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eadwine Toothy update - Subscribe
After a week of pain and ibuprofen popping I was able to see the dentist this afternoon at 16:00. I left early and got there early which was good, since I was called in equally early.

She heard my story, and what I told her confirmed the idea that it was the nerve that was bugging me. Of course only logical, she had drilled quite extensively in that molar, and it was indeed that one that caused it all. It does not pound or anything, it is just a constant pain when I don't take the ibuprofen.

To check things out she scratched some here and there to check on the fillings and they were all judged ok. Then she started with the blow thingy, and that was when I was clawed to the ceiling. YOUWCH!!

The roots are the trigger most likely, they are slightly exposed which in turn aggravates the nerve. That also explains why I wasn't bothered by the nerve until about a week after, when I got something hot or cold (can't remember anymore) against it. She has applied a layer over the roots to cover them, to take away at least that trigger, which is one irritation less than before and indeed.. when she used the blowthing again I barely even felt her do that anymore and I remained nicely in my seat.

We have made the following plans:

1) when it gets worse: come back, nerve is a goner
2) when it stays the same the coming week, we'll wait another week and if it doesn't get less by week 2 then I have to come back in
3) when it gets less: YAY!

So.. I need to continue taking the ibuprofen as needed (bought me the 200mg now to see how they work), and simply wait calmly on what lies ahead.
Mood: better

eadwine Pain, or no pain, that's the question Friday, October 5th 2007 @ 15:56 - Subscribe
That is what my life this past week has revolved around: pain.

At times it has been so bad that I could just scream to take that nerve out, and at other times it seems to improve; then I am willing to give it a little more time.

I have had worse in my life, much worse. I have no idea yet what will happen inside my mouth, but fact is that the pain wakes me up at night. Twice last night which was.. extremely irritating. I have found that the quickest way for the painkiller to start working is NOT to lie still, but to get the bloodflow going.

Picture me going up and down the stairs at three in the morning to get that pill to work so I can get back in bed.

Nights are worst, not a doubt.

I am going to have it checked out again, tell the dentist there are good days, and there are bad days, and if nothing icky is going on inside my jaw I am willing to give it a little more time. Wait and see what she will say to that.

So.. my life is very boringly revolving around pain. The time that it goes away, and the time that it comes back, and the rare times where I forget for a while that I have teeth trouble.
Mood: pained

eadwine I have decided Sunday, October 7th 2007 @ 19:35 - Subscribe
I am going to make an appointment with the dentist come Monday. I am having situation 2 at hand here: doesn't really get worse, but doesn't wish to get better either. And frankly, it is affecting my work now and my bodily rest.

Every night I wake up at least once from the pain, and then I lose an hour worth of sleep from waiting till the pain killer kicks in, and if I am very lucky, this happens twice a night.

Something's gotta give here. We'll see what she is going to say about this now. Hell I see my dentist more often than I see my own brother, now that is bad.

Today we celebrated dad's birthday. The gramps came over as well using a taxi service. Very nice to see them again. My granddad is not doing well though.. he has blood in his faeces and he is refusing to go to a doctor with it.

Part of me gets angry at that, and another part respects it. He is 91 years old now, he doesn't want to end his life (which at this point still has good value) in a hospital surrounded by tubes. I think knowing how his sister died, in the hospital against her wishes, is why he is refusing now.

Something is wrong on the inside, but what can we do? If he doesn't want to go he doesn't want to go. My scales tip over to the respect side; I much rather he enjoys the remainder of his life in his own surroundings doing what he likes to do than spending it going from here to there to there and back again.

Two more days of work, and then my short holiday starts. A five day weekend, and I plan to use every single one of them to sleep in! I have some sleep to catch up on.
Mood: tired

eadwine Achoom! Thursday, October 11th 2007 @ 17:51 - Subscribe
Sound nice, hmm? I have been sick since this past Tuesday. I came in to work in the morning at Ms. Difficult, and right after making the bed with her I called the office and called in sick. That is what you get for two weeks of walking in pain and waking up every night: the sniffles.

Movie date yesterday was fun though. A longhair forum friend and I went to see 1408 and afterwards we went to McDonalds for a quick dinner. I felt better than on Tuesday thank goodness for that so I was able to go. It was mighty tiring but I held up just fine.

Today was not so hot. I have just now started to feel better again, I guess that was payment for yesterday's excursion. Tomorrow I am going to the dentist again, to see what she can do for me. Something has to be done, I cannot walk around in pain for the rest of my life, now can I. At least I can breathe through my nose, hopefully tomorrow I will still be able to or I would have to wait out the cold too, argh.

Work sent me an email stating I had to work on Monday afternoon. FOLKS! I have Mondays off for a REASON! So I plainly told team leader that the Monday afternoons I have off for dentist trips and such, and I can likely not work that day, sorry. You figure it out, this is not my responsibility now. I also told her that I might have to take a day off right of the bat when dentist decides to see me on another day than Monday afternoon. I am not going to walk around with this for longer than I possibly need to. Right now this is affecting my health, and in turn my work. If I don't fix this my work will.. WILL suffer.

I told her that I have been taking the ibus for two weeks straight now, and that cannot be healthy either I think. Right now -I- come first, sorry. Tomorrow morning I will let them know what the plan is.

Oh yeah, and I went to get new earpieces. In short: I have them now, and I will go to the old familiar place again to have that done, as apparently ear pieces are harder to make than I thought.

I also have to go to the doctor still for the wide leg appointment, but all is right now on hold: dentist first!
Mood: ill

eadwine Root canal Friday, October 12th 2007 @ 18:01 - Subscribe
That is what I got this morning. Despite my sniffles we decided to move forward with the treatment and get the nerve out.

Good thing we did too, the thing (when I asked for it) was not on the table. The state of it was so bad that it was already disintegrating. Oh.. we got the right one then, yeah seems like it.

The only pain I have right now is my jaw where I am almost certain I pulled a muscle at the end since it suddenly started to hurt there while the treatment was already over and I was sitting there with my mouth open waiting for a picture to be taken. Ain't no ibuprofen helping against THAT pain now, which strikes me as odd, but at least it is a pain that is very much bearable.

The treatment barely hurt. I wonder what is the big deal that many are making out of it. When I told my dad what she had done he had this look on his face of "That must have hurt, bad!" Not really. It hurt only a little bit, but nothing compared to what I have been feeling these past two weeks.

Hopefully tomorrow that pulled muscle feeling will be much less intense, and in the mean time I am carefully stretching it to avoid it keeping my mouth closed all the time. I know it is the muscle because when I open my mouth to stretch a bit and then close it again the pain is gone for a few seconds.

I have emailed the team leader that I can work on the Monday afternoon and also asked if she could move my Friday morning to Thursday afternoon. That would be a VERY welcome change since that would mean a long weekend and not having to travel by train to get to work. The car is at the garage on Friday to get serviced.

I also made it QUITE clear in the email to not pull such a thing on me again and to ASK me first. On the 22nd I have to get back, and that is a Monday afternoon again. I keep those afternoons free for a reason.

All I can hope for now is that the pain will soon go away! She told me that I should notice VAST improvement by Sunday, and that when it still hurts on, say, Wednesday, I should call in because that is not good. Wait and see again.
Mood: ok

eadwine Ten days further Monday, October 22nd 2007 @ 17:22 - Subscribe
And I have had the cleaning up and refilling of the root-canaled molar. Basically that involved sitting open with my mouth for half an hour straight while the dentist worked herself silly on three canals that needed drilling out, cleaning and refilling.

This past time I have had to take less and less ibuprofens until yesterday and today I was actually clear from them for the first time in ages. You have no idea what a blessing it is to be without pain in your mouth until you have gotten it. Trust me I would trade that any day with the pain I have had from severely spraining my ankle that took two weeks to recover.

Right now all I can do is wait and see. I did take an ibuprofen around 16:00 after I got at my dad's to get rid of the muscle ache and sensitivity of the molar. Currently it's past 19:00 and I am not bothered. Just a bit of a pulling feeling, but nothing worse than I have had before. Hopefully it will continue to go this well and then I don't have to get back until December 10th.

*fingers crossed*
Mood: tired

eadwine I am pain free Sunday, October 28th 2007 @ 12:25 - Subscribe
If you don't count a mild headache that started as a mild migraine this morning that is. Everything is going peachy perfect and I don't have to go back to the dentist until the 10th of December.

The work week went by without a hitch, but I was very tired none the less. This weekend I didn't get much rest either since it was meeting time again. Haarlem was fun, I met a few new people AND I got a Ficcare to work, which for me is a special thing.



This is a large maximas, but I definitely need to try a medium first, since this is too big for me. I did also try a ficcarissimo large, and that one worked like a charm compared to the maximas. However I like the shape of the maximas so much more.. *groan* I have to wait four weeks in order to try that out. I will not take this color in any case, but a blueish one, it compliments my hair color that much more.

The day went by in a flash really, but I don't have to wait for long for the next meet; in two weeks I am going on a mini meet to a Zoo in Arnhem and meet yet two other new people. Quite fun, this.

I didn't get much sleep this morning as I woke up with a migraine and started thinking too much about things said and heard. I decided to get out of bed and then remembered what had happened to the screen the night before. It went all streaky, then all green, and then pfrt, image gone. I thought my monitor had died. I turned it off and on, no image still. At last I decided to just reboot the computer, thinking maybe it was a video card problem and that would be solved by rebooting, hopefully. And yep, it came back on and no more problems hence forth.

Until this morning that was, when it performed its ugly trick yet again, only this time slower. I checked with a friend on what to do, and then performed the very unnerving task of removing the video card and reverting back to the onboard SiS card. After lots of nerves, a shit in between, and a lot of sighs and tension it worked, and I even got Mepis back to normal as well. Fun good side-effect: image shocking seems gone, which is a very good thing because I could not watch a movie online or anything and now I can do that again.

I am pondering to get a new card put in or not. I just might do that and reinstate it for windows (I mean.. the card is under warranty after all) but linux is not getting a new ati driver; it isn't working as it should anyway, and before I installed the ati driver it worked like a charm anyway. I am not worried.
Mood: tired