its now 1.42am, come on come on i desperatly need the 2 cocodamals!! i am so scared that it will only last 2 hours if that again and the while cycle starts again.. omg what have i done to deserve this! now 1.43 i am going to have another cigarette.. why? i dont know another thing to do to pass a little more time?.. 1.50am in from the quiet outdoor cold with water and cocodamals at the ready! 10 mins and counting! thank you for this site!!!!! i hope i am now back writing again in another 2 hours!
Well My pain is back and I have decided to get my tooth pulled tomorrow. thats it I am fed up no friggin root canal here….Its a waste of time pain and money
Hmm..I didn’t know Vodka could be good for toothache.
Must get toothache more often. Must get toothache more often
(Darn, I keep on typing “toothcake” instead of “toothache”. Am I craving something?)
Oh my god i am in so much pain, desperately i have taken extra strength Bayer back and body that’s all i have at the moment.This maximum strength anbesol does not help and all, and on top of this it is a holiday {Columbus,discovery day whatever}. Out of desperation i have resorted to mashing up a Bayer and putting it directly into the cavity. It has brought me some relief thank god, have a dentist appointment in the morning i can not wait this is torture!!!!!!!
I hate going to the dentist and I havent been to one since High school and now out of the blue my mouth is really hurting I ate a little bit of candy like I do ever once in a while, I am not big on sweets, crazy I know. When I was younger I went to a dentist and he filled a tooth and hit my nerve in the tooth well Now it seems like its on the other side. I would rather be going through childbirth rather then have a toothache..LOL.I am supper terrifed of dentists as well because one also gave me to much laughing gas and I started panicing and I also hate needles I also had a bad experiance with that to…..The pain is thrubbing so bad right now over the counter pain relief doesnt work well….Did the first few hours but not now and I can’t sleep and this really sucks………
Sorry to hear that Tammy…. Hang in there! I’m in the same boat. My rear molar(which is only missing about the top half for the longest time!) just started throbbing/hurting about 2 days ago. I started taking tetracycline immediately but it hasn’t really kicked in yet. I soaked it with some 160 proof vodka last night and that seemed to help quite a bit for a short time although half my mouth was burnt numb! Anyway, I feel your pain and toothaches really do suck! Hope yours(and mine!) get better REAL fast!!!
Looks as though my the gum around my wisdom tooth is infected, along with my canine at the front is probably absessed. The pain is god awful. I have been taking painkillers and swooshing with Hydrogen peroxide but they don’t seem to do much. I read people saying use hot water and salt. Well I tried the hot water part and omg I felt like crying. The pain made my whole body twist. Im just sipping on very cold water or taking mouthfuls and swooshing it around for a bit. I’ve considered just getting some plyers and ripping my canine right out sometimes. Looks like im going to have to lay down some cash for this shit, I have tried to avoid it as long as I can ( NO INSURANCE SUCKS ) but does not look like I can fend much longer! I have never felt a pain like this, I’ve broken my ankle, wrist, collar bone and not to mention have broken in 3 of my front teeth, and these damn tooth aches take the cake for being one annoying painful mofo.
I hear what you’re saying. I am going through about a half case of water a day, just swishing and spitting for those precious 2 minutes of relief from the most painful thing that could ever be. I have had 3 children and childbirth doesn’t touch this pain! I pulled a filling out with a dag-gone gum drop(which I normally don’t eat) about 2 months ago. After seeing the dentist, I am told I need a root canal. Keep in mind I had a fantastic dentist in the next state(40 miles from where I am now) so needed one closer to me. I am terrified of the dentist, so going to a new one is harrowing. Needless to say, it didn’t work out, and I traveled back to my beloved dentist who put me on penicillan. OMGoodness!!! That makes the pain worse!!! I also have vicodin, but have to take 2 of them just to get it to work and the pain still manages to break through that! I am able to sleep for those 2 minutes in between swishing while taking the vicodin, though I am doing an awful lot of drooling as well. Have an appt to have it yanked on the 29th. I am counting the days!!! (and hoping the infection isn’t too bad, as I have all but stopped the antibiotic.) Hang in there, do what you can, and good luck! P.S. The vodka didn’t work for me and the salt water made it worse too. Be careful with the motrin/advil/aleve, I really messed up my stomach.
Hey this-is-brutal, I had the same problem and wanted to yank my tooth after suffering for days, finally, I took a pin and poked down alongside my tooth and into the gum…, it really didn’t go down too deep and at first only bled for a little bit, but about an hour or so later the infection followed its way up and started to come out ! What a relief…. Anyway, can’t guarantee it will work for you, but with that kind of pain, hell, what have you to lose?! Good Luck
Im from the Uk and have always looked after my teeth. I dont have any fillings. brush three times a day, floss and mouthwash regularly. Well on Tuesday evening I started getting a tingling pain in my tooth, went to bed, woke up around 12 midnight with THE WORST PAIN I HAVE EVER EVER EVER FELT. Hideous, gut wrenching pain. Paracetamol did not touch the pain, ice water helped but only when in my mouth, ended up sitting under the cold tap (made the pain worse when i stopped doing it but i had to do it for some form of relief.) Anyway on wednesday morning i ring the dentist – they have no appointments and I cant get in anywhere else. They advised to take cocodamol (a mixture of paracetamol and codeine available over any pharmacy counter without prescription) and ibuproen combined, so two cocodamol tablets of 500mg (1000mg in total) and two ibuprofen tablets of 200mg (400 mg in total) every four hours. Took them and WOW, around half an hour later wehn they had kicked in, the relief was amazing, pain subsided gradually and had to take very four hours but after a few doses the pain was dying down. However then i looked in the mirror – my face had swollen up on the side where the tooth pain was and was getting worse quickly. Hopped in the car to A and E where the announced it was definately an abcess on the tooth, and gave me amoxycllin antibitoics to take 500mg three times a day. The next morning the swelling was worse but i carried on taking the tablets and after a day the swelling had subsided and the pain was hardlyi noticeable. Then i went to the dentit, who confirmed i had an abcess and to take the antibiotics to the end of the course. I then had a root canal treatment (didnt hurt one bit and i hate dentists) and unknown how i got the abcess as i have very good oral hygiene, but it was over and the pain was gone!! Now i truly know what pain is!!
It is SO nice to find all of your comments about your experiences on here. I usually try to find answers from a forum that I am a member of, but nowadays the only answers I get are basically “I dunno go talk to a professional.” WTF!?!? I thought forums are for ppl to share their experiences but apparently no one has any on that particular forum anymore, lol! Anyway – I’ve had blinding pain on the right side of my jaw earlier this week, went to see my dentist who x-rayed it and found that I needed a root canal, and scheduled an appt with an endodontist (who’s daughter happens to be an old schoolmate of mine, so I felt slightly better knowing that for some reason, a sense of comfort maybe). My dentist also prescribed me penicillin for the infection & acetophenamin (sp?) with codeine for the pain. For me, both these meds worked, and I’m scheduled for the root canal on Monday.
What I don’t get is that even though I’m on these meds right now, I have a DIFFERENT tooth acting up on me, and it started yesterday night – I go to lay down and ten minutes later, this tooth is throbbing with pain. So I get up for 5 minutes, and the pain goes away. What the heck!? I can’t figure out how to get to sleep without this new painful tooth going crazy on me, and I most likely will be telling my endodentist about it on Monday. At the moment it’s not an emergency situation (ie the tooth isn’t hurting at the moment), but I’m tempted to even use his emergency number right now just so I can ask him what’s going on with this other tooth and why does meds for one tooth not work for the other? The vanilla ext, salt water, vodka, and clove oil are all things I haven’t tried, so I guess that’s what I’ll be doing first!
Thx again everyone for sharing your experiences! It’s also nice to know that there are nice dentists out there, I might have to do some dentist shopping after this! My dentist is okay but after having all these problems lately it would be nice to not have someone make me feel badly about it or feel embarrassed to have all these dental issues.
I am glad that we toothachers can find humor in possibly the worst pain known to man and woman!! i have never had proper dental care and have lived more than half of my life with dental pain. It is impossible to pay for dental care unless your blessed with a good paying job, or unlimited supply of money. I think this horrible tooth pain has practically driven me mad!! And forget dating, i dont want anybody to even look at me, much less touch me. aggghhhh! and i agree with you heather, the last dentist i went to made me feel like i just enjoyed having such jacked up teeth, thats why i have waited so long to do something. i think this year when i get my income tax refund, instead of trying to pay some bills, and buy my kids a few nice things, im just gonna get my whole grill fixed! sorry kids, but those bicycles will have to wait till next year!
but meanwhile, i deal with my tooth pain by flossing. i mean really getting in there and flossing till my gums are sore, and it’s gross, but sometimes i guess some sneaky food will work its way into one of my cavities. and when i get it out, taaadaaa, the pain is gone. but now i have the gums and inside of my cheeks swollen from my wisdom teeth that should have been pulled out about a decade ago. hope i can get to a dentist soon. its kinda hard though when your and unemployed single mom. I guess i should ask God for mercy and maybe some pennies from heaven!!
like most of you i have been up all night with this crap(meaning tooth pain) i have tried motrin/erythromy i think next i will try a sledge hammer lol yes i still have a bit of humor left in me not much and it,s draining fast but i just wanted to say that i have read about 60% of theses post and found some of the helpful thanks it,s nice to know (hate putting it this way) that there are other out here in the same boat because it sure makes you feel like your by your self so untill next time hang in there folks pain free days are just around the bend.
i have HORRIBLE teeth and i cant eat.i think one of my bottom teeth is loose but the pain is to bad to find out im TERRIFIED of dentists and i need a FAST RELIEF.
HELP ME PLEASE
you know what i think i have found out? i think that the weather has something to do with tooth pain really i do. for the last few days i have been able to get some ez with meds and i even managed to get some sleep yaaaaa me the sun was shineing the weather was a mild 60’s-70’s and then this afternoon a front has moved in and a few hours ago sure as god made little green apples the tooth pain is back it seems to be getting worse as the night and weather goes by i may be wrong on this but it’s something to think about
I was eating a sandwich one day and my filling came out. Then i was eating candy and another filling came out. This is 2 years ago. They never bothered me so after a while i didnt even bother to go to the dentist. This sunday i woke up in the middle of the night with the most horrible pain ever. I couldnt lay down, sit up all i could do was cry. I called my dentist on Monday and i have an appointment on Thursday. I really really regret not going to the dentist 2 years ago, cause it just gets worse and worse. Plus being a student, you dont have that much money to spend anyways. So im very curious to see what my bill is going to look like. But now i just want to get rid of this awful pain. I can’t eat properly, so im just on soup right now. The only good thing about all of this is that i’ll probably lose some weight just before christmas haha
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well tomorrow is
y-day{y=yank} want be to soon 4 me i went to wallyworld last night and picked up some temparin max seems to be working great as a matter of fact it is working so good that i thought about not going to the dreaded den* but i know better i will go dam it lol anyways g-l 2 all hope my comments helped in some way
Funny how our stories all happend at night time. I am sitting on my bed with my computer on my lap trying to endure this pain. I have a decayed right molar. It started to hurt a little the day before but i wasnt paying attention to it. To day coming home from partying around 3pm it started to hurt really bad. I used warm salt water to rinse myy mouth, 2 antibiotics and 1 800mg pain killer. it seems to be working right now. I am going to go downstairs and use the Garlic remedy, i will let you know tomorrow how that goes.
Ok this is the second night regardin to the post above. During the day my teeth seemed ok. The pain slowly coming back around 9pm. I took antibiotics and even tried to put arlic around the tooth. it did work for a brief moment but the pain came back and it seemed to made it worse then before. Its 6am, and the pain is getting worse. pain killer seemed to stopped working completely, this is hell!!!
good morning folks well i guess you can tell that things are better went in to the dds last friday i would rather took an ass whooping than have to do that anyways went in he got down to work on it and most time when you have a tooth pulled it,s in and out in about 15 mins right? well guess what yepppers you guessed it he took an xray and found out the reason i was haveing such a problem was 2 things one i had an absuss under the tooth and 2 there was an extra long root so he gets started pulling trying to be as ez as he can but that sucker just didn,t want to leave my body. he twisted pulled twisted pulled well you get the ideal i thought my freaking head was going to come off and that with i dont know how many shots he gave me and it still hurt like hell but we was already half way down the road no turning back now. after a while he says he may have to cut it out but he,s going to give it one more try. so i grip the chair arms brace my self and give the old go ahead look and leans forward gets a big hold on it and boooooooooom it pops out i was so relived you wouldn,t belive it. he says we are all done. i leave *must say in a hurry couldn,t wait to get away from the house of pain* get back to my home after a while i get up the courge to pop the gauze out and eyeball the hole looks gross but i know in time it will heal and things will be back to normal. thanksgiveing is just a few days away and i will be able to eat now without hurting so to all my teeth hurting friends do your self a favor if you can go get that thing yanked out thanks to this website for letting me vent good luck 2 all hang in there tomorrow will be better i promise
Hi all,
my story is kind of weird. Three weeks ago I go to the dentist for a deep cleaning…everything ok. A week after I go there for a couple of “small” cavities on a upper molar and it’s neighbor premolar. After the fillings and 2 days of totally no pain. I started feeling a weird pain on a molar on the same side, close to the filled teeth and I started thinking it was the wisdom tooth pushing its way out (’cause I could see the tip), but it was weird because the dentist did not say anything about it because it is straight. The first two days the pain started to grow and I initially got Orajel and two 325mg aspirin tablets, but they were not helping. Then the tooth started to wake me up at night and I basically decided to take more aspirin (the box says no more than 12 tablets/day), but at the fourth day that was not enough anymore…I did not have any swallowing, but the pain was there, kind of constant and I could not bite on the tooth at all, like the pain was coming from the inside.
I called the dentist because the aspirin was no more enough to make me sleep and he told me to keep taking the painkillers and recall on Monday…it was Tuesday!!!! I went to buy Ibuprofen and I basically decided to take 2 tablets of Aspirin, then waited 2 hours and took one tablet of Ibuprofen (200mg), this way every two hours I was taking one of them and the pain was not showing up much. I could also sleep for the hours in which the painkillers were acting. I did this never going over the directions quantities and after two days, I was able to sleep more than expected, the alarm woke me up instead of the tooth and the biting was not painful. As of today, it has been 5 days that I used this “therapy” and this morning after taking the last Ibuprofen at 10pm yesterday, I woke up at 7.30am with no pain (just a very small little bit) and I took the Ibuprofen at 10.30am, just in case…
Now, it’s Monday and I don’t know if I have to call the dentist, I am scared that the pain came from what he did, the wrong bite that he gave me maybe…but still, I would like to know what I had…suggestions???
Oh dear god somebody help me! This is pure insanity….
It hurts so bad my eyeball fells like its swollen out of it’s socket…my ear like its about to fall off at any given moment the back of my head about to blow off into a million tiny chunks and my mind is going into delerium……I have been been plagued with problomatic teeth most of my adult life. In part because of poor education in tooth care in part, poor genetics….I wanted them all pulled two years ago when i had money, but think I could find a dentist willing to pull them all….no. They said I was too young for that. BullS***. I was 29, my mother has had dentures since she was 26. They just want to bilk you for procedure after procedure. Its my mouth, its my pain, why is it not my decision?
Sorry I am my wits end and using my ice skates like in the movie “Castaway” is looking like a sweet fun filled vacation at this point.
Thank you all for posting your stories…its helping through the waves of pure torture that is engolfing nearly every moment of my exsistance right now…..
Take care, and good luck to all of you!!!
hi everyone;
unfortunately, i am having same problem right now for a couple of days, yeah it is a horrible toothache, i had an infection,omg at night time even so-called stronger pain killer “paramol” didnt work but amazinly ibuprofen was more effective 10 minutes something after taking it.
i went dentist 2nd day and he gave me amoxicilin and i am using it for 3 days, nothing better but no more killing pain. my face is a bit swollen, my teeth is still throbing, i can feel and count my pulse. i wish to get better soon, i cant eat real food for 4 days.
damn, this pain is the worst !!!!!!!!!!!
Please help send me in a direction around san antonio area pLEASE HELP ME AND SEND ME IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION
I had horribly pain in the back of my mouth due to the top last tooth in my mouth. I found one of the worst things you could do is put cold water in your mouth. The relief is very brief and ends up irritating the nerves even more. Made the pain even more unbearable then before. However I was able to find relief after I washed out my mouth first with mouth wash, then salt water and then when I was still in pain, with peroxide-which probably helped kill the bacteria-(in fact it deadend the pain after.) I also took tylenol or was it asprin? for the inflammation.
shana quickly go to dentist, she/he will probably give you antibiotic (aminoxicilin)…
and your gum will be ok in 7 days…
pain will go at 3rd day.
nah
FCK!… FCK FCK FCK!!!… Had a filling fall out a year ago, and only two months ago, the tooth broke in half. Been able to deal with the pain until now. The entire left side of my face is swollen, so is the left side of the roof of my mouth. What I FEEL like doing is going to a dentist and punching him in the face until he gives me a free extraction to *hopefully* get rid of the PAIN!
Anywho, as to the original posting, Vodka numbs the pain for a bit… salt works a little… garlic works a bit better… but nothing can kill the blinding confusion for some reason!
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