What a good idea. I think that I'll just need to pop out to my back garden and pick a few hundred quid from my money tree first....Or just pay to see the dentist?
Sorry to hear about your bad experience. Unfortunately, paying for a dentist just isn't an option for me at the moment. They are eye-wateringly expensive. I just don't have that sort of money.The last time I had toothache every minute seemed like an hour. It was a Bank Holiday and the nearest dentist was 40 miles away. I had taken ibuprofen and cocodamol just so I could drive, but it barely made a difference. When I got there, there was a guy plastering the waiting room. I turned up early and thought please don't be closed, you said it was open. Turns out the plasterer was also the dentist! He took one look at my wisdom tooth and declared it needed to come out, and reached for the pliers. 2 large shots of anaesthetic still did not numb it enough to let me open my mouth far enough to get to the back tooth. In the end he gave up and gave me a massive dose of antibiotics. 24h later it stopped hurting. When I finally got to see my dentist she said there was never a need to extract it. I half wonder if the guy was actually just a tradesman who thought 'seeing as the dentist isn't here I'll give it a go."!!!
A short while later I got a letter from the British Dental Association asking how many times had I gone there, because they couldn't understand why he was claiming for my ongoing dental treatment when so was the dentist I actually used, a mile from my home. To be honest, (which he certainly wasn't), I was just so grateful for the meds I wrote back to the BDA saying I would have signed anything put in front of me at the time and he fixed my issue.
Nobody is going to just get used to toothache like that. You'll sell your kidney by the end of the week unless you can get it sorted. I would have taken out a loan to get it done.
I don't understand your bloody-mindedness over it though. I can't think of anything more worthwhile than spending money on your health and comfort - even if it requires a loan. A filling is probably ~£200 and a decent root canal by a specialist ~£800. Yes, not cheap but it will return your quality of life if your tooth is hurting.What a good idea. I think that I'll just need to pop out to my back garden and pick a few hundred quid from my money tree first....
Seriously? I would need to take out a loan to be able to afford a dentist these days. I haven't won the Lottery, but I would need to, just to pay their bill.
In any case, why the hell should I have to pay for treatment, when it wasn't so long ago that I had it for bugger all??
What a good idea. I think that I'll just need to pop out to my back garden and pick a few hundred quid from my money tree first....
Seriously? I would need to take out a loan to be able to afford a dentist these days. I haven't won the Lottery, but I would need to, just to pay their bill.
In any case, why the hell should I have to pay for treatment, when it wasn't so long ago that I had it for bugger all??
Please don't misunderstand me. I would be only too willing to pay for treatment if I had the money, but sadly I don't. As for taking out a loan.....I can't foresee that going well, and I certainly wouldn't want to end up in debt, just for that. I'll just keep taking the painkillers, ineffective though they may be.I don't understand your bloody-mindedness over it though. I can't think of anything more worthwhile than spending money on your health and comfort - even if it requires a loan. A filling is probably ~£200 and a decent root canal by a specialist ~£800. Yes, not cheap but it will return your quality of life if your tooth is hurting.
Thank you for that. Very helpful.Sounds like you have a stick in the other end.
Folks trying to give you an alternative and you jump in their shit.
Well I hope it soon passes. It's a horrible thing to have to tolerate for any length of time. If it's an infection you must get it treated unless Corsodyl or some other medical grade mouthwash can help. If it is bad enough to need co-codamol remember you can only take that for a few days. Clove oil or just cloves used to be a thing, although I don't know how they stack up now. I hope it eases off for you on its own. Best of luck
Ouch. That's not nice.Man up and snatch that sucker outa there!
I think that the paracetamol are finally having an effect. I've taken a couple, so at least I'll have some relief for a while. Maybe I just didn't give them a chance to work before.
Temporary relief is better than no relief at all.
Sorry to hear that @Bogeyman . That's the same kind of situation I was in, as described in post #1216, where nothing short of opiates has any effect whatsoever. A massive initial dose of antibiotics followed by the regular course, accompanied by 30/500mg cocodamol sorted the blighter out (in my case a wisdom tooth).
I wrote you a little song to make it better...
Codeine, codeine, codeine, co-deeeen
I'm begging of you please just take my pain
Codeine, codeine, codeine, co-deeeen
Please just flick the off switch in my brain
My toothache is beyond compare
I'm having a dental nightmare
I'm in the worst pain I have ever been
My smile is like a twisted grin
My voice is choked from all the pain
And I cannot continue sans codeine
I haven't had a wink of sleep
And there's nothing I can do to keep
From crying when I move my jaw
Codeine
And I can easily understand
How some would rather be trepanned
But you don't know how it's killing me
Codeine.
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