Wanna know something wild? The chiro managed to adjust my neck today and I have somewhat more mobility than I’ve had for some years, (hurts like a bitch but that’s nothing new) and one thing I can now do is tilt my head all the way back on my shoulders.
And do you know what that motion does? It triggers tooth pain, for a tooth that no longer exists.
Aren’t bodies fucking weird?
Bodies are SO FUCKING WEIRD. SO, September 21st I had a large amount of dental work done at once—the whole left half of my face. Two wisdom teeth extractions and some fillings, two of them fairly large.
For over a MONTH I have been dealing with pain that comes-and-goes, I kept going back to the dentist to try to figure out the source of my pain. Everything was normal. They smoothed out the biting surface of one tooth’s filling thinking it was causing the pain, and while it made the pain less awful, weeks later? Still hurts!
Was getting bad ear aches so I visited a clinic, diagnosed with allergies and started taking medicine for them, that stopped most of the ear pain, yay, but the teeth still hurt very annoyingly. Ibuprofen could control the pain but I couldn’t figure out why my pain was worst at night in bed and at the office at my desk.
I finally put two and two together last night when I got cold and turned off the fan in my bedroom and turned the temperature up… and my tooth ache stopped in a few minutes. So, at work, I got one of the office space heaters, aimed it at the area in front of my face, and was basically pain free all day, breathing in warmed air.
So, my CURRENT leading theory is that it’s my sinuses, and breathing in cold air is triggering tooth aches, and warm air is countering them.
wtf body
This never happened to me until I got my teeth fixed. I hope the other half of my face doesn’t follow suit when I get the work done for that half.
I too deal with the temperature sensitive sinuses, plus I get the phantom tooth pain/sensation in a tooth that I have never had.
This tooth just never formed, and now I have a bridge to keep the other teeth in place.