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Wednesday evening came and wow I was excited.  A four day weekend in the snow.  Days of fun-filled frollicks were promised.  Instead, I've had 3 days of abject misery, and it doesn't look like letting up....

I seem to have developed an absess over one of my wisdom teeth trying to push it's way through...  it's about the size of a pea.  It's given me a fever, and the infection has spread to the front and roof of my mouth.  To top it all off, I feel like I've swallowed a razorblade.  I can hardly eat/drink, and all I've managed to eat thus far is soup.

With this feeling, late Thursday night furniture shopping in Croydon, I realised I was in a world of trouble.  I was struggling to stay awake, and I felt dizzy and sick.  I raced down the M23 and to the A & E in Crawley.  The NHS in their infinite wisdom turned me away to the emergency dentist in the same hospital.  They turned me away with no appointments.  I went home Thursday and spent the worst night of my life, sweating, in roaring agony, intimitently waking up face down on my pillow in a puddle of cold spittle.  Friday morning and no dentist would see me.  Desperate, I took a pair of scissors to the absess.  The initial result was agony not felt by another human being anywhere, anytime.  However, it relieved the symptoms for a few hours before it came on with new gusto.  Eventually I checked into a private dentist, who confirmed my fears.

I'm consigned to a week of feeling truly terrible on a whole list of pescription drugs with lips bigger than Lesley Ash's.  I can't talk, and sleep doesn't look likely.  Anyone got any tips?!  Or any morphine for sale?!

I really despair with the NHS.  In a world of pain, unable to eat or drink, obviously doesn't constitute an emergency any more.  If I was to lose a leg tomorrow, I would sooner see a butcher than check myself into A & E to tidy up the wound.

look on the brightside.had the hospital admitted you,you'd probably have ended up with mrsa to go with your absess.
the moral of the story is to register with a dentist.you would have been seen sharpish had you done so.

this.

youre lucky its not aids

Yeah I should have - I've only been here 5 months not enough to get myself sorted!   :D

It still doesn't excuse the NHS...

Do you know where nearly all MRSA infections come from?

Ain't that the tooth.

They really should have gotten to the root of the problem.

i had an absess earlier in the year, my god was it horrible, had to have a root canal which was doubley horrible, but it did the job.

i dont.
what do know is that my gran contracted it in the gwr

the railway?

You should try the Gnasher-nal Health Service.





... it's all right, already got me coat, taxi on it's way

Like Chubbs i had an abscess and also had to have root canal surgery. Although unlike Chubbs the my root canal was completely pain free. I actually dozed off at one point. :)

The best thing i found to get over the pain was codine phosphate. Not the shit watered down with paracetamol but 120mgs of the shit every so often. It appears my screaming in A&E got me prescribed some, because later I had to beg and beg my dentist to get it prescribed without the Paracetamol limiter so i could take it in 120mg doses.

The worst experience of my life. Root canal work, upper jaw. I have never experienced pain like it. It must be worse than child birth.

Phew I think I've got off lightly...  looks like the dentist is opting against surgery hoping the problem just sorts itself out...  the antibiotics is working nicely and I don't look quite so much like the elephant man...  my lip's still swollen and the roof of my mouth is still red raw...  suppose it's a few days off work and nothing to do - Football Manager time!!  Woop!

i've been told i need this on one of my back teeth. i'm gonna have the tooth out than rather go through that pain.

Having teeth pulled out is fucking agony as well, I can vouch for that. Cunting braces.

Except they'll still have to do stuff on the nerve(s).   Anyway root canal is nowhere near as bad as actual toothache, everytime i've had it done i've had 4 roots in each tooth, and still here to tell the tale.  And actually whilst i think of it, i've had 2 teeth out with pliers and no anastethic, you bunch of poofs.

I think it depends on whether the nerve is dead or not doesn't it? I know when i had mine the dentist bloke said it'll only hurt if the nerve is still alive, but invariably with an abscess it's the nerve being killed off or something.

So i got lucky. It was also the lower jaw, so don't know whether that made any difference, but it was completely pain free... Apart from the massive bill... And the knowledge that it only happened because my dentist cracked my tooth.

I had a tooth pulled out and I didn't feel anything due to the anaesthetic. As the tooth broke most of it had to be cut out too.

I only opted for this option as I wasn't confident the dentist would do the root canal treatment properly, especially as he was trying to get me to go specialist for a £1000 treatment. Yeah right.