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| This was not hurting me. At all. For almost a month. For reals. |
See, I'd chomped part of my tooth off a few weeks before I saw this, but I wasn't sure how bad it was because it didn't hurt, and I could feel my tooth was still there. Granted, it felt a little weird, but I chalked it up to my new nightguard. As in, my THIRD hard acrylic nightguard, because it took me like two years to chew through the first one and four years to chew through the second one, if memory serves me correctly. Yeah, I brux. Horribly. Badly enough to actually break this tooth, apparently.
My dentist is The Best Dentist Ever because he's been the only one to offer me nitrous oxide and it so helps me not sever fingers while someone's working in my mouth. All my life I've had dental issues and have been stressed with feeling more pressure and pain than most people. I now know that's due to fibromyalgia (pain processing disorder of the CNS last time I checked), and I've also learned that I inherited mom's "bad teeth" because she almost certainly also had Sjogren's Syndrome. I really did not realize how much saliva I was NOT producing until I took a Numoisyn lozenge to help with that, and holy crap, you people all have way too much goop in your mouths! Yeah, I'd rather have dry mouth and get dental cleanings every 3-4 months than get used to saliva, thanks.
My hygenist commented that since my med wonkiness stabilized the other year when Plaquenil was added to my regimen, my gums have looked a lot healthier. Shibby! I recently went off Cymbalta to try Savella (which is helping my fatigue but making me feel more pain and muscle tightness, but I love it because I can actually get enough decent sleep to function during a day! woo, tangent). The Savella seems to make my gums bleed more since they bleed sometimes when I floss and they bled more during the cleaning. Interesting how med changes change more things than one would think. Anyway, also thanks to the Savella, that feeling more pain and muscle tightness was enhanced by the tooth decay being so close to the root. This caused me to be extra thankful for the extra nitrous I got during the cleaning and I guess during the filling done the following week. This also caused me to get a glass of anesthetic via four shots during the filling, since I felt things I should not have been feeling.
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| One of these cheeks is not like the other. |
Long story short, I survived, and I called with an update the following day since he'd asked me to call. (Incidentally, when I first started seeing him a decade ago, he called me the day after any kind of dental work to make sure that I was okay, since I'd had awful dental experiences my whole life. This happened for like four years at least. Best Dentist Ever, I'm telling ya!)
I mentioned that my cheek had swollen a bit, and he was really sorry that there wasn't anything he could do except recommend an anti-inflammatory (yay Advil liquigels) and some heat. This pic is from three hours post dental trauma last Wednesday. The next pic is from Saturday, when I noticed some bruising in the shape of a thumb. It's almost Tuesday morning and the bruising is larger and about the size of my lips but vertical, and makeup doesn't completely cover it but eh, good enough. It'll disappear soon enough.
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| I really like the new shower curtain. I really don't like the bruise or the bathroom lighting but at least we haven't exploded yet. |
In other news, the wonky bathroom lighting is fixed... for now. There are 10 lights in the master bathroom (5 over each of 2 sinks) connected to a light switch that was tripping a GFCI outlet breaker gadget in the master bedroom. This was fixed, but it kept happening, so it got fixed again. I'm still wary of it popping but so far so good.
In other other news, I am waaaaaaay behind in photo work and website work. WAY behind. As in, summer 2013 looks good instead of having everything done by this summer. We're more unpacked than before but still have maybe 50 or so boxes full of books and DVDs and CDs and assorted papers and assorted crap, but things are dwindling surely yet slowly. Considering that essentially half the stuff from the old place has already gone to Goodwill and a local e-waste place, I'm a bit appalled that we still have so much stuff, but we'll be ready to move again before we're ready to move again. That'll be a nice change. :) That's also likely to not happen any time soon, and I'm good with that. I had a great first day at a new job today, and I'll blog more about that later, but have got to say I'm quite pleased that I have a 15 minute (one way) commute. I don't think I'll ever miss the stupid long 1-1.5 hour (one way) commutes I had years ago. Never. Again.
