I think rotating the ibuprofen (up to 600 mg) every 3 hrs with 600 of
acetaminophen is a good regimen.  A day or two won't kill your liver,
and hopefully your stomach will hold up.
    Acetaminophen is more of a liver problem, but mostly with alcohol, and
since you're Stormin' Mormon, I'm assuming that won't be a problem.

Feel better,
Steve

Newsflash!

Went to the general practice dentist yesterday. He says that there is
definitly some nerve invovement, and reccomended a root canal. I wasn't all
that happy with the idea. But, I was having to wake up every couple hours to
pop pills, and that gets exhausting in a hurry.

I did make the call this AM. The ectodontist had an opening in the AM, and
so I took it. He used a couple different shots of liquid anaesthetic. Which
didn't seem to numb the nerves actually in my tooth. So, a drop of liquid in
the hole he'd just made. Which didn't seem to help. A couple more syringes
of caine (into the root) and by this time he's muttering a tiny little bit
about how that tooth just doesn't want to numb. And some more syringes of
caine, and me flinching several more times.

Anyhow, it was about two hours. Had me pop four advil while right in the
chair, to get me down the road. And then a scrip for Vicodin generic.

The pharmacy had only Malanckro or whatever it was the useless white ones.
After asking them nicely, they made a call and got me set up with some
Qualitest, which actually do work. Nice of them to put forth the effort, and
nice of the dentist office to approve it. (Didn't cost the dentist office
anything to say yes).

Now, after two service calls, it's time to go to bed and sleep the sleep of
the dead. I hope to see you all in the morning. And then got to get an
appointment for a real filling in that tooth in place of the temp filling
plaster stuff.

I get one, now and again. This current one is lower right, one of the pointy
ones front of the molars. But not yet to the flat ones. (Sure that is a lot
of useful information!).

I've got two pointy teeth which both have silver fillings. And a bunch of
other silver fillings, and a couple white fillings.

Some background. I'm 40 years old, male, never married. Live in the US, no
health insurance. I missed the twice a year cleanings for a few years, and
came back with a tooth ache. Only to find out that I'd got about 10 cavities
in the meantime.

I thought they were all up to date, and no more tooth aches for awhile.
Wrong! This one starte to act up on Thursday. Cold sensetive, and seems to
hurt more in the presence of sugar. Topical benzocaine helps, a little. Been
dabbing on Kanka, I like the waxy base that seems to stay on a little
longer. Oil of cloves didn't do much this time. Worked nicely with my bad
wisdom tooth a couple years ago.

Been popping an assortment of pills. Turns out if I take two pills every two
hours, I do fairly well. Been trying to rotate. Ibuprophen, naproxyn,
acetaminophen, acet with hydrocodone. See what seems to work. Yep,
acetaminophen and ibuprophen combined are hell on the liver and kidneys.

Got a call in to the dentist, oughta be in the chair some time tomorrow or
Tuesday. Any hints how to make the time more bearable?

Do you ever brush your teeth?

--
Cliff