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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Hi everyone, I am here feeling every single one of your pain. I have had a debilitating toothache for 4 weeks now, like the kind that forbids sleep, and prefers to have you convulsing and crying like a baby, the kind that make you ask why me? This sight has provided some much needed comic relief to me. A friend of mine has 4 kids, including a set of twins, and she said she would rather live those childbirths again then experience another toothache of this magnitude. And the question about the number of toothache-related suicide attempt statistics made me chuckle, and yes that’s all I can do at this point. I also have looked longingly at some tools in my b/f’s tool box and though of the many possibilities…
But I went to the dentist, I showed her where the toothache was, she told me it was my decaying wisdom tooth that was the culprit and not necessarily the tooth I thought it was, although that was where all the pain was centered. The pain moves around in what was described to me as a “nerve tube”, and decay or a cavity in one tooth can be displaced to another, even to another side of the face or from bottom teeth to top and vice versa. So now I need all 4 wisdom teeth extracted as well as a botched root canal lack there of tooth. I wouldn’t wish this pain on anyone. The worst part is the day after my visit, after the dentist filled the cavity in my tooth I believed was hurting, the pain came back TENFOLD now including the sight where she gave me the needle, the muscle there, causing it difficult to open my mouth or even talk. She sent me on my merry little way with no prescription for anything. So 4-5 Advil every 3 hours is providing me with 90% relief, to the point where I am able to actually be productive or think about ANY thing else… Now my gland is swollen on the same side as my decaying wisdom tooth, my throat hurts and I have become a snot factory. Help!! P.S. I don’t have dental insurance =) I love life
Hey the vodka thing seems to work. Especially once its warmed up (it was in the freezer). Thanks!
My teeth have always had problems, even when I was on daily fluoride gels as a kid. I would brush 5-6 times a day and still get cavities.
Since moving out on my own, I haven’t been to the dentist in about 10 yrs. I simply can’t afford it and health insurance is a @!^$# joke. So now my teeth are rotted and ugly. I think I have perhaps 3 teeth that don’t have a cavity right now. And I know I have awful breath that no gum or mint can cover.
The last 2 years or so have been bad. I’ve lost several fillings, and have pieces break off all the time. My back molars are down to the gums. I had a molar split in half and I pulled 1/2 of it out myself. I think my wisdom teeth are coming in now, so that isn’t helping.
I’ve been lucky so far and have not had any serious infections or abscesses. I don’t know what I would do if I did. I heard in the news a few months back about a kid who died from the infection getting into his brain.
The pain comes and goes. Sometimes I can go several months with out hurting. Other times it lasts for weeks. I can usually suffer through without anyone aware, but other times the pain is literally blinding. Sometimes its just one tooth, other times it is spread over a group of 5-6 teeth. And painkillers against a toothache is like a BB gun against a rhino.
I have found for me, sometimes sipping a small amount of water into my mouth every 30 seconds or so and running it over the painful teeth can help keep the pain down. Some days (like today) I will drink around 15 glasses of water. I feel like I may die from water poisoning, or at least puke if I take one more sip. And it can be a big hassle to keep a bottle of water in hand at all times, and be running to the bathroom 10 times a day.
I am so very tired of it all. Yes the pain, but more so, the embarrassment. Trying to never laugh or smile facing a person, wondering what they must think of me when they catch a glimpse. Keeping a distance when talking to hide my breath.
I hope that by the end of this year I will have a solution. I dream about being able to afford getting implants, the titanium posts and porcelain veneers. I would settle for dentures even.
I’ve been checking into cheaper options such as flying to Costa Rica. Even with flight and hotel its cheaper than the dentists here.
Thanks to all the posts. Reading them took my mind off the pain a bit. Its also nice to find some comfort in numbers. I know your pain. Now I am off to bed with a small glass of vodka.
OHMYGOD! Tooth pain is the worst. I have been suffering since Feb. Let me say that I have always always practiced nauseatingly good dental hygiene and my dentists have always told me I have excellent teeth. I brush and floss, don’t drink sodas, yadda yadda. Never had a cavity either. In Feb, one of my lower teeth started having a tickling pain. The nerve was so sensitive that I was actually using my finger to “brush” my gums to get rid of the sensation. Made an immediate appointment and my dentist saw a black spot at the base of the tooth. Okay, went to endodontist for root canal. He did one cleaning but the infection was too bad. So I took a course of antibiotics, but the pain was building up to a hammering intensity, and I went back, at which time he took out the temporary filling and all the fluid that had been building up came leaking out. He left the filling out and till my next session next week, I’ve been taking a second round of antibiotics and using a lot of mouthwash. Did several nights of vicodin, but mostly Advil. I cannot be sleeping off medication because I have small children who need me. Hopefully next week will cure things. Meanwhile, the abcess, which was previously very spread out and huge, has receded to a ball at the base of that one tooth. I hate it. I hate my mouth so much. My dentist said it was probably caused by an impact injury, such as a baby’s head crashing against my chin, causing my teeth to crash together. Or even a childhood injury. And I only felt the pain now becase of bacterial infection. There never was any pain before, and I go every 6 months for cleanings, so I do take care of my teeth and things like this can still happen. Take care, everyone. May we all find pain relief soon.
Ahh the old enemy is back, i had toothache on and off for years (scared of the dentist so i put up with it, absesses, the lot)…..then a few months back i couldnt take anymore so i went and had 2 fillings.
2 months later on the other side of me mouth a storm is brewing……ahhhh pain ahhhh pain….like other accounts nothing really works but you live for the hope that something will…….i am up and down the house like some mad man trying to relieve from the pain
have been reading loadsa websites and i just tried something that has worked (a little)……it tastes foul though and my breath is now like a swamp
anyway…..half a cup of vinegar….table spoon of salt then swill it…all of of…in about 6 goes
im quite suprised, but i defo off to the dentist this morning.
good luck with your pains
Stefano from the UK
email me if you have any great remedies……hoboexile@hotmail.com
hi its me again
just wanna say again the half cup of vinegar with salt in and swilled is doing the trick as we speak
so try it, it just may work for you
im gonna try get some sleep (although i worry as soon as i get me head down it will return)
you would think in the year 2007 these scientists surely could have come up with the perfect tooth ache pain killer by now surely.
peace and let none of you suffer from tooth pain ever again
owwwwww… it’s only been 2 days and sweet sassy molassy… it hurts!!!! Left upper (or lower) I can’t tell, it hurts so bad. Anbesol (sp?) maximum has been working, but I fear that will soon stop. I think I’ll try the vodka tonight… I hope everyone feels better soon. 🙂
1 (200 mg) ibuprofin every 4 hrs (take a second pill if still hurting after 1 hr), dip a toothpick in peroxide and clean all plaque out of the cavity. THe pills take about 30-40 minutes to kick in but once they do, it pretty much kills the pain for me and lets me sleep. Some dentists like to prescribe 800 mg of ibuprofin. TOO HIGH DOSE!! Take the smallest dose possible and spread out as long as possible and take with food. I dont like the prescription pills like hydrocodone/ibuprofen that mask ALL pain such that I can be sitting in a bad posture position and I dont get the muscle signals to adjust or get up and stretch, then when the effect wears off, I feel all kinds of neck and back pain that was masked all day.
4.30am in uk….suffered with toothache on and off for the past 3 years…worst pain ever…vodka definetly seems to be helping…need a dentist sooo bad, i feel for all you guys i really do…not being able to sleep is the worst thing ever espcially when you feel completely knackered but as soon as you lay down the pain starts…horrid…anyway guess im gonna be staying up all night tonight like ive done so many times…good luck to everyone!!
Well, I thought that I was the first to feel such pain. It hurts so much, I really thought that it was something serious and i was going to have my teeth taken out. it’s been about four day with this dreadful pain. I have not sleept well these past few days. i’ve had maybe 10 hours of sleep in the past four days. I taken tylynol, motrin. exedrine, orajel, and even vicadon, nothing has worked for me. the only thing that seems to calm the pain is sipping cool water holding it on the side with the pain, and spitting it out when it gets warm. I’ve done this all day and night for four days. I really am sick of doing this but the pain is unbarable. I’ll be going to the dentist tomorrow. the strange thing is that i have a really bad half broken cavity on the right side but the pain is on the unbarable on the left side. the tooth take really causes all the pain has been filled about a year ago. If i don’t do my cold water method, the pain spreads to the bottem side of the jaw, my ear, my cheek, and even to my eye. i’ve cried from the intense pain. sometimes i just feel like ripping it out like tom hanks on castaway. I really feel for him now! well i’m going to try to sleep.
Good luck People and i hope you guys feel better!
oh dear God. I never had any toothache till last month, one of my teeth broke. and I am afraid of the dentist so much so every time I get on the floor where he works, I start running back home. Till now all the meds worked. But tonight nothing. My jaw feels like falling off. And I don’t have any votka at home. And I have 4 exams next week. + tomorrow is a holiday. whou, what a surprise! daaamn that tooth. Somehow it seems I’ll have to go and see him (pssst. don’t say dentist out loud) next week, ’cause this is unbearable…
Good luck to you all.
****PAIN****
so I had root canal a few months ago with no problems. But now all of a sudden, EXTREME PAIN. cant eat, drink, sleep. so, went back to dentist today and they didnt even do anything. They said come back in 7 days for an x-ray!!
Damn.
Well I have been in chronic pain dealing with toothaches since this past December! 🙁 Every single month I have had atleast 2 toothaches. I have had 2 failed root canals by 2 different dentists (on 2 teeth). On June 13th I had my 6 remaining top teeth extracted because of toothaches and had a top denture made. Well now my 6 remaining bottom teeth are ALL giving me toothaches too UGH!! Why is this all happening to me??? I am soooooo depressed that I think that I’m having a mental breakdown. Every day since December, all I do is cry! I used to get 1 toothache a year, but now it’s 20 toothaches within 6 months, what’s going on??? My dentist did some kind of test on my teeth, and he says that the nerves in my teeth are all dead, how can that happen, when my teeth don’t look that bad?? I go and see my dentist next Tuesday, July 3rd so I am going to tell him that I want ALL of my remaining 6 teeth extracted, and than get a bottom denture made after my gums are fully healed. And than I will NEVER EVER have to go thru another toothache as long as I live, Thank God!! I have been on vicodin off and on now for about 6 months (prescription from my dentist) so now I will have another thing to worry about after I get my remaining teeth extracted (going thru horrible withdrawals) UGH!!! 🙁 I never had any major cavities so I don’t understand why all of my teeth are giving me toothaches, do you think it’s because I have some major infection going on like in my jawbone that has been spreading from one tooth to the next since December?
I just can’t wait until the day that I wake up and be pain free and drug free.
Kim
Oh I forgot to mention that after getting my 6 remaining bottom teeth extracted, that I would have a total of 20 teeth extracted, since this past December, all because of toothaches. 🙁
Kim
To the guy above who was embarrassed because his wife found him crying because of toothache pain:
Man, there isn’t anything to be embarrassed about. If you’re not reduced to tears, you’re not having a real toothache.
22 years ago while a senior in college, I was hit head on by an uninsured habitual offender drunk driver. The impact knocked several teeth out in front and broke off several in the back. Not to mention a broken jaw, collar bone, nose and collapsed lung. It took nearly a year before I was able to continue with my eduaction. I have had problems with my teeth since the accident.
I am in agony right now!!!!!!! I have never in my life had a pain such as this and now I can see that the right side of my face is beginning to swell. Unfortunately tomorrow is the 4th of July so I probably wont be able to get in to see my dentist anytime soon. It is soooo bad that I almost wish I would die just to stop the pain.
Someone said earlier that laughing helps out so I’ve been watching my Seinfeld dvd’s since about 2am and now it’s 5 and I don’t really feel any better.
Oh well, at least I’m off for the rest of the week.
Hi Everybody,
This is an update from the guy above (not God) but the guy who was in agony less than 24 hours ago. In my desperation to find relief for my tooth ache, I ran across a bottle of Oxycodone (generic for Percocet) that was prescribed for me in March 06 after double hernia surgery. Thankfully, there were 9 pills left over which I began taking at 7:30 this morning. Within half an hour, the pain had subsided considerably. In addition, I also ran across a bottle of four pills of Cipro(anti-biotic) which I had been prescribed at the same time because of a staph infection I picked up while in the hospital. After getting the OK from my local Walgreens pharmacist(both bottles expired 4 mos ago), I have started taking them as well.
All I have to say now is HALLELUJAH!!!! I am a new man, the pain is gone. The swelling is still there but within a day or so the swelling should begin to go down as well. I can’t get in to see my dentist until Monday but at least now I wont have to go through the weekend in pain and hopefully not looking like the Elephant Man.
Another little tid bit of info the pharmacist shared with me in regard to prescription medications, is that most meds are still effective sometimes up to two years past their expiration dates. The reason the pharmaceutical companies put the expiration dates so far in advance of the actual date in which the meds in essence become “placebos”, is so that you will have your doctor call in another prescription for you to purchase from them.
So if you in desperation run across an old prescription of pain pills, don’t be too quick to discount their effectiveness. When in doubt, call a professional.
Hopefully someone else will benefit from this information.
God Bless >
John 14:6
Oh my god!!!!!! It is 4:30 in the morning and I have to be
to work at 6:30. I havent been able to sleep because my tooth hurts so bad. My eye, head and the teeth surrounding the molar that I need the root canal in HURT LIKE HELL!!!!! I go to the dentist tomorrow and I can not wait. I feel like I won the lottery b/c they fit me in so quickly. Nothing works for me and if it does it’s only temporary. Good luck you guys and I will let you know after I get the root canal done how it went. Also try an endidontist. They specialize in root canals.
I feel for you people.
I have an issue with dentists. In my youth I spend every thursday for two years in a dentist chair to have my teeth straightened.
Then I had all four wisdom teeth out at the same time (done by local dental hospital. During this they managed to chip my molars. I was young and didn’t think much of it at the time. Leaving me with an odd phobia for dentists (I get cold sweats too) – so I don’t have a regular checkups.
Since then I have had to have two root canals done on those molars after being in serious agony. My only trip to the dentist as the pain was so bad!
Now one of those root canal crowns has failed after about 5 years.
I got woken up at on saturday night with major tooth ache, I thought I could control this with pain killers until I have a chance to get the tooth looked as I was to go to Iceland for business.
On my first night in Iceland I find that have a infection abscess starting to appear under right jawbone (not an internal abscess), later that night this is so hard that it traps the nerve to my lips = making my bottom right lip completely numb. Nasty.
So I battle through the next day with a presentation on painkillers – looking like a lopsided hampster – then fly home with people looking thinking wtf is wrong with you? The flight attendants (iceland air has the most beautiful women which too my mind off it slightly, as did the book I read).
Once in the car I noticed that I could not breath properly as my neck down to my colar bone was inflamed. So I ring ahead to a mate to take me to ER once I get to his house. We decided to go to an out of hours surgery at the local hospital (it helps living near Ascot as the racecourse has a minor injury clinic right next to it).
The doctor looks at it and agrees that it’s a serious abscess (now on the cheek, pushing the bottom of my mouth lining up, squashing my voice box – making it hard to swallow and breath as the inflammation has worked down the neck too.
He says “nothing for it – you’ll need two strong antibiotics”, so I’ve been prescribed Metronidazole (400mg) and Amoxicillin (500mg). He also stated that should also use an anti-inflammatory which is Ibuprofen (200mg) plus a painkiller Coodamol (500mg Paracetamol+ 8mg Codeine).
So now I feel like I’m spaced out due to the pain killers numbing effect! I don’t take any form of drugs as I don’t get pains or even headaches. I gave up caffeine 4 months ago too!
So the moral of this experience. Ensure you have regular dental checkups as prevention before is better than ‘cure’ after.
I will now loose this molar which is annoying (my own fault as I didn’t face my phobia of dentists). As I had the other molar removed to uncrowd my mouth as part of straightening this means I will only have premolar on the right side – not a good point to be at 33!
What is worse is that this all causes a slight self-reinforcing negative feeling as I perceive that I have bad teeth so therefore I’m very self conscious about showing my teeth when I smile or laugh with my mouth open.
In short it hits my personal confidence.
When I have kids they will not be allowed sugar and will have the best regular dental regime I can afford!
Now, the day after the trip to the doctor’s I have decided that I will arrange a regular dental checkup (in addition to having the tooth removed asap).
Thanks for listening, I hope my experience will push some of you to make better use of your dentist!
Yours, sitting here looking like a Hampster,
Nick
To Nick K
I am a Registered Nurse in the US. The symptoms you describe would lead to an admission to the intensive care unit for continuous monitoring of your airway and the administration of intravenous antibiotics, pain medication, and anti inflammatory medication.
It is of great concern that you were sent home. I have taken care of several patients in the intensive care unit with symptoms that you have described.
I think you should go to the emergency department immediately for more evaluation and admission to the hospital.
The swelling in your throat could continue gradually until it reaches a critical point – and if that occurs you need to be where immediate life saving intervention can occur – in the hospital – preferably in the intensive care unit.
With proper care and treatment you will not die from this infection.
You should also be sleeping with the head of the bed up at least 45 degrees until the swelling decreases considerably.
Sitting here with my own intermittent exquisitely painful toothache from hell – terrified of dentists – waiting for Monday to go in and get treated. I have to say that this one is probably the worst pain I have ever felt. Vicodin barely touches it.
Take care
Steve, RN
San Francisco, CA
Steve you are entirely correct.
The condition is called Ludwig’s Angina. Rare nowdays, it is has a 50% fatality chance prior to antibiotics. Post antibiotic era this is now 8-10%.
Just to let you all know, the antibiotics are working, the inner abscess did actually rupture by itself (well I was brushing my teeth with my electric toothbrush and after spending 20mins with spitting vile pus out) which cleared the impact on the airway and my voice box.
I have a dental appointment tomorrow – now I can open my mouth and we’ll take it from there. I plan to make this a regular occurrence from now on.
I can foresee that I’ll be on antibiotics until the abscesses have gone – currently these reduced but the remaining is now solid/hard. I suspect that this is now just a waiting game as the body slowly reabsorbs the dead structures.
An interesting website is this one:
http://www.doctorspiller.com/Root_Canals.htm#Abscess
Have a look at page further down for Ludwig’s Angina, I’ personally glad it was not an upper front tooth with an abscess affecting the brain!
Still all this was brought into perspective as a work college died over the weekend in a traffic accident – RIP Paul.
Start a new job tomorrow, and what happens a few days ago? Hello major toothache, the pain is maddening. It’s Sunday today, so obviously can’t see a dentist. I can’t call in sick or ask for time off on my first day. Argh!
I’ve dropped a couple of cocodamine, and am trying Anbesol gel, the pain has reduced, but i can’t believe what bad luck this is!
Hello, I am about a month pregnant and have had EXTEAMLY bad tooth ache for the past few weeks. I am currently taking antibiotics but its not helping. also taking tylenol but again not working. the tooth needs pulled it is almost compeletly broken and hurts like hell. will a dentist extract while pregnant??? and what other pain killer could i try while i find a cheap dentist to take the tooth since i have no insurance? SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME!!! IM BOUT TO PULL IT OUT MYSELF!!!
OMG. That’s all I have to say. If what I read was right about tooth aches hurting worse than giving birth then I can’t WAIT until I have a baby! Looking for to giving labor because this mother effen tooth ache is driving me insane. It’s 4:14am in the morning California time and I have to get up in a couple hours to go to work. I will make it to work but I know for sure I’ll be half dead. I’m sitting here right now reading these blogs and gargling warm vodka since the Grey Goose I had in the freezer would most likely send me over the edge since it’s cold. So I put some in a little mouthwash cup and put in the the microwave for 30 seconds to warm it up. I’m gargling some then spitting it out, so and so on. I guess it’s working? I’ve already taken more than I’m supposed to of Ibruprofen and Motrin. I’m suprised I haven’t overdosed yet! And my poor kindeys! This can’t be healthy. It’s like becoming part of my daily routine along with taking my regular vitamins! My whole right side of my face is throbbing and even affecting my eye! I shouldn’t have put it off because of the cost. My dentist gave me a prescription for antibiotics, vicadon and Motrin until i can afford getting a root canal which are simply horrible. Even though they numb it, it still hurts. It’s a lot of pain but it’s worth it in the end. I’m calling the specialist tomorrow and demanding they see me ASAP! Well at least i’ll be hopeful! Until then, I’m going to start working on my suicide note..lol..totally kidding but sometimes you wish you were dead..like in the situtation! Good luck to you all fellow tooth achers!
I have an exposed nerve in a broken molar and can’t see a dentist for a few days (daze). I have a perscription for a medication called vicoprofen. It not only takes the swelling down but will relieve pian for a good six hours. Along with clove oil, fresh coffee grounds (against the molar ) and Top Care mouth wash, I recomend Pepsi One combined with a pint of brandy to get you through. Your life in some cases will be somewhat returned to normal and for the majority will be a unique and life enhancing emotional experience.
i just want to die, 3 toothaches at once just un-fucking-bearable.
Cracked tooth hurts like shizzzz. ouch.
Two extra strength tylenol and it still hurtz.
Damn overpriced dentist.
okay im serouisly dying here
all day at work.. ive been over using orajel like krazy
i wanna eat it hurts so bad it brings tears to my eyes
i have no idea why .. GAHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
make it stopppppppp
i never felt a pain like this before.. id rather get my wisdom teeth pulled again
.. BUT i do take some confort in knowing im not the only one here thats dying with tooth pain
I had a horrible toothache side of my face was swollen and the gland in the left side of my neck was swollen as well, I got some cephalexin antibiotic and it worked like a miracle, within two days the swelling was gone and my tooth no longer hurts. The pain is caused by bacteria attacking your nerve and causing pressure and swelling so all of those other remedies will ease the pain temporarly but it may take your body quite some time (2-3 weeks) or longer to fight off the infection so my advice would be to do whatever you can do get the antibiotic cephalexin which is a generic version of keflex you can get it over the internet without any problems i was able to get 100 pills for 40$.
ok i have had a toothache for the last 2 years off and on and cant save the money to go to the dentist…. i had a really bad one tonight it woke me up at 4:30 in the morning well i did what ya’ll said to try the vodka thing… the pain was going away… i tried orajel and it didnt work i tried a heating pad over my mouth nope i had to get on the internet and google it… putting vodka on your tooth works wonders… thanks
I know how you all feel….trust me. I had a broken tooth and went nearly half a year with it until it just got unbearable…not to mention a wisdom tooth that was pulled from the top of my mouth and later caused me to have dry socket. And the pain would be the worst at NIGHT…I would honestly sit up in bed crying cause it hurt so bad. I couldn’t afford to have the broken tooth pulled…I went to my parents who thank God helped me out by paying for it becuase I don’t have dental insurance. The only thing I can say is that the home-made remedies only work so long – the pain only gets worse….I really REALLY feel for the people who can’t afford to get done what needs to be done by a dentist. I don’t know what I would have done if it wasn’t for my parents helping me out.
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i am going to remove all my teeth…
i will plant SHARKTEETH instead so i can eat ice cubes without problems…
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I know how painful toothaches are. If none of the common remedies such as painkillers, clove oil, salt water, peroxide, baking soda, garlic, etc doesn’t work maybe oil pulling can help. Visit the two urls below to read what it is and how to do it.
http://www.earthclinic.com/Remedies/oil_pulling.html
http://oilpulling.com/
Virgin coconut oil might help as well because it has antiviral, antimicrobial, and antifungal properties.
http://www.coconutoil.com/research.htm
Of course, these remedies won’t replace a visit to the denist office but I wanted to post something different from the typical remedies. Oil pulling and virgin coconut oil may help with many other illnesses as well.
WHEATGRASS will sort you out. buy four ounces of freshly juiced grass. ask the guy in the shop to give you some of the spent shoots as well. gargle about three ounces in your mouth for five minutes and spit out. soak the old grass in the remaining juice to make a poultice. stick it in your mouth and pack it at affected teeth for as long as you can. the wheatgrass will draw the infection from the gum. works for toothache/abcess/ulcer/gum disease.
and no, you can’t smoke it
OH MY FUCKING GOD!!!! i have a tooth missing on the right side of my mouth.. the second to last molar or whatever that i had pulled due to a failed root canal.. well the furthest tooth back thats all by its lonesome has developped a hole in teh side.. its fairly large and well like the dumbass i was.. i was in digging around in there with a tooth pick trying to get all the crap out of there and well i think i cut the nerve or whatever because it started bleeding and then out of NOWHERE the MOST INTENSE PAIN EVER!.. imagine taking the nerve out of your tooth and just pulling it out and omg omg the a/c is on in the house so every breath of air through my mouth is causing the most intense fucking pain i’ve ever fucking felt in my whole fucking life!!!!!!!!
I honestly feel for you all. I had an extraction this Monday gone. There was a bad infection and I sobbed like a baby – on my knees at one time. After two courses of antibiotics the infection has cleared. But the adjoining tooth constantly hurts and is higher than the rest of the teeth. It’s obviously been tugged out accidently. I’ve got a constant migraine on that side too because of it. I feel like taking a hammer and banging it back in. 🙁
I pray you all feel better soon.
Nadia.
Activated charcoal helps to draw out the infection. You can buy activated charcoal at most any health food store. Take about a tablespoon and mix it in with a little water,mix to a paste consistency. Smear it on a small piece of gauze,and place it directly upon the hurting tooth and the pain will stop shortly.
It’s 3:30am, another almost alnighter of pain! I went to my dentist last week complaining of the whole right side of my gums aching. I had 3 canker sores also. She insisted it was not infection because it was only one side of my mouth. Instead she suggested maybe I had a piece of food stuck, or it was hormonal.
Ok I’ve been in pain since then and its now above and in(around) my front right tooth and it started looking grayish last night!!, excruciating pain at this point and yes-gray. I called the office within a minute when they open, and my dentist has tuesdays off. So I called 4 times until they could send me to someone else in an office affiliated with them 30 min away.
Went there and the dr. took an x-ray while I nearly sobbed in pain.
Said INFECTION…antibiotics, 30 mg codiene(which is not working)…recommended root canal & crown. My insurance is maxed out till January…this sucks.
Damn my dentist for not listening to me last week!
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my gum is swelled up big time =[ what should i do??
it really hurts me Owwee Ow Ow Owwww
Hi there im in mother fucking pain. And im telling you clover oil is a fucking godsend, 10 times better than vodka.
I need to get my wisdom teeth out and i think now is the time
also everyone who gets a show search for dentistdown on this site…listen to this homo, he knows what hes talking about
im out
wez
my side of my face is like a balloon. I’ve just stuck a pin in my gum and am trying to suck the shit out. tastes bad but stopping the pain. nothing else is working for me.
Well im just hopeing i’ll fall asleep and the tooth fairy will take it. I’ve left her a fiver under my pillow.
safesafe good luck peeps.
toothache is the worst pain anyone can experience in my opinion. Me lucky I live in an area with lots of NHS dentists, 3 walk-in centres and a dental hospital.
I really feel for the people who can’t get a dentist or afford it.
It’s a serious problem. I wonder what the suicide statistics are for it, I’m sure it has happened. I mean, it makes you depressed, even more depressed if you can’t be seen by a dentist or afford it.
Well, having not seen a dentist for about 10 years…
And having a previous history of spending about $1K per year with my previous one… I was due for a $10K job…
I had a few cavities, some worse than others (most all lingual, e.g. not affecting my outer “smile”).
Then a molar filling came out, and that pretty much lit up every nerve that was connected to every other minor cavity in my mouth. Especially since I Smoke, and Drink Very Strong Coffee.
The pain, well… Ha.
Let’s just say the pain is absolutely *incredible*. No, not incredible — it’s fantastically AWE-INSPIRING. If I was a third party observer I’d have to simply remark that it’s a simple, magnum opus work of art by our Creator in its simplicity, magnitude, and brutality. Overkill. Like dropping the A-bomb on Hiroshima just because you’re Pissed that you fell from a tree in one of Hiroshima’s parks as a small Child.
It’s the type of pain that is intense like childbirth, but unrelenting, repeating. Like shitting a watermelon out of one your eye sockets every time your heart beats.
I’ve broken bones, dislocated various things, received dirty lacerations. Watched with curious amazement as half-fast 20-year old “surgeons” stiched up said lacerations with thick black sutures, sans any anaesthetic, as the endorphines took the edge off.
That was Nothing compared to this. Doctors have a 1-10 scale, 1 is like “yeah. it hurts, I think”. 10 is you on your hands and knees, praying to any convenient god or person, “just f-ing kill me. Shoot me, smite me NOW, please” and willingly making attempts at any available full gun holster, grabbing at the nearest gun (if you’re on this list, have your significant other LOCK UP YOUR GUNS).
I’m experiencing 8.5-9.0 at night, consistently until my *8* scheduled root canals next week (gee doesn’t that sound fun, but I’m actually looking FORWARD to them — that’s pretty messed up, methinks) I’m probably destroying my liver with the cocktail of drugs and alcohol I’m ingesting, but your liver isn’t much use if the pain makes you want to sincerely decorate the wall behind you by blowing your own brains out.
I completely understand how “tooth manipulation and mutilation” is a common and effective form of torture in certain unenlightened regions of the World. Why not? I’m sure it bloody-well works, most of the time…
My best advice to all here:
Do whatever it takes to knock yourself the hell out at night. Doing so will let the nerves un-ennervate, which will give you at least a few hours of time where you’re actually SANE and can THINK CLEARLY in the morning.
This may include drugs, booze, drugs+booze, or drugs+booze+friend knocking you out with a baseball bat.
Hopefully in the small window of time you’re thinking clearly you will make an appointment with a GOOD dentist who will either yank the offending teeth or perform root canals as neccessary and proper.
Good luck, and may the force be with ya..
-A Fellow Traveller
i use vineger put on a cotton swab for my toothache pain,works real fast.
I need help. My tooth is killing me. I am terrified of the dentist. I had a very bad experience when I was pregnant with my son. I had to have my wisdom teeth on the left side top and bottom pulled out. I was 8 months pregnant and they pulled both teeth with no pain meds just 3 nurses holding me down. Needless to say I do not like the dentist. I have a cracked tooth and tylenol is not working. Please help
I really, really, need help. I have a very bad cavity and I don;t know why it hurts becuse I already got a root canal in that tooth and I have another tooth where the filling fell out. I’ve tried ibuprofen, advil, crushed garlic, peanut butter and garlic, salt water, ice, hot bottle, warm water with baking soda, ora-gel,listerine(stingy but not effective). I haven’t slept more than 4 hours each night because it’s hard to fall asleep then have to stay asleep. Please help me! Any suggetions would be greatly appreciated! : (
A good suggestion for temporary relief is to smoke a joint and hopefully fall asleep before the pain comes back!
Wow, what a bunch of misinformed people. So here’s the rundown…from a dentist no less. First identify your problem. a) a hole b) An absyss (or gum inflamation) c) impacted tooth (or root problem). For holes, all you need to do is fill the hole and prevent it from touching the air. Clove oil works best when used with a small piece of cotton and then shoved (i mean SHOVED) into the cavity. Or you can try ground pepper paste mixed with clove oil or you can try salt toothpaste mix….just fill the hole up. If its an absyss. (you will know cos your lymph nodes under your jaw will start to hurt from the infection) just reach in and squeeze the living crap out of it…juice it for all its worth. The pain is caused by the swelling. Remove the swelling and hurt no more. then rinse with strong warm salt water or swirl a mouthfull of 100proof alchohol (don’t drink – taste’s like s**t). If its an impacted tooth…. THERE’S NO REMEDY EXCEPT PAIN KILLERS.
Find one that inhibits nerve function (too many to quote here) but find one legally at the emergency room. And lastly, the problem with decaying teeth is proper dental care. You can eat 10kilos of sugar a day… but of brush, floss or at least garle after every meal. you will be better off. Have a pain free day.
oooooh- how evil of evolution to put these nerves in teeth! I’m on a 10mg ambian and no sleep for days! pain is soo bad. whole face is warm and i pain. 800 mg motrin…and a glass of whinr…
too drunk totype-
OMG…. i have had tooth aches before but not like the one i have now. I have hardly slept if i am sitting up i am ok for sometime. When i lay down my tooth throbs. I just started antibiotics today and Tylonel 3’s nothing is working. The infection spread to neck and i have swollen glands…not pretty. I am to the point if i find some pliers the damn thing is coming out.
Toothaches may hurt more at night because of the Moon.
I have a wicked ache right now. It’s swollen up the right side of my jaw and creeping down my neck. I have a hard swollen lump at least the size of a silver dollar with a few areas that it’s trying to spread. It’s been steady pain for 3 days now but I finally, two hours ago, got ahold of a full dose of penicillin. Please send some good thoughts this way as I found God on the last toothache so that option is already used up. I was going to go to the dentist but I got online to transfer money and found that some jerk had reversed a payment without returning the item so now I have to wait a week or two for PayPal to remedy the situation… It’s my own fault for letting the tooth get this bad. I have a gold coin and a few ounces of silver, I wonder if a nice dentist would just yank my tooth for the bullion. I don’t want three appointments, don’t want anything but to have it yanked. Any old-school dentists still out there?
In the past I tore my ACL completely in half and did not take any prescription painkillers for it. This tooth hurts many times worse than my knee did when it got destroyed. OWWW!!!!