#abcessed teeth

[twilight-vigdis]

🙃🫠🥲 Medicaid wont cover a root canal and i desperately need one. Why are mouth bones a luxury? Any small amount helps, as well as shares.

[neverendingford]

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[msbarrows]

Tags from ltleflrt:

#culture shock #y'know #i don't think a big bottle of ibuprofen is weird #until a doctor is like #lemme prescribe you some 800mg ibuprofen #and i'm like why bother #i can just pop 4 over the counter pills #so i guess i can see why it's somewhat controlled elsewhere #big doses require a prescription in the usa #it's just dumb since we can buy low dose in any store #and just swallow a few more pills 

Uh... pop four pills? Don’t you guys also have the bottles of extra strength pills available over-the-counter like we do up here in Canada?

*Holds up and lightly shakes her bottle of 144 tablets of Extra Strength 400mg Ibuprofen*

*Thinks a second then holds up other hand and lightly shakes her bottle of 150 tablets of Extra Strength 500mg Acetaminophen too*

(Great thing about having both is that they apparently have sufficiently different side effects that if one medication isn’t cutting it, you can take one of the other as well without having to worry that you’re taking too much in too short a time, as long as you respect the dosage limits of each.)

wait americans can just. buy massive bottles of ibuprofen what the fuck

[ganja-hq]

If I had a nickel for every time I've casually told someone about a dental issue I'd had for months only to be told I need to see a doctor immediately because this is an emergency I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice

[chronically-caffeinated]

Ouguhhhhh I've got some kind of tooth infection and it fucking sucks. I gotta see if thisll clear up on its own otherwise I gotta go to the dentist and idk how I'm gonna afford that

[momolady]

All the teeth I’ve had pulled. Not to worry, one was a wisdom tooth and the other was abcessed. The other was a baby tooth.

[ilikeyoshi]

TEETH UPDATE!!!!

it's good news y'all!!!!!

as you're probably aware i started asking for help paying for a root canal i was told by my dentist last year i needed, and it was estimated the full procedure (root canal, crown, etc) would cost about $2,100.

completely unable to afford that or even their longest payment plan (6 months), i went through various options, but a sudden, massive vet bill over the summer decimated any chance i had of paying that price alone. i reached out for help via crowdfunding, and raised an extremely generous and eternally appreciated $325. at the same time, i began searching for alternative offices in hopes of finding a cheaper price or longer payment plan.

i finally went to a dentistry school last thursday because, if your care can be preformed by their students, it's around 50% off. their estimate was $1,200; BUT, upon completing their exam, they told me i almost definitely didn't need a root canal, and a filling would completely do.

we did the endo test today to confirm, and i got my filling and full deep cleaning for my gingivitis for a total of $519. the filling itself was $130. 😭

thank you SO, SO SO SO much to everyone who donated; your help covered more than half of this bill and allowed my family to cover the remaining couple hundred. i've cried SO MANY TIMES the past six days, and most of that was TODAY when the student dentist did my endo test and confirmed i just needed a filling. i have NO idea why my old dentist told me it had to be a root canal, and kept telling me i needed to do it soon (despite that i proceeded to be able to put it off for a year because i couldn't afford it), but i honestly don't care. i'm just so fucking relieved to have this done.

thank you again. even at this school of dentistry, i may not have been able to afford so much of the treatment i need without your help. i was able to fix this before it needed extraction or it hospitalized me with an abcess. you guys saved me a world of pain, if not my actual life. thank you SO MUCH.

[planetary]

oh im so mad i have a cavity in my tooth and like what the fuck i brush my teeth twice or sometimes three times a day i literally Have to or i cant relax enough to sleep i floss after eating like anything and before i brush i have special mouthwash i use in the middle of the day too i am Obsessive about my teeth. and i get a fucking cavity. WHAT IS THE POINT GRRR IM SO SICK OF DENTAL WORK two abcesses a wisdom tooth and that whole debacle with my stupid fuck of a dentist shoving a broken piece of my tooth INTO MY SINUS CAVITY and now i have to get a FILLING maybe multiple bc who knows there could be others LIKE wtf. just take them all out at this point whatever omfg.

AND MY DENTAL INSURANCE DOESNT COVER SHIT so this will be probably like a thousand dollars again hopefully not more and what else? yeah i cant stop thinking of that fucking episode of CatDog where they went to the dentist because when i first saw that episode like 10 years ago i got so fucking mad i still have a screenshot of me bitching about it. heres an excerpt from the episode sypnosis

“When the dentist opens Dog's mouth and examines it, he finds his mouth perfect, which surprises Cat. Then, he checks Cat's mouth and notices that his mouth is unclean and loaded with all sorts of decay. The dentist scans CatDog through an X-ray and discovers that whatever damage Dog does to his teeth will affect Cat's teeth and vice versa.”

so thats fucked right now let me go transcribe the screenshot i have from 10 years ago. ok heres my thoughts from 2014

“before i send this i would just like to say that ive been watching a lot of CatDog recently and it's on now and im SOrry. but it needs to be said. have you ever seen catdog? it was on TV about ten years ago and it's about this cat and this dog that were attached to each other. ive got some concerns about it. the show isn't ever fair to Cat. especially in this one episode, where CatDog goes to the dentist. Cat eats very good food and Dog eats literally shit. Cat brushes and flosses after each meal and Dog is still eating shit. but because of some logic that has no scientific backing at all, whatever one does to his teeth affects the other. so Dog just gets to be a shit-eater and be rewarded while Cat is punished no matter how hard he tries. its just... so unfair. you get where im going with this?”

LIKE DO YOU GET IT IM LITERALLY CAT RN AND IDK WHO DOG IS BUT WHEN I FUCKING GET THEM IM KILLING THEM sorry this is long but im not putting it under a readmore you followed me so you agree to see me complain on the dash. you love it. I HATE TEETH

[slugass]

just got told, every dentist mom has taken me to except for the 1st one i got when i was 6 apparently didn’t want to operate on me because i was autistic, because i fidget, Y’KNOW, TO FUCKING CALM DOWN.

we both know it’s bullshit.

no, let’s NOT operate on the girl whose teeth are rotting, one of those teeth being GONE, and is developing another abcess in her gums, because she fidgets too much, and that’s mildly annoying to us.

[troll-star]

like i got used to having wisdom teeth and i took care of them so well to avoid abcess while they were coming up and they came up straight and all then i went v*gan and they just started rotting away…</3

[thalassarche]

This is kind of long and it's me getting things out. Scroll past if you don't want to read about medical stuff, or declining health of aging parents, or failures of the medical system, or the feeling of personal failures in the face of all of this.

My mom isn't doing well.

I've been living with her for three years now, after losing my job during the pandemic. She had recently been diagnosed with end stage renal failure and needed dialysis three days a week, which really tired her out, so she needed help, and I didn't have a job. So I've been her caregiver for that time. Helping with shopping and meals and appointments and so on. August 1st, she had a stroke, primarily affecting the language centers of her brain, and making speech difficult. She seemed okay when I got up that day but by the time I did my morning routine (teeth brushing etc) she wasn't talking properly and we went to the nearest ER. Since then she's been in neuro ICU, post-stroke rehab, and a short-term care center, for therapy and recovery. Except she was fighting some terrible lower back pain that was making it very difficult for her to do her PT, then getting to the point she was bedridden.

Myself, and her brother and sister-in-law (who are our neighbors), agitated for diagnostics of what was going on with her back pain. They did an xray with "no significant findings" and prescribed oxycodone for pain management. We tried to get a CT scan or MRI or something like that for her and nothing happened, as she was transferred from rehabilitation to short-term care, and short-term care just kept up the narcotics. Well. Now she's in ICU again. CT scan, MRI, and bloodwork revealed that she has osteomyelitis of the lumbar vertebrae -- an infection in the bone/bone marrow of her lower back. There's actually an abcess there in her spine. That's what was causing the hideous pain. Osteomyelitis in the spine has a roughly 20% mortality rate. And Mom just isn't very healthy to begin with. She's a breast cancer survivor with osteoporosis as a result of her treatment. She has diabetes, with that effect on wound healing. She has the aforementioned end stage renal failure, so her kidneys don't work and her blood has to be filtered artificially three times a week. She has atherosclerosis (which may have caused the stroke) and has a stent in her heart, plus an artificial heart valve.

The doctors have said they don't like the look of the infection, and they don't feel she's a candidate for surgery to remove it, so it's going to be treated via antibiotics delivered via PICC for the next 6 weeks. But, it's sort of hanging there, that there's a solid chance she doesn't make it through this. And I just can't stop feeling as if I failed her, by not following through with the additional diagnostics, by not making myself such a pain in the ass that they did it to get me to shut up, and maybe found it sooner. Or that maybe I didn't even catch the stroke soon enough. Or who knows, maybe insurance denied the CT scan, or something like that. Just, that I'm supposed to be her caregiver, and yet, look. I don't know what I'm saying here other than just getting all of this out somewhere. But it sucks. The healthcare system sucks, insurance sucks, all of this sucks, and I just want my Mom.

[leclercx]

thinking here, will charles be able to operate his teeth abcess before mexico or he will go with painkillers again

[sunflowers666]

my teeth hurts so bad maybe i should try and see a dentist... the blood curse containment program gives me a certain amount of money per year for dentist work... but idk .. my mom mentioned the possibility of a root canal abcess and now im rlly scared abt it. maybe itll just stop hurting like it has before but its been pretty consistent pain for a good few days now. ughhhh >_<

[nightbringer24]

Back from the dentist after having the impressions taken of my teeth. A VERY uncomfortable sensation and very disgusting in taste, but that's done.

Next will be having my teeth removed but that's in two week's time, and then I'll basically have to relearn how to eat in a sense.

Also, turns out the problem with my lips is caused by a bacterial problem, so I'v got antibiotics to deal with that and the abcess I still have.

Oh, what a fun way to start the year.

[chronically-caffeinated]

Ouguhhhhh I've got some kind of tooth infection and it fucking sucks. I gotta see if thisll clear up on its own otherwise I gotta go to the dentist and idk how I'm gonna afford that

[malhare-archive]

My father had to rip out a premolar because he couldn’t afford the dentist bill. He used a strong pair of pliers. While painful it is possible! I’m wishing you the best luck. Teeth pain is horrific and I wouldn’t wish it upon my worst enemy.

Thank you my anonymous friend! I won't be yanking out the entire tooth because unfortunately it's broken in a way that requires surgical extraction that I would not be able to do on my own, trying to yank it out would only cause the tooth to crumble and leave shards imbeded in my gums. However I've been able to delay it by treating the pain with natural remedies and if worse comes to worse I can lance the abcess to give myself even more time. It sucks and it's brutally painful, but my insurance lapsed and I truly just do not have the thousands of dollars that medical extraction costs