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Yesterday I had an appointment with the ENT. She looked up my nose with a camera (let me tell you, lidocaine up the nose is a *weird* sensation) and said my sinus looked fine. Then to confirm a recent infection, she wants to get a head CT. Her office is supposed to take care of everything, and I bet they're still arguing with Blue Cross over the pre-auth.
Today I had my annual, over at Duke OB, and while I was driving, I noticed that when I move my jaw a certain way, it hurt on the left side but not the right. So I poked it with my finger and found a spot above my upper backmost tooth (2nd molar) that hurt and was possibly elevated. It's right at the scar from my wisdom tooth extraction. This tooth is one that my dentist is watching, so that sent up a flag. (I grind my teeth, see. This tooth has a potential crack on the lingual surface, as does the one opposite it.)
I mentioned it to the GYN, and she took a look and confirmed the red bump. So when I was finished there, I called my dentist's office, and they got me in at 11 tomorrow. (They close at noon on Fridays, so I got lucky.)
And fucked if that doesn't explain the pain/pressure around my left eye that feels like a migraine and the occasional soreness under the left side of my jaw. An abscess hitting the trigeminal nerve could sure as shit cause that. (The trigeminal nerve is often implicated in migraine. (Aside: scroll up a couple pages, and I've had auras #1 and 3, and something like #2, as well as the paresthesias. It's kind of nifty when it isn't happening and you can view it with detachment, because the world around you isn't becoming strange and painful.)
I don't want a root canal. But I'd rather have that than get the tooth pulled. I guess this tooth was just jealous that the other two teeth in front of it have crowns and it wanted one of its own.
Today I had my annual, over at Duke OB, and while I was driving, I noticed that when I move my jaw a certain way, it hurt on the left side but not the right. So I poked it with my finger and found a spot above my upper backmost tooth (2nd molar) that hurt and was possibly elevated. It's right at the scar from my wisdom tooth extraction. This tooth is one that my dentist is watching, so that sent up a flag. (I grind my teeth, see. This tooth has a potential crack on the lingual surface, as does the one opposite it.)
I mentioned it to the GYN, and she took a look and confirmed the red bump. So when I was finished there, I called my dentist's office, and they got me in at 11 tomorrow. (They close at noon on Fridays, so I got lucky.)
And fucked if that doesn't explain the pain/pressure around my left eye that feels like a migraine and the occasional soreness under the left side of my jaw. An abscess hitting the trigeminal nerve could sure as shit cause that. (The trigeminal nerve is often implicated in migraine. (Aside: scroll up a couple pages, and I've had auras #1 and 3, and something like #2, as well as the paresthesias. It's kind of nifty when it isn't happening and you can view it with detachment, because the world around you isn't becoming strange and painful.)
I don't want a root canal. But I'd rather have that than get the tooth pulled. I guess this tooth was just jealous that the other two teeth in front of it have crowns and it wanted one of its own.
