Not better yet
Hey. I am not better yet. I have (ta da) a dry socket so perfect that the dentist this morning called in people from the hallway to peer at it. He packed it with something he said would “miraculously” take the pain away. Ha. I laugh dryly at his miracles and think longingly of alcohol.
I have googled dry socket (and probably should have done so three days ago when the pain was so bad that I wanted to rip my own head off) and hey, know what? Excruciating pain is symptom number one.
I come from a clan that laughs at pain, who takes trays of cookies from the oven with no mitts. Teflon hands, Ed calls them. I do have a very high pain threshold — like my mother who once dropped a huge tin of tomatoes on her bare foot, splitting her toenail into four and didn’t even cry out. She limped up the cellar stairs, trailing blood and calmly asked me to get her a bandaid. I have been crawling along this week, trying to get by and wondering why I had suddenly got so weak and feeble that I couldn’t deal with a little tooth pain.
So I haven’t blogged. I’ve been too pain-riddled and dizzy and foggy to blog. I haven’t done much of anything but be in pain. At least now we know and hopefully, things should start improving and I can talk about moving, houses and schooling again without actually wanting to bang my head against the wall. Or not, at least, because of the damn dry socket.
Sorry to hear you’re feeling so poorly. I hope the new miracle drugs help quickly. At least you’re conscious enough to write. Heal!!
Clove oil
That is the ticket. Get some clove oil, saturate a peice of gauze in it, and apply. Tastes like crap but does soothe the pain. I had all four of my extraction points become dry socket.
And with things like:
Dry Socket
Any kind of toothache whatsoever
Migraine headaches
and
Motorcycle exhaust burns
You are allowed to cry, scream, gnash teeth, and throw objects. It’s totally okay and will not make you look like a wuss.
oh you poor poor thing ~ that happened to me in my first oh so crappy extraction : ( the pain is worse than anything i have experienced in the physical pain realm ~ sending you painless thoughts and a quick recovery!!
OHMYGOD
Sorry to shout, but I read the googled links and I think the fact that you remained sentient (as opposed to turning into a screaming lump of protoplasm) is a sign that you have a high pain threshold.
sending you as much positive, pain free energy as I can
I just had my top two wisdom teeth taken out a few months ago…I feel for you!
I’m too chicken to read the google results for ‘dry socket’. I don’t know what it is, but it sounds just bloody awful. I really hope the pain’s gone soon. Like, now.
eeeeeshhhh…
just the words dry socket
in relation to teeth
sounds so very painful
and makes me cringe…
hope you get relief really
really soon!!
Poor you! Coming from the same Teflon clan, I sympathize with feeling feeble in the face of pain. Feel better soon.
So hope you feel much much better now, and if not then you feel much much much better very very soon.
oh dear, you poor thing. I’m dealing with dental nightmares myself and feel your pain. I hope you feel much better very, very soon. Oi.
tooth pain is particularly horrid, if you think about it, cos it’s right inside your head. have you had earache recently? or sinus pain. no winder kids are so miserable with ear infections. you are totally excused being stoical.