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Tooth update
Managed to get an appointment this morning as the tooth has been very bad recently - seems to have decided that it's the top right wisdom tooth and it doens't like me biting on things like hard carrot.
However, having very carefully not bitten on anything hard in the last two days, the pain had subsided to the extent where it didn't yelp at all when the dentist hit the tooth with his little hammer. As he said, I should have leapt out of the seat screaming...
We've scheduled a date to remove the tooth (I'm not going to mess around with any more fillings in that one, even assuming that we could locate the offending point). However, it takes a longer appointment than usual to remove a wisdom tooth and there's none free until October 10th. The receptionist promises to phone me the minute she gets a cancellation.
The dentist has also taken an X-ray as he's still worried that we may not have found the correct cause of the problem, so the extraction also depends on the result of the X-ray.
In the meantime, I feel grotty, but it isn't horrendously painful as long as I try and avoid biting on that side. I find my balance is a bit off and I feel queasy a lot of the time. Pain killer consumption varies from day to day. Some days I can get away with almost none, some days it's everything in the cupboard and trips to the chemist to get more...
However, having very carefully not bitten on anything hard in the last two days, the pain had subsided to the extent where it didn't yelp at all when the dentist hit the tooth with his little hammer. As he said, I should have leapt out of the seat screaming...
We've scheduled a date to remove the tooth (I'm not going to mess around with any more fillings in that one, even assuming that we could locate the offending point). However, it takes a longer appointment than usual to remove a wisdom tooth and there's none free until October 10th. The receptionist promises to phone me the minute she gets a cancellation.
The dentist has also taken an X-ray as he's still worried that we may not have found the correct cause of the problem, so the extraction also depends on the result of the X-ray.
In the meantime, I feel grotty, but it isn't horrendously painful as long as I try and avoid biting on that side. I find my balance is a bit off and I feel queasy a lot of the time. Pain killer consumption varies from day to day. Some days I can get away with almost none, some days it's everything in the cupboard and trips to the chemist to get more...