Dear Bryanna, I was going through the other posts and I am convinced that you will be able to help me out. The story started in may this year when I went to my dentist to have my teeth scaled/cleaned. At the time I had this issue of food getting stuck in my no 3 tooth (I think that's the number -the first molar on the upper left) . I was under the impression that it was a cavity of some sort and could be cleaned and filled.
There was absolutely no pain in the tooth either while chewing or while tapping. Just the food getting stuck. The dentist had a look, drilled into the tooth and said that it was a borderline case, and there was some decay, so a root canal had to be done. I asked them about just filling in the cavity but he said that if they do that there will be some pressure buildup in the tooth which will eventually cause a lot more pain(there was none in the first place) and that the RCT was the only way out. So I decided to get the RCT done.

Spread out of a couple of days he cleaned all four of the canals (during the cleaning one of the canals was bleeding , but he decided to carry on with the filling of the canal anyway as he said it was a small cut..I don't know if this is important but I thought I'd mention it anyway). Once the RCF was complete a temporary cap was placed on the tooth. Now there was a constant pain in that tooth when ever I tapped it or while trying to bite on anything hard. Generally the pain would not be there constantly, but only when tapped. They put me on a course of antibiotics.. Nothing worked.
They kept waiting to see if it settles. Finally when the permanent crown came in they fixed it with temporary cement. He said I had to get used to the permanent crown , so I might as well fix that instead of the temporary. The pain persisted , so they decided to retreat. He first retreated the mb1 and mb2 canals. They put in some medicine twice and each time we waited for a week . nothing happened. Filled it up with an enormous amount of filler(I couldn't count how many of those Gutta sticks were pushed inside and split)..

He said sometimes by filling up the canal the pain subsides..Waited for some time , but nothing happened. Well then they called in an endodontist who saw the whole bunch of X-rays taken (10-12) and said everything looked fine. But he decided to retreat the distal and parietal canals. To do this he had to remove the permament porcelain crown which was fixed with "temporary cement" . Well this permanent crown had come of easily on past occasions,in fact it kept popping off and I had to go back and get it fixed. But this time it refused to budge.. The tried all sorts of ways..banging it really hard( if my tooth hadn't cracked until then I'm sure it must have) .

The crown didn't come off. So the decided to drill through the crown and retreat the two remaining canals.. That was 20 days back.. As of today the pain is still there when I tap and when I push on the tooth from the side near the cheek. It is also there when I initially bite on something hard. Normally there is no pain. Just in the above two instances..the pain is not unbearable , just there and frustrating and annoying. Now he says they have tried everything possible and day after he is going to cut out the permanent crown and leave the tooth off the bit and fill it with permanent cement.
He is also starting another course of antibiotics..augmentin or copox(not sure..he said he would let me know). Anyways he say if the pain dosent stop they will have to extract the tooth..

Now this is my concern..firstly the pain was not there before the RCT. then the pain is only there when I Tap of push on the tooth(none while releasing the pressure). Third, the pain in minor,mostly an irritant, but its there nevertheless.
Would really appreciate any advice.. Have begun to think it might me that the jaw bone itself got infected during the procedure
Thank you