My mouth has been hurting for freakin’ weeks!!  I think it’s just a bad case of sore gums and achey teeth, from the 3 new fillings, the cleaning and the 1/2-mouth scaling I got.  My jaws hurt too, from all the Novocaine shots.  It’s nothing too serious, just annoying… I’ve had teeth really die on me before and the pain was always a hell of a lot more intense than this.  Usually by the time you really need a root canal, you’re in so much pain you’re beggin’ to get it done ASAP!!  So thank god this is nothing that bad, it’s just annoying like I said.


I’m popping Ibuprofin two or three times a day but still feeling the soreness most of the time.  I’m supposed to go back on Monday so he can do the scaling on the other half of my mouth, but I dunno.  Maybe I should see if I can put it off a few days so I can give everything more of a chance to get over itself.  Or maybe I should just suck it up and get it the fuck over with!

Doesn’t pain suck?  I don’t know how people deal with it, especially when it lasts a long time.  I’m better at tolerating quick doses of very intense pain, like when I slam my little toe into the couch-leg.  That’s bad, but at least you know it’ll quit hurting fairly soon.  The worst pain I’ve ever felt is when I’ve had ear infections.  That’s just shrieking pain right there!  But you can trust it to go away as soon as the antibiotics kick in.  I guess fucking up your lower back so you can’t walk — that must be the worst, most intense, and scariest pain of all.  And I’m glad I thought about all this because shit, my mouth doesn’t hurt that bad at all right now, by comparison!