01-13-2009, 03:40 AM
anonymouse1 wrote:
Yeah, take an Advil, and then an acetaminophen maybe 4 hours later--the alternating bit gives better pain killing.
Better still, go to the oral surgeon RIGHT NOW and get something more powerful.
I'm not sure which is worse, toothache or kidney stone. But I know that taking Advil and the like are like peeing on a forest fire with this kind of pain. You need big guns here and only your Doctor is going to help you. Several years ago I remember a toothache like cbelt3 is going through and I ate a bunch (10 or 12) of ibuprofen and about a third of a bottle of scotch (I think it was just Dewars cuz I wouldn't waste a good 12 year old single malt on a toothache duhhh!) and I still ended up at the ER begging for relief. They gave me 3 pills the size of sewer covers and said "just one!"... so I took 2. Well they were right, just one would have done the trick but hey, that's why they go to school all those years!
cbelt3, Go to the ER if you have to because this could be a very long night. Good luck!