Fever after abscessed tooth extraction
 

Hi I'm new here and have been looking for information about what could cause a low grade fever 3 weeks after an abcsessed tooth extraction.
I had a tooth that had a filling and had been aching for some time after the filling with some kind of nerve pain when I sucked it. It felt like there was a hole and not properly filled. At the time my mum was unwell and went to hospital so I was waiting for her to have her op to get it checked and in the meantime it swelled and went on 6 packs of augmentin forte for the infection so dentist could not work in it until infection went ..But the infection didn't go and in the meantime my mum suddenly passed away so had to put it off and u ended up getting really unwell ..I finally went to the dentist who did a root canal but the fevers and chills didn't go so I went and asked for it to be pulled out..this all in 5 days..The hole from the extraction didn't clot but was filled with gel and stitched and although I was really sick for about 10 days I did not get dry socket ..The problem is that it has now been over 3 weeks and I still have low grade fever that comes and goes and dentist that pulled it said there was no infection and my doctor said I cannot take no lore antibiotics as I have taken so many..I just dont get why I would.still be getting low grade fever and has anyone else had this?
I am starting to worry and got blood tests done but my dr said all seemed ok with blood tests except for low b12.
Any advice or info would be very appreciated.
Thank you

Hi, Are you still there? How did you go, did you get it resolved? I had the same problem ...

Hi Femlex
I am feeling better but never really got an answe to why it happened. I still occasionally now get low grade fevers..
But not as often .
I'm sorry to hear you have this.
I had started on vitamin d, b12 and vitamin c ..not sure if it helped and it had been 5-6 months before I felt somewhat better.
Hope you feel better soon.

Thank you for your reply, glad to hear there has been at least some level of improvement. I had similar issues after a simple extraction for years and still feel that area where the apex was as totally numb and pressure. Big problems with bouts of "feeling of infection in the jaws" for about 10 months and then it became a little less frequent. Those weird feelings have now gotten fairly rare, there is just the constant feel of numbness where the apex was and also pressure. That pressure sometimes feels like it "pumps up" a little (internally it feels like it slightly "swells up" but no physical evidence, nothing is visible). Do you have any similar feeling? I've seen a large number of specialists and in different specialties and they have zero answer, to summarise it. Now I have identical issue with other teeth and am very reluctant to have it pulled for that same reason. Do you have any similar issues?