Sooo much pooping

[Mrs Webmuppet]

Hi this is one for the medically minded Omleteers.

 

I have a particularly stubborn dental abcess ( which has been going on some time now - this is the 7th lot of antibiotics) the dentist has now put me on some stronger antibiotics (Clindamycin), it's now day 4 of the capsules and there doesn't appear to be any change in the abcess.

 

Should I be panicking and phoning the dentists yet? or will they take longer to work - previously it's usually started to subside by now ( only to return a few days after the end of the medication )

[docsquid]

For an abscess, where it is difficult for antibiotics to penetrate into the abscess cavity and thus to have an effect, you may wait up to 10 days for any effect to be noticed.

[Angie]

It can take a week to start to get to where it is needed, for something that is being persistant i would expect to be on antibiotics for a few weeks. Call dentist if things are getting worse fever swelling pain etc... not nice to suffer dental problems . How it resolves for you soon ,

[Mrs Webmuppet]

The pain got so bad this afternoon that I phoned the dentists, they managed to squeeze me in at the end of the day .

 

It would appear that the infection has gone and I have a reaction to the filling material in the tooth - hence the extreme pain. The filling material has now been removed, a temporary filling put in its place along with a dressing and I have anti inflamatory pills now. Fingers crossed that is the answer.............I have another visit to the dentists next week.

 

The poor receptionist will be glad once this is all fixed..............she knows me by first name now and is treatening to give me my own chair in the waiting area .

[whoopsie]

Glad things are feeling a bit better - if antibiotics are going to work properly you should be able to feel at least some improvement.

 

Sounds like your dental surgery are taking care of you though which is great.

[donald]

48hours but if you have a long standing dental abscess you will probably be better having the tooth removed. They will try to save the tooth etc and I hope as you say its just a reaction to the filling? material.

 

If it keeps coming back you will just end up spending a lot of money and it may be better to take it out. Abscess will still come back etc and antibiotics wont cure it in the long term

 

Antibiotics should now be given in the highest dose over a shorter period of time. ie hit the bugs hard.

Its due to the long courses that there is so much resistance to them.

 

I hope you get it sorted out though as its blooming painful thing.

[Mrs Webmuppet]

Just a quick update............feeling much better, the pain is much reduced, so it looks like the anti inflamatories are working.

 

The dentist did say it was quite unusual to get such a violent reaction to the root canal filling material, he was quite adament that the abcess had finally gone. He doesn't want to remove the tooth unless he really has to as it's rather large tooth and the root is up against the floor of my sinuses ( and removal could damage the floor of the sinus and create even more trouble).

[Olly]

Ouch, poor you - I've had a lot of dental abscesses, and it is agonising.

 

Provided the infection has completely gone, root canal filling (obviously not with the stuff you're allergic to!) can be really successful - I've had at least three teeth treated this way and crowned, and there's also an op called an apicectomy, not for the faint-hearted but they remove the rest of the root from above rather than below, I've had two of those. One tooth lasted for around 20 years following that treatment, I finally lost it a couple of years ago, and the other one is still going, so don't give up hope.