Rant these bacteria re making my day

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17 Aug 10

enrico20

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17 Aug 10

Yeah Mr Bacteria in my tooth is making my day. Given some antibiotics by the dentist and they are still biting me today. How long does it take for the friggin things to die?

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17 Aug 10

Originally posted by enrico20
Yeah Mr Bacteria in my tooth is making my day. Given some antibiotics by the dentist and they are still biting me today. How long does it take for the friggin things to die?

What? You have a tooth infection? Don't they just drill teeth and cement them over?

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17 Aug 10

The perscription directions should give you an idea about the time it will take. It should take about three days before you start to feel better?

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17 Aug 10

Originally posted by Phlabibit
What? You have a tooth infection? Don't they just drill teeth and cement them over?

If you have an abcess (spelling) then antibiotics in theory are supposed to kill off the bacteria.

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17 Aug 10

Originally posted by gambit3
The perscription directions should give you an idea about the time it will take. It should take about three days before you start to feel better?

Thanks for giving me hope brah. I was given a one week medication so I can't expect the antibiotics to nuke the bacs on day 2 can I?

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17 Aug 10

Originally posted by enrico20
If you have an abcess (spelling) then antibiotics in theory are supposed to kill off the bacteria.

But it's inside your tooth? That's got to hurt.

"Doctor, lance this... with a drill"!

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17 Aug 10

Originally posted by Phlabibit
But it's inside your tooth? That's got to hurt.

"Doctor, lance this... with a drill"!

Is it the inside of the tooth, the pulp or the gum?

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17 Aug 10

Originally posted by enrico20
Is it the inside of the tooth, the pulp or the gum?

it occurs to me that this sort of information needs to come from you...
did you ask yer dentist about the location of the bacteria in question???

they usually have gps locators attached to they undersides...

side note...
the antibiotics you are taking to kill the devilish lil buggers???
as good as the medicine may be, it will not get them all...
and,
as ole nietzsche tells us, that which does not kill us outright, only makes us stronger...
you know this means that them lil buggers that DON'T expire???

they will come back with a vengeance...

rookie

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17 Aug 10

Originally posted by enrico20
Is it the inside of the tooth, the pulp or the gum?

Pulp is inside tooth... That thing must be throbbing.

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17 Aug 10

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Originally posted by enrico20
Thanks for giving me hope brah. I was given a one week medication so I can't expect the antibiotics to nuke the bacs on day 2 can I?

I believe that I said that you should start feeling better. It will take more time for the drug to take care of the problem. The drug is for a secondary problem? You will still have the primary problem? P.S. Be sure to follow the perscription and take all of the antibiotics.

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17 Aug 10

Originally posted by rookie54
it occurs to me that this sort of information needs to come from you...
did you ask yer dentist about the location of the bacteria in question???

they usually have gps locators attached to they undersides...

side note...
the antibiotics you are taking to kill the devilish lil buggers???
as good as the medicine may be, it will not get them all... ...[text shortened]... that them lil buggers that DON'T expire???

they will come back with a vengeance...

rookie

Exactly. It will come back. The tooth will need a root canal and crown.

GRANNY.

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18 Aug 10

Originally posted by gambit3
I believe that I said that you should start feeling better. It will take more time for the drug to take care of the problem. The drug is for a secondary problem? You will still have the primary problem? P.S. Be sure to follow the perscription and take all of the antibiotics.

I plan to do exactly that. The so called super-bugs (bacteria resistant to anti-biotics) are the result of dudes abandoning a course of treatment half-way or whenever the symptoms disappear and the bacteria grow stronger after that.

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18 Aug 10

Originally posted by smw6869
Exactly. It will come back. The tooth will need a root canal and crown.

GRANNY.

Not necessarily. Had same thing happen a couple of years back and after a 7 day stint on the antibiotics I was okay.

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Originally posted by enrico20
Not necessarily. Had same thing happen a couple of years back and after a 7 day stint on the antibiotics I was okay.

Right... but you left one bug to survive and and re-build the kingdom.

Now they are BACK!

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19 Aug 10

Halfway through the antibiotics and I can chew with the tooth now without any pain. Yesterday I did something radical, I got a whole raw onion, chopped little bits of pieces and then ate them gently.

When I ate the onion with the infected tooth the bacteria started amagedon or something (worst pain ever known to man) and I got an ice-pack against the tooth. After a few minutes the onion was gone. Woke up this morning as if the problem never existed.