I'm doing this from my phone so it won't be as long as some of my other posts. I realized that I sort of left off what happened to hubby so here goes. He did get his tooth pulled a week before he was originally scheduled. Though it took three full rounds of Novocaine and one final shot right into his tooth it did come out relatively easy. After it came out he was instructed to continue his antibiotics and to take pain meds as needed. We left the dentist office with a new pain med prescription for hydrocodone. I'm very happy to state that he has yet to need it.
Onto the phone. Me and the hubby have been sharing a simple cellphone for the last year I believe. This past Thursday that was remedied. I got myself a new smart phone. It runs like a dream. :)
I'm sorry I haven't posted in a while but the tingling in my fingers that I mentioned last month has all but left my right hand and has gone to my right side. My pinkie and ring finger on my left hand feel as though they're in perpetual "sleep mode" and it is going up my left outside arm and somewhat on the left side of my back. I'm beginning to think it's a pinched nerve or something but whatever it is it's making it hard to type for long periods of time on my laptop. I hope to fix that by getting another keyboard to go with the laptop. I used hubby's the other day and found out that the raised keys make it easier on my pinkie (which keeps wanting to turn the caps lock on and thinks all of my A's should be S's). Hopefully it will be taken care of soon. It's taking a long time to "swipe" this out.
)o( Jena
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Monday, October 14, 2013
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
Bigger men need bigger pain relievers...
Today was very hectic and it's not even done yet. Woke up at 7 this morning to have breakfast before hubby's appointment. He brushed his teeth and we left around 7:45. Get to the dentist at 8 and fill out the dreaded paperwork. The waiting room was already half full so we were all worried that we would have to be there for a while before he was even seen. We pushed past that and filled everything out. I love this dentist. They work with your income to determine how much you will pay for your procedures/consults/x-rays/etc. The most they can discount someone is 60%. We qualified for it. After paying for the exam we waited for him to be called back.
When he was, I asked if it was alright if I went back with him, because I knew he would probably psych himself out of the visit just by waiting to be seen. I got the go ahead and we waited. When the doctor came in she examined the tooth and we found out that it is in fact not his wisdom tooth. It is the far back molar on his left side but it's...molar #18 I believe is what she said. She gave us two options: 1) a root canal and a filling to save the tooth or 2) a full extraction. Either way he was going to have to be on antibiotics beforehand because he had an infection (which is where the pain was stemming from). We chose option 2 as it's cheaper and we won't have to be back down this road again in the near future.
She sent 2 prescriptions for him down to the pharmacy on the 1st floor of the building and while they were filled we waited to sign a few forms before we were checked out. We set an extraction appointment for next Thursday at 9am and then went downstairs to pick up his meds. They gave him a script for Cephalexin 500mg for the infection and Ibuprofen 800mg for the pain. We left and stopped somewhere to get him something to eat (as the pain was starting to come forward again and he wanted to take his meds). He took them both and 3 alarms were set on our phone so that he could remember to take them every 8 hours.
We stopped at a friends house who just recently moved to see her new place. After getting back home he was shaking again. The pain meds weren't working. I knew there was going to be something wrong with them. My husband is 6'2" and 370lb. I highly doubted that 1 800mg Ibuprofen every 8 hours was going to help him at all. I was right. In his own words "I might have just not taken the damn pain pill that's how much it hurts right now." He laid down hoping to get some reprieve and it just wasn't working. I laid down with him and I felt the tears well up every time he would clench. I was at a loss. I didn't know what to do. I felt like a failure as a wife.
I finally called the Dentist's office to see if there was a stronger pain med they could give him. We were willing to pay full price for the prescription just give him something to stop the pain. He could feel his heartbeat in his tooth. He couldn't walk right for fear of jarring it. If he talked too much it strained. I was losing my husband. The nurse in the office kept telling me that he needs to give the antibiotics a day before they'll fully kick in and only then will the pain meds work to their full potential. Well, that's all well and good but what do I do right now? What do I do to stop my husband from crying and clenching and sobbing and shaking? What am I supposed to do!?
I got off the phone feeling angry and worried. Would his sanity last 10 days? Hell, would his sanity last until tomorrow when the antibiotics finally work? Again, I felt as if I were a failure. I held him and cried with him stating that I was lost and confused. I wanted to help him but there was nothing that could be done that wasn't already being done. After a while we both sat up and he decided to try some Orajel again and using a warm compress (something my cousin suggested to us) to hopefully take enough of the edge off to get some rest finally. That's when he felt it. The tooth moved. When it did he felt another sharp stab of pain. We both then figured what was wrong.
His tooth started hurting a week ago. Best we can figure is the infection had set in before that and had finally gotten to a place that would cause him some pain and discomfort. This would have been fine on its own but then it started to swell. When he started taking the OTC Ibuprofen, the anti-inflammatory in it went to work. But it did it's job too well and too fast. His tooth was now loose. Now every time his tooth would move it was rubbing against infected tissue causing the pain to reach almost unbearable heights. He immediately called the dentist to tell them what was happening.
When she heard, she moved his appointment up from next Thursday to this Thursday at 10am. He would of course need to continue taking the antibiotics after having the tooth removed to clear the infection but just removing the tooth should take away enough of his pain so that he could function through out the day. He thanked her and told me what was said. As it was 6 hours after his initial pills, he took 2 of his pain pills (hoping a double dosage would help a bit more) and went ahead and took an anti-biotic as well.
He is now sleeping peacefully and though I don't know if he's in any pain right now I do know that we are both equally relieved. Now I just have to get him through the rest of the night and through tomorrow and the offending tooth will be gone.
)o( Jena
When he was, I asked if it was alright if I went back with him, because I knew he would probably psych himself out of the visit just by waiting to be seen. I got the go ahead and we waited. When the doctor came in she examined the tooth and we found out that it is in fact not his wisdom tooth. It is the far back molar on his left side but it's...molar #18 I believe is what she said. She gave us two options: 1) a root canal and a filling to save the tooth or 2) a full extraction. Either way he was going to have to be on antibiotics beforehand because he had an infection (which is where the pain was stemming from). We chose option 2 as it's cheaper and we won't have to be back down this road again in the near future.
She sent 2 prescriptions for him down to the pharmacy on the 1st floor of the building and while they were filled we waited to sign a few forms before we were checked out. We set an extraction appointment for next Thursday at 9am and then went downstairs to pick up his meds. They gave him a script for Cephalexin 500mg for the infection and Ibuprofen 800mg for the pain. We left and stopped somewhere to get him something to eat (as the pain was starting to come forward again and he wanted to take his meds). He took them both and 3 alarms were set on our phone so that he could remember to take them every 8 hours.
We stopped at a friends house who just recently moved to see her new place. After getting back home he was shaking again. The pain meds weren't working. I knew there was going to be something wrong with them. My husband is 6'2" and 370lb. I highly doubted that 1 800mg Ibuprofen every 8 hours was going to help him at all. I was right. In his own words "I might have just not taken the damn pain pill that's how much it hurts right now." He laid down hoping to get some reprieve and it just wasn't working. I laid down with him and I felt the tears well up every time he would clench. I was at a loss. I didn't know what to do. I felt like a failure as a wife.
I finally called the Dentist's office to see if there was a stronger pain med they could give him. We were willing to pay full price for the prescription just give him something to stop the pain. He could feel his heartbeat in his tooth. He couldn't walk right for fear of jarring it. If he talked too much it strained. I was losing my husband. The nurse in the office kept telling me that he needs to give the antibiotics a day before they'll fully kick in and only then will the pain meds work to their full potential. Well, that's all well and good but what do I do right now? What do I do to stop my husband from crying and clenching and sobbing and shaking? What am I supposed to do!?
I got off the phone feeling angry and worried. Would his sanity last 10 days? Hell, would his sanity last until tomorrow when the antibiotics finally work? Again, I felt as if I were a failure. I held him and cried with him stating that I was lost and confused. I wanted to help him but there was nothing that could be done that wasn't already being done. After a while we both sat up and he decided to try some Orajel again and using a warm compress (something my cousin suggested to us) to hopefully take enough of the edge off to get some rest finally. That's when he felt it. The tooth moved. When it did he felt another sharp stab of pain. We both then figured what was wrong.
His tooth started hurting a week ago. Best we can figure is the infection had set in before that and had finally gotten to a place that would cause him some pain and discomfort. This would have been fine on its own but then it started to swell. When he started taking the OTC Ibuprofen, the anti-inflammatory in it went to work. But it did it's job too well and too fast. His tooth was now loose. Now every time his tooth would move it was rubbing against infected tissue causing the pain to reach almost unbearable heights. He immediately called the dentist to tell them what was happening.
When she heard, she moved his appointment up from next Thursday to this Thursday at 10am. He would of course need to continue taking the antibiotics after having the tooth removed to clear the infection but just removing the tooth should take away enough of his pain so that he could function through out the day. He thanked her and told me what was said. As it was 6 hours after his initial pills, he took 2 of his pain pills (hoping a double dosage would help a bit more) and went ahead and took an anti-biotic as well.
He is now sleeping peacefully and though I don't know if he's in any pain right now I do know that we are both equally relieved. Now I just have to get him through the rest of the night and through tomorrow and the offending tooth will be gone.
)o( Jena
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