#like yeah we're having the tooth pulled but unless someone cancels their surgery within the next couple of days | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

thethingything · 5 months ago

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I need to call our dentist today because we're back to pretty much unmanageable levels of pain, but also our gums are swollen and that side of our face is hot to the touch and our mouth keeps tasting really bad so clearly there's something very wrong

#personal #thoughts #🍬 post #vent post #posts made on pain meds #I'm still upset about the fact that nobody has given us any other options for pain relief after we've said the meds we have aren't enough #and that despite the oral surgeon mentioning that we probably have an abscess under one tooth #we haven't been prescribed anything to help with that?#like yeah we're having the tooth pulled but unless someone cancels their surgery within the next couple of days #we have to wait another month and to me it seems like a really bad idea to just leave it untreated for that long???#there was a lot of stuff that took a while for us to be able to figure out too because things weren't communicated clearly enough #and it kind of feels like we've just been left to figure everything out on our own #stuff got miscommunicated in a way that I'm pretty sure led to us not being able to get an appointment booked in early enough #and I've said I'm in so much pain that taking the maximum safe doses of multiple painkillers often isn't enough #and we still get the typical ''well you can actually try taking paracetamol and ibuprofen at the same time if just one isn't working''#as if we're not already taking co-codamol (codeine and paracetamol) and ibuprofen and an anaesthetic gel #and using cold packs and salt rinses and still being in so much pain we end up laid there unable to do anything for hours at a time #and keep struggling to actually eat anything or sleep for more than a couple of hours at a time #at one point one of the people we spoke to while booking the surgery was like ''are you in pain?''#and I explained that yes I'm in so much pain I can't actually manage it with pain meds #and there was just this awkward silence and it's like... what did you expect? you have the x-ray of my rotten infected tooth right there #you could probably look at that and take a wild guess and figure out that I'm in severe fucking pain from it #at least we can apply for a payment plan (hopefully) for the surgery so we're not just bankrupting ourselves with one big payment

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