[manish kaushal]

Hi Bryanna and all,

I have a root canal if upper premolar(no. 13) 4 weeks ago. 3 weeks ago i had a second sitting and after returning from dentist a pain in left side my head. next day pain was migrated to right side of the head. after two days i was feeling pain in my joints , heavyness in chest, eye twiching and pain in eyes. I visited the dentist and told her the problems but she simply ignored and said it was not due to root canal. I visited one GP who suggested that it can be root canal infection and I was prescribed with Augmentin 625 two times a day. Augmentin help to settle the eye twitching problem but pain in my chest and joints continued. after 3 weeks of root canal i decided to get the tooth extracted , but problems remain same. Now I am suffering from pain in head, ears, chest and joints and i am totally helpless. Please help.


thanks
Manish

[Mellissia2001]

Hello Manish,

I had a root canal on my lower molar #19. The first part was done on September 23 then second part on October 1st. I had the core build up (filling) on October 8th. I have been unable to get the temporary crown, because I am experiencing some of the same problems. I have pain in my jaw joints,ears, and throat. I also have a stiffness in my jaw. I went to an oral surgeon and he said that I had stretched the muscle in my jaw so he put me on a soft food diet and gave me a prescription for naproxen, which is a anti inflammatory and Flexeril, which is a muscle relaxant. I still feel the same so he injected a steroid shot into my jaw joint. I can open my mouth a little wider, but I still have the stiffnes and pain. I'm so sorry that I don't have a solution because I know what you are going through. I have been praying for all of my pain and discomfort to go away.

[manish kaushal]

yesterday i have my thyroid , calcium serum , phosphorus serum and complete blood count test. All reports came Ok. Still i am suffering from joints pain, chest pain, head aches , it looks like my heart is working hard from the day i starting root canal treatment. I am very much depressed these days as pain is not goig.Now i have decided to go for arthiris,heart test and bacterail infection test , will discuss the these with my GP and then update.

[carmellaann]

Hi Manesh,
This happened to me. I had a root canal re-treatment. Three days later, the left side of my face along the trigeminal nerve line...exploded with pain. Most of it is documented here in a thread. I thought my life was over. I lost over thirty pounds in about a month, I had to go live with my parents, because I was crippled and helpless with pain. My dentist and the endodontist--although very sympathetic insisted that it was not from the root canal. In desperation, I landed at my PCP's office. She had known what was going on because I went to her early on for help with the massive anxiety when this all started. I did not address the pain with her at first because the dentist and endo kept assuring me that the tooth would "quiet down". It never did. In the 6th or 7th week, I had the tooth extracted. I demanded this. My dentist wanted to crown it,while I was in all this pain. I refused. The oral surgeon took it out and we were both horrified at the smell. Like a dead body...and the gunk inside the tooth was multi colored... It was completely infected. Pain continued. I landed at my PCP basically having suffered a nervous breakdown. I couldn't stop crying, the pain was constant. She ordered an MRI to rule out osteomyelitis of my jaw. I had had a CTscan of my head/jaw around the 6th week when I fainted from pain and was taken to the ER> Both were clear, thank God. We then concentrated on a two prong approach--dealing with the nerve pain, pain management, and anxiety control. The up shot of all this is--is that there is help. My pain was nerve pain--a burning, firey burning pain along the trigeminal nerve of the left side of my face and back behind my ear. Also constant throbbing...some electrical feeling tingling in my tongue...and roof of my mouth. We finally settled on a cocktail of meds that began to quiet all of this down. It took another two to three weeks. I think during the RC the endo hit a nerve in my face...and also she was up in there with a lot of needles to numb me both during the procedure and then three days later when I went in for the exploding pain. I think there was a lot of trauma to the area and maybe the swelling had pushed upon the nerves in my face... I hope this helps you--there very well could be a nerve pain med out there, if that is the cause of your pain...I know how horrible this is for you...and the debilitating nature of this whole episode. There is hope.

[Kapla]

Hi Manish,

How have you been feeling after the extraction? Has the Dentist been able to help any further?