Watty's Awakening

PennysIntoPounds

Fine to feel a bit sorry for yourself as it's not blimmin fair being in pain, and then having to pay to resolve it! You're doing yourself a big favour getting it sorted though, and if it will have an even bigger impact on your future wellbeing that's brilliant. And hurrah for having VNM to support you. Sending hugs. Is there anything you can do in the meantime to support future you, like batch cooking gentle tasty things or decluttering or cancelling obligations so you can have proper healing and self-care time while all this is going on?

Cherryfudge

That's a horrendous lot of driving when you're in pain.  

It feels right that you're going with the proposed course of treatment. It would be great if it cures the 'allergies'.

Myranna

I feel for you. I just had a root canal. Make sure you have some drinking straws so that you can sip something until the freezing wears off.

FreetodoasIlike

Good luck with your dental treatment. You may have well stumbled upon a solution to your allergies. I’ve just paid a “phenomenal” amount of money for implant/dental work, but It’s been money well spent. Money, I put on a 0% credit card to spread the load. Just do it. 

As @LadyWithAPlan said, your June started great, so treat this as “a minor bump in the road”. It’s only a blip in the larger scheme of things. Remember, the Universe ALWAYS has your back, even if you don’t feel like it does at the time. Take good care of yourself.

debtfreewannabe321

Good luck with the dental plans ...toothache makes even the hardest of us cry I think. 

savingholmes

Sorry Watty, Beanie and badmemory that you had such bad experiences with ex's. Glad they are in the small rear view mirror rather than the big windscreen ahead. 

Well done Watty on going to the dentist and booking in the next appointment. I find pain can be really debilitating so it's natural your mood suffered a set back.

Watty1

What a wonderful support crew on here. I really do feel humbled that you all take the time to post.  Thank you.  

The first appointment is booked for next Thursday. Yesterday morning I was in bed feeling very sorry for myself, the pain is reduced if I lie down and I was thinking I just can't stay in bed for a week and then I remembered a homeopathic remedy for infections that was in the bathroom cupboard so I took that consistently yesterday every few hours and the pain has reduced to a very low dull ache This gives me confidence the dentist is on the right lines.    I did think about  doing without the work and just using the homeopathic remedy in the future but quickly decided the remedy was first aid until I could get treatment and I am settled that next week the work starts and I will probably go for the restorative work he mentioned to fill in a gap too so my smile gets restored.

The "health fund" that was for the horses has been extended in my mind to cover me too so that will provide the money for the work and I will increase my payments into the 'health fund' so that gradually I build up enough for all 6 of us (three horses, a dog, a cat and me) 

Slinky

Hi Watty, did you explore the possibility of just removing the tooth with the dodgy canal work and going for an implant instead?  I paid a lot of money for a root canal, which then failed about 2-3 years later and caused a big abcess and I then had to have the whole thing extracted at large expense (right in the middle of Covid, and about 3 days before we were due to go on holiday to a small Greek island with no medical facilities). I then went for an implant to fill the gap and to be honest I wish I'd just had the implant instead of the root canal work in the first place.  That tooth always felt weird because it was filled to a flat level instead of having prongs on it.  I would have saved about £1200 in treatment costs too.

Watty1

@Slinky I have previously explored this for an adjoining tooth and the sinus cavity is quite close to the gum and so needs to be "lifted" up out of the way.   As I sneeze and wheeze so much due to a grass allergy I'm reluctant to have my sinus cavity "fiddled" with (I'm sure there is a more technical term). The tooth the root filling was to save has been damaged and crowned subsequently so your idea is a good one and I a root I would probably go for but the sinus cavity is an issue and the bone is also insufficient apparently so I think I have little choice but to have the root canal done anyway.

Ahh the problems of aging we never consider when we are in our 20s and anything seems possible. (Well it did before Mr Watty darkened my life).

badmemory

I can't have implants.  It turns out because I have had so many absesses caused by hairline cracks in the tooth roots.  It is only in the last few years that the xrays have been able to see the cracks which hasn't helped.  They can explain the absesses but not where the hairline cracks came from but suspect the teeth grew with them in.  I've certainly never been bashed in the mouth.