Well, as most of you know I have had a shaky couple of weeks, re home sickness/removals la la la...well, today JUST TOPS IT ALL OFF!!!!!
Ill begin...
Friday night, feel a twinge in my left hand side of mouth...think nothing of it. Saturday eating breakfast and it decided to give me more of a hint to 'get to the dentist' by giving me a huge shooting pain...so I think to myself, I will book in the dentist next week.
So I start eating on my right side....then I go to bed Saturday night...'Throb, throb, throb'...not to be outdone, my right side now starts to compete with the left, I am now taking pain killers every 4 hours. So I am awake Sat night, pain all sunday and the same sunday night....not good, head ache and cheek ache(if that is possible) to boot!!!!
Rang dentist monday...can get me in tuesday...so I have been today...get there and fear of dentists takes over....I am now shaking like a leaf and crying!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Dentist is lovely, 2 xrays later and this was the verdict.....
Left side....thinks she can save the tooth (thinks she can save the tooth!!!!!!!!!), needs a filling
Right side.....nerve damage and an abcess ( excuse the spelling...not in the mood to check correct spelling at the minute!!!!!)...
VERDICT: My dentist recommends that I have route canal surgery...she can do it however it is likely to take 3 days and she cannot guarantee the success of it. She recommends I see a endiodentist ( spelling?) who specialises in RC surgery...slight hitch...he is in Wellington, there are none in Hawkes Bay and the starting costs are approximately $900.00.She says because I am so nervous she thinks I am best going to someone who can do it quicker and has more chance of making it work. The other alternative was to have it out, but she feels I would need sedating as I am so nervous, and this would be a horrendous cost also. She did say other options, one of which involved having a false tooth that I take out every night and brush, which is not my favourite option at 27! Can't remember what else she said as I was in such a state!
To conclude: I am now sat here with tooth ache both sides having swallowed beans for tea. I am sad, cross and in pain, pain, pain I am on anti-biotics for the abcess so hopefully that will take some pain away. I am booked in for left side filling on Thursday and I am waiting for a quote back from welly guy once he has seen my xray.....I spoke to dentist receptionist this afternoon and asked her to email me my options, as I can't remember what the dentist said properly!
After all this, I went to work for the afternoon!
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...i'll sleep tonight -NOT
I feel better now I have had a rant
J x