My First Root Canal

There was nothing visibly wrong with it, there was no swelling or redness on the gum or cheek, and the tooth looked fine. But there was pain in the gum area, and on my tooth.

So I had a trip to the dentist for my tooth and gum pain. I had an abscess that was in my jaw bone, that was infecting my premolar, and spreading to the molar next to it. My tooth only had a tiny fracture, but the abscess looked very big. It has probably been there for a while, but there was no pain, not until a week ago.

I wondered if the ascess would have surfaced to the gum area, like what your body does to pimples? Bleh... maybe I should have waited with pain for a month or two before deciding to do a root canal to see if the abcsess would have surfaced, but I was afraid that the infection might spread, and it was the contant throbbing pain that was driving me crazy.

I tried oil pulling with coconut oil. I did the salt water rinse. I put raw garlic in my cheek to fight it, but I didn't know if it was doing any good, since it was still hurting.

So I decided to see the dentist, and she suggested the root canal. They used two needles to numb my mouth. It stung and hurt a little, but hot sauce hurts a lot more than that. I've never been scared of needles, so that wasn't hard for me. We waited a few minutes for it to numb.

Then the dentist and her assistant started working, and I didn't feel a thing. It was great not to feel any pain, but my mouth did feel swollen because of the numbing, but it wasn't visibly swollen at all. My premolar was filled with some white stuff. After it was done, they gave me antibiotics, one pill three times a day for seven days, then I will have another appointment with them the following week.

The day after, I'm still feel feeling throbbing pain, but I hope it goes away in a week.

I've heard that root canals in the long term might be bad, since the dead tooth is porous like a sponge, and any bacteria stuck in there will turn toxic and bypass the immune system, reeking havoc on the rest of your body.

So what I plan to do is when I'm off antibiotics, like the day after, is to use raw garlic to disinfect the tooth. The porous strucure of the tooth might allow the garlic juice into it and it might fight off the bad bacteria still housed in the tooth. I could leave the garlic pressed between my teeth for 15 minutes, then swallow it for more anti-bacterial benefits. I could do the garlic treatment twice a day over the course of three days, or once a day over the course of six days. Then use a salt water rinse five times a day for four days afterwards. It's quite a plan...

And if it doesn't work, so what. If it doesn't work and I get sick in the future, I'll just pull out my teeth and get dentures.

Tooth Pain and Rambling :(

I have a toothache. I flossed my teeth, and my gums were bleeding, and I guess bacteria got in there, and it's been hurting for the past week. I swished my mouth with coconut oil about once a day for 15 min, and  then later on a saltwater rince too. I hope it's helping.

I am also feeling sick because I caught it on the bus. I knew I should have washed my hands. I normally go straight to the sink, but I was lazy, and regretting eating those chips and licking my fingers. I am ashamed. 

I am also tired, because someone woke me up, and I haven't had adequate sleep in the past week, due to having a painful toothache that keeps me up all night. I am drowsy, and I was slightly irritated at the person who woke me up, until they woke up, and seemed even more tired than I was. So I emphasized with them on the sleepy part.

I'm really chatty when I lack sleep. I'm really quiet otherwise.

I tried reading the free fantasy books from Google Play Books. They were terrible. 

One book was influenced by Twilight, never read it. It's a girl and two vampire guys. The girl only liked shopping and hating her family. She was in love with one vampire for a while, then the other one shows up and she confesses her love to him. I wanted to stab my eyes out when she kept listing all her friends over and over again in the same paragraph. Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen, but yesterday with Comet and Cupid and Donner, and Blitzen, but only to the movies with Prancer, Cupid, and Donner, and shopping with Vixen and Blitzen, and Dancer didn't go. And the scariest thing in the book was "peer pressure" that was only a page long, in which she didn't take the cigarette that Dasher and Prancer offered to her, because it'll automatically lead to drugs. 

The other book was terrible as well. It seems influenced by 50 Shades of Grey, never read it. There is a creepy guy killing promiscuous girls, and a female detective that's trying to catch the criminal. No one at work takes her seriously, because she's a young female, and they're old males. It's boring because you already know that the creepy old guy is going to get caught by the female detective, and she somehow prooves herself as a capable female detective. She always comes to the right conclusions without really much logic, other than that the author gives her everything and spells them out. There is no mystery. No matter what the creepy old guy is called, it's still just a creepy old guy. No mystery.

I am worried that if I read any more of their garbage I'll go insane from knowing that there are people who actually spend time writing that badly, and try to sell them online thinking they're great. There are series of these badly written books... SERIES... but maybe... just maybe one will be good.

I hear a lot of screaming kids outside somewhere in the distance, and it's horrifying.

My tooth hurts so much that I just want to yank it out with my bare hands, but that might make things worse. It doesn't stop me from having the compulsion to do so though. It feels something between an itch, ache, and a pain. It's lousy and persistent, and I always feel it.  

Maybe I should visit the dentist, but I'm just not up to it. I'm so sick and tired. That wasn't the start of a rant. I think I have a low fever. The more I think about it, the worst I feel. So I'm just going to chill out and play some games, yo.