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I've done a great deal of searching on the web about my issues, and I've come up fairly dry, so I'm hoping you guys and gals will be able to help me out a bit.

Some background about me:

32 years old, type 2 diabetic with fairly severe sleep apnea (being treated with CPAP). My wisdom teeth were extracted in 2001. I potentially have TMJ, but it's not been confirmed. I've had one real humdinger of a sinus infection in Nov/Dec, which was treated with Avelox (antibiotic), Prednisone (steroid), and Diflucan (antifungal), though the sinus infection may have returned recently (though not as bad as originally).

It all started in late October, while eating dinner, I noticed that molar #3 (upper right) had lost the filling that I'd had done almost 20 years earlier. The next day, I went to my dentist (whom I hadn't seen in 2 years, I know, I know...) and he said, after x-rays and an examination, that there was definitely some deep decay, and that the tooth *might* need a root canal. He also found several other cavities including a rather large one on the back of molar #2 (right behind the molar with the lost filling).

He filled #3, crowned #2, and also put fillings on the bottom two molars (#31 and #30), same side, because there were interstitial cavities.

I need to state at this point that before I went in to see the dentist, I had no pain in any of my teeth at all. Zip, zero, nada.


Since then, I've experienced pain between molars #2 & #3, and the same pain frequently (but not always) between molars #31 & #30. I've been told that it's likely referred pain for the bottom molars, but I'm questioning that now. Also, I experienced some cold sensitivity on the two uppers, but no pain or pressure sensitivity on the bottom two.

Three weeks ago, I had a root canal on #3, and a few days later I got the temp crown put in. I was still having the same pain between #2 and #3, and still frequently (but not always) having pain between the bottom two molars. The pain always feels like it's between both sets of molars, and not directly in one of them.

On Monday of this week (two days ago), I had #2 root canaled. Thankfully, the crown wasn't cracked, and so she did the permanent filling at the end of the procedure. While neither of the root canaled teeth are cold sensitive anymore, I'm still having the same strange pain between the top two (now canaled) molars, and occasionally between the bottom two.

I realize that it's only been a few days since the second root canal, and that some pain is to be expected, but the fact that the pain is essentially the same as it's been for over a month (minus the cold sensitivity, which is now completely gone), is really starting to worry me. If the root canals were supposed to fix the issues I was having, I would expect the pain to be gone, or different at least - not the same odd pain between the teeth & headache.

I also need to point out that none of the x-rays done - of which I've had at least ten including two of those "full facial" ones with the x-ray machine that circles your head - have shown any signs of infection or abscess, and when the endo did the procedures she said that there was no sign of infection at all - just deep decay between the filling & the pulp in #3, and that the crown on #2 was aggravating the pulp.

So, that said, I'm sorry for the long story I've posted so far, but I wanted to be complete so as to get good answers. Here's my questions:

1. Is this kind of pain - seemingly between two teeth and causing a headache - considered "normal" or within the range of what one might feel after two adjacent root canals? If so, how long should I deal with it until I should get worried and talk to someone?

2. Could all of this pain I'm getting be from the sinus infection(s)? Could sinus infection pain cause referred pain from #2 & #3 to #31 & #30?

3. What else could be going on? Should I go to my doctor and ask about a CT scan, since the x-rays may not be telling the whole story?

Thanks in advance for any help or answers you can offer. I really appreciate it.