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Aug 7

It has now been 1 month straight of tooth pain. My filling was July 7, and even though I had no pain going in, I have been in pain ever since.  And the filling itself was awful - in the chair 4 hours bc she couldn't get me numb and kept trying.  *sob*

My sister's wedding is this Saturday.  We go on vaca in 2 weeks.  If I do need a root canal, I don't know when to schedule it.  I don't want to be in more pain.  At least now, tylenol helps it.  Ugh, I have been looking up endodontics all day bc I know if I am headed for a root canal, I'm definitely not going back to that dentist for a root canal, I want a specialist.  And I just hope hope hope they can numb me bc the thought of a root canal is bad enough, but I can't even bear the thought if  have to do it with feeling everything.

Re: Aug 7

  • can you not have novacaine while pregnant? I had a root canal and a filling before i knew i was pregnant with ethan.  if you have a root canal you will only be in pain for that day then you have no feeling since the root is gone. I hope it gets better.
  • Ya, the OB said I can have novocaine.  But it never took - during the cavity filling she tried 3 times shooting the novocaine and it just never got numb. 

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  • Definitely sounds like you need a new dentist! If you call and say you're in pain, they should get you in right away and as soon as they do the "initial" stage of the root canal (if you need one) you'll feel better.. BUT.. it sounds to me that if you didn't have pain going in when you got the filling but have had it since, that they didn't do the filling properly and you just have an exposed nerve or something. If I were you, i'd call a different dentist right off the bat. Sounds off to me that they couldn't get the novicaine to take and then you're in so much pain after.
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  • I hope I'm not airing too much of my crazy....but novocaine didn't work on me for the longest time and so I could not go to the dentist. I have a serious phobia of going to the dentist...like very severe. I don't know why...but I would get SO anxious that I would feel something. I was getting a filling done and could feel so much that I would jump from the pain and the dentist kept yelling at me - it was horrible!!! I started doing a little research and found out that anxiety can block novocaine from taking full affect. So since then I would totally relax my body and mind when getting the nov shot, I'd sit there and think about anything BUT what was going to happen. It has worked every time since. Maybe look into that a little..

    I have to go again next month - not looking forward to it since I have felt a little pain here and there recently. I haven't been since Evan was 6 weeks old and I told my job I wasn't returning and wanted to use my dental insurance one last time.

  • I would get the root canal right away if you can! The pain literally lasts for only a day at the most. I took regular Tylenol after mine and was fine. Also, I would highly recommend going to an endodontist, because they only do root canals. It made me much less anxious. And I just brought my ipod and tried to relax. It really didn't take that long...good luck!
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  • If you are looking for and endodontist... I've heard really great things about Dr Quevedo... Let me guess the tooth was a lower molar? If so... They can be really hard to get numb for a lot of different reasons. What kind of pain are you having? Cold? Hot? Chewing? Spontaneous? Waking you up at night? Is it possible the filling is too high? Are you hitting your teeth evenly or does that one hit first? Is it a white filling or a metal filling? Sorry... Asking ya a million questions here ... :-) I would try and see if you could get in with someone ... And maybe they could get you on an antiobiotic to help calm the tooth down until you can get treatment.
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    If you are looking for and endodontist... I've heard really great things about Dr Quevedo... Let me guess the tooth was a lower molar? If so... They can be really hard to get numb for a lot of different reasons. What kind of pain are you having? Cold? Hot? Chewing? Spontaneous? Waking you up at night? Is it possible the filling is too high? Are you hitting your teeth evenly or does that one hit first? Is it a white filling or a metal filling? Sorry... Asking ya a million questions here ... :-) I would try and see if you could get in with someone ... And maybe they could get you on an antiobiotic to help calm the tooth down until you can get treatment.

    It is white fillings, which I never had beffore.  Always had metal in the past.

    The fillings were done on the back 3 upper teeth on the right side.  So 2 molars and the one behind the eye tooth.  I have some cold sensitivity, but that isn't too bad.  It is just constant dull throbbing pain that sometimes is more intense than others.  It is always there, but sometimes it is just annoying and others it is so painful.  And the crazy part, I don't even know what tooth it is!  It is my whole upper right jaw that hurts.  It doesn't hurt more or less when I tap on the teeth or chew, although just to be safe I am trying to only chew on the left.  And sometimes I even feel like my lower right jaw hurts too, but I think that the upper just hurts so much that my body can't even differentiate.

    I did go back last week and they thought that the one had a high spot.  So they ground that down.  The pain went away during the daytime for 2 days, but was still there at night.  Then it came back just as bad.  I didn't notice it was hitting weird, but now that they shaved the middle tooth down, I do feel like it hits kinda weird on that tooth that is behind the eye tooth.

    The waking me up at night part is hard to tell.  I wake up a few times a night, but I think it is because I have to pee.  But then I can not fall back to sleep because of the mouth pain.  The tylenol takes most of the pain away so that it is just an annoying feeling instead of painful.

    I just looked up Quevedo, but he is not on my sucky insurance, but thank you.  Right now I have an appt with Progressive Endodontics on Thursday morning.  Who would give me the rx for an abx, the endodontist?  Because I'm not really planning on going back to the dentist that did the fillings....  Or maybe my OB?

  • It is quite possible about the anxiety thing too.....As each shot didn't take I was getting more and more nervous.  Plus, I was at a brand new dentist which is kind of stressfull too.  And the smell of them drilling was making me pretty close to throwing up.  Now that I have all this pain, I kinda wish I threw up all over them.  Luckily my morning sickness is gone now, so hopefully the smell of the root canal won't bother me as much!

  • I'm thinking it did have to do with anxiety too.... When your pregnant most dentists use an anesthetic without epinephrine ... So it wears off faster. I kinda wonder if the filling is still a little high....maybe your grinding your teeth at night and rocking into that high spot? When you go into the endodontist they will evaluate it and see it you need antibiotics and give you the prescription. White fillings do tend to have more post op sensitivity than metal fillings. I had a white filling done 3 years ago and it still zings me to cold. Good luck... Keep me posted!
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