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The Death Of #18: A Tooth Dies Screaming

UberScout

UberScout

Please Don't Be Mad At Me 02/09/1996
V.I.P Member
Guys.

Have you ever had a toothache?

If you're a human being raise your hand.

Good.

Now.

Have you ever had a really bad toothache?

Okay.

Now here's another question.

Has your mouth ever felt like one side of the back was having a crazed, schizophrenic scientist just take a kitchen knife superheated to 1000 degrees F, and just jammed it as hard as humanly possible into the tooth that was hurting? And then while they did so, they just twisted the knife this way and that in every direction, jamming it up and down and up and down as violently hard and slowly as possible?

Do you know what kind of undeserved pain that is?!

When I first had this happen I was in the emergency room. I had gone there when it first started. But just my luck, the entire hospital was somehow completely full and had no vacancy, yet were still accepting patients because the law says dying people can't be out on the street. What cosmic chain of events took place to ensure that happened I will never know, but it didn't matter. As a result, I SAT THERE IN THE RECEPTION AREA FOR

THREE
BLOODY
HOURS

WAITING FOR A DOCTOR TO CHECK ME IN.

What am I doing throughout those three hours? Two things.

One, I'm trying to stay quiet.
Two, I'm searching my brain, in the deepest tolerance database I know of, for a way to remain sane through the level of pain I was enduring.

Before I describe it, let me list off that:

I once stubbed my toe on the wall of my house.
I've had my aunt Dorothy spend hours hand-clearing acne off my face, very, very, very slowly.
I've had a cat scratch me. And bite me. In my....never mind.
I've been punched so hard in the nose that I couldn't talk or smell anything for two hours.
I once pulled a tendon almost in half in my ankle, and actually had to spend two weeks in a splint, two more with a boot, and the remainder of the month in a wheelchair, so that pressure being put on it wouldn't keep it from healing.

But this toothache I had?!

This wasn't the kind of toothache that hurts a little and then goes away. This is a toothache that STAYS until something is done to make it go away. For some reason I thought that drooling on my own tooth would make it stop a little, so the whole time I'm sitting in that chair, there's a puddle of slimy saliva next to me, as I'm tilted to one side, moving around to find ways to get rid of the feeling. But nothing I'm doing is making it go away. Not even that old trick where you pinch yourself to make something else hurt worse so it will go away for a second.

I was screaming. I was eventually on the floor rolling around. I was begging the universe itself to stop it. The pain had me speaking in tongues. I had found myself in so much pain I started speaking mangled versions of Swahili, Hindi, Japanese, and I think a hint of Doth'raki, Naa'vi and Black Speech. When a toothache has you speaking languages that nobody around you talks in, something has gone horribly wrong.

I think at one point I had spoken something in Lyra-tongue to some entity I don't think people know about. I don't flipping know man.

The moral of the story is....FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE, BRUSH YOUR TEETH!!
 
I’ve had toothache before when my wisdoms have impacted, caused an infection inside the gum but I didn’t go to the Accident and Emergency because of it. I went to the dentist who removed it and my insurance paid for it due to the nature of the infection. It sounds like a sucky experience and it sounds like you might not have a high pain tolerance too if it is as bad as you say it was.
 
I can't imagine how horrible that must have been. I know all about how they make you wait for hours in the emergency room unless you're literally dying even when there aren't many patients there. But I've always gone to the dentist for my teeth and not the hospital, except for the time I needed surgery to get my wisdom teeth out. Fortunately, I've never had infections or anything else *really* bad happen to my teeth. *knocks on wood*
 
UberScout said:
Guys.

Have you ever had a toothache?

If you're a human being raise your hand.

Good.

Now.

Have you ever had a really bad toothache?

Okay.

Now here's another question.

Has your mouth ever felt like one side of the back was having a crazed, schizophrenic scientist just take a kitchen knife superheated to 1000 degrees F, and just jammed it as hard as humanly possible into the tooth that was hurting? And then while they did so, they just twisted the knife this way and that in every direction, jamming it up and down and up and down as violently hard and slowly as possible?

Do you know what kind of undeserved pain that is?!

When I first had this happen I was in the emergency room. I had gone there when it first started. But just my luck, the entire hospital was somehow completely full and had no vacancy, yet were still accepting patients because the law says dying people can't be out on the street. What cosmic chain of events took place to ensure that happened I will never know, but it didn't matter. As a result, I SAT THERE IN THE RECEPTION AREA FOR

THREE
BLOODY
HOURS

WAITING FOR A DOCTOR TO CHECK ME IN.

What am I doing throughout those three hours? Two things.

One, I'm trying to stay quiet.
Two, I'm searching my brain, in the deepest tolerance database I know of, for a way to remain sane through the level of pain I was enduring.

Before I describe it, let me list off that:

I once stubbed my toe on the wall of my house.
I've had my aunt Dorothy spend hours hand-clearing acne off my face, very, very, very slowly.
I've had a cat scratch me. And bite me. In my....never mind.
I've been punched so hard in the nose that I couldn't talk or smell anything for two hours.
I once pulled a tendon almost in half in my ankle, and actually had to spend two weeks in a splint, two more with a boot, and the remainder of the month in a wheelchair, so that pressure being put on it wouldn't keep it from healing.

But this toothache I had?!

This wasn't the kind of toothache that hurts a little and then goes away. This is a toothache that STAYS until something is done to make it go away. For some reason I thought that drooling on my own tooth would make it stop a little, so the whole time I'm sitting in that chair, there's a puddle of slimy saliva next to me, as I'm tilted to one side, moving around to find ways to get rid of the feeling. But nothing I'm doing is making it go away. Not even that old trick where you pinch yourself to make something else hurt worse so it will go away for a second.

I was screaming. I was eventually on the floor rolling around. I was begging the universe itself to stop it. The pain had me speaking in tongues. I had found myself in so much pain I started speaking mangled versions of Swahili, Hindi, Japanese, and I think a hint of Doth'raki, Naa'vi and Black Speech. When a toothache has you speaking languages that nobody around you talks in, something has gone horribly wrong.

I think at one point I had spoken something in Lyra-tongue to some entity I don't think people know about. I don't flipping know man.

The moral of the story is....FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE, BRUSH YOUR TEETH!!
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For future reference:
Peppermint Oil

Quite by accident, some 20+ years ago,
I discovered that peppermint oil instantly
stops tooth pain.
Cavities, abcesses, the lot of it.
I have also found that the best way to apply the oil(counterintuitively) is to chew peppermint gum, preferably sugarless.
I've even worked out the best brand,
(For those of you in the U.S., at least)
Extra© Peppermint Gum.

I have had every kind and intensity of tooth pain imaginable, and this works.
Additionally, the relief is pretty much instant. No waiting.
It works so well, you may be tempted to postpone that trip to the dentist.
Don't.

May you be well.

sidd
 
I've used peppermint oil with mild success. But clove oil is what I use when nothing else is strong enough. It's so strong it burns my gum skin, but when there's that much pain I don't care. I've also discovered that packing turmeric around the tooth will help keep it from flaring up in the first place. Other than that, a heating pad on high helps me a lot. I had to deal with a bad tooth and horrible toothaches and abcesses for about a year, trying to find a dentist that was licensed for IV sedation to get around my gag reflex.
 
I really neglected my teeth when I was younger, probably due in part to the psychosis problems, so I've had three root canals. The last one, maybe two years ago, was so extreme that a week or so just turned into a blur. I remember laying in bed with blankets and long pajamas on with the AC blasting-in JANUARY-because I was in so much sepsis agony.

Finally, when the infection actually started to SPREAD from my tooth to under my eye, my mom finally convinced our regular dentist to find an endodontist who had an immediate opening. The endodontist said that once he tapped into the area where the infection was he had to let it ooze out for maybe ten minutes before he cleaned, disinfected, and filled it.

If you are in the US, NEVER NEVER NEVER go to the emergency room for something like this unless you have no insurance at all. You need to see a dentist NOW. If neglected, dental sepsis can easily kill a person, and yes it happens.
 
oregano said:
I really neglected my teeth when I was younger, probably due in part to the psychosis problems, so I've had three root canals. The last one, maybe two years ago, was so extreme that a week or so just turned into a blur. I remember laying in bed with blankets and long pajamas on with the AC blasting-in JANUARY-because I was in so much sepsis agony.

Finally, when the infection actually started to SPREAD from my tooth to under my eye, my mom finally convinced our regular dentist to find an endodontist who had an immediate opening. The endodontist said that once he tapped into the area where the infection was he had to let it ooze out for maybe ten minutes before he cleaned, disinfected, and filled it.

If you are in the US, NEVER NEVER NEVER go to the emergency room for something like this unless you have no insurance at all. You need to see a dentist NOW. If neglected, dental sepsis can easily kill a person, and yes it happens.
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I had an abcess that was so painful, I had no choice but to go to the ER.
It was a weekend.
The 6 hrs before are just kind of an agonized blur.
Couldn't really consider myself to have been even conscious.
The nurse tried to walk me to a room, but ended up pulling down my pants in the crowded waiting area and smacking me with a hefty dose of demerol.
When it hit, I immediately came to.

They then administered an IV antibiotic, gave me more oral antibiotics, and some pain killers to last me 'til monday morning.

While the ER isn't the best option, it usually doesn't affect much, as most dentists want you on antibiotics for a week before they'll work on you anyway.
In my case, the IV antibiotics helped immensely in killing the infection.
 
Clove oil is surprisingly good for treating dental pain as @tree suggested. Peppermint does help too but clove oil is better.
Btw - Wrigley's extra is available in the UK and most of the world.
If you went to the A&E (ER)in the UK with even the most severe toothache you'd just be told to go to the dentist in the morning
 
Autistamatic said:
Clove oil is surprisingly good for treating dental pain as @tree suggested. Peppermint does help too but clove oil is better.
Btw - Wrigley's extra is available in the UK and most of the world.
If you went to the A&E (ER)in the UK with even the most severe toothache you'd just be told to go to the dentist in the morning
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As you, and @tree have said, overwhelmingly clove oil has been recommended to me, but the few times I've tried it, I didn't get the same relief as peppermint oil.
I mean overwhelmingly.
Maybe there's some biological reason or oddity as to why my experience is different.
Of the few that I've recommended peppermint oil to,
a few have been tepid, and a few have been adamant, as to it's efficacy.
I'll start recommending both.
Thank you.

The E.R. was a smalltown one, where we all knew each other, or at least our family's, so that may have been a factor.
Don't think, for a second though, that I didn't pay through the nose for it.

Can't wait 'til we colonials evolve to the point of universal healthcare.;)

Edit:
Clove oil tastes horrible to me.
:eek::)
 
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There's plenty of medicines that have varying effectiveness. The one we were talking about last night is a good example. I found it tremendously therapeutic and only mildly calming even with the strongest strains, but others can get blootered!
There's increasing evidence to suggest a genetically aware approach to medication is the way forward.
 
@tree Well, to be fair, I forgot to mention, it was about 12:30-something AM when it happened, and since dentists offices aren't open at that hour, this was the closest thing I could get to having my teeth treated somehow. If I can't kill it with fire, I gotta at least hit it with a club.
 
sidd851 said:
For future reference:
Peppermint Oil

Quite by accident, some 20+ years ago,
I discovered that peppermint oil instantly
stops tooth pain.
Cavities, abcesses, the lot of it.
I have also found that the best way to apply the oil(counterintuitively) is to chew peppermint gum, preferably sugarless.
I've even worked out the best brand,
(For those of you in the U.S., at least)
Extra© Peppermint Gum.

I have had every kind and intensity of tooth pain imaginable, and this works.
Additionally, the relief is pretty much instant. No waiting.
It works so well, you may be tempted to postpone that trip to the dentist.
Don't.

May you be well.

sidd
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I need to find you on GPS so I can personally shake your hand.
 
@UberScout
It seems like you've been having a lot of problems with your teeth.
This isn't the first time you've mentioned needing to have something
done.
 
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