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I started having pain in my upper canine this past September. Had a root canal because the tooth had been dead for such a long time that it was actually widening the canal. During the procedure my endodontist kept saying, "Wow! This tooth is infected!" I was put on antibiotics (I just wrote out the list of antibiotics I have been on and realized that I have been on 13 rounds of them!) and the pain went away. The pain almost always goes away while I'm on the antibiotic. Because I continued to have the recurring severe pain I had the tooth retreated by another endodontist four months later (my endodontist kept taking x-rays of it and saying "It looks great!") and medicine left in it for a few weeks. When I stopped the antibiotics the pain not only returned but my cheek swelled, was red, and hot to the touch. I was seen urgently by another endodontist, who has really been a great guy and really seems to know what he is doing, that night and was started on more antibiotics. He eventually took the medicine out, filled it but the pain and swelling continued. I then had an apicoectomy, put on amoxicillin, and the pain was gone! FOR A WEEK. When I stopped the antibiotic the pain returned and I started having pus come out of the incision. I was put back on amoxicillin, which didn't work, and then flagyl, which hasn't worked. The pain and swelling has been a little less but the swelling is up to my eye now and causing me to have shooting pains in my eye.
The endodontist is telling me I have a secondary infection that "we will get under control" but that this may be a chronic pain condition !?!?!? How can I go from being completely pain free just six months ago and have all this pain after having an infected tooth? Any advice????
In addition, my sons were cultured for staff and my 6 year old has colonized Staphylococcus aureus. Providers keep saying they are glad he doesn't have MRSA (me too!) but isn't that the type of staph that becomes MRSA? Could I possibly have MRSA?
When you say you stopped the antibiotics, do you mean you completed the prescription until there was none left? Or do you mean you felt better, and therefore didn't feel the need to continue the prescription and just stopped taking it?
It makes a big difference. Also, you're asking about MRSA in the dental forum - even a dentist (like our resident dentist here in CD, Doctor Smiley), wouldn't be the person to ask about that.
Yes, I completed each course of antibiotics and developed thrush in the process
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