My extreme agony

i just want to reassure you all that although there seems no end to the agonizing pain you are suffering there is light at the end of the tunnel. I suffered with a god awful tooth abcess about 3 weeks ago. The only thing that got me through the 9 never ending nights was reading these pages. I too took potential life threatening overdoses of painkillers, swashed numerous litres of warm salty water round my gob and occassionaly reached for the pliers. I managed to get into a dentist who confirmed I had an abcess doh! she put me on 2 courses of antibiotics and advised me to take the correct dosage of ibuprofen yeah right she also drilled into my offending tooth and cleaned it out and then put a temp filling in, the 3 hour relief of novocaine was bliss, i got home as quickly as i could and managed a couple of hours sleep untill the evil nasty throbbing pain came back. I was informed that I need a root canal and to go back in 5 days once the antibiotics worked. Of course they started to ease the pain 4 days and 23 hours later so in the meantime I had a miserable time to endure but I will spare you all that suffering. The pain thankfully had gone by the time i went back to the dentist and you know what its like once the pain has gone you feel it unecessary to go back to the dentist, but after all the agony I had endured I practically ran there. Once I was sat in the chair i had an xray and the dentist kindly informed me that a root canal would probably not work so i should consider an extratction jesus!! bottom left molar a big sucker i weighed up the options and decided i could not ever go through that pain again and opted for the extraction, 3 injections later i cannot feel my tongue and she starts tugging and pulling it felt like my cheek and my mouth was going tio split, 20 mins later the biggest tooth I have ever seen cracked out of my jaw along with a dribbling of blood and spit. I must admit i felt no pain it was slightly uncomfortable but no more than that i did however feel relief that I would not be enduring any more abcesses thanks to that tooth. So my thoughts are with you all I tried praying some nights it didnt work but sometimes desperation gets the better of you. I now brush my teeth 3 times a day along with flossing and regular mouthwashes. The salty water does work for a bit but 3 ibuprofen and 2 paracetomol gave me some relief...