How long is this supposed to hurt?

DonnaL
Sun, 19 Dec 2010 21:20:40 +0000

Yes, LasMa, it’s extremely odd, but at this point I’ve gotten sort of used to the oddness of how my body reacts to things. Right now (knock on wood) nothing in my mouth hurts anymore, but I’m still completely exhausted despite having slept for approximately 36 of the last 48 hours. At least I was able to drink liquids and eat a little bit today, which is very important for me to do, since not eating or drinking leads to dehydration (something I’m always vulnerable to given the absence of a colon), which leads to dizziness and exhaustion, which makes it harder to eat or drink even if I’m not in pain. Kind of a vicious cycle, and it isn’t the first time it’s happened to me.

I can’t help wondering if there was some sort of infection in my mouth after the filling, and that’s why it hurt so much and I seemed to be getting swollen glands. I know one isn’t supposed to do this, but I happened to have some erythromycin left over from an old prescription (along with an entire pharmacopeia of other prescription medications), and have been taking it assiduously since yesterday. (I’ve become allergic to penicillin over the last few years, or I’d probably be taking the amoxicillin I also have, instead.) Maybe it didn’t help, but it obviously didn’t hurt, either, and I have felt better since I began taking it. Even though I know full well that post hoc doesn’t = propter hoc, that correlation doesn’t = causation, and so on.

Bedtime, again!