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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Georgie,
Do you go to the dentist today? 😮 Good luck!
Just got done reading everything here, first time I’ve laughed in 4 days (even though it hurt like hell). Loved some of the comments, especially the one about giving your life to Christ – toothaches are definitely hell on earth. I have an abcessed upper eye tooth, face swollen and pain so bad a kick in the nuts couldn’t be as bad (though I won’t test that theory)! I have been on 2 different types of antibiotics in the last 4 days – amoxicillin and cephalexin and have gone through 28 vicodin in that time. What finally has eased the pain was baking soda, table salt and a wet cotton ball. I mixed equal amounts of the first two and dipped the wet cotton ball in this and placed it between my lip and gum (on the abcess) and left it in there for 3-5 hours before replacing it with a new one. Soon after placing the second one in their the abcess popped spewing blood and pus. I then rinsed with mouth wash followed by hydrogen peroxide (which foamed like a son of a bitch). In about 10 minutes time a wave of relief unlike any I’ve ever expierenced washed over me. My pain was at about a 12 on a chart of 10 (WORST PAIN EVER)!! and is now down to about a 2-3. Sex with a supermodel couldn’t make me happier right now!! Getting raped in prison sounds more appealing than going through that again. I have an appointment on Wednesday to remove what’s left of my upper teeth and get a denture. Until the last few days I was very apprehensive about having this done, no longer, I welcome it with open arms if it means I never have another abcessed tooth.
One final note, I wish I had taken better care of my teeth earlier in my life (I’m 35) but still feel that dentists don’t always understand why people don’t. I think a lot it has to do with the high costs and lack of dental insurance that is offered (at least in the U.S.) and a general phobia about somebody poking around in your mouth (very invasive to say the least). Human nature also plays a role – if something doesn’t hurt we don’t think about it, especially for poor people like me. When you have to worry about rent, food, gas and the many other everyday living expenses sometimes preventive care gets lost in the shuffle. Most dentists make pretty good money and I’m not saying they don’t deserve it but maybe should be a little more understanding to those who don’t. I guess if you are a Republican you can blame it on me for not making enough money but we all can’t be rich. In order for there to be rich people there must be poor people(at least in a capitalist society). Anyway good luck to all suffering this horrific pain. I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy. I’m going to sleep the sleep of angels now, 4 days with minimal sleep is horrible.
I found that using a syringe with a hole in the needle to wash down the side of your gums with Corsadol Mouthwash definately helps as this was recommended by my dentist.
It does the same job as the wash that the dentist will use to clean your gums before even considering taking you wisdom teeth out!
If all else fails try a bottle of whisky should numb you for ages.
i was at the dentist the day before and my wisdom teeth started hurting the next day its grew sideways how didnt the dentist spot this.pain is right upto my eyeball. ive tryed ibrufen,paracetamol, co codamol, antibiotics, vodka, bonjela, nurofen plus ,salt water, garlic and oil. nothing has worked reali except for swishin cold water round it n doin this every ten seconds n spittin it out.. if ya leave it more than 10 seconds its fukin kills. been doin this for 2days feel like im drowning but geting used to it.. cant wait til me appointment in a few days help!
HOLY CRAP; I WENT TO MY GIRLFRIENDS HOUSE FOR DINER, AND I BIT INTO A PIECE MEAT THAT HAD A SMALL PIECE OF BONE. MY TOOTH BROKE RIGHT IN HALF. OH MY GOD! I CANT DISCRIBE THE PAIN THAT RAN THROUGH MY BODY; IT WAS SO BAD THAT I COULD NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT YELLING, MOVING OR ANYTHING. I THINK I EVEN STOPPED BREATHING FOR A LITTLE BIT. EVERY ONE WAS LOOKING AT ME. THEY DIDNT KNOW WHAT WAS GOING ON AND I JUST COULDNT TELL THEM; CAUSE THE PAIN HAD ME CEASED. WHEN I WAS FINALLY ABLE TO MOVE AND TALK I SPIT THE PIECE OF TOOTH OUT WITH THE REST OF THE FOOD I HAD IN MY MOUTH. I RAN TO THE BATHROOM AND LOOKED IN THE MIRROR. WHAT I SAW WAS THAT ONE OF MY MOLLARS WAS BROKEN IN HALF. I SWEAR THIS HAS GOT TO BE THE WORST PAIN EVER. NEEDLESS TO SAY IT’S 3AM NOW AND I CANT SLEEP I MADE A DENTEST APPOINTMENT FOR THE MORNING. CANT WAITE TILL THEY PULL IT OUT, GREAT HUH .
i am in so much pain! im sitting in my lounge at 7.30 am on a sunday morning with a warm thing strapped to my head and vodka burning the hell outta my mouth!! i think i have a abses but not sure if the vodka thingy works for that,,, it still bloody hurts i know that much!oooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwcccccccchhhhhhhhhhhhh :o(
i want to cry
child birth wasnt this bad
toothache never happens on a week day
i hate my tooth
id pull it out myself but i think it would hurt
NOTHING AT ALL WORKS!!!! MY FACE LOOKS LIKE A BLOW FISH RIGHT NOW & I’VE DONE A-Z! JUST WAITING ON THE DENTIST GOOD LUCK.
Sorry about the delay Kate! Haha yeah i did go he didnt do anything for me though he just gave me some antibiotics. I havent had toothache since its been heaven! I really feel for you all with toothache. It has to be one of the worst things ever. I hope that you all feel alot better soon!
Im eighteen in two days! 😀 xxxxx
I have had a pain in my jaw since the day after thanksgiving…I had visited the Dentist last week and he said need another root canal big cavity…I never had pain or saw any black or anything in that tooth and now I have pain in the cheek and jaw..Its Sunday night and I called the dentist of course pager service, forgot the football game is on, and the Giants are losing he probably wont be in a good mood..I have antibotics and think I am going to start them tonight…I feel like someone punched me in the jaw…
If you are afraid of root canals they are not that bad, I was so scared 3 weeks ago when I had my first one and it was really not that bad..just make sure you go to a good dentist or endo specialist..In the USA dentist on every block 20 or more in my town…Feel sorry if you dont have Insurance my bill would have been about 1700.00 for the root canal and crown…only cost me 165.00..I always make sure I have antibotics on hand stashed away never know when an emergency holiday weekend you need them…Never been happier to see the dentist in my life, Cant stand the pain…comes and goes. Just when you think its gone it starts again…Is it Monday Yet…hang in there….
I have been in pain for days, I was using toothpaste and orajel and biting down on a warm cloth, the pain came and went, of course the night is killer. Today I felt like I couldn’t take it anymore so I decided to look online for information – home remedies- . I saw that people were saying you can die from an infection so I decided to go to the emergency room being that I have 4 kids and they need me. I got their and it was at least a 4 hour wait. I decided to leave and take my chances. While online I saw that people were using clove oil and thought I should stop at the pharmacy on the way home to buy some of that I found something called Red Cross Toothache Medication and it says use only if you have throbbing pain so I got it it was less than $7.00. I came home and decided to get back on here to read about this product because it says do not touch tissues around the tooth…sounds hard not to, anyway, I decided to rinse my mouth out with water and I decided to take 3 teaspoons of childrens motrin grape flavor and I took a 4th teaspoon but did not swallow I let the medicine cover my infected tooth, after I couldnt stand it anymore I swallowed it. Now I feel 95% better. I have not used the other medicine yet because my tooth is not throbbing, I will wait until it starts hurting again but then I will use the motrin first, if that works again I will not use the “toothache” medicine if it doesnt work then I will use it. But this relief that the childrens motrin gave me feels great, I don’t know if its the medicine itself or the fact that I let the medicine marinate on my infected tooth..try it and let me know if it works for you.
Oh, one more thing, I read that cashew nuts have some properties that help cure an abcess tooth and I forgot to tell you guys that when I stopped in to buy the “toothache” medicine I also bought cashew nuts and ate them on the way home…Was it the motrin or the cashew nuts I do not know but I had a good night sleep and I am not in pain this morning I can feel the area is still tender but no pain. I chewed the cashews on the side of my mouth that wasnt hurting and I chewed each one untill is was watery then I swallowed it, I ate a few handfulls. So if the motrin doesnt work try the cashews.
One home remedy that is useful to keep on hand (may not help if you are in immediate pain) is to steep whole cloves in vodka for at least one week, then discard the cloves and store the liquid in an airtight container. You would use this on the gums directly to help numb them. I make a new bottle every year just so I know it’s fresh, but it should keep rather well. Both the cloves and vodka have antiseptic properties and the numbing effects are great.
I’ve also read that vanilla extract has the same numbing effect.
Another great alternative is acupressure: to the index finger on the opposite side of where the pain is (for instance, if a tooth on the right side of your mouth hurts, massage your left finger), apply firm pressure just below the fingernail for a few seconds. This will give short-term but immediate relief.
OWWWWWIEEEEE i feel with you all, I tell you one thing, i am so stupid for not taking care of my teeth, I cannot wait to go to the dentist tommorow and get this friggin thing outta my mouth.
I now also finnaly landed a job that has Dental Bennifets, and now have to deside if i want dentures or implants, as most my teeth are probaly to far gone to be saved
the only thing i have ever found that helps with the pain, is holding water in your maouth (cold water) and spitting it out and contiune ( if you stop the pain is 100 times worse.
good luck everyone
I was born with a set of teeth that were destined to help some unknowing dentist retire in comfort. I went through the pain of having my four wisdom teeth extracted only to discover months later that two addition ones were coming in right behind them. My dentist said that second sets of wisdom teeth were very rare. Oh lucky me. Yes they had to be pulled as well.
Now at 59 I find that steel reinforcing pins, root canals, crowns, caps and snow-white fillings have all added to the natural beauty of my smile! What I wouldn’t have given all those years for some really effective medication.
I totally agree with all of you guys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have been having pain in my teeth for the past month. I had a root canal done 3 years ago and it was a poor job. It got fractured internally and chipped on the top. I saw a dentist who did a filling and I was fine for 2 weeks; then my other tooth on the left side began hurting. I have been in tears for the past couple of weeks. The dentist did an extraction of the tooth because it was decaying thanks to my wisdom tooth that was growing sideways. As I type, I am excrutiating pain. I took some mg of morphin, 4 extra strength advil, zopiclone (sleeping pill) and will be taking another one soon. It is 10.37pm and I have to be up at 6.30am for work tomorrow. I have also taken lorazepam to relax me coz I am not at all relaxed!!!! I am in pain. I really need help.
OH GODDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!!! My toothache is back and its bad. 🙁 I go to Wolverhampton on thursday for my consultation for my tooth extraction. Its going take ages. I almost forgot how much toothache hurt and then it came back and bit me in the ass.
I hoe your all allright x
Has you ever been told that once you experience pregnancy… You’ll also eventually start experiencing TOOTHAHES that feel like a stick being shoved in places you don’t want to imagine? Well, I have. I had never before had a toothache or tooth problem, for that matter… Until I got pregnant. My mother-in-law informed me of how the baby will pull all the calcium from your bones, and guess what? Boy was she right! It seems as if I’ve had nothing but toothaches since my son’s birth and that was almost 4 years ago. For the last week the whole right side of my face and neck have been in excruciating pain, almost as if someone has beaten me repeatedly in the same spots again and again. As I sit here and type I feel this pulse in my right jaw and IT HURTS LIKE HELL!!! So I feel for you all that have the same type of pain and I pray (as I do for myself everynight before bed)… That someone someday will come up with something besides the Vodka and the same old pills … (that in my opinion, unless your trying to kill yaself… don’t work, anymore) to cure this very common aggrevating problem. God Bless and Good Luck with your PAIN!!!
ok, I have tried everything that everyone here has mentioned…. saltwater mouthwashes, ambesol, oragel, aspirin, acetaminophen, ibuprophen, vicodin, codiene, vanilla extract, clove of oil…. everything…. NOTHING HAS WORKED…. my face has been feeling like a bomb is exploding every 2 seconds…. it pulses with pain… however, i just thought of the wonderful detoxifying effects of tea. I decided that black tea is best seeing how it is the most powerful detoxifier. Anyways, it has finally relieved my pain by P…. not bad, it has gone from excruciating explosions to a dull pulsing pain…. hasn’t stopped in over a day… anyhow… what I have done is grabbed like 20 teabags of black tea and brewed up a single cup… and have been swishing it around my mouth for about a minute or two before drinking it…. it has taken some of my pain away…. I’m out to search for the sensodyne toothpaste that you all were talking about, but this pain is truly the worst thing I have ever felt in my life….
ok, so I went to the dentist today, and since my current insurance doesn’t cover root canals, I have to wait until january to get it done…. I’m switching insurance plans, and my dentist decided that he could remove the nerve inside of my tooth and fill it temporarily with a temp filler. it felt much better when he was doing the procedure and about 30 minutes after…. however, once the anesthetic started to wear off, I got a searing pulsing pain in my tooth…. also, to those who say put aspirin or tylenol on top of the tooth, I will have to say not to. Placing aspirin or acetaminophen on top of the tooth causes aspirin burns…. which makes it painful to fix later…. it may provide temporary relief now, but you will get pain later… Also, if you are taking pills, don’t just swallow them…. my advice is to chew them up in your mouth with the water before swallowing them, it makes the drugs work faster and provide relief much faster than waiting for the drugs to disolve in your stomach…. and if you can, you should buy the extended release tylenol tablets… its 650mg of Acetaminophen. If you chew them up or grind them before taking it, it won’t be extended release and will give you the 650mg immediately… I take that as if I were taking regular tylenol but I grind it before swallowing…. it has eased the pain that I’m experiencing right now by 2 fold…. anyways, hope you all go to a dentist soon…. and tell the dentist to take his time…. because while he’s operating on the tooth, I was in heaven… no pain at all…
oh by the way, if you are experiencing swelling of any sort, don’t take tylenol, it doesn’t help with swelling… motrin, advil, aspirin, bayer, aleve and other drugs containing ibuprofen, naproxen sodium, and aspirin help with inflammation… acetaminophen only helps with pain…
im 34 weeks pregnant and been suffering from tooth ache for a month ive tried anbesol and whiskey and other things what can i do to take the pain away as the densit wont take it out till my baby is born any ideas what i can do
thanks
The best thing, and only recently mentioned, is black tea. but don’t make tea, use the teabag. Put the teabag between gum and cheek. I run it under cold water and immediately put it in my mouth. It pulls the infection out within about 10 to 30 minutes, but keep the bag on longer. Or replace as necessary. It should stop the pain in a few minutes as the tannins in the tea begin to work. You will see a lot of pus on the bag the longer you leave it in.
It is amazing in its ability to relieve pain. Not a cure, but very very helpful for infection and relieving pain. Google teabags infection or teabags gums or something similar.
To dentist down under: stay there. No one needs your paternalistic, holier than thou sermon like rants. Some people have autoimmune illness, lack of enzymes to break down normal bacteria, etc that cause problems. Carbs are the last thing I would ever eat. Soda? never touch the stuff and I have a 19 year old who has never had it either, nor does he eat junk food. OH MY GOD! We drink water! We eat vegetables!! We eat organic! We don’t eat chips or cookies or ice cream. We brush, we floss, we even take Vit C and calcium and magnesium. We use Co Q 10. What we don’t use are flopping off at the mouth dentists who make it harder for people already afraid of dentists to go there. We go to dentists that understand the role of genetics, and in utero influences, and enzyme deficiences and inflammatory chemicals and autoimmune illness and that despite “good dental hygiene”, people have problems that are not correlated to brushing and flossing.
Compassion 101. Think about it.
Yesterday evening I had a terrible toothache because of an abscess. It look like I have a walnut in my mouth. I really didn’t want to go to emergency room for antibiotic prescription. I call a healthfood store to see if they carried a natural antibiotic because cause I had a toothache. She told me they carry a product called “IMMUBOOST Blend SP-21” made by Solaray. She told me that she had used the product personally when she had an abscess and was able to eat later that day because all pain and swelling was gone. Within 4 hours the abscess burst, I rinsed with warn salt water and hydrogen peroxide until bleeding stopped. All the pain and most of swelling was gone like magic. The next morning the swelling was completely gone 🙂
I have told all my family and friends including you about this product so that they will have around just in case.
This is the kind of stuff most people don’t know about. Go sget sum and get rid of that toothache. 🙂
Go get some clove oil & use that with ibuprofen/pain killers/whatever and then wait for the little bastard to die. Clove oil stops the abscess and infection that are giving u so much pain… (and me)Or pliers work too. Extremely painful short term but oh what a relief
Vodka, rubbed onto the infected gum/teeth is a god-send for pain relief? Is it a good method?
Must who does not use alcoholic drinks how do?
Had a filling replaced a few weeks ago–a little over a week ago the tooth cracked or something—had some pressure and pain since filling—heard a pop and passed out for a minute—awoke to stars and pain that was previously unfathomable—and I’ve ahd bad road rash, severe burns, compound fractures and once almost a hundred stitches in my gut with a carpet needle and no anesthetic—nothing compared to this—not even close.
Vicodin wouldnt touch it—finally had the first part of a root canal done—a large lump formed on my jawbone (walnut sized) and pain became intolerable.Then the burning acidic saliva came. By the gallons. Dentist seemed baffled and finally put me on antibiotics—yesterday something happened and it started shrinking fast, pressure went away even in my ear—best feeling of my life.
Swelling comes back some but now I’ve been gagging/hacking/choking/puking up pus and foamy white mucus for 30 hours with a 103 fever.
If I survive this and it ever happens again I think I’ll fucking well shoot myself right at the beginning.
I still prefer thsi over the pain but I’ve friggin lost 15lbs the last week. Worst experience ever. No question. Think I would rather pound one of my testicles off with a hammer rather than go through this again.
Last Wednesday went to the dentist and got a back tooth pulled. It was not in sever pain yet could still handle the hot/cold, but when something hit it, I about feel to the floor in pain. I knew it would be long until the nerve was completely open. I figured I would get it taken care of before all the pain hit. It took forever for the dentist to finally get it pulled out. I thought my jaw was going to break. I hurt worse afterward than I did going in. If it wasn’t for the vicodin I wouldn’t have made it through. Finally a piece of bone or tooth worked it’s way out and I was in relief….. until yesterday (wednesday) On the other side of my mouth a upper tooth has decided to abcess on me. I have never had a tooth abcess and I never want to again. Yesterday the tooth mildly hurt. Today when I got up I was in extreme pain. Also the one side of my face is so swollen that I can’t hardly breath out of one of my nostrils. It feels like I’m breathing thru a straw. The swelling is growing and is up to the corner of my eye next to my nose. I called my dentist who of course can’t see me until Monday, but did put me on a round of antibiotics along with more vicodin. When I touch my cheek I can fill the pus pocket. I have read different things to try on a abcess to help it drain, but with the pocket being so high on my cheek bone, I don’t know where to the “boil” is located on my gum. I’ve tried peroxide, and warm salt water hoping that it would help drain some of the pus, but no luck. My face keeps getting bigger and bigger. My upper lip is twice the normal size. I feel like someone has beat the crap out of me. I can’t eat, because one side still has the fresh whole from the extraction and the other side is hurting so bad I can’t stand the bite down on anything. I would try the vodka, but as much pain as I’m in now I probably would just drink it instead of rubbing it on my gum. I’ve learned pain pills and alchol don’t mix. Does anyone have any ideas that could help me? I think if I could figure out how to get it to drain and relieve some of the pressure I would feel somewhat better. I too have been up most of the night searching the web for answers. And if their are any dentist reading this, there are so many urgent care facilities now for medical conditions, you don’t even have to really have a family doctor anymore. Get sick, run to the urgent care center down the road that’s open 24/7. It would really be nice if dentist would do this as well. Dental pain is one of the worst pains ever, as probably everyone who has told their story here would agree, and by reading some of their stories would do just about anything for a little relief for the pain, I too am one of those. If I had a urgent care dental office down the road, I sure wouldn’t be here telling my story, I would be sitting in the waiting room. Sleep…. hmm I forgot what it felt like. A week now and probably 2 hours a night is all I get.
Right now i am sitting here reading peoples stories and beleive it or not just about and hour ago the back lower tooth has throbbed so bad that their is no pain in this world to describe it. But after reading some of the stories some of them have made me laugh that there for 30 minutes the pain just went away. And I know that there is some people out there that when you hurt so bad it kind of makes you feel better that you are not the only person hurting. What i I am trying to say you are not hurting alone. I have done the salt water,brushing the tooth,antibotics,and pain killers and you feel good for about 10 mins. and it starts all over again.But i have no dental insurance. Heath insurance but no dental. And dentist offices don’t want to hear you when you say NO INSURANCE.They are ready to cut you off.SO what do you do?Right now i am using my health insurance and going to the emergency room and I have hit up 3 emergency rooms and they have prescribed antibotics and pain killers and right now that is all I can do and pray the pain goes away.
Thank god for this site! ive had toothache since about 5-6 days ago n my god its ssssooooooooooo painful!!! it just started off as a slight pain i fort nothin of, then the next mornin i woke up n the right side of my face was huge! it proper swelled up, i cant open my mouth more than an inch, i cant eat, sleep or work properly at work! i went to the dentist n they said they cudnt do nothin for me!! TYPICAL!! so they gave me amoxcillan antibiotics, well 3 days in n its still exactly the same! its really gettin me down now seein as its only a week till xmas! uve heard the song all i want for xmas is my 2 front teeth? well all I want for xmas is to get rid of my 2 back teeth!!!
im goin get a bottle of vodka and try that see if thatll numb the pain. i just hope its better for next week!! and hope u all get better soon too
shaun
my tooth is realy hurting it feels like plack is super smart and there taking a drill and drilling my gum!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! this realy hurts i have 12 year mollers growing it fells like my bum is hafe open and half shutt and its terring my gumm day after day after day after day over and over i ceep putting ambasal on it but it dosent help it hurts realy bad its taken me an hour to write this because i ceep studddddering beccause it hurts so badim 10 if the dentist hade a scale of how much it hurts it would be a 8 because people with root cannal or scervy this hurts realy realy bad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i also have a tooth ache, i woke up 4am and coulnt sleep anymore because it hurt sooo much!! its 10.30am atm and my dentist is at 3.30pm i dont think i can last… im worried because its the same tooth that they said something about it cant be refilled if it hurts again… i think i have to get that root canal, i dont want to wait anylonger i want this PAIN GONE~~ Ouchhhhhh
I have been through this now for the past 2 months. I have actually had a couple of experiences. I have had an absessed tooth before ( a root canal gone wrong), because of this my jaw swelled like an orange (size wise) from the side of my face. If this happens you need to take some antibiotics. If you “can’t” afford the antibiotics, get yourself a heating pad and some excedrine migraine. The Excedrine will kill the pain, and the heating pad will make the pain bearable until the meds kick in. If you can, get one of those microwave safe pads heat it up nice and hot (where it almost burns your face) and place it against the area of pain. Lay down, get some sleep (you will get a bit)
If the problem on the other hand is a broken tooth. This is worthy of death. It hurts so bad. I had this happen where I broke a top wisdom tooth, and that was really bad, I left it go for a while and when I got it pulled I got nerve damage and lost the ability to use my face for 6 months. (The Dentist was not graceful with the removal). Suddenly I find that I don’t like dentists, which has brought me to now….
If you have an exposed nerve, again get yourself some excedrine migraine. The vodka thing is fine if you don’t work. If you have to work follow these steps:
Get yourself a 5 dollar dental pick from walmart. It has to be the actual hook pick, not just a tooth pick. They sell sets of 2 for the travelers picks. They are sufficient. Be prepared for the worst pain you have ever experienced in your life.
At first (the first 3 weeks of having the nerve exposed) you can just pick out the excess food that is touching the nerve. (sometimes it is hiding behind/under the skin, you will have to pick around till you find it. You will probably think you died when you do this.)
After you have done this, you can use some listerine to take care of it.
After the first 3 weeks or so, this won’t help. You will wake up in the middle of the night roughly every 5 minutes. Maybe less.
At this point you can get almost immediate relief putting the “Excedrine migraine” on the tooth. Bite down gently and leave it there for a little while. I mean until it is practically desolved in your mouth. DONT RINSE, it will defeat the purpose, but boy does it taste bad. This will kill the pain for 4 – 6 hours. Sometimes even more.
I am told that it will eventually fall out. I don’t know how long it takes, but I am still moving forward. It can’t get much worse than this. BTW You can’t do it without Jesus, so don’t even try.
Also I have heard that you can die from the infection if it is left go for to long. I don’t know if I will wait for it to fall out or get it ripped out. Either way, I do know that I don’t want to go to the dentist.
Good Luck all. Hope this helps. I am like 2 months into this one. I broke the tooth and the nerve has been exposed for quite some time now. *Haven’t missed a day of work.
Ok. I have had 13 kidney stones, and tooth pain comes just a close second to that. At this point I would say it is worse, but there are things you can do to help tooth pain. I have been on anti-biotics for a few days now, with little relief, I am chewing on a toothbrush, just kind of rubbing my gums gently with it, as it seems to help. I have been living on a steady dose of Ibuprofen, Tylenol 3 with codeine, and Vicoden. Although they help very little. There are alot of good suggestions out there. I woudl suggest the high proof alcohol (vodka, spiced rum, jack daniels) and just swishing it around and spitting it out. As it has helped. I haven’t ate in 5 days now. I have slept an hour and a half a night on a broken schedule all from a broken tooth and a abcess. It’s cool though. Complainging solved nothing, and cutting my gums open with a razor blade (yes I am crazy) and dug the infection out. For the first time in DAYS.. No pain. Minus the cut on the gums. I may have snapped, but I will be sleeping later. I didn’t kill anybody, almost though. Ok so tired, need sleepy sleepy. So, go. Use the alcohol method, live on ambelsol, and ibuprofrens, and if all else fails, and your are like me and can not get to a dentist for 2 weeks. I suggest doing the crazy move, numing your entire mouth, and just cut it out. It is either that, or deal with no more food and no more sleep. brain is shutting off. I bid you a farewell tooth pain…
The BEST relief(temporary) for toothaches better than booze and anbesol is EUGENOL.aka OIL OF CLOVE. Be careful with the oil it will burn other parts like lips and face. It will give hours of pain relief.
hi everyone , pain is not the word , im in pain right now from a infection that i had for awhile now and yesterday i had to go to the dentist because my face looked like a chipmunk and lots of pain , anyway for those of you that have pain i use (muclemist) this stuff works miracles , all i do is spray some on my finger and rub on my cheek as ofter as i need to and the pain goes away for some time anyway , hope everybody feels better for the weekend and merry x-mas to everybody.
don
new brunswick canada
its me again!! anyway ealier this week from monday-thursday were the worst days of mylife because of a stupid tooth i was waking up every 5minutes in the night unable to sleep from the pain i was even crying!! i was so close to geting a hammer or something and wanting to rip out that damned tooth!. the only temp pain relief that helped me was taking thoes painkillers which only lasted for a half hour but besides that i was sucking on ice for the whole time which helped a bit.. i had a infection in my tooth were alot of puss was under my jaw which made my tooth Farking hurt like a bitch.the tablets i took for the infection really fucking helped, after a week of taking them BANG my tooh ache disapared oh boy its the best feeling in the world, i had a 8 hour sleep the other night that was fucknig awesome, i could eat again,i was back to my old self! , oh man how good it feels. i mean i still cant chew food on the saw tooth cos it still kills like a bitch but no every 2second palsin pain. im going back to the dentist next wednesday to get my root canal to finnish this mother fucker off! anyway just wanted to share my story to u guys… no one else but u guys really understands how much a tooh ache hurts…for u guys that are still in pain i feel for yous i really do, good luck and may god be on your side 🙂
Got an abcess just as the dentists went home for the holidays so couldn’t get anyone to call me in a perscription — bad, headache, ears ringing, shaking chills –too sick to get out of bed. Started to eat 3 crushed raw garlic cloves every few hours, 2 IBPropin (willing to risk the kidney failure on this one) and a golden seal/echanacia mix. Put a clove of clove between tooth and cheek, rinse every hour or so with salt water. Pain goes away and can eat a little – the garlic and herbals kill infection, etc. But it comes back if I don’t keep regular. New out here and have to risk getting someone to see me. I will literally sit in someone’s office if no one says they will. These things are life threatening and I’m not going to take no for an answer.
Swelling won’t go down though, thinking of lancing it soon. Tired of being sick even when the pain goes away.
Im 16 years old and need to have a root canal done.
A little less than half of my tooth broke off while eating icecream[like 4 months ago] & after that i had no pain, went to the dentist to fill in a cavity that i already ahd an appointment for & told the lady about my tootj that had broken or whatever. She told me i had to have a root canal done. [still waiting for an appointment btw because in my dentist they dont do it they have to get papers signed elsewhere or some bullshit] so Its been like 3 days & i havent been able to sleep well .
and let me tell you its 1000000000000000% true that the pain gets worst at night.
Up to know this has been the worst pain ive ever experienced, im rethinking ever having kids. l0l.
Oh, i have tried aspirins [dont work].
Salt and warm water [dont work]
Hydrogen peroxide [dont work]
Tylenol [dont work]
Antibiotics kind of work, at least i can sleep some before the pain starts. Currently talking ibuprofen, & now im about to take the pennincilin.
Good luck guys i DEFINETLY feel your pain.
OK, I have finally succumbed to the toothache problem myself after listening to years of other aches and pains by others. I am going to chronologically detail my journey so others can find relief and humor in my plight.
Day before Christmas, I was starting to feel a dull ache in my #30 tooth. My favorite tooth. The one that has once been saved by Dr. my ****n DMD in Hacienda Heights, CA. He works weekends including Sundays until 7pm. Credentialed up to the kazoo. He saves tooths rather than be quick to perform root canals and extractions and all kinds of expensive quick fixes.
Hell, I even had my silver amalgam changed to ceramic without injections of numbing agents. He’s that good…anyway, wanted to lay the groundwork that I had this planned for at least 6 years for this type of emergency. His office is at least 30 miles from my home but I have the kid’s orthodontic braces being done and the wife’s care as well and I pay cash.
Here it comes. I was ready to feast on my favorite dishes. Prime Rib, fillet mignon medallions, sushi, fudge brownies, peanut butter brittle, coconut cream pies, gallons of ice cream, roasted cashews, crispy French pastries, champagne, good Davidoff cigars and brandy. But my frickin #30 was hammering me to the extent that when my doggie, Lexie nuzzled me in bed to take him walking, I was ready to get out into the cold just for relief. I went out to one of those surrealistic dog walks like a madman possessed. It hurt so bad my soul was screaming! I was ready to go prescribe myself but I got on the cell and called at 9AM on Christmas Day.
I went in for an emergency check up. He had a digital Xray taken and we both looked at my #30. I didn’t see a prominent crack or cavity. Then of course the digital xray resolution wasn’t what I would call enough to see hairline cracks either. He stated that other than the tooth being more calcified than the other surrounding teeth, It looked normal. Then he proceeded to probe around like a deep cleaning procedure that sent me to the moon in pain. If that wasn’t enough, he then got the old Freezit can out and put a small amount on a swab to tap on each tooth for thermal recovery – this checks to see whether the nerves are alive. It wasn’t as bad though as the next test which consisted of tapping each tooth with the blunt end of a metal probe. Went nuclear in pain.
I was sweatin about this time but kept my professional cool. I just told him that #30 is my favorite tooth and that it is the only reason I go to his practice. My whole family pays in cash for services with no questions asked. I know what happens when a patient goes to a cheap and flaky dentist. I see these cases often and it isn’t pretty.
We talk about the possible conditions and decide to get me on 500mg of Amoxicillin 3 times a day. I get back by 12 noon and by 1:40PM the feast is layed out. Me smiling and everyone opening presents. Half of my tooth was throbbing and decided I was not to be denied my feast that I starved myself for weeks a little at a time to justify my pigout. I stopped by the hospital on the way back, filled the antibiotic and prescribed myself 3 grams of medical grade cocaine. The rest was a disaster. I felt numb to pain but had no desire to eat. I kept drooling on my cigar and dribbled my brandy like a complete slob.
I cut a swatch of gauze and moistened it, spinkled the powder and placed it between my cheeks and my #30. I must have swallowed 3 of those gauzes.
I was told by the little woman to go to the library and stay there so that I was not so embarrassing. There, I met with a husband of one of the guests whom I explained my plight. He carefully listened and told me that my problem was simple. I have a particle of organic matter that most likely got pushed by the dentist using the pressurized cleaning process. It happens many time than people know. Investigations have shown that Teledyne’s Water Pik and the like equipment contributes to the same problem. An unexpected boom for the dentistry industry. I realized why my frickin dentist saw me! he didn’t even charge me too. I went sober, got up and went to the bathrooms and got the water piks and tossed them out. I now have to take antibiotics with antihistimines for at least 7 straight days. The pain will be there until the body absorbs the rotting organic matter or I can have oral surgury and expose myself to even greater problems.
Moral of the story. You don’t have to be a doctor to lose your patients. Get rid of that water pik and know that a lawyer who made money to keep quiet about a dangerous product from Teledyne is telling the truth.
Hey people, i must say I am glad that you are all in pain, because that way I know I’m not the only one here thinking of killing myself to kill the pain. A few days ago one of my toth broke, and the nerve is open and ready to be attacked. Last night I had the worst pain ever. I fell asleep with a bottle of Malibu (was the only alcohol i had in the house) next to my bed. From previous toothaches i remembered smoking a joint would relieve the pain. This time around it doesnt work. I get stoned AND feel the pain (live in holland, weed is legal).
Clove oil and SUCKING (like someone mentioned) everything out of the tooth really helped. I even have a smile this afternoon haha. But be careful with the clove oil….i missed the tooth, and ended up filling the right side of my mouth woth clove oil. It burned the hell out of me…even my lips felt like there was an inferno burning. Have to go to the dentist, be she has time for me AFTER januari 15th. I dont know how I’ma survive that….
Hi there Guys,
I discovered this site the over night while not able to sleep due to the immense pain of toothache. Unfortunatly I don’t have any remedies as I feel toothache is toothache it just fecking kills. I’ve decided to blog a text message I sent to my bf while in a night of pain…..he suggested I should drive over his n he’d help take my mind of the toothache, unfortunatly due to the advice of others I’d been drinking vodka…..BOO
This just summed up how I felt before I got to see my beloved dentist.
‘2b honest I don’t know where I’m finding the humour from. There is nothing funny in this what so ever. I’ve realised I’m slightly sadistic aswell. I’m poking my tongue in it-it makes it hurt more n I realise the constant pain is slightly better then the sharp shooting pain of my infliction. Fuck it I’m going to have another vodka. Website said to swill but I’m not spitting out vodka thats against my religion. Please help me!!
I feel for you all, but the dentist is your only help…ask then if you can pay in installments if your a bit skint.
Love to you all.
I think that the best thing you can do is go to your doctor and ask him to prescribe you some antibiotics. Being on antibiotics really helped me although my problem hasnt gone away. So also make sure that you make an appointment with your dentist as soon as possible! I really really hope that you feel better soon xx
The antibiotics are right for pain, but they make the stomach, better not use many.
Well can I just say cant believe when I looked up tooth pain advice I would find this. Really got me thru the last hour!! Dinner smells lovely but I know I am about to waste my time even going down to dinner. In so much pain wondering when I will pass out but at the dentist tommorow to start root canal and fillings. I paid out a fortune 2 years ago I wouldnt mind but seem to have bad luck with teeth!! In agony again though as wisdom teeth coming at the same time oh joy!!1 Well to everyone in pain right now, you are not the only one and good luck
Where do i start? I am going to die. Feels like someone is torturing me… I tried everything nothing helps. The pain just wont go away. extra strength oragel was working a lil but now it makes it worst. I was popping 3 asperen ever 2 hours. Now the pain is to the point even vicaden XS dosnt workI went to hosiptal they gave me antibiotic and the vicadin XS well wrote me a script. Worked for 2 days best two days all week. I have no money so i called around to all dentists to see if they would work with me on payment plan. NONE WOuld.. they said $200 up front… I want to take plyers to the tooth so bad. I am even having a hard time typing. errrrrrrrrrrrr
Oh also work in 2 hours havnt slept in 2 days
OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG IM DYING Its approx: 3:59 AM.. yes thats almost 4 in the god damn morning. omg omgomgomg i have 2 teeth hurting right next to eachother in my lower left jawbone the very last tooth and the one before that. and just recently like maybe 5 hours ago the tooth directly above those started hurting. I’ve just been sitting here reading this blog and have almost crushed a thing of maximum strength anbesol. My tooth has been hurting for almost 2 days now. I took too much tylenol yesterday and my stomach felt like there was something melting through it so im done with that BS but now i feel like im overdoing the advil gelcaps.. i feel like slamming my head down onto a 6 inch nail this hurts so bad someboddy pleaseeeeee kill me!
I’ve got a persistent nagging toothache that seems to be spreading around my entire mouth and won’t stay localised in one spot. That’s weird enough, but I only get it at night. The whole week has been the same – fine during the day with no painkillers at all, but aching at night. Not just when I’m trying to sleep and have nothing else to think about, but starts about 9pm everyday regardless. Is this a real pain or psychosematic? It seems to respond to painkillers…
yeah thats the thing 4 the last 3 days i’ve had a REALLY bad toochache, but it dont hurt till just as i’m going to sleep – its really hurtin now but im tryin 2 ignore it {wich is hard}.
hope all u lots teeth stop hurtin as 4 me it will be a few hours till it fades away a bit – or i fall asleep.
Ok everyone listen I found a way to ease the pain.. Well this works for me only problem is it only calms the pain for about 3 to 5 min. Small piece of ice. Dont chomp it just put it on the top of the hurting tooth and apply a lil pressure by biting down lightly. Let it sit and melt. When its done melting the pain will be releaved. Problem is by the time you almost asleep the pain comes back and you have to reapply the ice. I can feel the pain generate gradully back starting with a switch and working its way from the tooth all the way to my temple and down too my neck just under my jaw. Its a crazy feeling as it gets stronger and stronger to the point my eyeball feels like its going to pop out of my head. You ever watch the swarznager movie where there on mars and they fall out on the planet and there eyes start popping out and there head looks like its going to expload. Thats how this feels.
This works for me and its safe no over dosing on any meds.. hope it helps you all out. at least it may take the spikes out of the pain