Had upper molar pulled this morning
Just started feeling pain. I worry very much bc of all the problems I had post dental-injury. Following post-op 24-hr instructions. This was 1700.
On antibiotics was told there was a "ball" of infection up near the sinus.
So sick of pain, expense, fear, injury.
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Sorry to hear the extraction is giving you so much pain. Doctors used to prescribe opioids for this kind of postoperative pain, but these days most of them avoid those as much as possible, for fear of their addictiveness. Unfortunately, that sometimes leaves patients with less than optimal pain relief.
The oral surgeon who removed my daughter's wisdom teeth had a helpful trick. His aftercare instructions for pain were to give her both extra strength Tylenol and ibuprofen, alternating every 2 hours. For example:
1. Take a dose of one drug, we'll say Tylenol (it doesn't matter which one you start with). Note the time.
2. Two hours later, take a dose of ibuprofen.
3. Two hours after that, take the Tylenol again.
Keep alternating every two hours. This will give you better pain relief than either drug alone, with no gaps in effectiveness. When you just take one drug, it can start wearing off before it's time for the next dose. With two drugs overlapping, that will not happen.
This is perfectly safe, because these medications are in 2 completely different classes of drugs.
Ibuprofen is an NSAID (stands for non steroidal anti inflammatory drug). Other NSAIDs include aspirin, naproxen, and a whole list of others. Taking 2 NSAIDS at the same time is NOT recommended, due to the risk of side effects. Tylenol is not an NSAID, however, so it can safely be combined with an NSAID in the manner described above.
As I said, this regimen was prescribed for my daughter by her oral surgeon after she had her wisdom teeth removedl (I would never have considered doing this myself, much less recommending it to anyone else otherwise), and it worked great! I think we only had to do it for a couple of days, as she recovered pretty fast.
I wish you a smooth and speedy recovery, and I hope the antobiotics knock out that infection quickly. I have a feeling your overall well-being is going to greatly improve once you heal from the extraction and the infection. In the meantime...
Tyvm 
I hope you're starting to feel at least a little better by now, or that you will very soon!
Taking Tylenol in conjunction w ibuprofen. Some pain. Making sure the clot? Doesn't move bc if it does I'm sure itll be a complication that'll cost a billion dollars.
I'm holding salt water in my mouth and applying this get they have me. Taking my amoxicillin three times pper day.
In the meantime, I get to suffer intense pain because the antibiotics are making me throw up. Of course, there is nothing to be done for it (because I am not in that class that can afford to actually get proper dental help), so I just get to eat OraGel all day along with handfuls of ibuprofen. This doesn't really work, but it takes the edge off. I suppose this will be my life for the next few weeks, as they said it could take four to six to get approval. Wonderful.
We just can't get a break, can we?
I feel that the pain is to be expected from such a surgery and it should not last too long. I can't wait to feel the pain from this extraction because that will mean I am on the healing road for this situation. Oh, how the dentists and orthodontists were trying to convince me to save it! Yeah, save it so you can charge me massive amounts to try and keep on saving it! They just don't get that I am not able to afford this crap. They keep on trying to milk that dry teat for those past few drops. It makes me want to vomit.
Well, that and the pain.