Therapy Bits

So on Tuesday evening I ate some ice cream. Shortly after I ate it, my mouth really started to hurt. I thought my teeth were just sensitive, but the pain continued, and has been ongoing since Tuesday. Basically, my lower jaw on the left hand side of my face, is throbbing, and the pain is shooting up through my jaw into my mouth. I was not sure if it could be the start of an abscess on my gum, or maybe even an ear infection. Last night I barely slept, the pain was that bad. So this morning I called my GP’S surgery and got a phone consultation. The doctor called me back, and she said it would be hard to diagnose over the phone, she said it might be my ear, then again it could be my teeth. She asked if I’d ever suffered with problems with my teeth, and I told her I haven’t. The only time I had a problem was years ago, when I needed to have a wisdom tooth pulled. Anyway, she said she’d send over a prescription for antibiotics and painkillers and that if after 24 to 48 hours things haven’t settled, that I should either make an appointment to come in to the surgery to be examined, or make a dental appointment to see a dentist. Right now, I don’t even have a dentist, because the one I had stopped taking patients with medical cards. Then, I had no way of picking up the meds, so I asked the pharmacy if they’d be able to deliver them to me. My normal delivery of all of my regular meds was due this morning, and it had already gone out with the driver, so the pharmacist said to call him back at 2 Pm and he’d see what he could do. Then, my PA Frances offered to go get it for me, but I’d have to wait until tomorrow for her to give them to me. Well, it turns out whatever happened, the delivery driver brought my regular meds, and the prescription to me. So then I had to ring Frances back to tell her that it was ok, that I didn’t need her to get the meds. She was fine with that. Then the next problem was figuring out which med was the antibiotic and which were the painkillers. They were both in the same type of containers. I ended up taking a photo and sending it to my mom, to find out which was which. I’ve taken the first antibiotic now. I’m to take the antibiotics 3 times a day. The painkillers are only to be taken twice a day. I already have taken paracetamol this morning, so I won’t take the painkillers that the doctor prescribed until tonight, at bedtime. Right now my mouth is just so painfully sore. I’ve been trying to distract myself so that I’m not thinking about the pain. It is working to some degree but not fully. I am glad though that I got the meds before the weekend. I definitely don’t want this pain to go on and on and so I’m hoping that whatever is going on, that the antibiotics will take it away. I have everything crossed.