The infection is gone!
Seriously.
I didn't end up going to the ER. I didn't get a single prescription for antibiotics! It was prayer and good old fashioned home treatments I'd researched on the net.
Now let me say this: If you have an abscess or any other infection the best course of action is to
RUN and get professional medical help. Infections are nothing to mess with. Soft tissue damage, heart valve inflammation, things that largely make your kidneys and lymph nodes go "HMMMMM" are just some of the wonderful things that can occur when one has an infection such as I did.
I had to self treat. Professional medical care is not an option for me until something dire and of an emergent nature happens to me . This is called 'life without health insurance'. You get inventive really quick and pray
almost unceasingly a lot that what you try actually works.
Let me say this right here as well..neglect of my teeth didn't put me in my predicament. I survived a great deal of domestic abuse. One of my psycho sadistic ex's favorite things was to beat me to the floor and then kick me in the face . So, I had more than one broken tooth and only God knows how many cracked ones. The other thing that may have cracked this tooth was when I got the broken tooth next to it removed. I went to a dental clinic because I
wanted to die the pain was so freaking awfulhurt so badly from a tooth that I did end up spitting up after one of my ex's 'lessons on respect'. The top part of that tooth was in there, broken at the gumline, and it infected. The Dentist accidentally exacerbated the crack in the tooth next to it. So, years later, here I am, going about my business and I wake up one day to a pugilist's face. On the second day of the infection I almost felt like I should make an avatar of my half distorted face to post on Xanga with "Why so serious?" written across the bottom.
Ok, so enough of the melodramatic storyline.
Here is what I did to treat my infection:
1- Prayer! Yeah I know how that goes over with the people out there that do not believe in God/think anyone that follows God is a tool/thinks prayer is foolishness. But it worked for me. The key is to get as many people to pray for you as possible for it. Even though I did get grumpy as hell during the height of recovery I was still able to
not stab annoying people in the eye socket with a sharp object to keep some dignity and aplomb through it all because God was, indeed, with me.
2- Oil PullingI started this with olive oil. I eventually upgraded to Coconut oil. I think the coconut oil worked the best. Basically what you do is take a tablespoon of coconut oil and swish it around your mouth for about 20 minutes before you brush your teeth in the morning. You pull it through your teeth, chomp it, swish it, ect ect. Just, please, for the love of all that is, DO NOT SWALLOW IT! When you spit it out at the end of the pull it should be whitish and foamy. I hear you can do it with sesame and sunflower oil. The coconut, which was odorless and tasteless, is what really did it for me. After you spit the pulled oil up, rinse mouth out with water, once mouth is rinsed, brush. Repeat at least 3 times a day.
3- I used Baking Soda to brush. I have no idea if your teeth would glow, turn brown, or melt out of your face if you did the oil pulling and then used one of the commercial toothpastes out on the market. I shun the commercial toothpastes because they seldom work for me, they are harsh on my gums. Especially the whitening ones. The baking soda and the oil made my mouth feel the healthiest it has been in years. and I stopped having the 'breath of death' in the morning.
4- love thy Garlic.
Ohh yeah! I ate 3 whole fresh garlic cloves every day. I peeled them, and chewed them. Pushing the bits up against where the affected area terminated on my gums. So, let me warn you right now, in case you have never partaken in raw garlic chewing...IT WILL BURN. If the pieces of garlic contact your tongue if will make your tongue feel as if someone poured lighter fluid on it and set it aflame. HAVE A BOTTLE OF WATER CLOSE BY WHEN DOING THIS! The minute the waters hits your mouth the burning will go away. Yes you can swallow the water. It will also make
you want to claw your face off the infected area of your mouth feel like molten lava is pouring from it if you leave the pieces in the affected area too long. again ..the water. Definitely use bottled water. It doesn't have to be
trendy yuppie water expensive. Just purified somehow. STAY AWAY FROM LEMON or OTHER FLAVORED WATERS when you do garlic. Or you will scream and curse the day you were born.
If you can't take chewing garlic, incorporate it into your food. Or do what I was going to do before I actually started aquiring a taste for the garlic: peel the clove and cut it up into pill like sections..take with water like you would any other med. I have no idea how effective that is. Can't hurt. Well, unless you are allergic to garlic. and if you are allergic to garlic, know it, yet chew garlic anyway and die ..well then that is Darwin at work.
One thing to remember though: You may smell a bit like garlic for a while. Depending on how much you consume. Luckily my Beloved likes italian food so my Garlicky self didn't keep him away from me. So, if you still think Garlic will keep vampires away...you are so out of luck if they are italian vampires.
5- Ibuprofen is your friend..
Enough said. Follow directions..don't pop them like skittles, you'll feel better.
6- stay away from Soda!I am just throwing this in here. You see I still do stupid human tricks because, well, I'm human. My Beloved bought me this Ginormous fountain soda one night and I absently took a swig of it while I still had a little garlic in my mouth. Bad..Bad..Bad idea! One I won't repeat. It literally tasted like Hell. Oh, and , you won't look too intelligent trying to cure a dental abscess while swigging carbonated, caffeinated fizzy sugar water. I'm sure there was a dentist out there somewhere that suddenly awoke screaming in agony before he was silenced.
7- teabags! I have no idea if this worked. I took an herbal tea bag and packed it dry over the affected area. It's said that it willl draw the infection out of you and into the teabag. All I recall is gagging on the taste of tea.
So there you have it. Again, it would have probably been easier to go to a Doctor for Amoxicillin. Aside from no health insurance I am loathe to take antibiotics anyway. Last time I took one, and I don't recall what it was, it made my heart go off the deep end. I'd be watching T.V. and my heart would go nuts. Felt like it was trying to be the back beat to some techno song somewhere. When I stopped that antibiotic? I was kosher as in Mazel Tov!
Also the cost of the garlic, the coconut oil, the water, the herbal teabags, the Ibuporfen came out to be far cheaper than the cost of the hospital bill and med bill at the pharmacy.
Ok, peace out.
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