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QuietSummerDay
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Hello,
I've always been a nervous dental patient. I've had two significant procedures: a root canal in 2021 and my wisdom teeth out in 2023 (which I posted about here).
Anyway, after my root canal, I started having occasional pain. It feels like a sharp, shooting sensation that lasts for a split second and is mostly concentrated in my left sinus (though I do feel like it "originates" in the tooth, if that makes sense). My root canal was done on an upper left molar. This pain would come and go, usually not lasting for more than a few hours. It's sporadic, not constant (every 15-20 minutes). It occured almost exclusively in the wintertime.
In 2024 I moved to a much drier climate and the pain went away. It's maybe happened briefly once or twice in the last couple of years, until yesterday when it started up again. It's been pretty constant (still sporadic, but multiple times an hour). It kept me from sleeping last night and I've just been in tears today. I have a flight on Saturday and I'm terrified that it's going to make it worse.
Advil helps, I've been taking 400 mg every 6 hours since yesterday afternoon.
As I said, the pain is random. It's not connected to any single activity. The tooth itself doesn't hurt at all; the pain is concentrated in my left sinus, but it only began post-root canal in 2021.
With my upcoming travel, what should I do? What are my options? What is a dentist likely to do about this? I do have a regular dentist here.
I've always been a nervous dental patient. I've had two significant procedures: a root canal in 2021 and my wisdom teeth out in 2023 (which I posted about here).
Anyway, after my root canal, I started having occasional pain. It feels like a sharp, shooting sensation that lasts for a split second and is mostly concentrated in my left sinus (though I do feel like it "originates" in the tooth, if that makes sense). My root canal was done on an upper left molar. This pain would come and go, usually not lasting for more than a few hours. It's sporadic, not constant (every 15-20 minutes). It occured almost exclusively in the wintertime.
In 2024 I moved to a much drier climate and the pain went away. It's maybe happened briefly once or twice in the last couple of years, until yesterday when it started up again. It's been pretty constant (still sporadic, but multiple times an hour). It kept me from sleeping last night and I've just been in tears today. I have a flight on Saturday and I'm terrified that it's going to make it worse.
Advil helps, I've been taking 400 mg every 6 hours since yesterday afternoon.
As I said, the pain is random. It's not connected to any single activity. The tooth itself doesn't hurt at all; the pain is concentrated in my left sinus, but it only began post-root canal in 2021.
With my upcoming travel, what should I do? What are my options? What is a dentist likely to do about this? I do have a regular dentist here.
