Although you probably don’t care, today I had the worst tooth ache I have ever experienced – even worse than the time I broke a tooth and exposed the nerve endings after eating a gum ball, bad move.
This time I’m not sure what triggered it, but the whole right hand side of my mouth was aching up a storm. Not to mention I had a severe migraine and ear ache to top it all off. I seriously felt like I had eaten something laced with acid burning away at my mouth.
I tried various crazy remedies off the Internet. I tried punching myself in the mouth (it only made it feel worse). I tried eating garlic (but that just gave me bad breath and didn’t do anything, it probably made it worse). I tried gargling salt water and pepper and whatever else I could find in the food cupboard, the concoction made my mouth feel about 15 times worse, more pain, yay!
I tried gargling mouth wash (holy fuck, it felt like someone scraping the inside of my mouth with steel wool and hitting the nerve endings of my teeth with a sledge hammer at the same time). I eventually started to accept my fate and then tried some Oil of Cloves – I dropped some Oil of Cloves onto my tooth and my mouth started to burn intensely. It was kind of like eating an entire packet of peppermint flavoured candy from some $2 store, not good. Soon after (about 3 minutes) my tooth and surrounding gum area went completely numb.
After some reading up on Oil of Cloves, I found out that in large doses it can be very poisonous. According to this site it can cause a slew of dangerous effects including coma and death, great. Bottom line is if you have a severe tooth ache the only thing that works is a) Visting a dentist (not always an option for immediate relief) or b) Some Oil of Cloves which actually works. If you try anything else, you’ll only make the pain a millions time worse.
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