Mr. Beanz

What's yours? Gah! I've had this molar that's been bugging me for a year! Once month it will get infected, inflamed and burn like a mother. Seems that everytime I want to go do a ride , I have to worry about what I eat and drink, trying to avoid the irritation.

Dentist say it's healthy tooth, different dentists!. If so, why does it kill me every month. Feels like someone taking a branding iron then shoving it down into my roots. Hurts so much that my eye feels like it flickers during the pain. I guess they think I'm having fun with the pain!

So crash and burn about 3 weeks ago with a separated shoulder, it hurt but no biggie! Last week I was ble to do my father's yard with the pushmower as usual. A little sensitive and a little nursing but it worked. I have to say even the pain from the shoulder doesn't compare to the pain of the toothache!

The holiday weekend was totally ruined, no BBQ, no rides, sitting at home with an icepack on my face wishing the dentist was around. Finally on Tuesday I find a dentist and say, I'm paying cash, now pull the tooth. "Well it's good tooth he says", eventhough my gums are swollen and I can now see pockets of infection building!

But !but!............... I'm paying you now pull it! Yes, I was rude but I was in pain. I told him to disregard my insurance cause I wasn't there to be examined, I wasn't there for quotes, I was there for an extraction! So he numbs me but the meds aren't working right cause the infection is blocking the passages to the nerve. That's what he says but maybe I hurt his feeling so he gave me the mild dose! Either way, I felt everything, even when he stuck the needle into the infected area hurt, OUCH!

I'd say having felt most of the surgical extraction, it felt like somebody punched me in the face 3 times! But overall , the pain was still not as severe as the toothache itself.

Tooth was extracted 2 days ago, some antibiotics and some Advil, swelling is down and today, I felt like a new man. Did Dad's yard with the pushmower again, shoulder is feeling great but biggest relief is the vanishing tooth!

The tooth was hurting so much and so often that I was beginning to avoid rides with thoughts that it might activate the pain. I've been sucker punched in the face, kicked in the nards, beotch slapped, arthritis as a child, migraine headaches, flipped over on bikes. Hit by a bike, torn cartlidge in the ankle but never experienced pain like a toothache!

Happened once before with another tooth.

That's my kryptonite, what's yours?

wild animals

I have a bum tooth, too, but it's nowhere near what yours was like. It hurts bad, and sometimes REALLY bad, but the problem is that it hurts ALL THE TIME. If I get a sinus infection (I usually have a sinus infection), it hurts REALLY bad. I have nightmares every night because my teeth hit together and hurt. The dentists (3 of them) say it's fine, too. They said if it really bothers me, they'll do a root canal on it, but there's nothing wrong with it. I don't want a root canal. :/

BUT my kryptonite is wrist pain. The right wrist just constantly hurts. It goes from kind-of-bad to wanting-to-punch-someone-anyone-(maybe-myself)-in-the-face bad. Left one hurts too but not as bad. As a cyclist, knitter, musician and computer nerd, it disrupts every moment of enjoyment that I have in the world. My hands shake so bad sometimes that everyday tasks are difficult (and in the past have been impossible). For awhile I couldn't open my front door or turn the knob on the washing machine with my right hand, because it wasn't strong enough, plus it hurt anyway. It is burning right now. I take so much ibuprofen that my stomach is damaged. haha

I am in pain or noticeable discomfort at all times. In the past I usually got a break from it when I slept but now I don't even have that. Sucks. The physiatrist said my wrist doesn't have nerve damage so I'm just riding anyway and dealing with it, but I can't ride over 1:15 or so without regretting it deeply later on (or sometimes right away).

squirtdad

worst pain.....reducing (putting back in place) a dislocated shoulder wihout pain relief, the dislocated shoulder was bad on it's own.....but the reduction went over the top.....then immediate relief.

Second worse, having a broken wrist reset about 2 weeks after it was broken, with minimal pain med

mthayer

Speaking of toothaches and having it happen in a healthy tooth, my boss had this happen to him. They did a root canal and that didnt help with the pain. Then they ended up extracting the tooth. It hurt like he had a dry socket, so they went and did more xrays and everything checked out good. The pain moved from where they extracted the tooth to the next tooth over. He found this and it is explained alot.
https://www.ucsfhealth.org/adult/medi...ome/signs.html

Homeyba

If you think your tooth hurt, try pericarditis. It's an inflammation of the pericardium (the sac around your heart). According to my female cardiologist the pain is equivalent to labor pains except they happen every time your heart beats and it's worse when you breath. Luckily, mine was only beating 28 beats/minute when I went into the hospital. Then you get to be introduced to a cardiac needle...

cod.peace

I've gone through a similar episode with hand pain - that burning pain that never goes away and you can't do the things you want to do while consuming ibuprofen like it's candy...yup, been there.

Did you consult a hand surgeon or neurologist for a nerve conduction test? You could have a disc problem pinching a nerve, carpal tunnel, ulnar nerve problems, etc etc etc. Your symptoms are not normal. My road bike almost 2 years ago that I briefly owned caused horrendous wrist pain. After a diagnosis of mild carpal tunnel in my right arm I solved it by selling it and purchasing a recumbent bike, which I looooooove riding, and which completely freed me from hand/wrist riding pain. I also did numerous ergonomic adjustments to my computer workstation that also relieved most of the pain problems.

Mr Beanz, I'll trade my herniated L5-S1 disc for your tooth. This week has been living fricking hell, I can barely walk (I do sort of a zombie shuffle) due to compression of my left sciatic nerve and there is no body position that provides relief. argh.

800over

I was in the ER this week for something relatively minor. The guy accross the hall from me was passing kidney stones. You woulda thought he was being tortured. I've never heard a man screaming like that in my life. The nurses said kidney stones are the worst.

dscheidt

I hiked (well, hobbled and hopped!) about 15 miles on a broken ankle. Carrying a heavyish load of gear. took two days. That hurt. But after the first 8 or 10 hours, it became just a constant annoyance (except when I hit it on a rock). Toothache is horrible, it doesn't ever get dull like that. It used to be a leading cause of suicide.

coffeecake

Getting my tonsils out as an adult. At one point, the pain was so bad I told my SO that "I can't do this anymore." He said, "You don't have a choice."

Mr. Beanz

Some good stuff here, makes ya think!...Like the others, my tooth bothered me ALL THE TIME! Just got infected once a month, but hurt just about everyday!

I too was also puzzled at the beginning thinking it was another tooth along the same nerve.

MVclyde

I had a bruised rib after a bike wreck that was very painful. It ranked up there with back pain. That type of pain is bad (and annoying) but manageable. The worst was a tooth ache. Nothing worked to relieve the pain. Even when it didn't hurt, it throbbed. Thank God for root canals.

Mr. Beanz

I hear ya on that one! I was doing a GMR mtn ride with another member. About half way up the thob turned into a twang as if something flicked the nerve like a rubberband. I was lucky, the throb went away at that point rather than turn to pain.

ScottBGKY

Kidney stone followed closely by appendicitis.

cod.peace

My wife had a kidney stone. waited 8 hours in the ER with her on that one. ****ing ****ty ****ing hospital. I wouldn't wish a kidney stone on anyone.

Mr. Beanz

I'm such a wuss! Gina donated a kidney about 10 years ago, cut her back muscles, re-routed bladder nerves etc, still has a 10 inch scar on her side. One month later, she did an ez 5 mile hybrid ride. 3 months later, she did a 40 mile roadride on the trail. Then 5 years later, docs wouldn't diganose her pain correctly, up every other night for about 1.5 years with pain. Turned out she needed her gal bladder (sp?)removed. And I'm here crying about a toothache!

wild animals

Yeah, I'd be more apt to have a root canal if I knew for sure that would fix it. They don't see a problem with that tooth, so I'm really leery of killing and crowning it if it's the wrong one


cod.peace (lol), I have been to a few different specialists and one said I have hypermobility, which means that I have to exert myself just to keep my limbs straight. My joints are too bendy. I am basically one of these with the button pressed:



The physiatrist did nerve conductivity tests and said I was fine, but he didn't do them during the months that I could hardly use my right hand so I'm not sure.


I think the worst pain I've ever felt has been sinus headaches, and a headache I had when I had pneumonia, and it hurt so much that my vision and hearing went out and I had to shuffle over to the couch with my arms out like a zombie. Chronic pain is worse, though, for me. It just never goes away.

PS: Gina's awesome and I'll admit I'm a wuss! My arm hurts!

Mr. Beanz

I think so! Actually we trained and did a century onour tandem the weekend before the surgery. She said that if she could do it, she'd be in better shape for recovery. She never rode a bike til she was 30 years old, so I think she's great! The bike might be the only reason she keeps me around, free maintenance!

Mr. Beanz

I get migraines, my tongue goes numb, my arm then puke my guts out! I also get the aura (bright blinding like, like running ligths running through a cracked televsion screen) and the pain last for atleast 2 days after 8 hours of sleep ina dark room. Been getting migraines since I was 12, now 47. Doc gave me a prescription called Maxalt that aids the pain but doesn't totally eliminate the symptoms, but everything helps at this point. It's the best I've had for migraines! Now I only get them once or twice a year. When I was younger, once a month.

I once got a blinding migraine on an organized 62 miler out in the desert (Borrego Springs). I was at the halfway point and ready to quit. But I figured I drove 2 hours and paid my $50, I finished the ride, I don't know how, but I did!

subligar

My tooth hurt so bad it made me stop smoking... 4 or 5 days to get to see the dentist and no urge to smoke, eat, sleep.... Not a bad deal if I never smoke again.

Mr. Beanz

....I quit playing online for a couple of days!

jboyd

Abscessed tooth is tops for acute (just effing kill me) pain in my book.

I second the kidney stone. I spent one of the longest nights of my life a couple years ago in a cabin in the mountains passing a stone over 7 hours. Long Ass Night

But, one of the most miserable boo-boo's I have suffered was on a secluded whitewater river in the Boston Mountains of Arkansas. I tore a rotator cuff with 8 miles left to paddle out (mostly class III stuff) or hike out 16 miles and have to stay overnight in the woods. I paddled and swam, because I almost no control the 8 miles. Bad day.

Mr. Beanz

I saw that in a movie called "Deliverance" a long time ago, yes I'm guessing there is a more terrible pain!

Neil_B

I pray thee peace, I will be flesh and blood;
For there was never yet philosopher
That could endure the toothache patiently,
- Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

CliftonGK1

It's a toss up between being guest of honor at a 6 man boot party, or having a mid-sized sedan pull a no-signal turn in front of me on a 40mph downhill.
Both were week-long hospital stays.

Mr. Beanz

Had to look that one up, getting stomped?...Happened to my cousin's husband ,... bright side is he has super nice Colgate smile now. Heck that's what I need, a good stomping and a new set of teeth!