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Nov. 6th, 2020 07:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ravena_kadeSo...yesterday I had time off (as I do today).
I was able to get an emergency dental visit to make sure this pain want an easy fix... even if easy was a root canal.
The pain comes and stays and then can go for an hour or a couple minutes... It is not a tooth ache throb. It gets severe with heat.
The dentist poked, prodded with a pick...sprayed it with cold water...no dramatic effect...which would have been me hitting the ceiling. I knew it wouldn't because I tried that at home.
She asked if I was anxious about the elections... I said as a concerned citizen yes, but not enough for fake pain. She asked if I could be bringing me teeth in my sleep... I said its possible...and I explained how this week coincides with events of my Mom's death...so I have been stressed... but this feels like a dying nerve.
She did x rays and could see nothing. She wiggled the bridge... it had a little wiggle, but it is 38 years old. She said the xrays showed nothing, but since the old bridge is metal it doesnt mean something isn't happening under there. The trouble is that we cannot tell which tooth under the bridge may or may not be having a problem. She did say that the gum line was inflamed and that I have to brush better there, but that wouldn't cause this pain. She said give it a week and see if it goes away. If it doesn't she will send me to a specialist to do tests.
I paid for the visit as my insurance does not cover emergency visits where nothing is found....sigh... and still am no better. Just adds to the reason the while I love & believe in science...it doesn't love or believe in me..
So my thing is that if we have to weight to find out what tooth is having an issue so they then can kill the nerve... or do I just want to wait for the nerve to die... as long as there is no infection and it just dies. Do I play the game of how much I can take? When I was 19 I had issues...but did not have dental insurance until I was 22...so a couple years of pain. I have been here before, but can I do it at 55? It seems dumb to have to...when I have insurance... but it wont pay...
So I wait. The only thing I know is to keep busy... Its how I handled kidney stones... and I collapsed a few times with them...
This should make 5AM spread sheets even more special next week.
Oh well. I am off to the post office and then yard work... It is a spring day today after last week's winter Friday. Maybe I will grill supper outside.
I was able to get an emergency dental visit to make sure this pain want an easy fix... even if easy was a root canal.
The pain comes and stays and then can go for an hour or a couple minutes... It is not a tooth ache throb. It gets severe with heat.
The dentist poked, prodded with a pick...sprayed it with cold water...no dramatic effect...which would have been me hitting the ceiling. I knew it wouldn't because I tried that at home.
She asked if I was anxious about the elections... I said as a concerned citizen yes, but not enough for fake pain. She asked if I could be bringing me teeth in my sleep... I said its possible...and I explained how this week coincides with events of my Mom's death...so I have been stressed... but this feels like a dying nerve.
She did x rays and could see nothing. She wiggled the bridge... it had a little wiggle, but it is 38 years old. She said the xrays showed nothing, but since the old bridge is metal it doesnt mean something isn't happening under there. The trouble is that we cannot tell which tooth under the bridge may or may not be having a problem. She did say that the gum line was inflamed and that I have to brush better there, but that wouldn't cause this pain. She said give it a week and see if it goes away. If it doesn't she will send me to a specialist to do tests.
I paid for the visit as my insurance does not cover emergency visits where nothing is found....sigh... and still am no better. Just adds to the reason the while I love & believe in science...it doesn't love or believe in me..
So my thing is that if we have to weight to find out what tooth is having an issue so they then can kill the nerve... or do I just want to wait for the nerve to die... as long as there is no infection and it just dies. Do I play the game of how much I can take? When I was 19 I had issues...but did not have dental insurance until I was 22...so a couple years of pain. I have been here before, but can I do it at 55? It seems dumb to have to...when I have insurance... but it wont pay...
So I wait. The only thing I know is to keep busy... Its how I handled kidney stones... and I collapsed a few times with them...
This should make 5AM spread sheets even more special next week.
Oh well. I am off to the post office and then yard work... It is a spring day today after last week's winter Friday. Maybe I will grill supper outside.
