Ugh. Mah teeth!
Okay, I have reached the point at which I am looking forward to my root canal.
I was doing mostly fine until the endodontist went poking around last week to see if the nerve was still alive (AND YES OH MY GOD IT IS, SO STOP DOING THAT), but since then there's just been a low level of constant pain, and it's getting worse these last few days.
Anbesol, unfortunately, is great at numbing my lip but really doesn't do much for the gum/tooth. (One of my incisors is basically eating itself from the inside out, so Anbesol or other topical analgesic really isn't meant for that.)
I'm still a little wary, though, because I've never had work like this done before. The only major dental work I've had done (as opposed to orthodontic) is that I had to have one impacted, unerupted wisdom tooth removed. That was okay at the time, but my god my jaw hurt that night.
Naturally, given that experience, not only do I have the root canal Thursday, but I'm having one (erupted) wisdom tooth taken out on Friday. It may be a miserable weekend, but I hope that everything after that will be smooth sailing.
I was doing mostly fine until the endodontist went poking around last week to see if the nerve was still alive (AND YES OH MY GOD IT IS, SO STOP DOING THAT), but since then there's just been a low level of constant pain, and it's getting worse these last few days.
Anbesol, unfortunately, is great at numbing my lip but really doesn't do much for the gum/tooth. (One of my incisors is basically eating itself from the inside out, so Anbesol or other topical analgesic really isn't meant for that.)
I'm still a little wary, though, because I've never had work like this done before. The only major dental work I've had done (as opposed to orthodontic) is that I had to have one impacted, unerupted wisdom tooth removed. That was okay at the time, but my god my jaw hurt that night.
Naturally, given that experience, not only do I have the root canal Thursday, but I'm having one (erupted) wisdom tooth taken out on Friday. It may be a miserable weekend, but I hope that everything after that will be smooth sailing.