Stupid Tooth Problems
Oct. 31st, 2005 02:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pixiecrinkleSo, I'd been expecting lots of headaches as of late. I went cold turkey off of Nutra-Sweet two Fridays ago, which meant giving up my main delivery system for caffeine (Diet Pepsi) as well.
So far, so good on that front. I've been drinking more tea to try to head off the caffeine withdrawal, and so far it's worked.
However, in the meantime, the filling that I got done a couple of months back, that has been sensitive ever since, has just ratcheted up the sensitivity level about four or five notches. I actually had problems going to sleep the past few nights. Not good. My dentist checked it a while ago and just re adjusted the bite plane I wear at night, and that made it ok for a while. But now, if I eat anything, at any temperature other than body temp, my tooth bugs me. I don't even have to be eating--if a cold breeze blows my direction while I'm talking, there it goes too. Grrrr...
So this morning, I woke up with a royal headache. I think it's a combo of caffeine withdrawal, rebound from taking painkillers for the stinkin' tooth, not wearing my bite plane because it hurt worse to have it in last night, so I locked my jaw and ground, and just general pain from the tooth.
Yuck. I have an appointment tomorrow. If my dentist doesn't do something about this this time, it's off to a new dentist for me. This is *not* normal, I don't care what he says.
I fear, ultimately, that I cracked the tooth after the filling was done. It's one of those tooth colored ceramic fillings that has absolutely zero "give" to it, and I distinctly remember on two occasions biting down and scraping it on the tooth below (which is also now hurting, I think via osmosis).
Someone told me this morning that my body isn't allowed to fall apart until I'm thirty. Guess I'm a few months ahead of schedule.
So far, so good on that front. I've been drinking more tea to try to head off the caffeine withdrawal, and so far it's worked.
However, in the meantime, the filling that I got done a couple of months back, that has been sensitive ever since, has just ratcheted up the sensitivity level about four or five notches. I actually had problems going to sleep the past few nights. Not good. My dentist checked it a while ago and just re adjusted the bite plane I wear at night, and that made it ok for a while. But now, if I eat anything, at any temperature other than body temp, my tooth bugs me. I don't even have to be eating--if a cold breeze blows my direction while I'm talking, there it goes too. Grrrr...
So this morning, I woke up with a royal headache. I think it's a combo of caffeine withdrawal, rebound from taking painkillers for the stinkin' tooth, not wearing my bite plane because it hurt worse to have it in last night, so I locked my jaw and ground, and just general pain from the tooth.
Yuck. I have an appointment tomorrow. If my dentist doesn't do something about this this time, it's off to a new dentist for me. This is *not* normal, I don't care what he says.
I fear, ultimately, that I cracked the tooth after the filling was done. It's one of those tooth colored ceramic fillings that has absolutely zero "give" to it, and I distinctly remember on two occasions biting down and scraping it on the tooth below (which is also now hurting, I think via osmosis).
Someone told me this morning that my body isn't allowed to fall apart until I'm thirty. Guess I'm a few months ahead of schedule.
