Posted: 8/4/2012 3:15:21 AM EDT
| It's Saturday and I have a toothache that is so bad that removing the offending tooth with my .357 is starting to sound like a good idea. Alive isn't doing anything. Does anyone have a better suggestion for something I can get over the counter? If not what is the cheapest way of attaining a prescription for something more effective to hold me over? |
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Pressure points? Good luck to you! I hope you find some relief. |
Rinse with warm salt water and follow with peroxide rinse. Do it every hour, just don't swallow. The salt water will draw out the infection. Many years ago I suffered with tooth problems and no money and this helped me. Usually end with an abscess that will drain. But get to a dentist as soon as you can. For pain vicoden works best. Ask a stripper, they usually have a supply 
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| If it gets really bad and you are just trying to get by till you get to the dentist you can rinse with some kind of booze. I have always had good luck with whiskey, you just rinse hold it on the tooth and if you do it enough times and swallow the whiskey eventually you will forget why you were doing it in the first place. |
| As a dentist I can say with certainty that this thread is full of BS and myths. Nothing anyone has posted will do a damn thing, except pain relievers - and all that does is buy you time to get to a dentist. Since Aleve has already failed, it's clear you need immediate professional help. If you can't find a dentist, go to the ER for some antibiotics. I've seen pics of people who go from a toothache to having their head swell up like a pumpkin in a few hours. Do not screw around with this - a fair number of people die each year from infections of dental origin. |
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Look up the book online "Where there is no Dentist" PDF Linked Below
Where there is no Dentist Things that will HELP but not FIX the issue Since pain killers didn't do it. Brush and Floss the offending tooth well. Use a floss pick and use the pick to clean out the crown and scrape along the gum line. Brush with a wet toothbrush with some table salt on it then rinse your mouth out with saltwater. few germs or organisms can survive a high salinity. Find a dentists office that is open on Saturday and go there. if you have a cavity, at walmart you can score a temporary filling kit. Again this is TEMPORARY, it MAY relieve the symptoms but will not cure the problem. |
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As a dentist I can say with certainty that this thread is full of BS and myths. Nothing anyone has posted will do a damn thing, except pain relievers - and all that does is buy you time to get to a dentist. Since Aleve has already failed, it's clear you need immediate professional help. If you can't find a dentist, go to the ER for some antibiotics. I've seen pics of people who go from a toothache to having their head swell up like a pumpkin in a few hours. Do not screw around with this - a fair number of people die each year from infections of dental origin. My wife had a similar problem not too long ago. For the reasons that you mentioned, I wanted her to see someone, but it was a weekend. Urgent care centers kind of shrugged their shoulders and said "we're not dentists" but after some phone calls I was able to get the dentist that took over the practice of the dentist I saw last to come in on sunday AM. Insurance paid for all but the $75 "after hours" charge which I had no problem paying. He set her up with antibiotics and some heavy duty pain killers until she could get the offending tooth removed, oh yeah and a root canal, and a crown, and a bunch of fillings. Don't ignore shit like this....
OP - just start making calls now. Google "saturday dentists" and "emergency dentists" in your area and you might find someone. |
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Go to the dentist My suggestion as well. It sounds to me like the op intends on doing just that, the thread started with "it's saturday" and asking for soomething to "hold me over" imples to me that he intends on doing just that but it is Saturday... |
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ICE....lots and lots of ice..
I've personally been dealing with the toothache from HELL because of a broken off lower back tooth for at least 2-3 weeks previous to July 30th of this year when I had that sumbitch pulled.. Before I had it pulled, it would hurt so bad that it was like someone was forcibly trying to break my jaw ... The only thing under the sun that would get rid of the pain was to put an icepack on the side of my cheek / jaw where it was hurting... Sometimes ice would calm it down in about 10-20 minutes, sometimes longer... After I had the tooth yanked outta there, I didn't have any "hard" pain medication for pain - despite my dentist writing me for some narcotic pain medicine that I REFUSED to even have filled at the pharmacy . All I took for pain afterwords was 2 800MG Ibuprofen about 4-5 hours apart.. While the Ibuprofen was working its magic, I was holding a plastic icepack to the side of my jaw, pressing it right on the area where the tooth once was... After melting two plastic icepacks over the course of about 4-6 hours, I found myself not being in hardly any pain when the numbing medicine the dentist injected into my jaw wore off.. If you're having tooth problems - ICE is your friend - unless you stick it in your mouth and onto the painful tooth in question ... Trust me! 
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If it gets really bad and you are just trying to get by till you get to the dentist you can rinse with some kind of booze. I have always had good luck with whiskey, you just rinse hold it on the tooth and if you do it enough times and swallow the whiskey eventually you will forget why you were doing it in the first place. I had a toothache when I was, I dunno...12 or so. My folks were heading out the door and my dad set a bottle of Jim Beam and some q-tips in front of me, and told me to dunk the tip into the booze and hold it against my tooth. That didn't work, so I started swishing a little booze in my mouth and swallowing it. I was hammered by the time they got home...but at least my tooth didn't hurt!
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It's Saturday and I have a toothache that is so bad that removing the offending tooth with my .357 is starting to sound like a good idea. Alive isn't doing anything. Does anyone have a better suggestion for something I can get over the counter? If not what is the cheapest way of attaining a prescription for something more effective to hold me over? 1) Dibs on your guns. 2) Get a backhoe and dig a hole. 3) Leave note for reader to back fill the sand. 4) Stand over hole. 5) Remove your tooth using your .357. Then we will give you the Darwin Award. 
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As a dentist I can say with certainty that this thread is full of BS and myths. Nothing anyone has posted will do a damn thing, except pain relievers - and all that does is buy you time to get to a dentist. Since Aleve has already failed, it's clear you need immediate professional help. If you can't find a dentist, go to the ER for some antibiotics. I've seen pics of people who go from a toothache to having their head swell up like a pumpkin in a few hours. Do not screw around with this - a fair number of people die each year from infections of dental origin. My wife had a similar problem not too long ago. For the reasons that you mentioned, I wanted her to see someone, but it was a weekend. Urgent care centers kind of shrugged their shoulders and said "we're not dentists" but after some phone calls I was able to get the dentist that took over the practice of the dentist I saw last to come in on sunday AM. Insurance paid for all but the $75 "after hours" charge which I had no problem paying. He set her up with antibiotics and some heavy duty pain killers until she could get the offending tooth removed, oh yeah and a root canal, and a crown, and a bunch of fillings. Don't ignore shit like this....
OP - just start making calls now. Google "saturday dentists" and "emergency dentists" in your area and you might find someone. I am heading to work right now, but not in WI.
You can try to mask pain a million ways, some might even help a bit, but most will be placebos. If you get swelling, go to an ER immediately. |
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I am heading to work right now, but not in WI.
You can try to mask pain a million ways, some might even help a bit, but most will be placebos. If you get swelling, go to an ER immediately. Walk in clinic doc said that I wasn't showing any sings of a bad infection other than the tooth pain. He said if I get a feaver or swelling that I should go to the ER, but other than that, waiting for the dentist on Monday should be fine. Does this sound legit to you? |
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Funny thing. These are the pills they gave me: http://www.pharmer.org/files/images/M357.jpg I guess I was pretty close to the mark on what would fix the problem. 
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I am heading to work right now, but not in WI.
You can try to mask pain a million ways, some might even help a bit, but most will be placebos. If you get swelling, go to an ER immediately. Walk in clinic doc said that I wasn't showing any sings of a bad infection other than the tooth pain. He said if I get a feaver or swelling that I should go to the ER, but other than that, waiting for the dentist on Monday should be fine. Does this sound legit to you? The dentist my wife went to under the same circumstances did give her antibiotics, with the same warning about fever and swelling. She had the offending tooth (erupted wisdom tooth) removed later in the week. |
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I used to let an aspirin dissolve directly on top of the infected tooth. Tastes Nasty,  ,but it usually worked.this. It hurts like a mofo too for about 20 minutes. I used to chew an aspirin up and tuck it in the offending tooth. It works very well for a few hours (usually 6 to 8 hours). And yes it tastes nasty. |
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As a dentist I can say with certainty that this thread is full of BS and myths. Nothing anyone has posted will do a damn thing, except pain relievers - and all that does is buy you time to get to a dentist. Since Aleve has already failed, it's clear you need immediate professional help. If you can't find a dentist, go to the ER for some antibiotics. I've seen pics of people who go from a toothache to having their head swell up like a pumpkin in a few hours. Do not screw around with this - a fair number of people die each year from infections of dental origin. As an ENT person, I have to second this, especially the part in red. All of the deaths directly occurring from head and neck infections I have witnessed have been dental infections. Bad teeth can harbor some of the nastiest bacteria out there, and the way tooth infection spreads puts it in an easy position to do things like block off your airway and spread down into your chest around your heart and lungs. And it can do so fairly quickly. Do not mess around with the teeth. |
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Funny thing. These are the pills they gave me: http://www.pharmer.org/files/images/M357.jpg I guess I was pretty close to the mark on what would fix the problem. Next time get vicoprofen 10. Then squirrel a few away. |
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Clove oil, numbs it right up. This There's a brand name oral pain gel called Orajel (yea, they went all out on that one), but I've had better luck with generics. I found a generic (for about $3) with twice the active painkiller as Orajel and it included clove oil as well. That stuff got me halfway across the country the slow way, a week of biting on q-tips covered with the shit, before I could get home to a dentist. It wears off in a few hours though, and mine was bad enough that it'd wake me up every 2-3 hours to reslime it. Fucking aaaawful. 
If it's abscessed though, an antibiotic is a really good idea. A tooth infection won't only make you wish you were dead, it can occasionally make you dead too. A cheap generic antibiotic won't run $20, but the visit to get the prescription will be the wallet kicker. Aint nothin like tooth pain, eh? 
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As a dentist I can say with certainty that this thread is full of BS and myths. Nothing anyone has posted will do a damn thing, except pain relievers - and all that does is buy you time to get to a dentist. Since Aleve has already failed, it's clear you need immediate professional help. If you can't find a dentist, go to the ER for some antibiotics. I've seen pics of people who go from a toothache to having their head swell up like a pumpkin in a few hours. Do not screw around with this - a fair number of people die each year from infections of dental origin. On a serious note (unlike my first reply), a man I knew died recently from an infection, and the "theory" is it was of dental origin (not 100% sure). |
| I was in the same boat earlier this year. I toughed it out until I could see a dentist Monday morning, taking Tylenol and ibuprofen up to the extreme limits of safe dosing. I was prescribed some Vicodin and antibiotics after the dentist identified a nasty abscess at the base of one of my molars that I had previously had a root canal on. The Vicodin helped some, but controlling the infection with the antibiotics helped more. A few days after starting the antibiotics I was feeling much better, and the next week I had the tooth pulled. |
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Thanks everyone. I think it is an abscess or wisdom tooth because the pain is coming from a rear molar with a crown on it. Quoted:
Go to the dentist Thanks, turns out laughing makes it hurt more. Before I had my rear molar on my left side pulled on the 30th of last month, I was having the same exact pain you're going thru - only I didn't have a crown on the painful tooth.... But anyway - seriously, ice is the only thing that will ease the pain.. Sure, narcotic pain killers will help, but to really get rid of it - ice it for as long as you can stand it... I hope this helps!
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| Go to the ER , no joke ! i had a toothache on Friday , 36 hours later i was near dead on the operating table as the infection spread into my sinus and below my eye and other teeth , lost 7 in the surgery. Do not screw around , go now , they will give you pain meds and see how bad it is. |