Ouch! I'm not even sure what tooth it is - somewhere towards the top right corner. Luckily, I have a dental appointment tomorrow at 9am, and not a moment too soon. I took some double-strength Nurofen tablets, along with two pints of lager. I should have read the Nurofen instructions to find out if it agrees with alcohol or not, but it's too late now. Anyway, I feel really spaced out, as if I'm hovering a few inches above the ground. And the pain has gone, for the moment at least.
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I've only ever had toothache once, about four years ago. It appeared suddenly, I was in excrutiating pain for four days while I waited for the anti-biotics to kick in (at one stage, taking a hammer to all my teeth felt like an appealing option), then my face ballooned and a huge abcess appeared and burst. Not a pretty sight, but the relief was instant and unbelievable.
So good luck.
Sounds nasty, Matt.
I saw my dentist this morning. She did an X-Ray, pointed to a cavity in my top-right wisdom tooth, injected me several times, and whipped it out! I didn't feel a thing. In fact, I didn't even realise she'd extracted it until she insrted gauze in my mouth and told me to bite it to stop the blood-flow.
That's the first tooth I've had extracted since childhood. My mouth is still frozen, but I'm beginning to feel a few twinges now. Let's hope the main problem is gone.
Glad to hear it's all sorted. It's such a strange thing, toothache. As you said, it's hard to tell where exactly the pain is coming from. I seem to remember Steven Gerrard, in the early stages of his career, having a niggling leg injury which turned out to be connected to an infected tooth!
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