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In need of comforting words, panicking about injured front tooth! Please help me!
Hi everybody,
I'm new here, and this is the first discussion forum I've been in. I have literally not been able to sleep for the past few nights because I'm scared to lay on my mouth the wrong way or hurt my tooth further. I sometimes wake up to a dull or sharp throbbing in my left front tooth and the pain continues throughout the day if and is getting worse each day. About three months ago the sensitivity started after I hit my tooth slightly on my coffee mug, and about a week after that I bit down on a fork wrong. But the pain really started because about a week ago, I had somewhat of an anxiety attack about my joblessness and some cruel behavior from my family. Life in general. And I had a magazine and out of fear and frustration I just bit down really hard on it and stopped when I felt a slight popping way up in my gumline. I know how this must sound, and thats part of the embarrassment. And to think that now I've injured my self by doing something so stupid is like a recurring nightmare everytime I feel pain. And just when I try to pray and tell myself its not the end of the world, and I'm just sore or something, the pain gets worse, and now I feel my front tooth shifting a little in its place. I'm terrified! What have I done?! And I don't have a job or insurance and I'm hoping I can get some sort of basic care without being able to pay, and no one is going to help me. I feel like such an idiot! One stupid move and now my tooth may be dying, or will it even fall out of my mouth? I need to at least look my best to try and get my break in this world. Now I'm still in the same living situation as when I freaked out, only now with a scary scary dental situation. I feel even more pain when I cry so I can't even do that. I have all this bottled up fear and panic, and I can't sleep, and I don't even know if I'm gonna be okay. The frustrating thing is that I know that if I had the money, there are all these amazing things the dentists can do now to help a tooth stabilize and stuff, but I feel like because I'm broke, all people can do is tell me that I can get an extraction. My tooth is not chipped or broken, and it's my front tooth! I dont wanna just pull it out or sit back and wait for it to die helplessly. Please can somebody comfort me at all? The only one I've told this too is my mom, and that was a big leap of faith for me against better judgement, and unfortunately, I ended up regretting telling her. She just made fun of me and said, 'Well, teeth take a long time to die. Maybe you'll have a job by then.' And I don't plan on telling anyone else in my life about this because frankly, no one would care. Just words of kindness and actual compassion about my fears will be immensely helpful at this point. I feel so alone in this world. I know no one cares about my tooth but me, but I can't cry, I can't sleep, I go to sleep depressed and wake up terrified. I don't know what I can do to stop being so scared and angry at myself. Please can somebody help me?
Hi everybody,
I'm new here, and this is the first discussion forum I've been in. I have literally not been able to sleep for the past few nights because I'm scared to lay on my mouth the wrong way or hurt my tooth further. I sometimes wake up to a dull or sharp throbbing in my left front tooth and the pain continues throughout the day if and is getting worse each day. About three months ago the sensitivity started after I hit my tooth slightly on my coffee mug, and about a week after that I bit down on a fork wrong. But the pain really started because about a week ago, I had somewhat of an anxiety attack about my joblessness and some cruel behavior from my family. Life in general. And I had a magazine and out of fear and frustration I just bit down really hard on it and stopped when I felt a slight popping way up in my gumline. I know how this must sound, and thats part of the embarrassment. And to think that now I've injured my self by doing something so stupid is like a recurring nightmare everytime I feel pain. And just when I try to pray and tell myself its not the end of the world, and I'm just sore or something, the pain gets worse, and now I feel my front tooth shifting a little in its place. I'm terrified! What have I done?! And I don't have a job or insurance and I'm hoping I can get some sort of basic care without being able to pay, and no one is going to help me. I feel like such an idiot! One stupid move and now my tooth may be dying, or will it even fall out of my mouth? I need to at least look my best to try and get my break in this world. Now I'm still in the same living situation as when I freaked out, only now with a scary scary dental situation. I feel even more pain when I cry so I can't even do that. I have all this bottled up fear and panic, and I can't sleep, and I don't even know if I'm gonna be okay. The frustrating thing is that I know that if I had the money, there are all these amazing things the dentists can do now to help a tooth stabilize and stuff, but I feel like because I'm broke, all people can do is tell me that I can get an extraction. My tooth is not chipped or broken, and it's my front tooth! I dont wanna just pull it out or sit back and wait for it to die helplessly. Please can somebody comfort me at all? The only one I've told this too is my mom, and that was a big leap of faith for me against better judgement, and unfortunately, I ended up regretting telling her. She just made fun of me and said, 'Well, teeth take a long time to die. Maybe you'll have a job by then.' And I don't plan on telling anyone else in my life about this because frankly, no one would care. Just words of kindness and actual compassion about my fears will be immensely helpful at this point. I feel so alone in this world. I know no one cares about my tooth but me, but I can't cry, I can't sleep, I go to sleep depressed and wake up terrified. I don't know what I can do to stop being so scared and angry at myself. Please can somebody help me?