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Friday 15 May 2009

How can this possibly hurt so much?

We know the familiar throbbing feeling that starts as a mildly irritating pain. We take a couple of paracetamols just to take the edge of, but we know that this is just the beginning of untold misery. The paracetamols wear off and the pain seems slighly worse. thats when we raid the pill cabinet to see if you have any ibuprofen left over from the last time this took over your life. Luckily you will probably find a couple and perhaps take them just before you go to bed hoping you will wake up in the morning and the pain has miraculously gone. You do wake up but it 3.43 a.m with the most terrible awful pain and you have taken the last ibuprofens, so its time for alternative pain relief, gargling with ice water takes it off for a few seconds so thats no god damn use..you contemplate overdosing on paracetamols because in your pain addled mind it would be easier that way! luckily you have some clove oil in your cupboard that is 4 years old, you know that you probably should'nt use it but you do anyway. You sit there wondering if tesco is still open and if it is do they sell pliers because you are getting to the stage now where anything would do including pulling the fucking thing out of your head. You ring NHS direct and pretend you have chest pains just so they will get you into an emergency dentist. If this sounds like you then you are not alone, no honestly you are not....Welcome to the world of toothache

Open to all

Although I have always wanted this to be primarily a toothache pian prevention site, I have come to realise that limits my blog readership a little bit. I have no desire to become famous or rich doing this blog. My aim is and has always been for people to have somewhere to air there experiences of dental problems. I now want people who read this to be as honest as open as they can about any health fears they may have, between us all we can create a community that gives proper answers to questions we may be afraid to ask our dentist or doctor.

Thursday 7 May 2009

Facebook

I have now set up a facebook group to see how many different suggestions and techniques I can get for help with toothache. I have over 140 members and it is quite slow to get going. I see peoples updates everyday complaining of toothache so I send them the link to my page and then nothing!! I expect them to share the agony with all us other members. Am I expecting too much? When I get toothache I read and became a member of about a dozen health forums just to complain bitterly about the injustice of me getting toothache. Needless to say some of the replies were sympathetic and some were not. Anyway for people reading my blog who are intrigued to see my facebook page just type 'I hate toothache' in the facebook search engine and join my group, what I would dearly like to happen is that if anyone does join directly from my blog please leave a post to say you have done so. It would be interesting to see the results..