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Squashface
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Around 3 months ago I had a root canal on my upper front tooth. Ever since then I’ve had on and off low level pain in that tooth. The pain never gets past a 2/3 out of 10, and I don’t get pain biting into food. Pressing on the tooth only hurts if I put quite a bit of pressure on it.
The main thing I’m finding painful is exercise. The tooth can be completely pain free all day, then I’ll go for a run, to the gym or even a brisk walk and it’ll start hurting (still only 3/10 pain level max). Sometimes the pain will go away straight after exercising, but other times it’ll linger for the rest of the day and I’ll take painkillers to make it go away.
Also about once or twice a week, the tooth will hurt for no obvious reason. The pain will build through the day, but be gone by the next morning.
I’ve contacted my endodontist and initially was prescribed antibiotics in case there was a low level infection. These didn’t make any difference. Since then the endodontist has reassured me that this sometimes happens and root canals can take a year on occasion to heal! The pain has changed over the last few months. In the first 6 weeks it throbbed a lot, I had pain under my nose and the gum above the tooth hurt, this has all gone away. It also hurt running my tongue on the back of the tooth, this also no longer hurts. But the pain while exercising hasn’t changed much.
The problem is I’m really fed up. I now associate exercise with tooth pain. I don’t enjoy going for walks as it often leads to pain, even if it’s only mild. I’m beginning to wonder if it could be a crack in the tooth? But I can’t find any reference to my symptoms anywhere. Has anyone had anything similar? What was the outcome?
The main thing I’m finding painful is exercise. The tooth can be completely pain free all day, then I’ll go for a run, to the gym or even a brisk walk and it’ll start hurting (still only 3/10 pain level max). Sometimes the pain will go away straight after exercising, but other times it’ll linger for the rest of the day and I’ll take painkillers to make it go away.
Also about once or twice a week, the tooth will hurt for no obvious reason. The pain will build through the day, but be gone by the next morning.
I’ve contacted my endodontist and initially was prescribed antibiotics in case there was a low level infection. These didn’t make any difference. Since then the endodontist has reassured me that this sometimes happens and root canals can take a year on occasion to heal! The pain has changed over the last few months. In the first 6 weeks it throbbed a lot, I had pain under my nose and the gum above the tooth hurt, this has all gone away. It also hurt running my tongue on the back of the tooth, this also no longer hurts. But the pain while exercising hasn’t changed much.
The problem is I’m really fed up. I now associate exercise with tooth pain. I don’t enjoy going for walks as it often leads to pain, even if it’s only mild. I’m beginning to wonder if it could be a crack in the tooth? But I can’t find any reference to my symptoms anywhere. Has anyone had anything similar? What was the outcome?