Yay for pain!

Pissin' Poonani · Post by **Pissin' Poonani** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 9:48 am

I've had a toothache for a couple of days now-far as I can tell, one of my teeth that has a filling has a bit cracked off (the tooth, not the filling), and it feels like the nerve is exposed. Whilst not unbearably painful, it is ******* annoying and seeing as I can't be bothered to get registered at a dentists, I'm considering gently persuading it to leave my mouth with the aid of a pair of pliers.

Ok, so not a particularly worthwhile topic, but it just feels like one bloody thing after another recently so I thought I'd come on here and share my self pity with you fine people.

While I'm here, I may as well find out if anybody else shares my hatred for that Marks & Spencers ad-that "This isn't a normal chicken that you peasants buy at your local supermarket-this is an M&S caviar-fed-basted-in-Brad-Pitt's-spunk-and-studded-with-diamonds-chicken". There's something I find unbearably smug about it, and whilst I'm normally an easy going chap, I find myself having to change the channel when it comes on. Sad I know, but it just manages to push my buttons.

Sorry.

Post by **Kaylee** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 10:12 am

The M&S ad is utterly nauseating. If it were just a couple of examples, like 'wine' and 'chicken', ok I could live with it- but it goes into overkill and describes about 8 products and lasts at least 4 minutes too long.

And the news about your tooth is making me cringe >_< please don't do anything silly with pliers... just go to a dentist and get it fixed. please! {hates pain}

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 10:14 am

"It's not just a chardonnay - it's a ridiculously overrated and overpriced chardonnay!"

Bet it still tastes like stale piss, though. I can't ******* stand chardonnay. And I probably can't spell it right, either.

Pissin' Poonani · Post by **Pissin' Poonani** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 10:27 am

Glad it's not just me.

Almost (but not quite) as annoying:

Badly dubbed adverts-in particular ones where the voice used is so enthusiastically annoying. Prime examples are the Burger King one (never before have the words "Chicken BLT" made me want to thumb-gouge my own eyes out and throw them at the telly), and the Neutrogena one with Kristin Wotsit from Smallville-she's famous! She speaks for a living! Why dub her voice? You 'aint getting that by me, she sounds nothing like that!

Local pub-band rivalries. Seriously, around here all the bands seem to play the exact same ****, all seem to think that leather waist coats are rock 'n' roll, and all believe that they're changing the face of music with their stale renditions of 'Freebird'. No one cares. Harbouring a festering resentment for a band that, with eyes shut, is indistinguishable from your own is laughable-how about knocking it on the head so I can actually have a conversation with my friends?

My tooth. This little ****** is really starting to get on my tits now.

Too much time + no direction = internet ranting from me.

Legion · Post by **Legion** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 1:14 pm

... but M&S food is so much better than normal food... because it's special...

actually, some of there stuff is quite good...

Autobloke · Post by **Autobloke** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 6:36 pm

Legion wrote:... but M&S food is so much better than normal food... because it's special...

actually, some of there stuff is quite good...

Get your coat.

As for the tooth, if you're in England (and if you have M&S ads you MUST be (Me DUMB)), you can get an emergency dental appointment without being registered anywhere. My sister and I had been trying to get registered with the dentists down the road from us for nearly two years since we moved (we are finally registered now - we have one of those new Polish dentists mentioned on the news). About six months ago she was suddenly in a lot of pain toothwise, and was sent to a dentists that was the emergency clinic for the day (they rotate the responsibility between themselves - it means that if you need to go more than once, you may have to go to a different dentist next time).
All you need to do is ring your local dentist and explain your problem. They'll then tell you who is the emergency practice for the day and you can ring them and make an appointment. As a bonus, you may even be seen that same day - unlike us registered folk - because they slot you into cancelled appointments sometimes. GRR!
Give that a try, but to anyone who isn't registered with a dentist: do it even if your teeth aren't currently in need of any attention - it'll save you the problems that Poon here is having.

Pissin' Poonani · Post by **Pissin' Poonani** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 12:45 am

Great minds and all that Mr 'bloke!

I rang a local dentist to get registered earlier today (no appointments til Tuesday) and the receptionist gave me the number of my local emergency dentist. Got seen at 6:45 this evening and had the inside of my tooth drilled out because the bastard had rotted away-still have to make a choice between having it pulled or root canal surgey (I think I'll have it yanked), but at the moment it's just throbbing in an annoyingly painless way, as opposed to causing me absolute pain inducing misery.

Anybody have any experience of having teeth removed? I have before, but it's always been done under a general anaesthetic so I never had to actually experience it happening, but if I'm correct they'll only do it with a local anaesthetic nowadays.

Eline · Post by **Eline** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 7:04 am

I had it done when I was about 11 years old. I have a small jaw so my teeth didn't fit.

My aunt, who is a dentist, gave me two shots of something. That hurt quite a bit, two times a needle in the stuff above your teeth (is that the gums?)

But after that, I did not feel a thing as she pulled two teeth out. There is some swelling, from the drugs, but no pain apart from the needles. And no pain afterwards. So it's just a few seconds of pain, and then you feel nothing. It feels weird though, when they pull out the teeth.

I still need to get two of my wisdom teeth pulled out, but I'm not really looking forward to that... general anaesthtic sound nice, but I don't think we can get that for such a minor thing.

Good luck!

Pissin' Poonani · Post by **Pissin' Poonani** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 8:06 am

Thanks Eline.

I read up on root canal surgery last night, and it sounds not only expensive, but it can also take multiple visits to repair just one tooth-I'm not really bothered by needles, but the less injections I have to have the better!

The cool thing is that when I woke up this mornign there was no pain or throbbing at all-hopefully it will stay that way until I can get it sorted.

Obfleur · Post by **Obfleur** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 8:10 am

I thought this would be about someting like this...

bobaprime85 · Post by **bobaprime85** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 7:46 pm

Pissin' Poonani wrote: Anybody have any experience of having teeth removed? I have before, but it's always been done under a general anaesthetic so I never had to actually experience it happening, but if I'm correct they'll only do it with a local anaesthetic nowadays.

Well..... when I had my wisdom teeth removed not too long ago, I managed to stay awake a little into the procedure, but quickly went off to sleepy-land. Glad of it too, since from my previous experiece with cavity removal, being on the wrong end of a dentist is a bad thing.

Worst part of it was the fact that when I woke up, I couldn't eat a thing for hours, plus their was an annoying amount of blood gradually seeping into my mouth. I think I ended up swallowing a lot of it. Fun.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 10:10 pm

I didn't get my wisdom teeth removed when they came through. Couldn't be arsed with goingthrough all that orthodontistry again.

I just moved the pivot point in my jaw to compensate (don't ask me how!) and slowly wore down (or rather, am still wearing down) the excess through chewing.

It's only painful until the nerves die back.

Autobloke · Post by **Autobloke** » Fri Apr 29, 2005 5:19 pm

I'm a bleeder - I had some teeth out and lost a LOT of blood 'cos it wouldn't clot. I also get bad nosebleeds and had to go to hospital once to have my nose packed with gauze - it's like having a bedsheet shoved up your nostril.

Autobloke is a sickly little boy sometimes. (also

)
Also, did you know that having all you wisdom teeth out at the same time can permanently affect your speech? Didn't happen to my sister unfortunately... (still

)

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Apr 29, 2005 7:13 pm

Biting your tongue can have the same effect.

Although, I have found that putting on an accent whilst suffering both alleviated the pain and made me relatively more intelligible than I otherwise would have been.

Autobloke · Post by **Autobloke** » Sat Apr 30, 2005 8:44 pm

What type of accent? My brother-in-law's Welsh and I can't understand half of what he says.

saysadie · Post by **saysadie** » Sat Apr 30, 2005 9:39 pm

I have a work friend who is getting all of her wisdom teeth out at once. On her birthday no less!

I had my wisdom teeth out ages ago. My mouth was too small for me to keep them... wasn't too bad, didn't need any real painkillers or anything. I hate taking stuff like that anyway unless I really have to.

I'd recommend just having the tooth pulled as opposed to a root canal. It's really not that bad, plus it's quick... from what I've heard a root canal is ghastly.

Good luck getting that sorted dude. Glad to hear it isn't so painful anymore.

[I hit quote instead of edit! ha ha!

*deletes extra post* ]

Pissin' Poonani · Post by **Pissin' Poonani** » Tue May 03, 2005 3:22 pm

saysadie wrote:
I'd recommend just having the tooth pulled as opposed to a root canal. It's really not that bad, plus it's quick... from what I've heard a root canal is ghastly.

Yeah, I saw the dentist today and she gave me the option so I went for having it pulled (which is next Wednesday). A root canal (as well as being hideous) is about 4-5 times more expensive anyway, so bugger that.

The really good news is that she reckons she'll snap the damn thing when she tries to get it out of my gob, so it looks like a surgical extraction for me! Yay! Needles, pulling and having my gums cut open! Woo hoo! Oh yeah, then back a week later to have 2 fillings drilled out and replaced. FFS.

Post by **Best First** » Tue May 03, 2005 4:04 pm

you really should stop eating raw suger cane...

IronHide · Post by **IronHide** » Tue May 03, 2005 4:57 pm

But it makes me happy......

and slightly diabetic.

Autobloke · Post by **Autobloke** » Tue May 03, 2005 8:27 pm

As this is a topic about pain, and not just teeth, does anyone here get migraines?
I have to take daily prescribed tablets for vascular consriction and then other prescribed ones if a migraine comes on. Not only do I get the head/eye aches and sparkly vision, but my neck, shoulders, elbow/knee joints, knuckles and jaw can sometimes seize up too. I also sometimes get it so bad that I feel as sick as if I have the flu. Makes me flippin' tired too. Luckily my nob still works though. Phew!
I wouldn't mind, but these things floor me completely every six weeks or so for several days. People just don't seem to understand migraines properly - I lost a job because the git in charge thought that migraines were 'slightly worse' headaches, and that I was always skiving.
At the moment I'm doing some removals work, but I'm hoping to sell a few books and work from home in the future.
Hot weather makes things worse too, so I'm dreading the summer months. I've also got to give up the daily tablets soon because I've got to have a course of injections in my bad knee and I can't mix the two medications.
Anyone else out there have as much fun as I do?
Sorry to complain...

Pissin' Poonani · Post by **Pissin' Poonani** » Wed May 11, 2005 12:32 am

Ten hours until fun time...

not much reason for the update, other than to firmly remind myself that life sucks.

Obfleur · Post by **Obfleur** » Wed May 11, 2005 7:09 am

Pissin' Poonani wrote:Ten hours until fun time...

not much reason for the update, other than to firmly remind myself that life sucks.

I got my gums cut open a couple of years ago.
Two teeth decided it was a good idea to mutate into one teeth - the dentist thought it was a not so good idea.
So I got cut open - and then the dentist/doctor/whatever smashed one of the teeth to smitherins, and proceeded to dig the pieces out with some weird instruments.
It took two hours and never in my life have I been more drenched in sweat.

Good luck

Pissin' Poonani · Post by **Pissin' Poonani** » Wed May 11, 2005 11:31 am

Cheers Ob.

Well, 'tis done.

She said it would break, hence the need for surgical extraction, but she rocked it back and forth about three times and it just popped right out! So it was £20 cheaper, and meant that I also had time to have 2 of the 3 fillings I needed sorting out done-woo hoo! Only one more filling to do when I go back next week.

Legion · Post by **Legion** » Wed May 11, 2005 11:54 am

i gotta go to the dentist soon myself... one of the teeth i had a root canal on has broken in half...

Obfleur · Post by **Obfleur** » Wed May 11, 2005 1:32 pm

Pissin' Poonani wrote: she rocked it back and forth about three times and it just popped right out! So it was £20 cheaper, and meant that I also had time to have 2 of the 3 fillings I needed sorting out done-woo hoo! Only one more filling to do when I go back next week.

Man, you're lucky

Autobloke · Post by **Autobloke** » Wed May 11, 2005 5:31 pm

Pissin' Poonani wrote: she rocked it back and forth about three times and it just popped right out! So it was £20 cheaper, and meant that I also had time to have 2 of the 3 fillings I needed

Sorry, but this sounds like you just visited a prostitue.

Señior's Covenant · Post by **Señior's Covenant** » Wed May 11, 2005 5:32 pm

Autobloke wrote:
Pissin' Poonani wrote: she rocked it back and forth about three times and it just popped right out! So it was £20 cheaper, and meant that I also had time to have 2 of the 3 fillings I needed
Sorry, but this sounds like you just visited a prostitue.

A cheaper one.

Autobloke · Post by **Autobloke** » Wed May 11, 2005 5:35 pm

If you had £5000 to spend on a 'Lady of the Night' would you have one REALLY good one, or 5000 really BAD ones?

Post by **snarl** » Wed May 11, 2005 9:53 pm

I'd shop around - by one get one free?

You could get some top class slags for decent amounts in Amsterdam - apparently.

You get the works and they'll let you spaff in their face for about £35, you'd struggle to find shoes good enough to earn a moral face spaff, so I think that's fair game.

Seriously, this is all true. Nothing I've experienced I'll have you know, but I know some men who know some men that have. I imagine if I was hashed/smashed I possibly would as well.

Crikey.