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Have an appointment at 1PM  to  look at my aching tooth.  I think it is the tooth he root canaled last vist 7 months ago or so.... OR  it might be the tooth next to it.  Hard to tell the way the pain radiates and moves around my jaw.  It is MISERABLE. Last night I was in pain all night even with tylenol.  The pain  comes and goes....in  waves  like  being in labor.  ....  It  has been bothering me the last 6 months off and on so I babied  it for hoping it would go away.  Of course it  doesnt.... wishful thinking.  Thank goodness they got me in today to Take care of it.    The pain is just MISERY!!!!!! 

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Sorry for your pain. I had to have a tooth re root caneled (if there is such a word) several years ago. The dentist didn't see a root and I guess he missed it. Anyway, even though most of the roots were dead it hurt just as much the second time as it did the first time. Sorry to tell you this. That is the only root canal I have ever heard that actually hurt. 

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There is nothing worse. I hope they can find out what's going on. 

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I hope you feel better soon. If you have  a jar of cloves ,you might try putting one next to the spot  that hurts. Oil of cloves is supposed to stop a toothache

 

I know a whole clove isn't the same thing as oil, but  it never hurts to try things

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@SeaMaiden  Good luck to you.  I had the same issue many years ago after a root canal.  I ended up getting a prescription for pain.  Sadly, it lasted for months and then slowed to every few days, instead of everyday.

 

Years later, it finally went away.  I believe it was aggravated nerves, not much a dentist can do about that.

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@SeaMaiden

 

Sorry to hear of your pain and glad to hear you are able to see your dentist today. I have been the abscessed tooth route, once while at my US Army Reserve Camp McCoy in Wisconsin. Saw the Army dentist and he pulled the wrong tooth.

 

Went into town that night and my tooth was still killing me. Managed, through an ER to find a dentist and he yanked out the right on, thank goodness. Decided to wait till I got back home to see my own dentist, not the Army dentist(?) the day after he pulled the wrong tooth.

 

Learned way back, if you have a toothache, unless you have seen a dentist, they seldom get better on their own. Get the relief you are looking for today.

 

 

 

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@SeaMaiden

Root canals are almost always temporary.  I had three and all of them failed within a year and the tooth had to be extracted. Best bet is to have them pulled in the first place and have a bridge put in.  It's less expensive when you consider you'll have to have it done in the near future anyway, since root canals are not cheap.

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@SeaMaiden wrote:

Have an appointment at 1PM  to  look at my aching tooth.  I think it is the tooth he root canaled last vist 7 months ago or so.... OR  it might be the tooth next to it.  Hard to tell the way the pain radiates and moves around my jaw.  It is MISERABLE. Last night I was in pain all night even with tylenol.  The pain  comes and goes....in  waves  like  being in labor.  ....  It  has been bothering me the last 6 months off and on so I babied  it for hoping it would go away.  Of course it  doesnt.... wishful thinking.  Thank goodness they got me in today to Take care of it.    The pain is just MISERY!!!!!! 


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How did they "take care of it?"

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Dental pain is the WORST!!!!

And as several PP mentioned dental problems only get more expensive and painful ((augh))

I have learned to only have root canals done by an endodontist not a general dentist.  

 

My friend recently had a VERY stubborn tooth that had several root canals performed on it (he did not charge her for all of them) and she STILL had pain after visiting several specialists with no solution she ended up back with the orginial surgeon who then had to go in through the gum and cut the roots!!!  She was pain free 100% and immediately- after 14 months of root canals and second options.

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@Abrowneyegirl wrote:

Dental pain is the WORST!!!!

And as several PP mentioned dental problems only get more expensive and painful ((augh))

I have learned to only have root canals done by an endodontist not a general dentist.  

 

My friend recently had a VERY stubborn tooth that had several root canals performed on it (he did not charge her for all of them) and she STILL had pain after visiting several specialists with no solution she ended up back with the orginial surgeon who then had to go in through the gum and cut the roots!!!  She was pain free 100% and immediately- after 14 months of root canals and second options.


I've had several root canals in my lifetime and only one didn't work. Once the abcess in that tooth flared up again (after the root canal), my dentist sent me to an oral surgeon to have the procedure memem described above (called an apioectomy). The oral surgeon performed the procedure with lots of novacaine. My husband had to go with me to the appointment because I was sent home holding an ice pack up to my mouth afterwards, so I couldn't drive. There was no pain except for some canker sores that formed around my stitches, which could have been avoided if I'd rinsed my mouth with Peroxyl each night until the stitches were removed. That was close to 30 years ago and I've never had a problem with that tooth since.