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The Death Of #18: A Tooth Dies Screaming

tree said:
@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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I know, I'm really sorry for the repetition and constant complaining, but unlike other perfectionist family members I had to put up with people in my family I used to live with, including my cousin, there are levels of pain I can sit through, and others I can NOT.

I don't care if you've been in the military and have had both legs torn off while awake; pain that wakes you up in the middle of REM sleep, physically makes you stop everything you're doing to sit down somewhere and do something to it to make it go away, or otherwise somehow gets you in trouble, is not pain that can be tolerated at all, at least not willingly. You'd have to be biologically intoxicated to the point where Nirvana-believing hippies who make prayer beads for a living can be matched by your obliviousness at that point. No offense.

I'd even go as far as to say you'd need some form of medical herb in your bloodstream to make you...ugh, I don't want to say "high" but, okay, oblivious to it. It's like I said in the thread itself, when your toothache is making you speak in dead languages, something has gone wrong with nature.
 
UberScout said:
Not yet, but I plan to! Thanks for the share!
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As has been said above, clove oil works also.
Peppermint may be more easily available, but clove oil is definitely worth giving a try.
Hope you feel better!
 
@UberScout
Is this the same tooth as before?
Or a different one?

I know it's possible to talk oneself out of going for a procedure
on the basis of "well, it was bad, but it's not as bad as it was
for awhile, and maybe.....it'll go away."
 
@tree Actually, it's two, one in my back left side, the other in my top right side.

But it's the left one that's the worst; my #18. I call it "Ol' Skippy Whistle" as an inside joke.
Last I went to the dentist, doctor took ONE glance at it with her mirror and said in her words, there's no saving this one. No idea what it looked like but I didn't have to to be honest. If it feels bad it probably looks bad.
 
tree said:
@UberScout
Is this the same tooth as before?
Or a different one?

I know it's possible to talk oneself out of going for a procedure
on the basis of "well, it was bad, but it's not as bad as it was
for awhile, and maybe.....it'll go away."
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I'm very bad about this.
I have wondered why, but can't really define
my resistance to going to dentists.
It's really very amorphous, the "shape" of the resistance.
It doesn't feel like fear, and anxiety doesn't seem to fit, either.
On the contrary, I'm usually comfortable, in the office.
Can one be extremely averse to(my teeth are very sensitive), yet not afraid of, pain?
Or is this maybe an alexithemic thing?
I can feel and detect fear very accurately in other situations(I think?).

Anybody else feel this way?
 
I'm no fan of the dentist. I hate going to the dentist if truth be told, but it's not usually difficult to manage dental pain until you can get it treated. Paracetamol (Acetaminophen) or Aspirin should keep it at bay if it's something you can postpone, but if they don't do the trick the dentist is your only option.
Drugs, whether prescribed or over the counter, don't affect everybody the same, but if you've exhausted those possibilities, where else do you turn?
 
I had something like this once. But the thing about it is, I didnt quite register it as tooth pain at the time. I realize NOW what it was, but with the way pain can radiate sometimes (which I didnt quite grasp back then, but do now) I thought it was some sort of horrible headache or something.

I spent much of that period in bed, sweating alot purely due to the sheer tension of dealing with it (I always overheat when under too much stress, and I wasnt as used to dealing with high pain as I am now), and gobbling up pain pills like Tylenol and others as if the things were candy. They had no effect that I could notice... none whatsoever. Even at max dosage.

Eventually, the pain just stopped. Rather abruptly. Looking back on it, I'm fairly certain this marked that the tooth was utterly dead. I deduce this because later on, quite a bit later, a tooth in pretty much that spot suddenly shattered while I was eating a soft cookie. Didnt feel it at all (which shows how very dead it was). Just heard an unexpected CRUNCH, and spat out a bunch of shards. Boy was I ever surprised.

I've since experienced much worse pain than that (tendon/nerve issues, particularly in my neck/back) and am on *very* strong painkillers for that, but still... it was pretty bad at the time.
 
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I've never had toothache like you describe, but had an abcess that needed treatment. The abcess itself didn't hurt that much - it was a dull, aching pain - but the treatment hurt like crazy. The dentist made a hole in the dead tooth which had the abcess and then poked a needle into the hole to see where the nerve was - without anaesthetic. That hurt like crazy - but at least it was over quickly.
 
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