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Join Date: Jun 2015
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Junior Member
Join Date: Jun 2015
Posts: 8
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Horrible and frightening pain after extraction and bone removal
I am new here. I hope somebody can help.
I have had facial pain for years. Ct scans don't show anything wrong with sinuses. Had an ICAT years ago. Showed a moth like appearance of the bone over #3 tooth which had caused me pain 10 years ago and was suspected to have a small, but not visible on xray, crack. Had a root canal on it. Over all the years it hurt when wiggled and at times caused more significant pain. Especially during a bout of facial pain. My integrative MD has urged me to get it out. Says it isn't helping my health to have a dead tooth causing me pain.
Finally after much fear I did so. I have chronic Lyme disease and my body doesn't tend to respond well to any trauma or inflammation. I saw the biological oral surgeon both my integrative doctor and my biological dentist recommended.
I had seen him for a consult years ago to review the ICAT and he said extracting the tooth was up to me. Didn't recommend it one way or another.
So, 5 days ago he numbed me up. I didn't want general. I process the numbing agent quick so I must of had 12 injections. He pulled the tooth. And three roots. And removed the peridontal ligament. He then said the bone was infected all the way to the sinus. He said he scrapped away the dead bone. He had also taken my blood to use it for something called L-PRF platlet therapy. He inserted that. Then he put in cadaver bone and more of my platlets from the L-PRF. He then injected the area with ozone and a homeopathic remedy that's supposed to help with healing. He then stitched me up. He have me an rx for pain medication and for a ZPak. This was 5 days ago.
I am in severe pain! I went back to see him yesterday. No dry socket. Everything looks fine. Said pain is the healing process. My stitches were not dissolving and they were causing me pain. He removed them. There was a tiny ulcer next to them.
I also bleed every morning when I wake up. Blood that coagulates I guess with nighttime phlem build up. This phlem is dark red. My spit is not as dark blood. Once up the bleeding seems to stop. But every morning I spit blood. He said the bleeding is good. Means no dry socket. HOW could the bleeding be a good sign?
I have pounding pain all in the right side of my face. It feels like the bones are pounding in pain. I am sure they are! The bone at the top of the gum line is so tender it's unreal. If I run my finger along it, it feels like the most intense pain. Like it's bruised and just destroyed. There is also intense tenderness when I press on the bones in the right side of my face. Even away from where the extraction was. I also have a lot of pain inside the socket. I feel like my cheek is swollen like a chipmunk but it doesn't appear so. I don't have a fever.
He says all is fine but the pain is so bad. I don't like pain Meds. I take two Tylenol at bedtime but by 6am I wake with pounding pounding pain in the bones. Hurts so bad I cry.
I don't think this is a normal part of the healing process!
Can you please advise me on what to do? Is this normal given what I had done? What should I do? What do you think! I am worried this surgeon is a quack who doesn't know what he is talking about. He went to UCDavis and UCLA and has been doing this 30 years, but is into alternative stuff and I am worried he is just making things up he is telling me so I don't think he caused me any problems. Thank you very much.
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