Had tooth 31 extracted one week ago by an oral surgeon with local novacane. Extraction went smoothly (even though I needed additional novacane). About two days later I started with a sore throat when swallowing, swollen glands, and shooting pains in my ear, all on the side of the extraction. I called OS and he said it was unrelated to the extraction and recommended I follow up with my primary care physician. I did and he prescribed 500mg of Levofloxacin 10 day. I am on day 6 and not seeing much progress. I still have pain in the my glands, occasional shooting pains in the ear and my tooth still aches (as does the one above - not directly as that tooth was removed 30 years ago). The only thing that seems to help is Advil and lets me get through my work day. I am still flushing out the hole and doing warm salt water rinses twice daily. Is this normal? I love to exercise and be active and I've been sidelined since last Monday....starting to get depressed over constantly being in pain. Help any advice would be sorely welcome...no pun intended