Hello,

I am still in the early stages where I am terrified about this condition. I had a root canal and never felt 'normal' on the lower left side. I had a dental implant and a large filling in the same area too. Then I had two crowns replaced and all heck broke loose. The worst pain in my life. I felt burning, squeezing, aching pain. My gums felt on fire even. All my teeth ached. The root canal feels like a volcano at times ands is still tap sensitive.

Anyway, I am struggling so much with all this. I feel like one day everything just changed. I have small children and feel awful that they watch me cry. To make matters worse I have suffered anxiety my whole life and I am off the deep end. I cannot imagine feeling normal.

My tongue now burns on the side of my neurapathy. Does anyone else have this. Just started having jabbing ear pains too on that side. Everyday I am afraid of what I will experience. Sometimes it is my teeth, especially the Root Canal that started everything. I am tempted to pull it, tempted to hope and pray it is cracked and that is it but I am too scared since this pain has been like nothing I have experienced. I tried neurotin but then my tongue symptoms started so I got scared and stopped. I am now on clonazapam and am wondering about some of the tricylics since I am beyond depressed as well. I have delt with anxiety mostly without benzos my whole life so it worries me to take this me everyday but I could not get out of bed without it right now.

Anyway, it is nice to know that other people have gone through this and find a way to deal. Do you ever get to a point where you aren't scared of what the day will bring? My problem is definately atypical since I don't have electric stabs usually but more continual burn and ache. I just cannot grasp that this is what has happened to me. Does anyone take a mix of anxiety or depressioin medication too. I still think I need to find the right med mix. I usually don't like taking any meds but am so beaten down I will take what will work at this point. Do any meds seem to work better for atypical brought on by dental work?

Oddly enough, I read that someone else had thier sense of smell effected and this happened to me too. When a dentist drilled down the crown of the awful RC tooth to make it out of occlusion more I had horrible pain. I actually even felt burning in my chest and the air smelled like burnt chemicals even when I was outside in fresh air. I was completely confused. I just with I knew what the best coarse of action is. I cannot get myself to believe that this pain is not dental related since it all started with dental work. I feel trapped because I would like to get anything done that would relieve pain but cannot go back to where I was, screaming in a ball on the floor with pain, when I had dental work done last time. I feel trapped, scared, depressed, and like no one understands. Right now my tongue burns and it is bothering me so.

Thanks for listening,
Becca