So the actual celebration of my birthday, which was held on April 10th, was really nice... We went to Macado's for dinner and 18 people ended up being there which was awesome! However, my teeth decided that I wasn't going to be able to fully enjoy anything because around 2 o'clock that afternoon, I started started having a lot of sensitivity... now being a person who has sensitive teeth, it wasn't particularly new however it was worse than normal. As the afternoon progressed it got worse to the point that I asked a friend for some pain medication. The pain medication did not help. After dinner my parents my brother and I went to see the boss baby which was really funny and I did enjoy it but the whole time had the nagging pain in my mouth. As we were leaving the theater, I promised my mom that I would go to the dentist on my birthday even though that's not how I wanted to spend my birthday.
When I woke up on my actual birthday, April 11th, I felt horrendous and the lower right quadrant of my face was extremely swollen. I was swollen to the point I didn't have a chin on that side (if you don't happen to know me, I have a very prominent ball shaped chin)! Needless to say I definitely was going to the dentist. Since I woke up at 5 a.m. and the dentist didn't open until 10 I took some ibuprofen and lay back down. I didn't wake back up until around 1:30, at which point I got ready and went to the dentist. I didn't have to wait long, as the receptionist could tell I was in pretty bad pain. The dental assistant took me in and took two x-rays of my mouth. When the dentist came and she was very surprised at how much pain I was in because apparently they couldn't see any sign of tooth decay anywhere near my pain center. She gave me an antibiotic and said to take 4 ibuprofen every 6 hours for pain because no other pain medication will touch nerve pain. We are assuming that I have a dying tooth and then I will need a root canal and Crown. The other possibility is that there is some sort of bizarre nerve damage going on which is causing the swelling and pain and if things don't subside after 48 hours I am to go back and we are to look at that a little more closely.
Needless to say, this is not how I wanted to spend my 36th birthday. Alas, I suppose this is what happens when you get older LMAO
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