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As above really.
I have a throbbing pain in my gum and so did some googling on the internet which as we all know is a totally fail-safe way of diagnosing medical problems and not at all likely to lead to completely inappropriate conclusions.
However I'm reasonably confident I have an abscess on my gum. The kicker is, I'm supposed to be going away on holiday to France for two weeks on Wednesday and am not confident I'll be able to get a same-day appointment at my dentist on Tuesday after Bank Holiday weekend.
NHS Direct suggests that they don't get better by themselves and need treatment.
The question is, does anybody know if this will get loads more painful in two weeks and should I try and see an emergency out of hours dentist this weekend? It hardly seems like an emergency in the strictest sense of the word.
On the other hand I learned a long time ago that I'm no hard-man and so am unsure of my ability to soldier on for two weeks in a lot of pain if it gets worse, as i imagine somebody like Jens Voigt might 😕
Boil kettle, pour in cup, loads a salt. Swill mouth out regular for a few days. Mine disappeared in a couple of days. Was from an abscess from an impacted wisdom tooth
Last dental abscess I suffered has me on my knees and ended up with a root canal treatment. Not something I could have put up with for two weeks on holiday.
Then again, dental stuff is so personal. I've also had fillings without anaesthetic.
Emergency dentists are always available.....get it looked at tomorrow! I had one once on a bank holiday weekend and the relief of getting the tooth drilled and the pus released was indescribable....plus the longer you leave it, it will eat away your jawbone!!!!! Or worse case scenario septicaemia!
I have experience of 2 outcomes from this.
1. The adorable dog ^ method. Might have popped it a bit too. Icky, but went. That was a gum abscess.
2. An abscess caused by an arsehole dentist. Emergency hospital admission, in for 4 days trying to prevent septicemia - it really was quite serious by all accounts, but morphine is awesome.
Happened to me while on holiday. The most painful and debilitating thing I have ever had - abscess on a faulty root canal. I would have done some unnatural things to have made it stop. It took a prescription pain killer to get it under control, and then the abscess ruptured before the dentist could get in there, which was immediate relief and luckily no nasty after effects.
Get it sorted (or get some serious pain killers. Agree on the morphine !)
I went on hols with an abcess,managed to blag some antibiotics off the doctor but couldn't drink whilst on holiday though,I had a route canal,still have the abcess,it's right up below my nose,I'll have to go hospital and have it surgically removed at some point,I had my route canal a year ago.
Go to the docs or dentist & get some antibiotics (amoxycillin I think) If youv'e got an abscess it's infected so antibio's will/should sort it. A dentist shouldn't do any work till it's gone.
(I'm not a dentist but my dentist is & that's what he told me)
strangely, i have exactly the same issue, with a sore tooth and lump in the roof of my mouth. Pain comes on after i eat. Had to phone NHS 24 last night as cheek had swollen. They recommended i get it seen to in the next 24 hours so made me an appointment today at 10am in my local hospital. Not ideal as weather was looking good and i was heading down to Glentress.
Woke up this morning and it appeared to have gone so cancelled the appointment and went down to Glentress anyway. Problem is once i ate i was in agony. Decided just to self medicate with ibuprofen and paracetamol and red wine (once i got home). NHS 24 also recommended salt water rinse.
Now slightly concerned with posts above re eating jawbone....
NHS Direct (or whatever the name is this week) sorted me with emergency treatment when a spot of decay got to the nerve in a tooth. Seen that day for temporary dressing, they will do the minimum to get you right and send you off to your dentist for a follow up. (Extraction in my case as it would have required "heroic" dentistry to save the tooth. Heroic is only available privately!)
OK, thanks everybody, really appreciate the response!
I think I am going to take some of the anecdotes above as tacit approval for me to see the put of hours dentist before I leave the country- I thought I might get a barracking for even considering it!
Currently medicating with alcohol but I guess that's a short term solution.
It's really infuriating- I've saved up for ages for this holiday and I can barely remember the last time I went to the doctor or dentist for anything other than a check-up and now I appear to have woke up with gum disease with 3 days to go *shakes fist at sky*
drslow, I'm not being an alarmist, but don't bugger about with that; toothy stuff has tendency to veer from 'ah, it's ok now' to 'kill me please', very quickly.
Get it sorted fella.
Yeah, i think ill phone them again for an appointment tomorrow as i can feel / see it swelling again and i can feel it through the pain killers
[b]Very[/b] wise. 🙂
I never drink alchahol really,but when I do my abcess starts hurting straight away,don't know why but it does.
I had a dental abscess recently. For the first day the pain was intermittent and bearable, but then became horrible. I got antibiotics to calm the infection whilst I waited for root canal treatment.
I would get it seen to before your hols.
Had one absolute agony, rang nhs direct told them i had a pain in tooth and needed an emergency dental appointment, they phoned me back 10 mins later with the details of a dentist local who whipped out offending tooth and prescribed anti biotics.All for free under emergency treatment.
What esselgruntfuttock said, go sooner than later. I went later as it was 'just a bit of toothache' by the time the doc saw me I was counting the minutes til my next (safe) dose of cocodamol, sleeping was off the menu and I had to take a day and a half off work as I couldn't concentrate on anything but the pain in my face.