my achey breakey tooth

Turns out that I don't have a sinus or ear infection, after all. Upon returning from Iowa, my tooth erupted in intense pain.  I believe this has been the ongoing source of my pain for over two weeks, and the airplane pressure must have been too much for it. On Thursday, my dentist performed a root canal, my first ever.  He's not done, though, so I have to return next Thursday.

Meanwhile, I'm still in a bit of pain. But it's getting better. Unfortunately, in the days before my root canal, I took pain medication my dentist prescribed and it made me really, really sick -- as in vomiting, groggy, couldn't get out of bed and hearing voices sick.  It sucks when you're in so much pain that you can't function, so you take pain medication to help you function and that only screws you up so bad that you can't function.

So now, I'm back to popping one Aleve, and making due, despite some discomfort whenever I eat or drink anything.  Once again, this confirms my belief that drugs are really very scary.  At least on my body they are.

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[A Dizzle]

Aww I hope you feel better. I got my wisdom teeth taken out 2 months ago(four, 2 on top, 2 on bottom). I have a strong dislike for general anesthesia(the kind that puts you to sleep) so i got a local(bunch of novacaine shots). It didn't hurt during the operation but the after pain was horrible, I got a script for Vicoden and didn't take it because of the risk of nausea. Sorry you had to find that out the hard way :(

Getting work on your teeth sucks. Hope after the last part of your root canal you never have to get anything else done in your mouth again.