Hi dydx,
Stay on a soft food diet until the holes are completely closed.
Irrigate gently with the syringe and then rinse aggressively to be thorough in flushing out food debris.
I cannot comment on the dosage of the flagyl. I suggest you call the pharmacist, tell him how it makes you feel and ask for his opinion. I do think that your diet is playing a key role in how you are feeling. You have not had much nutrition since the extractions and your immune system is becoming weak. Add the stress of all this and the antibiotics to the mix and I can see how you would feel so lousy.
Please make an effort to eat better and more often. Make sure to drink lots of filtered water throughout the day as this will help to flush the toxins out of your system. You will know that you are drinking enough when you have to pee more frequently
and stick with it.
Avoid sugar and all soda, even diet soda as these things are toxic to the immune system. Eat whole fresh foods.... fruits, veggies, eggs, etc.
Keep us posted...
Bryanna
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Originally Posted by dydx1
Hi Bryanna,
I took your advice and got in to see someone today. They told me my oral surgeon would "pop in" but he didn't. I got a different oral surgeon resident. He gave me a more thorough run down than the previous resident did, and told me that I wasn't infected but that I had food stuck in the site that recently started oozing. He felt my gumline and jaw and said that I was recovering. Said my top ones were doing great.
Told me to continue to take the antibiotics still. I''m on 500mg of amox and 500mg flagyl and wondering if I can take flagyl once a day instead of twice or if this will harm me in the long run if I do this. It gives me headaches and makes me not want to do much of anything. Honestly by the time I get in to see someone it's bene hours and I'm in a state of confusion and drowsiness so I forget to ask some of these questions that I wish I had asked.
Other than that I haven't had any pain in the extraction sites last evening, overnight, or yet today. I guess I have to keep irrigating the sites which I'm still not comfortable doing but since food got stuck in one I guess I have to kep doing it. He said that they appeared to be clotting underneath, when he flushed the left one all that came out was pure fresh blood.
But I still have small holes and he said to continue with a soft diet but didn't say for how much longer. How will I know when I'm good?
Thank you for following me on tihs Bryanna. I can't wait to get off these pills and to have those holes on the bottom filled in so I know I won't have to deal with dry socket on top of all of this i nthe coming days for christmas.
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