Thanks so much for your help, Bryanna.

I saw my dentist today and they took another set of X-rays to be certain there was nothing under the surface that may be causing the pain. He has consulted with 5 other dentists with regards to my case and they all agree that there is no infection or anything he may have missed. He took some photos of the area with his camera and to get a good shot he had to dry the area with gauze. He didn't warn me he was doing this, and I jumped so high off the chair that I caught air. It is sore. It is not my imagination. But there doesn't seem to be a cause for the pain. So, as long as they feel like it's healing fine, then I am just going to have to keep taking the painkillers as directed. And trying every couple of days to come off them.

Hopefully my story will help someone else. It's not always going to be some dramatic condition... sometimes it's just dramatically painful.