Things I Like, Pt. III · 2:52am Jun 10th, 2014
Amoxicillan. Or however it's spelled.
Went to a dentist this morning, got it proscribed. It's safe to use with ibuprofen. It's not a painkiller per se, but it is an antibiotic that will kill off any bacteria that's apparently decided to eat away at my upper left wisdom tooth leaving it a decayed husk. Which I really don't get how that happened as my other teeth are just fine cavity-wise.
Told you it was a sinister tooth. Or at least apparently a sinister hideout for bacteria.
Anyway, with regular amoxicillan doses (1 pill every 8 hours) coupled with regular, no-more-than-six-in-a-24-hour-period ibuprofen, tooth pain should be minor. Maybe I'll even get some writing done tomorrow! And more importantly, get some meaningful sleep tonight!
Left wisdom teeth still need to come out; looking into getting that scheduled. But this is a rather nice stopgap.
Adventures in medication!
Ah, well, hope things clear up for you soon. Toothaches (and worse) are no fun. Hope the trouble with that malevolent molar clears up soon!
I think you meant amoxicilline.
I hate this stuff! It's the only thing I'm allergic to and I only found out because it almost killed me.
Not only that, but it also caused my crippling fear of injection, because when they took me to the child's E.R. to hook up the I.V., the schmucks couldn't find the vein, so they kept jabbing me in the arm.
Meanwhile, le little me was laying sideways, fully awake, feeling every jab as frantic yelling people were running around me in an enclosed space with wrong colored sesame street characters all along the walls....
I need a hug.
RDD needs his drugz, yo.
Amoxicillin. Like penicillin only replace the “pen” with “amox”.
I’m not normally one to advocate mixing and matching medications, but if necessary you can add some additional painkillers. Paracetamol (you probably know it better as Tylenol) and aspirin (Fiorinal is a good option here. It consists of aspirin, butalbital and caffeine — extra stuff that works in conjunction with it.) will also help to relieve pain and are safe enough with ibuprofen. I’d suggest something codeine based too (Fiorinal is, at least where I’m from, but it lacks that component in the U.S.A.) but your FDA is a lot more restrictive with this particular opiate than necessary.
The rear‐most molars are the hardest to reach and if you’ve been rushing your brushing you may be missing nooks and crannies. Assuming your dental hygiene routine is otherwise adequate… it’s probably the fault of the teeth themselves. Frankly, the human mouth is too small for the amount of teeth we have in it, and wisdom teeth are often impacted. This makes them difficult and, occasionally, outright impossible to clean properly as said impaction limits your angles of attack.
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Yeah, if you’re writing in French.
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Women have a similar problem RE: birth canal VS size of baby coming through said canal. Human births are much harder and more dangerous for the mother than in most of the animal kingdom, because our heads were getting bigger at the same time that we were beginning to stand upright.
Fortunately/unfortunately, we got smart enough to keep the moms (or, more likely, the babies) alive before natural selection would have resulted in women with wider hips to compensate.
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Natural selection already did its part. Were the pelvis much wider women wouldn’t be able to run (or was it walk?). It’s part of the reason why humans are born so undeveloped: wider hips couldn’t compensate so our developmental cycle changed slightly. IIRC, that is; don’t quote me on that.
Oh, and almost forgot, aspirin’s an anticoagulant so if you end up getting that tooth pulled and need the extra relief, stick with just the ibuprofen and/or paracetamol until a day or so has passed so that any wound has finished clotting.
I had an absece develop underneath my teeth before I had my wisdom tooth pulled, I had to go through antibiotics treatment before they could move in for the extraction. Apparently that type of infection can be carried by your blood stream to sensitive organs, like your heart
it's kinda scary. It made me nauseous and caused pain in my jaw and for a while I felt like I could only open my mouth part way. It wasn't fun at all.
2194557 You can get Tylenol with Codeine from a pharmacist without a prescription here in Canada, I'd assume it's the same in the US.
You should really talk about option with your pharmacist, they are the pros when it come to medicaiton and they'll be able to suggest something that mixes well with what you're taking.
I had a molar get infected. After a round of antibiotics, the infection would not subside so I went to have it extracted. After arguing with and explaining to the dentist that my company plan would cover a root canal but not a crown and that I could not afford $1000 out of pocket for it, she relented and extracted it. She then refused to prescribe antibiotics to kill off the remaining abscess because "antibiotics are overused" saying that my body should be able to fight off the infection. A couple months later, infection still there. She says "give it time". It's been a year now.
Wisdom teeth sometimes have hypoplasia, meaning the dental enamel is weaker than on the "regular" teeth. Combine this with what xoid said about the difficulties of keeping them shiny clean, and, well...
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Holy shit. Yes, antibiotics are overused, but that's exactly the sort of a situation they're for. Can you possibly see another dentist? A long-lingering dental infection can [BUY SOME APPLES] your health very badly.
It's a left tooth. Of course it's sinister.
Still, glad to hear your face isn't going to rot off.
Well, good that you got something.