Ugh!
May 6th, 2008
I personally wouldn’t both reading this post. It’s just me complaining about being in pain. Nothing important or introspective. Heck, I’m not even going to bother finding a picture to decorate it.
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Gods, I feel awful right now. Don’t get me wrong, today has been great but right now I’m almost wishing I could be unconscious. It’s my jaw that’s doing this to me.
See when I was a little girl my mother didn’t spend a lot of time talking to me about taking care of my teeth which was kind of ironic since she had dentures by the time she was a teenager. Alas, I didn’t learn to take proper care of my teeth until I was a teen myself so I have a lot of cavities that I am painfully aware of right now and a few fillings that were done by someone who could have cared less about what they were doing. On top of that I have very little calcium and enamel in/on my teeth so they are very sensitive.
But this isn’t why they hurt right now, that just adds to it.
As far as more than one person’s professional opinion goes I have a very small jaw. So small in fact that when my baby teeth were getting ready to come loose they were so crowded in that they didn’t have any wiggle room. Do you know what happens when your baby teeth can’t fall out? Your adult teeth grow in- in the next available spot. Because of this I have a very nasty crooked smile.
I also still have at least three baby teeth. Now, what I ‘think’ is happening, thinking because I have no health insurance still, is that one of these last few adult teeth or maybe some sort of wisdom tooth is trying to come up at the very back of my jaw. Problem is I already have two teeth turned in side ways back for lack of room.
Sounds fun, eh? The two spots where I have teeth trying to come up are so painfully swollen I can’t close my aw without them touching. Worse still, (yeah it can get worse) whenever I sit still for a long time or concentrate on something I have to have a pen (or something or the same veritable circumference) between my teeth to prevent the painful migraines I get from clenching. Now I have both the migraines and this gods awful pain on one side of my jaw. I can feel them pressing against my back teeth a little, one of them very acutely because the filling in that one is is the process of falling out.
*sigh* I know I’m just complaining but to be honest sometimes complaining feels good. Getting it out of my system, even though I’ve been talking about it this whole time, has almost kind of taken my mind off the whole thing.
Alas, it’s a whole other matter since my Hunny just found out about my pain that I hadn’t told him about for oh… let’s just say… three weeks… ish. :) I didn’t want to worry him. Couple more months and I’ll have health insurance. I’ll worry about it then.
