No pain meds

I am currently suffering from an extremely infected impacted wisdom tooth.

I have known that I need my wisdom teeth removed and had actually scheduled an appointment to do exactly that. An appointment I had to cancel when I found out I was pregnant. At first, I figured what difference would 9 months make. Then, I just knew that with my luck, pregnancy would take a toll on my gums and teeth (as it does many pregnant women). Never did I think it could be THIS bad!

I went to bed with a minor toothache, which is normal for me because my sinuses often cause toothache, so I thought nothing of it. 3am rolls around and I’m woken up by terrible pain on/around the bottom right wisdom tooth. I put some orajel on it and grabbed an ice pack and tried to get some sleep. Monday I wake up to swollen gums and the same pain that woke me up at 3am. Again, I put some orajel on it and took a Tylenol prescribed to me by my OB and go to work. Noon rolls around and I’m in so much pain I can hardly talk and my whole face hurts so I decided to leave work early to pick up a clearance form from my OB and schedule an emergency dentist appointment thinking I can definitely suffer through until 8am this morning.

Boy was I wrong!! I took a nap around 6pm last night because the lack of sleep the night before was catching up to me. To my surprise, I woke up with my gums at least three times more swollen and painful than when I fell asleep. Despite the orajel and sleeping on an ice pack. Ultimately, I ended up going to the ER where my fears where confirmed. I had a major abscess on my gums surrounding my bottom right wisdom tooth. The ER doc drained the abscess (talk about PAINFUL) sans any kind of pain meds because I’m already a higher risk pregnancy so I declined and sent me on my way. This morning I followed up with my dentist and he is suggesting that I have the tooth extracted ASAP. I’ve been prescribed antibiotics (approved by my OB), but I am SO nervous about having the tooth removed next week. 😰

To add to all that craziness, my husband is out of state in a training program with the Navy and will be in the field this whole week so he has NO idea about this whole ordeal. At almost 8 months pregnant, I’m feeling especially pathetic wishing I could just whine to him about it all.