Tooth Abcess

trinnylilac

Quackers my sympathy is with you ....

Savvy_Sue

You could talk to your pharmacist about stronger painkillers than paracetamol and ibuprofen!

Quackers

trinnylilac wrote:

Quackers my sympathy is with you ....

awww thanks x

I hope your feeling a bit better too!

Ive been taking 2 ibuprofen & 2 parecetamol all at the same time every 4 hours & up until last night that was ok. It doesn't seem to be touching the sides now :rolleyes:

I might nip to the pharmacy in Boots tomorrow before work otherwise I'm going to be a moaning minnie all day at work

Toothsmith

Quackers wrote:

I'm soooooooo glad you I read the post about not putting heat on it - someone told me to do that today & I've just been considering it :rolleyes:

One day I'm going to hunt that person down and hit him with a big stick! He comes round our way as well!

tiamaria

I've suffered with severe toothache on and off for a couple of years despite regular trips to the dentist, he removed 3 teeth before finding the problem, I've also had abscesses and dry socket.

The only thing I found could even touch the pain was codydramol painkillers which my doctor was happy to prescribe for me. Failing that i used Tylex which I believe is the same but a stronger dose, they can be addictive but I used them carefully only when needed. antibiotics and regular paracetamol were useless, ibuprofen was some help.

I also found some moderate relief holding an ice pack to my face.

Hope it gets better soon, there's nothing worse than toothache.

trinnylilac

I think my neighbour ( nurse) has a stock of codydramol .. I'm going to go over and get some befor it gets too late..

Can you take these with Paracetamol or ibuprofen

tiamaria

It's safe to take with Ibuprofen but not with paracetamol as there's paracetamol in codydramol and then you would be overdosing.

trinnylilac

tiamaria wrote:

It's safe to take with Ibuprofen but not with paracetamol as there's paracetamol in codydramol and then you would be overdosing.

Yes she has just told me that too.

I have got 4 so will leave it to last thing tonight and take 2 ... Role on morning time......

tiamaria

Good luck with them, let me know if they helped.

I always like to have a couple around in case i get toothache again - how sad is that?

Quackers

Quackers wrote:

My antibiotics finished yesterday and I am going back on Thursday to have the tooth out.

I've just been back to the dentist.

I had the injections in my mouth to numb it but I could still feel pain when she wiggled my bad tooth.

She put a different type of anaesthetic around the bad tooth with a sort of pen injection. She said they dont like using it because it can cause damage but as the tooth was coming out it was ok.

BUT that didn't work either.

I've been given another course of antibiotics with strict instructions not to touch alcohol or I'll be very sick and I'm going back on Wednesday to have it out.

3rd time lucky !!

And I've got a couple of pain free hours now until the anaesthetic wears off - see, there's always a positive side :rotfl: