In a world of pain

[walrus]

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.

[Arriba]

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.

[tans]

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

[walrus]

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

It still doesn't excuse the NHS...

[flammableBen]

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.

Do you know where nearly all MRSA infections come from?

[Batch]

It still doesn't excuse the NHS...

Ain't that the tooth.

[BANGKOK RED]

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

[Chubbs]

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.

[Arriba]

Do you know where nearly all MRSA infections come from?

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

[DV]

the railway?

[pauld]

You should try the Gnasher-nal Health Service.





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

[Barry Scott]

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.

[Talk Talk]

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.

[walrus]

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!

[magicroundabout]

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.

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.